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detail from a painting of st lucy, against a gold background. she holds a feather and looks annoyed.



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    “She was going to kiss me,” Wei Ying says, muffled, into his hands.

    Lan Zhan makes sure he keeps his breaths even. “Hm,” he says. Wei Ying looks up at him, wild: a little tipsy, perhaps. Confused, in a panic. His mouth is red like he’s been kissed—he hasn’t. He’s a lip biter, has a habit of picking at his dry lips, the winter sores at the corner of his mouth. It drives Lan Zhan to madness. He dreams of Wei Ying’s puffy mouth, often, sometimes with the real Wei Ying in a sleeping bag on the floor next to his bed. On mornings like those he wakes up in a cloud of embarrassment—hobbling to the bathroom at dawn, running a loud shower to hide the sounds. Wei Ying sleeps on.

    “How do I—” Wei Ying starts, stops. He then lets out a single laugh, another. He says: “Oh my god. How do I kiss? Lan Zhan, how do I kiss?”

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    Or: Wei Ying has a girlfriend now. Wei Ying doesn't want his best friend to lag behind.

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    Shen Yuan is torn between excitement and trepidation at the idea of finally meeting his online friend. It should be fun to take the younger man under his wing and help him adapt to the big city.

    It should also be a nice escape from his dreaded family obligations.

    (Later, Shen Yuan would find out that the key word here was should.)

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    16 Aug 2021

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    Luo Binghe rolls to his back, looking up at their bed’s canopy. “When you invited me to sit in your carriage... that was you?”

    “Yes,” Shen Qingqiu says warily.

    “I was fourteen,” Luo Binghe says. “But if Shen Qinqgiu’s body wasn’t your own, how old were you?”

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    07 Aug 2021

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    “Why injure yourself on his behalf if you knew it would not be fatal?”

    Wei Ying blinked. “I mean, would you have preferred me to jump in front of him if it had been fatal instead?”

    “Wei Ying.”

    “Come on, Lan Zhan!” Wei Ying cajoled. “I’ve had far worse, while you were with me. Why are you making such a big deal this time?”

    Wei Ying, a line of blood slit across his neck. Wei Ying, unconscious, soaking Lan Wangji’s back with blood as he prayed he made it back to the Cloud Recesses in time. Wei Ying, casually dismissing the cursed necrotic flesh he had invited onto his body. And before, Wei Ying in a hundred other moments Lan Wangji had not been present for.

    “Because it was preventable,” he responded.

    Or: the first serious injury Wei Ying receives post-canon on a night hunt, and the fall out.

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    31 Jul 2021

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    This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.

    EDIT 6/28/17: The third chapter now shows how to use anchor links as an index/table of contents.

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