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    r/AmITheAsshole

    @philanthropistwen
    AITA for taking a longer route to spend more time with my soulmate?

    r/relationship-advice

    @philanthropistwen
    How should I go about pursuing my soulmate romantically after he has been resistant to my advances?

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    @fourseasons
    The worst person I know seems to be obsessed with me. How do I get rid of him?

    OR: even crazy people on reddit can find love

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    “Uh, Shifu,” Chengling follows him into the kitchen like an anxious puppy, fluttering around and trying to peer over his shoulder, “are you sure about this? Shouldn’t we wait for Uncle Wen? He said I shouldn’t mess around the kitchen when he’s not here…”

    “Don’t be absurd, it’s a meal, not a battlefield,” he huffs, pointedly not thinking how much easier a battlefield would realistically be, “we’ll be fine. Now, get the ginger, it should be in,” coming up with a blank, he looks around the kitchen. Where should it be in? Well, probably somewhere not too difficult to find. “Here somewhere,” he decides on, very diplomatically. 

    Chengling makes a noise. “It’s just that, Shifu, Uncle Wen also told me to warn him before you, er, burned down the kitchen again.”

    Of course he did. Why did he ever think Wen Kexing would let him live that down so soon? “Your Uncle Wen isn’t here right now,” Zhou Zishu says, very pleasantly, and begins gutting the fish with enthusiasm, “and the kitchen isn’t burning. Now, do you want to go get the ginger or do handstands outside?”

    Wise beyond his years, Chengling goes look for the ginger. 

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    or, two spoiled young masters try their hand at lunch.

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    Zhou Zishu knew he signed himself up for a night of trouble when he agreed to chaperone Chengling to some "haunted" manor while he films an episode of Cao Weining and Gu Xiang's paranormal investigation show. He didn't know, however, that he would run into one flirtatious Wen Kexing clad in white hanfu and suffer half of the night in his company.

    That is, until Wen Kexing vanishes. Now Zishu has to learn how to deal with the possibility that he may have gotten hit on by a ghost.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    The beach is deceptively quiet. Zhou Zishu is used to the bustle of the city, to the never-ending roar of the traffic and electricity and people, and how it fades into background radiation that's so easy to ignore. But out here, in this tiny house perched at the top of the hill overlooking the dunes and waves, the silence tries to deafen him. Without the white noise of constant activity, the crash of the ocean grates on his nerves like the scrape of metal on metal. The wind that blows through the sea grass keeps him awake at night, and the harsh cries of the gulls set his teeth on edge.

    Now as Zhou Zishu sits on his porch, looking over the sunset on the churning water and enjoying the burn of whiskey that slides down his throat, he lets out a bitter laugh. It's a good thing he didn't come here to relax; he came here to die.

    Or the merman/ex-cryptid hunter au!

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Wen Kexing✓ @theofficalkexing
    Just met my soulmate <3 

    Wen Kexing✓  @theofficalkexing
    I was walking in the park and I saw the most gorgeous pair of butterfly bones
    I had to go over and look~ Low and behold a angel graced my eyes

    Wen Kexing✓ @theofficalkexing
    I couldn't look away, I had to talk to them and such a beauty they were. 
    I have been struck by cupid's arrow!

    Gu Xiang✓ @Heartlessamythestfiend
    @theofficalkexing Ge, you literally approached 
    a drunk homeless man and harassed him for his number 

     ((OR: A social media au told through the internet about multi platinum heavy metal singer Wen Kexing meeting his soulmate Zhou Zishu--> who has no clue who he is)) Updated Ending Note

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