Title: softening
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: G-rated
Length: 1176 words
Notes: Many thanks to trobadora for beta. <3
Tags: Da Qing & Shen Wei, Shen Wei & Ye Zun, background Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe – Everyone Lives, Aftermath, Feelings, Cat Tribe Best Tribe
Summary: Da Qing curls up and assesses. He likes this lap, with its faint aroma of dark energy and its feeling of safety, but the thighs reveal a thrumming tension. If Da Qing doesn’t mend Shen Wei’s mood, his nap will surely be cut short.

( softening )

Title: an unexpected end
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: G-rated
Length: 877 words
Notes: Inspired by an exchange on sid_guardian about decoupling goodness/intelligence and beauty, and by a discussion on my journal of second person POV. From yabla.com’s pinyin dictionary: qīng wā CL隻|只[zhi1] frog (slang) ugly guy
Tags: Original Youchu character, Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng, Outsider POV, First and Second Person POV, Youchu character death, Compassion, Handwavy Post-Canon, Oops this was supposed to be a drabble.
Summary: Curled and weak on my bed of rough sacking, looking down through a jagged hole, I can only hope you won’t find me. I’m already dying; let my existence end peacefully.

( an unexpected end )

Title: In the end, we are but animals
Fandom: Guardian (novel & drama blend)
Rating: G-rated
Length: 1500 words
Notes: Inspired by maggie33’s & amedia’s comments on a discussion of Da Qing and Zhao Yunlan’s fridge. Warnings: extreme lack of hygiene; insects/spiders; mention of vomit.
Summary: Da Qing sauntered over with the air of a fond uncle and perched on the table next to Guo Changcheng. “Xiao Guo, you’re a good kid. I’m going to do you a favour, and this favour involves you doing a small task.”

( In the end, we are but animals )

Title: Vigilance
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G-rated
Length: 300 words
Notes: Much thanks to trobadora for beta. ♥ Angst, canon compliant including the ending.
Summary: For centuries, Zhang Shi doesn’t sleep.

( Vigilance )

Title: Official Public History
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G-rated
Length: 201 words
Notes: Also for 3SF 2024 (threesentenceficathon). Much thanks to trobadora for beta. ♥ No warnings.
Tags: Dixing history, Dixing politics, Post-Dirt Nap, Yearning, Punctuation Abuse
Summary: Shen Wei, newly awoken, learns how the ancient war has been remembered.

( Official Public History )

Title: the promise of summer
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: T-rated
Length: 2780 words
Notes: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan & Da Qing. Sequel to Breakage and Repair. Much thanks to mergatrude for beta. ♥ No warnings.
Tags: Chu Shuzhi’s self-worth issues redux, Domesticity, Cohabitation, Clothes Sharing, Developing Relationship, Cat Tribe Best Tribe
Summary: clothes, kisses, and cat fur

( the promise of summer )

Title: How to map the heart
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G-rated
Length: 1353 words
Notes: The Mirror Girl in Dixing. Thanks to mergatrude for beta and title. ♥ No warnings.
Tags: Deportation/Displacement, Heartbreak, Hopeful Ending
Summary: The Black-Cloaked Envoy had brought her to a boarding house.

( How to map the heart )

Title: learning to lead
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G-rated
Length: 313 words
Notes: Pre-canon Zhao Yunlan & Chu Shuzhi. Thanks to trobadora for read-through. ♥ No warnings.
Tags: Bigotry, Weather, Managing staff (badly)
Summary: He’s still wary of the Dixingren in his team, but the SID is facing criminals with superpowers, and he has to fight fire with fire. Not much use if his flamethrower is just a zippo, though.

( learning to lead )

Title: yesterday’s too close, tomorrow’s too far away
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: Teen
Length: 2,420 words
Notes: Guo Changcheng, pre-Guo Changcheng/Chu Shuzhi, background SID team. Set during ep 11, after the trip to the Hanga mountains. This doesn’t 100% fit the timeline, but I decided not to care. ;-) Also for mergatrude's prompt, "Is that a bloodstain?" Title from song lyrics heard in the movie "Upcoming Summer" (I don't know the song, sorry). Much thanks to teaotter for beta. No warnings.
Tags: Sex toys, Embarrassment, Humor, Sexual awakening
Summary: Changcheng receives a product brochure that leads to a personal epiphany.

