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Chronology of the Police Case So Far (Updated According to Chapter 28!) -currently not all proven-

I got some asks wanting me to explain the case as it was confusing. So here is the murder case and what’s sort of been happening in KS chronologically, related to the case Seungbae is currently investigating:

Oh Sangwoo kills his parents and fakes a break in.

Yang Seungbae gets demoted for catching the wrong person in an investigation case and is transferred from Seoul, then partnered with Officer Park.

Yang Seungbae comes across Yoon Bum while doing patrol with Officer Park, who is trying to go into Oh Sangwoo’s house. Yoon Bum tells him he is his cousin, but Yang Seungbae is suspicious of him as he notices Yoon Bum gets the code wrong five times and is being very anxious, implying he is lying. The next time Yoon Bum enters the code, it’s correct and he goes in, leaving Yang Seungbae outside.

Yang Seungbae meets Oh Sangwoo for the first time as they come across him in the street and his partner Officer Park tells him Oh Sangwoo is related to a case that was never solved involving the murder of his parents and a no trace break in. Seungbae is suspicious that Oh Sangwoo is the culprit and he states this. He gets scolded by his partner who doesn’t deny Yang Seungbae could be right, but more so that he should leave it alone because he doesn’t want to be demoted along with Seungbae in case he is wrong again.

Yoon Bum meets Oh Sangwoo officially and is imprisoned.

Yoon Bum tries to escape, the blackbox of Oh Sangwoo’s car records Oh Sangwoo picking Yoon Bum up and punching him against his car’s window.

Sangwoo brings in and with the help of Yoon Bum, kills an older man named Kim Seohko he picked up from a gay bar he went to.

Yang Seungbae finds Oh Sangwoo and another man fighting because of a car crash and demands Oh Sangwoo’s blackbox. He does not recognise Oh Sangwoo at this point.

Yang Seungbae looks at the information he got from Oh Sangwoo and recognises him. Then he looks at Oh Sangwoo’s blackbox and sees the footage of Yoon Bum trying to escape, and then Oh Sangwoo pushing him against his car roughly before carrying him in.

Yang Seungbae vists Oh Sangwoo’s house out of suspicion because of the footage. He sees Yoon Bum’s foot when he looks from the hole for mail. He encounters Oh Sangwoo before he sees more, who lets him go inside. Yoon Bum hides in a cabinet. Yang Seungbae finds nothing.

The same day Yang Seungbae encounters a black piece of hair in his shoe upon returning from the house of Oh Sangwoo. He is suspicious but can’t quite place what it means. He does absolutely nothing with this information even though he realises it’s weird.

Oh Sangwoo goes out with his friends and Yoon Bum, leaving early, blaming Yoon Bum.

After dropping Yoon Bum in his house, Oh Sangwoo leaves and uses Kim Seohko’s phone talk to Min Jieun, asking her not to tell anyone where she is going and who with. He can do this because the chatting app he is using doesn’t need a number, it needs a “talk ID” so nobody notices he changed phones.

Yoon Bum kills Min Jieun.

Oh Sangwoo and Yoon Bum bury Min Jieun.

Min Jieun is reported missing.

Yang Seungbae overhears and then learns that Oh Sangwoo was with Min Jieun the night he disappeared.

Sangwoo gets called by his friend to let him know about the situation of Min Jieun. Sangwoo gives him the number of his actual phone.

While looking for more information, Yang Seungbea learns that Min Jieun’s disappearance is already tied to Kim Seohko’s because the phone used to contact Min Jieun the night she disappeared was Kim Seohko’s.

Yang Seungbae learns that Kim Seohko and his wife are divorced because Kim Seohko was caught with a prostitute and his wife is the one living at their house while Kim Seohko moved out.

Yang Seungbae tells his co-woker that he thinks Kim Seohko and Min Jieun are both Oh Sangwoo’s victims instead and that Oh Sangwoo simply used Kim Seohko’s phone to contact Min Jieun so it wouldn’t get traced back to him and his crime would be blamed on Kim Seohko.

