#yes this technically makes duxie as samaritan but i don't really care about that

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HEY you know what would be Really Cool?? person of interest!tyk au. canonical genius zhou zishu who goes by a thousand names and near-singlehandedly built AI tianchuang hahaha windows for the greater good with jiuxiao as the public front of siji technologies. steadfastly ignores the irrelevant numbers he starts getting after his apparent death, up to and including chengling's number three days before the zhangs are killed, but winds up getting unwillingly involved anyway

and then, of course, wen kexing happens.

("in the world i was in, there's only two kinds of people: victim or perpetrator." zhou zishu regards the one obstacle standing between him and getting spectacularly drunk. "which one are you?"

"ah, a familiar philosophy," says wen kexing – if that's even his real name, because zhou zishu should know a fake identity when he sees one and he does, except the issue is that said identity doesn't seem fabricated so much as appeared out of thin air like it'd never been in this world before (the near-impossibility of which in turn narrows down the possibilities of his real identity to perhaps three-and-a-half choices). "which are you, then?"

"the same kind as you, i suspect," zishu replies offhandedly like the bullshit answer it is, but it serves somebody right. he did ask first, after all. "now either pay for my drink or get lost.")

#tyk #fanfiction #of a sort #ramble tag #mine #this concept brought to you by the extremely strong 'concerned third party' energy of tyk wenzhou #yes this technically makes duxie as samaritan but i don't really care about that #genius hacker zhou zishu..... man in the suit wen kexing......... it's one hell of a suit #cao weining can be joss carter i guess but once again. not my interest here