15 Bookmarks by gurmie
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quotes from sad moments of the trilogy and incorporated into fluffy one shots or two shots because I'm sad
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18 Oct 2025
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I Just Love the Very Blood Of You by lilac_and_ravens
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang
03 Apr 2025
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"It didn’t matter that she’d only spoken to him a couple of times in her life. Rin hated Yin Nezha."
(OR: a Poppy War college AU <3)
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29 Aug 2025
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The Twists of Fate by drafts_n_characters
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang, The Selection Series - Kiera Cass
24 Nov 2024
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Fang Runin is a a 21 year old war-orphan who'd never been able to escape the grasp of her foster mother. In this world, Yin Vaisra had decisively conquered the Nikan Empire years before the events of the novels, establishing a monarchy with him at the helm. After Emperor Vaisra prevented women from attending Sinegard, Rin was left with no choice but to look for another way to escape arranged marriage at the age of 14.
Finding her savior in Tutor Feyrik, she'd been able to make a name for herself as a fighter and to keep her foster mother happy (and rich) enough to keep Rin around.
But everything is about to change as Emperor Vaisra announces The Selection for his now heir to the throne, Yin Nezha. It's an opportunity for women to compete for the prince's hand from across the empire, but Rin vehemently opposes the whole idea.
As fate would have it, she gets thrown into that same world she tried to avoid, her days now filled with civil unrest, secrecy, a strange growing power, and growing feelings for a certain infuriating prince.
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19 Aug 2025
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Nezha hates second place. He grew up in second place behind his brother, but Sinegard Academy was supposed to be different. It was supposed to be his chance to prove he is the best. So when he gets second place behind Rin (of all people) in the First Year Combat Tournament, he realizes he has to do something drastic to earn first place: train with the only person who can beat him.
A Poppy War re-write, but I forced Rin and Nezha to be friends in Sinegard.
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13 Aug 2025
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"He’s beginning to forget the sound of her voice.
It hasn’t even been that long since that day on Speer—a year or two, perhaps—but the details are already fading. Were her eyebrows straight or slightly curved? Did he imagine that mole on the back of her neck? What colour were her eyes at the end, before the light went out of them forever?
He’s terrified of forgetting. He’s terrified of waking up one day and being unable to recall the sound of her laugh.
He came to the Red Cliffs to make sure that day never comes."
Or, a post-canon AU where Nezha throws himself off a cliff, and wakes up in a world he had always longed for.
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11 Aug 2025
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i see how this is gonna go (touch me and you'll never be alone) by Lil_eees
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang, Bridgerton (TV)
09 Apr 2026
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Dearest gentle readers,
The time has come for the social season and if there exists a scandal rest assured I shall uncover it. Ponder this: what happens when duty and ambition binds two would-be rivals to each other? My speculation is that they will live at each other’s throats in desperate attempts to quell an inadmissible desire because, after all, fire and water do look so lovely together despite their nature.
Yours truly,
Lady Whistledown
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By all accounts, Mai’rinnen Trengsin and Yin Nezha make an interesting couple. But the two of them know the truth— it’s all an elaborate scheme by their families to enter into a risky marriage alliance as the threat of the Third Poppy War looms. They must prove to Sinegard’s cutthroat elite-- and Empress Su Daji herself-- that their courtship isn’t a sham, but rather a convincing whirlwind romance; a task made difficult enough by their mutual disdain and worsened by the vicious nature of Nikara high society.
Will their ruse become something else as they become the talk of the town?
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The Poppy War, but make it Bridgerton.
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- Part 1 of my reputation’s never been worse, so
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10 Aug 2025
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Love is a Four-Letter Word by drafts_n_characters
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang
20 Feb 2025
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Sometimes, Rin is certain she’s the unluckiest person in the world.
She is getting married. Because some god out there decided that making her an orphaned peasant girl just wasn't enough, no, she also just has to be the last living Speerly.
She won’t let her husband have a moment of peace in this life if she’s forced to live hers with him, for as long as they’re both alive. She will be his biggest fucking nightmare.
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Sometimes, Nezha is certain he’s the unluckiest person in the world.
He is getting married. Because what Emperor Riga says goes, and Emperor Riga says Nezha is to marry the last living Speerly to strengthen their bloodline.
In one fell swoop, his chance to choose his eventual wife, his love, is gone, replaced by a foul-mouthed, violent creature he can only describe as a nightmare sent to haunt him for every single thing he’d ever done wrong in his life.