Yang Seungbae’s co-worker accuses him of making up stories.

Yang Seungbae asks his friend if being caught with a prostitute would give his wife the right to keep the house and his friend says that there should be 10 years or so of cheating for that to happen.

Yang Seungbae is suspicious, he notices that Kim Seohko gave the house away willingly or there is something that is being hidden and wonders what it is.

Yang Seungbae talks to Kim Seohko’s ex-wife and tries to tell her Kim Seohko may have been murdered but his ex-wife says she doesn’t want anything to do with Kim Seohko anymore since they are divorced.

Yang Seungbae is discouraged by this. He thinks his suspicions are becoming out of reach and that people don’t even want to catch the right person, but maybe just blame others to close the case or ignore the whole deal.

Kim Seohko’s ex-wife tells Yang Seungbae that she wishes her ex-husband was alive when he is about to leave.

Yang Seungbae returns inside and talks to Kim Seohko’s ex-wife. His ex-wife implies that Kim Seohko was gay. Seungbae realises the reasons why she got the house so easily was to keep her mouth shut about the whole deal (Assumed since the police don’t already know about the decades of cheating Kim Seohko has been doing that was only found out when Kim Seohko’s ex-wife hired someone to follow him).

Yang Seungbae goes to a district that is filled with gay people and bars.

Yang Seungbae enters a gay bar and is hit on by a minor.

Yang Seungbae asks the minor whether or not if he knows Oh Sangwoo by showing him a picture of him. He doesn’t. After, Yang Seungbae shows him a picture of Kim Seohko and he reacts to it like he recognises him.

Put off by Yang Seungbae’s earlier joke about being a murderer, the minor refuses to go to a private place to chat about it with him.

Yang Seungbae reveals his identity as a policeman and threatens the minor by calling his parents so he answers his questions.

The minor tells him he knows Kim Seohko because he had been hitting on him for a long time and then he had sex with him for money.

Yang Seungbae is directed to another gay bar for more information. It is the one the minor and Kim Seohko met. [It is also the one Oh Sangwoo met Kim Seohko].

Yang Seungbae asks the bartender in the new bar about Kim Seohko by showing him his picture.

The bartender says Kim Seohko frequented there and the last he saw him he was with a young man who seemed to not be picky about who was with [Oh Sangwoo], doing card tricks for him. This, to Yang Seungbae, seals the deal even more since the bartender says people are usually picky there and it makes sense that Oh Sangwoo wasn’t picky because he was just looking for someone to kill and blame.

Seungbae implies he is convinced Oh Sangwoo is the man he is looking for even though he acknowledges that his evidence is not strong enough yet. He is, however, hopeful because he has a lead.

The police find Min Jieun’s body in the mountain regions of Honam and mistake the body for the body of the daughter of the pharmaceutical company.

Yang Seungbae, upon hearing this, talks to someone from his old police team who is doing the autopsy for the body and can only confirm that the legs of the victim were harmed much like he realised how Yoon Bum’s was (since he was crawling on the floor when he saw him). His friend says that the daughter’s funeral was held right away because of decomposition and asks Seungbae to stay out of the case.

Yang Seungbae visits the place he sees Oh Sangwoo go in and out a lot, assuming it’s the place he works at. He takes his glasses off and puts his hair up as a disguise.

Yang Seungbae corners Yoon Bum in the staff bathroom and confronts him. He looks at his legs to confirm the injury and thus confirming he has the right person.

Yang Seungbae reveals that he also thinks the body in the mountain is of the CEO of the pharmaceutical company and points out the similarity of her injury to his.

Oh Sangwoo walks in and takes Yoon Bum out of the bathroom, he doesn’t see Yang Seungbae because of the fact that he hid between the stall and the door.

Yang Seungbea reveals he has done similar things before. Assuming he means disguising for detective work and following a suspect.