( yesterday’s too close, tomorrow’s too far away )

Title: Midnight Train(wreck) to Recovery
Fandom: Guardian, Chu Shuzhi/Zhao Yunlan
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 5700 words
Tags and notes: Non-romantic sex, Not Hate Sex Though, Stress Release, Sort of emotional Hurt/Comfort?, One-Night Stand, Episode related, Episode 4, After the face-stealer case. I started this for last amnesty, for One Night Only. This round’s prompt was too perfect not to finish it. (Also, I started it in Korean, but that petered out.)
Acknowledgements: Much much thanks to mergatrude for beta!
Summary: Until this moment, he’d never once thought of Zhao Yunlan as fuckable, but now—suddenly he couldn’t breathe.

( Midnight Train(wreck) to Recovery )

Title: 주장 준비 | Preparing his case
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: 228 words (Korean), 302 words (English translation)
Notes: The university chancellor after telling Li Qian she could drop out. Apologies for the probably hundreds of mistakes in the Korean. English translation included.
Summary: Li Qian has no parents or guardian, but her professor is Professor Shen, who is young and diligent and cares about his students. Professor Shen definitely won’t like this development, and he’ll inevitably make a fuss.

( 주장 준비 | Preparing his case )

Title: 지성의 경치 | The scenery of Dixing
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: 209 words (Korean), 284 words (English translation)
Notes: Ji Xiaobai, set after the Mirror Girl case. Apologies for the probably hundreds of mistakes in the Korean. English translation included.
Summary: The scenery of Dixing isn't like the scenery of other countries.

( 지성의 경치 | The scenery of Dixing )

Title: adjustment phase
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: 361 words
Notes: Zhang Shi & Zhao Yunlan. Much thanks to trobadora for beta.
Summary: The second night, Zhang Shi can tell the looming prospect of home is uncomfortable for his new host.

( adjustment phase )

Title: on your side (right where I've always been)
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: Teen (for themes)
Length: 5,150 words
Notes: Shen Xi/Zhao Xinci, Shen Xi & Zhao Yunlan. Canon divergent AU. nnozomi wrote me a wonderful (canon compliant) Zhang Shi & Zhao Xinci fic for guardian_wishlist, which made me also want an AU where Shen Xi finds out about Zhang Shi. This is the first in a slow series about that, with an OT3 endgame. (No idea when the next one will happen!) Special mention, too, to miss_ingno’s Dreamwidth discussion post on the Zhao family: I still haven’t read all of it /o\, but the existence of it spurred me to commit this to Word doc, instead of just noodling it in my head. ♥
Acknowledgements: Much much thanks to trobadora and mergatrude for beta. Title from an Opshop song (er this might be verging on songfic *g*).
Summary: Zhao Xinci’s presence left a predictable, identifiable impression on the house, like a fingerprint—on her life, too—and she’d never noticed until now, when it was subtly but comprehensively changed.

( I'm on your side (right where I've always been) )

Title: Lightbulb Moment
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: General
Length: 830 words
Notes: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng. Much thanks to mergatrude for beta and the prompt: “What about we try again?”
Summary: A little misunderstanding fic.

( Lightbulb Moment )

Title: automation, the perils of
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: 1.7k words
Notes: Set again in happy post canon, and also doubles as a fill for "Snake Tribe" on my Guardian bingo card!
Summary: Zhao Yunlan's newest purchase gets underfoot. (Or, the adventures of Stabby the Space SID Roomba.)

( OSHA-noncompliance ahead )

Title: new are the days before us
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: 468 words
Notes: Yet again set in Handwavey Post-Canon Paradise™️, and somehow even more undiluted fluff than my previous fic. Also doubles as a fill for the "cooking" prompt on my Guardian bingo card, and the written equivalent of a Lunar New Year card for everyone celebrating!
Summary: So maybe Zhao Yunlan should order that Kiss The Cook apron he'd seen online, not that he actually needs the encouragement.

( not until day seven, at least )

Title: 'cause love, we're like fire
Fandom: Guardian (the drama, specifically)
Rating: G
Length: ~2.7k(!!)
Notes: Set in everyone's favourite handwavey post-canon (with some sprinkles of the resulting angst, but the fic itself is – dare I say it – as close to unrepentant fluff as I can get). Also it's past 1am and this is the single longest continuous thing I've ever written in living memory without even a scene break, how did this even happen.
Summary: When he said there was a current between them Zhao Yunlan had never meant it this literally.

( is that really gonna stop him, though )

Title: Convergence
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Note: For laireshi
Description: Because for Shen Wei, the entirety of his modern Haixing life is the morning after.

( Convergence )

Title: Addiction
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: Teen
Length: 100 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, smoking, bed-sharing. No archive warnings. Thanks to trobadora for beta.
Summary: The lighter rasps, and Zhao Yunlan inhales...

( Addiction )