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    “I’d never put you out of your bedroom,” Mo Ran argues. His voice has dropped. He can’t help it. He would dare anyone to try thinking pure thoughts after being invited into Chu Wanning’s bedroom.

    Chu Wanning crosses his arms. “I wouldn’t be leaving, either.”

    (or: Chu Wanning's pull-out sofa breaks just as Mo Ran needs a place to stay, but his bed is big enough for two.)

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Chu Wanning comes out of his seclusion to an uproar. He expects the noise.

    He doesn't expect Mo Ran.

    (The night before the new year, Mo Ran gets older.)

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    14 Jun 2026

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    Chu Wanning has dreamt of it once.

    The two of them dressed in red, confirming to the world what they were to each other. Mo Ran, older than he was during their ghost marriage, looking at Chu Wanning with an eagerness that spoke of only a happy lifetime together in love.

    (Mo Ran has been telling everyone that he and Chu Wanning are married. If only Chu Wanning had any idea when this marriage had even taken place.)

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    12 Jun 2026

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    It takes the length of the exhale Mo Ran makes when he sees Chu Wanning sweep his hair up in the tiny kitchen of their cottage, the collar of his robe hanging loose, to notice that something is off.

    Faintly, Mo Ran remembers Chu Wanning being fascinated by a small tonic a vendor had been selling at a festival a few nights ago. Chu Wanning said the vendor had claimed that the tonic would enhance vitality; it seems that Chu Wanning may have decided to test it. And by the reticence he is showing now, there’s a strong chance that Chu Wanning may have misinterpreted what the vendor meant by vitality.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Chu Wanning realizes his hand is braced against the man’s chest. Against the man’s warm chest. Against the man’s warm, toned chest. Against the man’s warm, toned, bare chest, and Chu Wanning’s fingers twitch against his skin as he eyes a bead of sweat trailing down its expanse, and the man is too close, much too close, and Chu Wanning feels his breath against his skin, and—

    And then Chu Wanning retracts his hand as if he’s touched fire, and slaps the man across the face.

    The first time Imperial Chancellor Chu meets Mo Ran, he slaps him across the face.

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    12 Jun 2026