~Heed the tags, please~
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09 Aug 2025
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shortest path algorithm (to your heart) by swankquilizer
Fandoms: The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang
30 Jun 2025
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Rin's favorite has an unfortunate familial tie.
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06 Aug 2025
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"love don't mean nothing unless there's something worth fighting for"
modern-day poppy war where powers still exist and the four are in college just trying to scrape by
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05 Aug 2025
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Five years ago, Rin left everything behind: Sinegard, her friends, and the man who refused to choose her. Now, back in Sinegard with a job at Shenlong Industries, she’s doing everything possible to keep a secret safe. But when she runs into Nezha again in their newly shared workspace, she realizes the past isn’t something she can outrun forever… Especially when it looks like a four-year-old version of him.
Meanwhile, Nezha has spent the last five years trying not to think about Rin— a difficult feat when she called him a coward before disappearing off the face of the earth. So, he leaves for Hesperia to drown himself in work and prove himself a worthy heir of the Yin corporate empire. But when he returns to Nikan as the VP of R&D at Shenlong Industries, the unexpected awaits for him in the form of an adorable little boy… And his mother, who he hasn’t stopped thinking about since letting her go.
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A Rinezha rom-com told in two timelines. HEA second-chance romance, workplace shenanigans, enemies to friends to lovers to exes to coworkers to coparents to ???.
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05 Aug 2025
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“Nezha,” she whispers. “I’m sorry you had to marry me.”
He rests his head against hers. It might have been her imagination, but she thinks she feels his lips against her temple.
“I’m not."After the Federation's attack on Speer, Yin Vaisra makes a proposal. Although he hopes it will aid him in stabilizing his shaky hold on his new republic, things don't go as planned.
(Where some things change and some things stay the same, and history moves in vicious circles.)
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04 Aug 2025
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“You don’t like a little fire?” Rin teased, lifting her hand again to let the flames curl between her fingers, casting dancing shadows across Nezhas face.
“I like it too much,” he said roughly, his gaze steady.
The wine and the swaying of the sampan blurred the edges of Rin’s vision, but her mind was sharper now, and every heartbeat, every breath between them, suddenly felt unbearably loud.
“You never said that before,” she said, her voice a bit smaller now.
“I never could,” Nezha admitted, looking away for a second, like the words cost him something.
“Because of who we are?” she asked, already knowing the answer.
He nodded. “Because of who we have to be.”
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We all know that history moves in such viscous circles. But what if it didn’t have to? What if they could break the chain?
This is a rewrite of “The Burning God” about how they did it. And it all starts with Nezha making a different choice that night on a sampan in Arlong.Bookmarked by gurmie
02 Aug 2025
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"i've said too much, in and out of wanting us"
Rin is using the Sinegardian basement fights to her advantage to get her anger out. She managed to get her little brother into the school so she wouldn't have to worry about him, but he's bringing her closer and closer to the man she'd spent so long dreaming of killing. But with the presence of her little brother's mouth, he begins to tell everyone about their past. Rin chose to leave it behind her and isn't sure how she can deal with people looking at her in a new light. Specifically, Yin Nezha.
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26 Jul 2025
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What Makes A Man by AnnieGumi
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang, Mulan (Disney Animated Movies)
25 May 2026
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“Do you have any idea how much trouble you are?”
His voice came out rougher than before, worn thin at the edges like he was holding himself together by force alone. Rin’s eyes dropped instinctively to his throat. She watched his swallow bob beneath pale skin, watched the tension jump in his jaw, and had the sudden overwhelming urge to press her thumb there, if only to feel his pulse racing beneath it, to drag her teeth over his Adam’s apple just to see if she could make him lose control completely.
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23 Jul 2025
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the cities in which i love you by aerimmiese
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang
09 Dec 2025
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“Ready?” Nezha laces their fingers with a startlingly familiar tenderness. His expression doesn’t betray the contempt and unfamiliarity of the last five years, only the spitting image of the face she loved in Sinegard, all those summers ago.
Rin wants to run. They shouldn’t be doing this. How the fuck is he doing this? How could he reach for Old Nezha, her Nezha, so easily, as if he’d just been there this entire time and never left—as if she had never left?
“Just fucking get this over with,” Rin grits out.
His smile is beautiful and open, the way it was in her memories and worst nightmares.
“Good,” he says, more to the guests honed in on their conversation than to her. “Then it’s about time everyone met my beautiful, brilliant girlfriend.”
Five years after the fact, Rin reprises the role of Nezha’s girlfriend for his sister’s wedding.
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22 Jul 2025