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𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓑𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓶𝓼

Prompt - Years and years of separation and pain. What happens when Xie Lian finds a special flower hidden in the depths of his mind as well as resting in his hand?

❛𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐬𝐬.❜

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Ship name = LianHua {Xie Lian x Hua Cheng}

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Difference in plot = They meet on the ox-cart, but they separate afterwards. Which means San Lang/Hua Cheng never stays over at the Puqi Shrine, so their relationship doesn't progress.

Xie Lian usually resides at his old palace in the heavenly capital and wears a little more of a grandeur clothing style. He also comes to Puqi Village much earlier than the actual timings cannonically.

Warnings = Hinted deaths, some sort of mental illnesses?-

Rating = Pg-14 [??]

Type of oneshot = Angst [a centimetre of fluff-]

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Enjoy bestiesss :D

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As Xie Lian walked around Puqi Village without a certain destination in mind, he grimaced. 

He had been feeling a little troubled lately, his mind had been in a disarray for quite a while now, as he looked around. 

After all the traumatic experiences he faced. Seeing his own kingdom burning down, his cousin losing his mind, his friends betraying him, and of course... His parents deaths. The worst being that, that wasn't all of it. 

He hated it all. 

Every day he would have the foreboding sense of being followed. He'd straighten his (already quite straight) posture as he tried to peek from the corner of his eyes. Yet, he was always unable to see anything, and the feeling of being followed vanished. But right after he looks forward again, the feeling comes back.

Xie Lian grimaced again.

And then he felt it.

The feeling of everybody's eyes on him. Xie Lian sucked in a breath, harshly. He hated the feeling, giving him bad memories of the past that he painstakingly tried to bury, deep down in his heart.

"'Body in  paradise, heart in abyss' my ass." He once heard while on the streets of the Heavenly Capital, and yet he could not have the heart to fight back. Instead silently agreeing with the God that had (in his opinion) rightfully shamed him.

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Xie Lian sprinted, sprinted so hard that he basically created craters each time his foot reached the ground. His eyes wandered around the unfamiliar forest that resided near Puqi Village, and he sighed.

Being away from those villagers, and all those... Those stares... Felt exhilarating. 

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His eyes roamed around the forest as he silently analysed where he ran to. His footsteps having slowed down, to that of a normal pace. He opened his mouth seeming to want to say something to himself, but instead closed it shut again.