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Red Azalea - the story so far

Read the full story here!

Here’s a recap of the events from Red Azalea so far, split by narrative arc. By the time the fic is finished, i think it could be neatly turned into three books, which i would call Red Azalea, Golden Ribbon, and Jade Charm (working title).

We’re getting close to halfway through the story i want to tell. It’s hard to tell exactly how long the fic will be in wordcount because i’m writing as i go, but i think the finished thing will be under 500k. Seems like a lot for one fic! But its not too bad for a trilogy.

So for the story arcs, I’ve split them by like moments where plot direction changes, and places where there is a plotpoint resolution of some kind. There’s a bit of overlap between arcs, but this is how I’d split it.

(the rest under a readmore because it gets long, also spoilers ahead)

Red Azalea

Daozhang went red arc | chapters 1 to 11, 20k

Xue Yang saves Xiao Xingchen. They argue, Xingchen calls Xue yang disgusting, tells Xue Yang not to touch him, and forbids Xue Yang from using his name.

Xue yang removes the nails from Song Lan’s head to make Xingchen happy again, and Xiao Xingchen lets Xue Yang run free.

Xue Yang steals the red azalea silk, and decides to try being good

Xue Yang helps the ghost child in the well

Xue Yang gets frustrated and bored while hunting alone. He chooses between giving up on being good and returning to Jin Guangyao to be his weapon, or keeping up the good behaviour and returning to Xiao Xingchen

Xuexiao reconciliation arc | chapters 12 to 23, 26k

Xingchen and Xue Yang reunite. Song Lan fights Xue yang on a rooftop. Xue yang escapes into the shadows, then meets a child ghost under a house. Xingchen and Song Lan design a tap code for communicating during fights and from a distance.

Xue Yang helps Xingchen through a panic attack, they talk about if they can return to being friends. Xingchen learns how many people Xue yang tricked him into killing. Xingchen reveals he can’t hunt the undead anymore because it triggers him.

Xue Yang builds a shrine for the ghost child under the house. A-Qing sneaks in and sees it.

Xue Yang stalks Xingchen’s group for a bit, then trades a spar with Xingchen for two months of no stalking. Xingchen gets a cut on his arm, the blood triggers Xue Yang, and Xingchen hugs him to calm him, getting rid of the No-Touch rule.

A-Qing is attacked by a man in the market, Xue Yang appears out of nowhere, stabs the man through his hand, and takes A-Qing somewhere safe. She feels a little unsafe near him, but relaxes as he helps treat her dislocated shoulder. He gifts her a knife.

Xingchen heals the man’s damaged hand while Xue Yang fantasises about murdering the man’s family. Xue Yang meets with Xingchen and the group, and Xingchen tells him that they’ll potentially be friends again one day. They hug.

Song Lan grows resentful arc | chapters 24 to 35, 36k

Xue Yang and Song Lan reflect on their love for Xingchen and their hate for each other.

Excited Xue Yang surprise teleports Xingchen to share lunch together, and unintentionally terrifies him. Xue Yang comforts him, and gives him a charm to help Song lan hide from detection by other cultivators. Xingchen returns to Song lan for more comfort, and shows him the charm.

Xue Yang goes on a side adventure, escorting a family with young children through bandit-infested hills. He bonds with the kids, then at the new town, helps two incompetent bandits track down their missing wife and mother. She is fine, she ran away with a rival bandit leader. When Xue yang leaves, she seems to be considering a poly relationship with Bandit Boss and her new-to-crime husband.

