9 Works in Dixing Worldbuilding (Guardian)
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to step barefoot into the night | 赤足踏入夜晚 by hideyseek for Amedia
Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
20 May 2025
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Shen Wei senses Zhao Yunlan’s inhale before he hears his sigh, before he feels Zhao Yunlan move, and Shen Wei silently shifts his leg away as Zhao Yunlan stretches forward to pick up another case file. If Zhao Yunlan looks over at him, Shen Wei keeps his gaze trained on the file in his hands and doesn’t see it.
“Cause of death records,” Zhao Yunlan says as he flips the case file open, the same way he’d said acid composition notes for the last one, and trident wound autopsies for the one before that. Shen Wei hears him tuck his lollipop into his cheek, the click of it against his teeth. “It’s from ten years ago, I’m surprised it was allowed to lapse. My old man would’ve still been in charge then.”
Or: A week after Shen Wei restores Zhao Yunlan's eyesight, the SID uncovers a new lead to an old case.
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Beyond the Gates, the Mountain by Trobadora for Nemainofthewater
Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
03 Mar 2025
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At the top of a flight of stairs, a figure was slipping around a corner. In the last moment before she disappeared from his line of sight, Shen Wei recognised her: it was An Bai's friend, Cao Dandan.
Power swirled in his palm. He could catch her, easily -
He hesitated. Clenched his hand into a fist. He couldn't.
Whether or not she was innocent this time, Shen Wei had no faith in a fair investigation, much less a fair trial. Not in Dixing. Not any more.
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Only now, knowing what he knew, could Wu Tian’en understand that whatever Heipaoshi had loved so much was not Haixing itself, but one man born of this land.
One man, whose last remaining memory was now put in Heipaoshi’s stone hands.
Somehow, Wu Tian’en couldn’t help but think that this was what they both would have wanted.
For the memory of them to be reunited at least. -
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On the edge of the battlefield, Da Qing is trapped against a fall of boulders by a rebel fighter with a spear. Da Qing is giving ground with every blow. There’s blood streaked across his cheek. He’s flagging.
They’re more than a li away. Shen Wei won’t get there in time.Or, something had to happen for Shen Wei to start thinking of himself as a weapon.
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In the early morning sun, the SID’s brick façade glows like a volcano. There’s already a snaking queue outside, people singly and in couples—one woman with a baby, two teenagers with a sleepy child.
Dai Jiaying joins the queue’s tail, and others soon come up behind until, logically, they’re the tail, and she’s right in the snake’s belly. She banishes the thought, shoves her doubts and misgivings away; she’s here now. She tilts her face into the sunlight and prepares to wait.
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The nails groan as they pull free, and the lid starts to splinter. A lucky dip, Sang-ge called it last night, wry behind his drinking mask. A mysterious assortment of precious antiques. I half expect it to be packed full of sacking and plain old rocks, but this time he hasn’t exaggerated.
OR: A dealer in curios acquires some special artefacts that change her life.
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By the end of the War, both twins felt through the earth. One of them was found and the people of Dixing took measures accordingly. The other one crawled back out of the earth ten thousand years later and found a world very different from the one he remembered; and Ye Zun has some revolutionary ideas.
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Zhao Yunlan has rescued Shen Wei from the chains of the Heavenly Pillar, but Shen Wei is badly wounded, and getting back to Haixing is not as simple as they'd like.
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Shen Wei flinches back, stares in horror. The black energy in his hand dies, and Zhao Yunlan falls, limp as a rag doll, silent again.
His attempted healing has only hurt Zhao Yunlan more.