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If I Could Love You Back To Life by LadySternchen for erumelde
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
24 May 2026
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Performing the ritual to save Zhou Zishu’s life takes a heavy toll on Wen Kexing. Unable to speak or move, he hovers on the brink of death, while Zhou Zishu wishes for nothing more than to be able to bring him back, to love him back to life. To his surprise, Zhou Zishu finds he can.
Please note: there is a content warning specifically for chapter 2.
Please note 2.0: the edited work will be added as additional chapters (chapters 5-8). See notes for further information.
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Once More I’ll Come, Then Never More by LadySternchen
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
06 Apr 2026
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Gu Xiang lies beside Wen Kexing, both desperately wounded, on the day that should have been the happiest of her life. Drifting in and out of consciousness, she remembers scenes from her childhood in Ghost Valley.
Or in shorter words- a role swap AU where Gu Xiang survives her wedding day, while Wen Kexing does not.
(I’m sorry I had to do this, but I just LOATHE that she dies in canon, so I had to change that. Also yes, I’m convinced that had he been given the choice, Wen Kexing would have given his life for hers) -
Putting Up The Star by LadySternchen
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Dec 2025
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It is Christmas Eve, and Mablung and Elu decorate the tree together with their daughter. Part Two of my Modern AU series
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- Part 2 of The Mablung/Elu Thingol Modern AU- Saga
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I See The Shadows Of The Things That You've Had To Endure by LadySternchen
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
22 Dec 2025
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After the deaths of Gu Xiang and Cao Weining, Zhou Zishu takes a desperately wounded Wen Kexing out of Ghost Valley, but at the cost of the strength he has left, leaving him at the brink of death. Meanwhile Wen Kexing in his death throes has to fight the demons of his past.
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For The World’s More Full Of Weeping Than You Can Understand by LadySternchen for Certainlittlesmile
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Nov 2025
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Taking my boys out of Doriath and into a modern AU, so they can be sweethearts without me tearing the relationship between Elu and Melian apart.
On their last day of term, Elu comes home from uni sick. Mablung knows how to make him better.Series
- Part 1 of The Mablung/Elu Thingol Modern AU- Saga
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The Mablung/Elu Thingol Modern AU- Saga by LadySternchen
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Dec 2025
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x ways Elu Thingol could have got himself killed that are less annoying than his canonical death by LadySternchen
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Aug 2025
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Moving On by LadySternchen
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
21 Aug 2023
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The Only Place You Wanna Be by AiyexAyen for rustycreekspoon
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
02 Jan 2024
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Gu Xiang said she would follow Wen Kexing even if he was crazy; that if he killed her one day, she would follow him even in death. When she follows him as far as Siji Shanzhuang, she doesn't expect that instead she'll be walking with him hand in hand along the painful road to becoming human--guided by the light of a dying man learning how to live.
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10 Apr 2026
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And I shall say good night till it be morrow by erumelde
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
16 Apr 2026
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"Two realms of death, both dark and steeped in sin,
In ancient Jianghu, where we lay our scene."Or, the Romeo and Juliet AU nobody asked for.
With illustrations by the lovely notoisstrange.Bookmarked by LadySternchen
06 Apr 2026
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Prince Qi is too elegant, too polite, and knows far too many stories about Zhou Zishu's past. Wen Kexing discovers that he is not very good at sharing—and also not very good at hiding his burning jealousy.
Bookmarked by LadySternchen
23 Mar 2026
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欲问孤鸿向何处 | a longing to ask the lone swan where it goes by erumelde
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
14 Mar 2026
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Before he knew it, Wen Kexing had grabbed his wrists and shaken them so the snow slipped from his hands. Then he flipped them around, pinned Zhou Zishu down in the snow, and looked down at him with triumphant eyes.
“Do you yield?” he declared.
Zhou Zishu looked up at him—the dark eyes flashing with mockery, the flushed skin sparkling with snow, the soft curved lips—and thought: Yes. Heavens, yes.
He went completely pliant in Wen Kexing’s grip, stopped struggling, and melted into the snow and the touch, testing Wen Kexing’s reaction. Only his fingers twitched; the movement pressed the tendons of his wrist more firmly into Wen Kexing’s palm, and Zhou Zishu could have sworn he nearly died a second time.
Breathless, he stared into Wen Kexing’s eyes, his chest still heaving from their scuffle. He saw Wen Kexing draw a sharp breath as well, before abruptly looking away and letting him go.
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In which Zhou Zishu desperately yearns for Wen Kexing, but doesn't know how to ask for what he wants. Includes ridiculous attemps at seduction, an incredibly high amount of sexual frustration, and Jing Beiyuan coming to save the day.
Bookmarked by LadySternchen
10 Mar 2026
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千山暮雪 | a thousand mountains under twilight snow by erumelde for LadySternchen
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
18 Feb 2026
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Zhou Zishu regarded him with empty eyes, as though he did not understand the innuendo. “You died,” he said quietly, as if that explained everything.
He paused, because it did not. He searched for something more to say, but all that came were those two words. You died.
Wen Kexing’s smile faded. For a fleeting moment Zhou Zishu thought he had understood, despite his own wordlessness. After all, he was his zhiji—the one who knew him.
Or at least, he had once believed so.
Then Wen Kexing laughed. It was awkward, uncertain, but it was laughter, and Zhou Zishu realized he understood nothing at all.
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Snowed in inside the World's Armory, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing are forced to confront the consequences of their mutual deception. Post-canon angst with a hopeful ending.
Bookmarked by LadySternchen
14 Feb 2026