Xue Yang is chased out of a town after a hunt that went poorly, and flies for three days to find Xingchen to rant about it to him. Xingchen listens and comforts him, and lets Xue Yang sleep in his lap

Song Lan sees xuexiao sharing intimacy and feels hurt and jealous. Xue Yang is woken up by feeling Song Lan’s emotional pain through his undead empathy. Xingchen coaxes him back to sleep, and Song lan wonders if it is Xingchen in control of Xue Yang, instead of Xue Yang manipulating Xingchen

Xue Yang asks to travel with them, Song Lan hates the idea, A-Qing takes the blame for not wanting Xue Yang around, but Song Lan doesn’t let her. Song Lan and Xingchen get in an argument, and A-Qing is upset by the fight. Xue Yang leaves so they won’t argue anymore, hoping this helps A-Qing feel better

Xue Yang hears that Xingchen was in a bad hunt, and tracks him down to comfort him. Song lan feels useless and terrible when his efforts to comfort Xingchen don’t work, but Xue Yang’s attempts work.

Song lan is overwhelmed by resentful energy and loses control, trying to attack them. Xue Yang fights him and carefully brings Song Lan’s energy back to balance, allowing him to regain control. Song Lan is surprised to find he enjoys the fight

The four of them spend time together bonding. Xingchen allows Xue Yang to use his name again, but he still can’t travel with them. Xue yang leaves, confident that Xingchen is pining for him.

Song Lan and Xingchen talk about Song Lan’s trauma around Xue Yang, and how Xingchen’s insistence that they be friendly hurts Song Lan over and over. Xingchen promises to be more considerate of him in the future.

Orchid Cliffs arc | chapters 36 to 61, 57k

Xue Yang realises Xingchen’s group are heading to a conflict with a demonic cultivator and runs to save them. He mocks them for being the worst team to ever face a demonic cultivator, because xingchen can’t fight the undead and Song Lan is vulnerable to being turned into a slave puppet. Xue Yang challenges Song Lan to a fight to prove this.

At Xingchen’s request, Xue Yang begins experimenting with a mental shield to protect Song Lan from being controlled by enemies. The shield gives Song Lan unexpected access to Xue Yang’s thoughts. Song lan keeps this a secret to keep an advantage over Xue Yang, and they go to Orchid Cliffs. A-Qing and Xingchen promise to stay away for safety

On the road to Orchid Cliffs, Xue Yang is sidetracked by a group of ghost children and builds them a roadside shrine. Song Lan is unsettled by how bloody Xue Yang’s everyday thoughts are, and how Xue Yang is always prepared to be attacked.

Xue yang flies around the countryside finding corpses and recruiting them to help him fight the mysterious demonic cultivator. One of them is an undead bride and her entourage.

Xue Yang and Song Lan don’t find anything the first night in Orchid Cliffs, and talk to locals for info, discovering that the heiress of the rich Zhen family and several others are mysteriously sick. Xue Yang tracks the flow of resentful energy within the town to one house and they confront Yan Ling, the woman living there. Meanwhile, Xingchen and A-Qing spend a day fishing, then go to helps Jiao Chan restore the wards on her house.

Xue Yang reveals himself to be a demonic cultivator, and Song Lan his undead servant, to gain Yan Ling’s trust. She tries to poison Xue Yang twice, then Jiao Chan arrives carrying Xingchen’s sword. She uses a cursed mirror to put Xue Yang in a magical coma, and attempts to take control of Song Lan. Song Lan plays along, and takes Xue Yang to safety.

Once the women are gone, Song Lan tries to wake Xue Yang, who has been trapped in his own worst memories. Song Lan dives into Xue Yang’s mind to pull him out, and catches glimpses of Xue Yang’s most traumatising memories. When Xue Yang wakes, he lashes out. He’s physically weakened by the poison and the mirror, and feels vulnerable around Song Lan, but they resolve to team up to save Xingchen and A-Qing.

Xingchen and A-Qing have had their qi blocked and are being kept in a house of corpse puppets in the woods. Xingchen feels terrified and borderline catatonic, but he fights the corpses to let A-Qing escape. While running, she finds Jiao Chan and Yan Ling walking through the woods and decides to hunt them for hurting Xingchen.

