I'm pretty sure I'll finish all the Guardian fics on the list, tbh. The muse is still going strong there.
That said the accidental marriage Guardian AU is what will one day be the long fix-it everyone seems to end up writing for this fandom at some point. I've only got a couple hundred words written for it, but I've done a lot of outlining, thus discovering that this, uh, won't be short. The premise is that Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan get accidentally married while together in Dixing for the first time (ep 16 ish). Also featuring lots and lots of Dixing worldbuilding.
This is the only bit that's written, as of yet:
Whatever Zhao Yunlan had expected from mythical Dixing, it hadn’t been grey dimness, empty streets, dust and dirt and a watchful silence that sends prickling warning shivers down his back. With a lot of squinting one could imagine splendour of ages past behind the peeling paints and ragged edges, the remnants of once proud architecture imaginable in the stonework and high arches.
If only there were light.
Zhao Yunlan’s eyes flicker to Shen Wei, striding next to him in his Hei Pao Shi outfit, bearing even stiffer than usual as he listens to the Regent prattling on. The few times Shen Wei has let himself be coaxed into talking about Dixing, there’d been something desperately bleak curling around the edges of his expression and Zhao Yunlan is starting to understand why.
Earlier grandstanding aside – which had only been aimed at getting to come along anyway – the creeping sense that he’s really out of his depth is starting to unsettle him. He’s beginning to understand just how little he knows about Dixing; how little any Haixingren knows about Dixing. Not that that would have stopped him from inveigling himself onto this trip to find the missing Dijun Booklet. Zhao Yunlan has never been in the habit of denying his own curiosity.
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That said the accidental marriage Guardian AU is what will one day be the long fix-it everyone seems to end up writing for this fandom at some point. I've only got a couple hundred words written for it, but I've done a lot of outlining, thus discovering that this, uh, won't be short. The premise is that Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan get accidentally married while together in Dixing for the first time (ep 16 ish). Also featuring lots and lots of Dixing worldbuilding.
This is the only bit that's written, as of yet:
Whatever Zhao Yunlan had expected from mythical Dixing, it hadn’t been grey dimness, empty streets, dust and dirt and a watchful silence that sends prickling warning shivers down his back. With a lot of squinting one could imagine splendour of ages past behind the peeling paints and ragged edges, the remnants of once proud architecture imaginable in the stonework and high arches.
If only there were light.
Zhao Yunlan’s eyes flicker to Shen Wei, striding next to him in his Hei Pao Shi outfit, bearing even stiffer than usual as he listens to the Regent prattling on. The few times Shen Wei has let himself be coaxed into talking about Dixing, there’d been something desperately bleak curling around the edges of his expression and Zhao Yunlan is starting to understand why.
Earlier grandstanding aside – which had only been aimed at getting to come along anyway – the creeping sense that he’s really out of his depth is starting to unsettle him. He’s beginning to understand just how little he knows about Dixing; how little any Haixingren knows about Dixing. Not that that would have stopped him from inveigling himself onto this trip to find the missing Dijun Booklet. Zhao Yunlan has never been in the habit of denying his own curiosity.