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  1. Rec 7

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    Oh, she loves Maomao, this she has understood. It had probably been set in stone the moment she felt bad about deceiving her best friend in the entire world about her identity and purpose.

    Things she isn’t allowed to feel.

    the difference between Shisui and Loulan, ever-present.

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    30 May 2026

  2. Rec 38

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    It’s impossible to get a read on her. Maomao’s beginning to realize that Shisui is just as clever as Suirei, especially the way she filters the information she discloses. Talkative but withholding key details. Gossipy but not about the things that matter. Oversharing but only about bugs.

    She wonders if there’s any way she can chip away at that wall, to get a glimpse of Loulan through Shisui, of Shisui through Loulan. It’s a dangerous game to play, a risky puzzle to try and solve.

    A collection of one-shots from an Alternate Universe where Maomao figures out Loulan's identity while they're still at the rear palace. Not much plot, just a lot of vibes. Also not much romance, just hella bonding.

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    11 May 2026

  3. Rec 39

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    inspired by tangled!

    When Maomao accidentally steals a strange, golden hairpin, she doesn’t expect it to lead her to a tower deep within the forest, or to the girl hidden inside. Shisui, a girl with hair that trails like silk down her back, has one demand: take her to the lantern festival in Shi.
    Maomao is reluctantly drawn deeper into the mystery of her partner’s identity and the mystery tied to her unnaturally long hair.

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    10 May 2026

  4. Rec 59

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    But before she can fully fall into her dreams, the door to her hospital room opens to reveal a nurse doing her rounds. The noise is enough to coax her mysterious guest from her sleep. Unlike Maomao, she’s fully alert immediately, and her big eyes go wide as she takes in Maomao, a wide smile erupting on her pretty face as she squeezes Maomao’s hand.

    Is that flush of heat a fever? It must be. Perhaps she has the flu.

    When Maomao wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how she got there and a strange young woman asleep on her lap, she slowly jumps to the logical conclusion.

    (Perhaps she should have waited for more evidence.)

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    09 May 2026

  5. Rec *

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    She would know her anywhere, be it in dreams, a passerby, a story. It’s not a ghost. Bright-eyed, sun-kissed, and life-worn, she’s different in all the ways Maomao thought she would be after all these years, in all the ways she hoped she would be despite the tragedy that seemed set in stone for her and hers.

    Quietly, as though an earnest prayer, unspoken but felt all the same: Shisui.

    Or: Ten years after Shisui leaves her, Maomao finds herself in a nameless village, chasing the trail of a ghost.

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    09 May 2026