Xue Yang is too weakened to fly, so Song Lan carries him. They briefly stop to collect some of the walking corpses Xue Yang recruited, then head for the forest house. Xue Yang nearly falls asleep in Song Lan’s arms, and Song Lan startles him awake by half-dropping him from the sky.

At the forest house, Jiao Chan is about to use the mirror on Xingchen, who is having a panic attack and can’t defend himself. Xue Yang and Song Lan arrive, instantly attacking the women. They use a dozen walking corpses to defend themselves. Song Lan and Xue Yang defend each other

When the moon comes out, the mirror reaches full power and they nearly take control of Song Lan, but he shakes it before he harms anyone. Xue Yang confronts the women about the mirror being a cursed evil tool. A-Qing throws a rock to distract Jiao Chan, and Xue Yang takes control of her puppets for a second, restoring their free will. They all turn on her and attack. Xingchen asks Xue Yang to show them mercy, so he tries to stop the attack, then passes out and loses control of them. Yan Ling and Jiao Chan are killed by the corpses of their victims.

After the battle, Song Lan helps unblock Xingchen’s qi, and finally learns that Xue Yang gave his life to revive Xingchen from the cut to his neck. Song Lan is finally satisfied that Xue Yang is no danger to Xingchen

They spend several weeks recovering. Song Lan and Xue Yang destroy the mirror together. Xue Yang mentally declares Song Lan his friend despite knowing Song Lan hates him, Song Lan overhears the thought and feels confused and alarmed. They discover Jiao Chan was actually the missing Zhen heiress, and her experiments creating the mirror had caused the mysterious sickness. None of the victims can be saved

A-Qing feels guilty for her part in Jiao Chan and Yan Ling’s death. Xue Yang attempts to comfort her, and reveals that he killed three people before he was age 15, so he knows she’s not a killer.

Song Lan tells Xingchen he’s okay with Xue Yang travelling with them, and Xue Yang is delighted by this news, but still has to honor his promises to the corpse puppets who helped him, especially the undead bride. This involves going to Lanling, which Xue Yang thinks is too risky for Song Lan and Xingchen. They part ways, and promise to meet up after the promise is fulfilled.

Golden Ribbon

Xue Yang in Lanling mini-arc | chapters 62 to 65, 9k

Xue Yang contemplates how much of a danger Jin Guangyao is to Xingchen and Song Lan, then heads for the undead bride’s village. Her family reward him with new silks and a room to stay each winter

Xue yang jerks off to a fantasy about a cultivator dressed in white and a cultivator dressed in black having sex, based on a dirty illustrated wangxian book Xue Yang has.

Later that day, he encounters Lan Wangji and some Lan juniors on a hunt and decides to follow them. Xue Yang works out that something is killing all the most vulnerable children in town and confronts Lan Wangji, telling him off for bringing more children to such a dangerous place. Lan Wangji reveals he recognises Xue Yang and warns him against doing evil things

Xue Yang decides he can’t leave the hunt to Lan Wangji. He saves young Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi from a giant centipede and mortally wounds the monster. He heals a bite wound on Lan Sizhui’s arm by transferring it to himself. Together with Lan Wangji, Xue Yang tracks and kills the centipede, and they discover it was created as a plot to get rid of the street children. Enraged, Xue Yang leaves the punishment for this crime to Lan Wangji because he doesn’t trust himself not to kill the perpetrator.

Lan Wangji gifts Xue Yang with gold, supplies, Lan flares and a Lan practice sword as thanks for saving his juniors

Meanwhile, A-Qing confesses to Song Lan that she feels guilty over the deaths of Yan Ling and Jiao Chan. He comforts her.

