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    It's 1986 and for Xie Lian, a deaf college student, the world keeps getting bigger. For the first time in his life, he’s putting himself out there and experiencing things his overprotective parents would never imagine, including four consecutive dates with Hua Cheng, a 21 year old Harley enthusiast whose laid back personality and fluent sign language make him irresistible.

    As overwhelming as his newfound independence is, Xie Lian is happier than he's ever been.

    All of this changed on November 12th, 1986 — the day he disappears without a trace.

    Xie Lian is kept bound in his captor’s basement — a man he cannot identify due to the mask he wears. When he manages to escape, he discovers he has been missing for nearly four years, and nothing in his life is the same. Worst of all, his captor remains a free man unless Xie Lian can find a way to identify him.

    Though his entire world has turned upside down, one thing remains the same: Hua Cheng’s affection for him. Together, they work through the events of the past four years to help Xie Lian come to terms with his trauma and find a way to catch his captor. It becomes clear before long that until the man is caught, Xie Lian is far from safe…

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    25 May 2025

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    For five hundred years, the ghost king Hua Cheng has searched for the man he loves - and has found nothing

    But when an unexpected tip tells him of a mysterious masked man in Yong'an, Hua Cheng finds that Xie Lian is indeed there - stabbed in the heart and entombed for twenty-six years, hovering between life and death. Even an immortal has his limits, and Hua Cheng dedicates himself to nursing his beloved back to health.

    But the return of Xie Lian into Hua Cheng's life isn't as joyous as he had hoped. Xie Lian begins to suspect that there's more to this mysterious, charming man than he lets on, and Hua Cheng fears that the truth about him will drive away the only person he's ever loved.

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    11 Mar 2025

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    The boy shifts on his feet. “The year is two thousand and eighteen? Common Era?”

    Slowly, smile still plastic on his face, Suguru faces Satoru. This fucking dumbass. “Satoru,” he says, dangerous edge to his voice, “what did you do?

    Satoru makes some bastardization of a sound, half between a laugh and a cough. “...Whoops?”

    “I,” Suguru grits, pinching two fingers together, “am this close to mass murder.” He’s joking. Probably.

     

    ///OR: Shortly before Getō would have massacred a village, he and Gojō are thrust eleven years forward into a would-have-been future that Getō is conspicuously absent from.

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    26 Nov 2024

  4. Rec 82

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    Gojo Satoru is one of Japan's most celebrated literary writers. At least, that’s what his publisher tells him.

    Geto Suguru is his book publicist, which is slightly inconvenient as he’s also: 1) his high school best friend who left him before graduation and 2) the love of his life.

    When Suguru hands in his notice, Satoru makes it everyone’s problem.

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    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected], [email protected],
    Subject: what did you do to make him quit?
    (empty text)

    From: [email protected],
    To: [email protected]
    FW: what did you do to make him quit?
    (empty text)

     

    Incoming call: Suguru

     

    “Don’t try harassing my coworkers. Bullying doesn’t look good on you”
    “Not even hello, how are you? I’m not bullying. I’m…”
    “Satoru.”

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    28 Oct 2024

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    Inosuke likes it when people tell him he's great at things, because it's true, and they should all acknowledge how powerful he is.

    But whenever Tanjiro does it, it makes him feel… weird.

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    ふわふわ (fuwafuwa) can mean several different things:
    1. Fluffy; soft.
    2. Light and airy.
    3. The way Tanjiro makes Inosuke feel.

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    12 Jan 2023