QingMing at Baixue Temple arc | chapters 66 to 85

Xingchen confesses to Song Lan that he still feels unstable from being retraumatised by Jiao Chan and Yan Ling. The group visit a town for a festival. A-Qing has fun with some random teens and songxiao have some bonding time and dance together. Song Lan fantasises about kissing Xingchen

Xue Yang tracks them down in the middle of the night. He has a broken leg and is acting loopy and childish, and doesn’t recognise Song Lan, calling him Ghost-gege. Song Lan wakes Xingchen to get his help healing Xue Yang, but Xue Yang doesn’t recognise Xingchen either. He finds Xingchen scary and Song Lan comforting. Together, songxiao manage to treat Xue Yang’s wounds

Song lan muses about his feelings for Xue Yang. His duty to Baixue demands Xue Yang’s death, but his duty to Xingchen demands he protect Xue Yang, pluse Song Lan’s first instincts are to help and comfort Xue Yang. He decides he can excuse himself for doing this, since being kind to someone who needs help complies with the teachings of Baixue Temple

When Xue Yang wakes the next morning, he assumes he traded something to Song Lan for safety. Song Lan denies this, but Xue Yang won’t let it go, and eventually concludes Song Lan wants sex. Song Lan can read from Xue Yang’s thoughts that Xue Yang carries a lot of trauma around sex, and outright rejects him. Xue Yang feels vulnerable and lashes out, hurting Song Lan by bringing up Baixue. Song Lan leaves

Xingchen and A-Qing return, and Xue yang gives them gifts. White water silks for Xingchen, and a sword for A-Qing. She’s delighted by this and runs off to show Song Lan. Xue Yang asks Xingchen what he sees in Song Lan, and Xingchen tells him how much he admires Song Lan.

Song Lan saves A-Qing from a nosy villager who thinks she shouldn’t have a sword, then they go train. When they return, Xue Yang brings up QingMing as a poor attempt at apology to Song Lan, giving him the space to grieve Baixue. Once Xue Yang’s leg has healed a little more, they start travelling to Baixue

Song Lan decides to ignore when Xue Yang does annoying things, and Xue Yang is irritated at being ignored. Song Lan refuses to let Xue Yang close to Baixue, which Xue Yang accepts, but Xingchen argues about. After fighting over it, Xue Yang decides to leave and meet them after QingMing

On arrival at Baixue, Xingchen is suddenly horrified that he tried to argue to let Xue Yang, Baixue’s murderer, onto the grounds. Song Lan talks to the graves of his family about his past year, and makes a resolution to help Xue Yang be a good person

Meanwhile, Xue Yang is thinking about a Jin boy he met shortly after joining Lanling Jin’s trainee class. The Jin boy was kind, and Xue Yang kept the golden ribbon the boy gave him all these years. After thinking about this, Xue Yang decides Song Lan is just as good a person as Xingchen, and resolves to make Song Lan want to keep him too.

No-Touch Rule arc | Chapters 77 to 85

When Xue Yang reunites with the group, Xingchen flinches away from touching him, and brings back the No-Touch rule. Xue Yang takes it badly, but is convinced its necessary for now.

Xue Yang gifts Song Lan fancy tea, and later a black pebble. Song Lan appreciates the tea, but doesn’t understand the pebble

Xue Yang and A-Qing bond over insults, and Xue Yang suggests she come on a hunt with them. A-Qing does alright on the hunt, but Xingchen ends up triggered by the walking corpses they fight. Xingchen screams at Xue Yang and attacks him, telling him to get lost. Song Lan and A-Qing comfort Xingchen

Xue Yang sneaks back in the middle of the night to check on Xingchen. Song Lan convinces him to stay until morning. Xingchen and Xue Yang talk about Xingchen’s trauma, and how he needs space from Xue yang

The longer the No-Touch rule remains, the moodier Xue Yang gets. He lashes out at A-Qing and she calls him out on this being unfair, and tells him that apologies with words are necessary between friends. He can’t just hurt them then offer something nice to make up for it, he has to control himself

Xue Yang gets worse. He’s badly touch-starved and desperately clinging to any coping mechanism that might work, including getting drunk, binge eating candies, getting in fights, and having casual sex with strangers. His companions notice something is wrong but no one is sure what’s causing it and they’re all irritated by his behaviour

Xue Yang explodes and threatens to kidnap Xingchen, but calms when Song Lan catches and holds him. Just being held by someome he trusts grounds Xue Yang and makes him feel very safe, and after so long without it, the feeling overwhelms him. He falls asleep in Song Lan’s arms.

Late that night, Xue Yang wakes when Song Lan finally releases him and goes to cleanse himself. At first Xue Yang is offended by the implication that Song Lan finds touching him unclean, but Xingchen and Song Lan explain that Song lan is mysophobic and this reaction isn’t anything to do with Xue Yang specifically

Xue Yang, Song Lan, Xingchen and A-Qing all sit down to talk. Xingchen and Xue Yang come to a new agreement about touching that suits both of their needs. Xue Yang admits that he doesn’t feel regret over tricking Xingchen into murder, which hurts Xingchen, but Xue Yang says that he’s changed as a person since then and would never do anything like it again to Xingchen. A-Qing and Song Lan help moderate the discussion when it gets emotional

A few weeks later, Xue Yang and Xingchen have another discussion about regret. By Xingchen’s definition, Xue yang does feel regret for his actions, but by Xue Yang’s definition, the word doesn’t fit. Xingchen decides this mismatch is what was causing them both strife. Xingchen and Xue Yang reafirm their dedication to each other

Group Bonding mini-arc | Chapters 86 to 89

Xue Yang declares that Song Lan should learn some demonic cultivation, and that learning some could benefit A-Qing and Xingchen too. Song Lan finds this highly offensive considering how Baixue Temple was slaughtered. Xue Yang argues that Song Lan is undead, so particularly vulnerable to regular cultivation and manipulation by demonic cultivators. Xingchen and A-qing eventually concede that it would be useful for first aid purposes, but Song Lan is unconvinced that he should learn any.

Song Lan and Xingchen bond over Xingchen’s passion for cheesy adventure novels, but are upset when Xue Yang complains about hearing Song Lan’s voice in his head. Xue Yang attempts to smooth things over by acting as a translator for Song Lan, but Xingchen rebuffs his efforts. Later, Xue Yang reveals that he’s making plans to give Song Lan a true voice again

Song Lan and Xue Yang spar for fun. Xue Yang wins by cheating, then helps clean the mud from Song Lan’s face. They’re both very comfortable being physically close together. Xue Yang gives Song Lan fancy soaps as a gift

Xingchen wakes with morning wood and runs off to find somewhere private to jerk off. His fantasies include both Xue Yang and Song Lan, and lack a lot of detail about how sex works, instead leaning towards more general romantic feelings for both men.

A-Qing suspects Xue Yang wants to be her teacher because he keeps trying to casually teach her stuff, this time focusing on how to manipulate other’s perceptions. Xue Yang proves his skills by dressing up as an old man. While he’s busy getting in disguise, A-Qing points out to Song Lan and Xingchen that Xue Yang almost never outright asks for anything he wants, they have to read between the lines with him.

Snowstorm mini-arc | Chapters 90 to 92

The group arrive at the town Melody Springs right as a snowstorm blows into town. Xingchen and Song Lan go door to door to make sure all the locals are prepared to endure the storm. A-Qing stays to help out at the inn which has been converted into a shelter. Xue Yang secretly goes out to rescue any homeless people caught in the storm, and saves a few.

It becomes clear the storm is unnatural. Bodies are freezing far too quickly and a barrier is trapping everyone in town. The group reunite at the inn and make a plan to hunt down whoever is causing the storm and stop them. Before they leave they ward the building, then Xue Yang, Xingchen and Song lan all go out to hunt, leaving A-Qing to protect the inn and maintain the wards.

There is banging at the doors of the inn. A-Qing prevents the townfolk from opening the doors for the person on the other side, reasoning that she can sense the person is a ghost. This saves them all from a grim fate of being frozen.

The cause of the snowstorm is a ghost who died in a snowstorm decades before. She can freeze with a touch, and nearly kills Xingchen, but Song Lan knocks him out of the way of her attack and gets frozen instead. Xue Yang eventually subdues the ghost by talking to her.

Xue Yang and Xingchen get in an argument about Xue Yang using ghosts as weapons but are distracted by Song Lan collapsing. He’s been partially frozen and needs help defrosting. Xue Yang tells Xingchen it hurts that Xingchen always assumes the worst of him. Xingchen promises to be more thoughtful in the future.

Returning to the inn, Xingchen volunteers to help the injured. Song Lan and Xue Yang have a short talk about how attractive Xingchen is, and how Xue Yang is uncomfortable with the idea of having sex with him. Song Lan finds this confusing, because across the mind bond he can tell Xue Yang is in love with Xingchen.

Xingchen and the others work through the night to help people. Xingchen and Song Lan stand together in the snow after all the chaos and watch the sun rise together.

Time Flies Fast arc | Chapters 93 to 99

In the middle of winter, Xue Yang and Xingchen have a deep chat about how Xue Yang misses his old life as an assassin and misses his old friend even if that friend tried to have him killed. He feels out of place doing good stuff. Xingchen says as long as Xue Yang doesn’t kill or harm anyone, he doesn’t need to jump in to help people like Xingchen does, it’s okay.

In the spring, Xue Yang approaches Song Lan with a prototype charm to give him a voice. The charm unfortunately doesn’t work, but Xue Yang and Song Lan bond together, and admit they no longer hate each other.

They return to Baixue Town for QingMing. Song Lan is recognised by several locals, who are all happy a Baixue Temple member escaped the slaughter. Song Lan feels uncomfortable around them out of guilt that he didn’t save the Temple.

Song Lan has been sharing a bed with Xue Yang and Xingchen. He doesn’t sleep, he meditates beside them. Xingchen and Xue Yang snuggle and Xue Yang loves it. Song Lan can feel Xue Yang’s pleasure at the closeness across their mind bond, and enjoys feeling Xue Yang’s joy.

Xue Yang is very anxious at being left behind while the others visit Baixue Temple, but he comforts himself with the golden ribbon and red azalea silk, and reunites with them happily after a few days.

In late spring/early summer, the group find a town on fire and jump in to help. Song Lan and Xue Yang team up to fight the flames, while Xingchen runs into a burning building to save a woman and ends up nearly dying himself. Escaping the flames, he is immediately approached by a daifu who berates him for his recklessness. Xingchen convinces her to let him help her treat the injured. Meanwhile, Xue Yang uses the snow ghost to summon a snowstorm, that turns to a rainstorm and stops the fire

Yuchen-daifu sees Xingchen crying blood a few days later and immediately springs into action to help with his “qi deviation” but soon finds that Xingchen hasn’t been caring properly for the delicate flesh of his empty eyes, and thats why he cries blood. She says she’ll find a way to help

Xingchen wants to be Yuchen-daifu’s student, so the group settle in for a long stay. A-Qing makes some friends in town, Xue Yang nests, Song Lan befriends two aunties who take him to tea and check up on him. Xue Yang is frustrated at the lack of hunts, so Song Lan suggests he start sparring with A-Qing to teach her

In the middle of summer, the group go to cool off in the river. A-Qing disappears with her friends. Song Lan reads a book. Xue Yang and Xingchen play in the water, and then lounge together on the bank, skin still wet. Song Lan finds the view arousing, which is shocking and confusing because he hasn’t felt arousal since he died. He runs off to take care of his problem, fantasising about Xingchen, and a little about Xue Yang.

Meanwhile, Xue Yang tells Xingchen that Song Lan finds them attractive. Xingchen perks up and wants to know more, Xue Yang says he should ask Song Lan directly.

tbc

I hope some people find this helpful, or even just fun to read!

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