chenqing_100 | Entries tagged with prompt: the light exchanged

Title: untitled
Author:

narie
Word Count: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Wen Qing
Rating/Warnings: T (blood)

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There is a fundamental difference between theory and practice. Wen Qing first learned this as a child, as she committed the constellation of dantians and meridians on bodies to memory.

That gap has never been so stark as on this mountaintop. Wen Ning at her side, cawing birds circling overhead, and two still bodies under her knife. Her hands, so slippery with Wei Wuxian's blood that his precious golden core nearly slips through her fingers when she finally cuts it free. Such a small thing, so blinding in its brilliance.

Careful, she hefts her knife again. She cannot falter now.

setsuntamew

Title: Grief’s Resolve
Author:

setsuntamew
Word Count: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Nie Huaisang, Jin Guangyao
Rating/Warnings: G, final plot spoilers

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“You must be strong now that your brother is gone, but Er-ge and I will support you,” Jin Guangyao assures him, like a shining savior of hope- though perhaps that’s nothing more than the garish gold of his Jin robes, the weight of quality covering the grime of lies and blood and betrayal that tarnishes his soul.

“Thank you, San-ge,” Nie Huaisang says through a dramatized sob. His throat hurts from crying and his heart hurts from the burden of the truth, and in that moment, he vows to one day extinguish the light from Jin Guangyao’s eyes.

littledust

Title: endure
Author:

littledust /

littledust
Word Count: 100
Character: Nie Huaisang
Rating/Warnings: None
Summary: Nie Huaisang paints a landscape and mourns.

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Nie Huaisang dips his brush in ink and sweeps it across the page, tracing the outline of mountains. More brushstrokes add texture and shadow to the rocky outcroppings. Humming, Nie Huaisang dips the brush again. He softens the harsh face of the mountains: here with a tree, its leaves turned toward the sun; there with a patch of moss, lush and inviting. Nature balances itself even in the starkest environments.

Nie Huaisang knows the mountains of Qinghe Nie as well as he knows his own brother's face. But Nie Mingjue is gone, and the mountains are left to endure alone.

On AO3

Current Mood: accomplished

undeadrobins

Title: Moonlight
Author:

UndeadRobins
Word Count: 100 words
Ship: Lan Jingyi/Lan Sizhui
Rating/Warnings: G. No warnings.
Summary: Sizhui. Jingyi. Moonlight. That's all they need.

The room is dark, with only the pale moonlight seeping through the gaps. It’s not quite enough to see Jingyi’s face, but Sizhui can picture his soft smile and feel his gaze on his skin. They’re not touching, although there’s barely a hair’s width between them, and Sizhui knows his own desire is matched by Jingyi’s, so tangible that Sizhui can feel it.

“Can I kiss you?” Jingyi asks, and Sizhui is nodding before the sentence is finished.

As Jingyi leans in, the moonlight catches across his face, and Sizhui finds his breath is stolen twice in that single moment.

On AO3

ranalore

Title: Reverberating Illumination
Author: Rana Eros
Drabble Type: Triple Drabble
Character: Mo Xuanyu
Rating/Warnings: Teen and Up, mention of self-harm, depiction of ritual suicide
Summary: Mo Xuanyu wants revenge badly enough to give up everything.
Author's Notes: Betaed by the mighty

Eliza, who also helped when I was stumped on a title.

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( Reverberating Illumination )

elizacake

Title:Basically Harmless
Author:Eliza
Word Count/Drabble Type:300
Character(s)/Ship(s): Junior Quartet
Rating/Warnings: T, Poly
Author's Notes: Speed-betaed by

ranalore

( ...reaching for one of Wei-qianbei’s light talismans )

Current Mood: amused

ivoryandhorn

Title: You and I Met in the Dark Sea
Author: Cheshire (

ivoryandhorn/

ivory_and_horn)
Word Count/Drabble Type: 200 words.
Character(s)/Ship(s): Xue Yang & Xiao Xingchen
Rating/Warnings: G
Author's Notes: Title comes from this translation of "By Chance" by Xu Zhimo, the prompt source.

( He’d had plans for tonight, but—his usual tricks had lost their savor. )

hhimring

Title: Undiminished
Author: Himring
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Lan Wangji (Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian)
Rating/Warnings: G
Summary: A scene after the lantern episode.
Author's Notes: Possibly AU, by some standards?

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dragonofeternal

Title: Glimpses of the Sun Through the Clouds
Author: dragonofeternal
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Characters: Lan Sizhui, Wen Ning
Rating/Warnings: G

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“I don’t really remember Qishan well.”

Wen Ning doesn’t remember it well either, not really. “Our ancestral home was modest. I was shocked when I’d learned they’d bothered burning it to the ground.”

“I always thought it was cruel to do to them what they’d done to us.”

The Wens, a them, the Lans, an us. “It was war.”

“Could you show me some of the Wen forms?”

Not without practicing, not without embarrassing himself. He shakes his head.

“Then…” A-Yuan’s face scrunches in thought, and it’s Wen Ning’s late uncle he sees. “What about how to heal like a Wen?”

ehyde

Title: Visible in the Eclipse
Author: EHyde
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Wen Zhuliu/Yu Ziyuan
Rating/Warnings: G
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That time, it was purple lightning.

Between them, illuminating their prey in the night. Even then they had their reputations, and knew each other. Zhao Zhuliu with his fists, Yu Ziyuan with her whip, neither fought with the sword. Zhao Zhuliu without his clan, Yu Ziyuan without her husband—

For a night-hunt, for a night, they found more alike between them than all the ties that bound them to the world.

But purple lightning pales under the harsh fire of the sun, and all they share now is the dim glow of a golden core as it fades into darkness.

amedia

Title: Phoenix Mountain
Author: Amedia
Word Count/Drabble Type:100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Madame Jin & Jiang Yanli
Rating/Warnings: G
Author's Notes: Unbetaed

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Her husband's disrespect was obvious to all. Just count the bastards. Have a brush and paper ready to keep track.

Madame Jin understood that this was the way of things. Acknowledge nothing. Maintain your dignity.

Madame Jin knew she could teach Jiang Yanli how to survive in the Jin household. Yanli could learn to echo her ways, to achieve her bitter triumph.

Then Yanli lit up like a blazing temple of righteousness, demanding an apology from Jin Zixun on behalf of her brother. And it was Madame Jin who learned, who echoed Yanli, who achieved a new kind of triumph.

elizacake

Title:Afterimage
Author:Eliza
Word Count/Drabble Type:100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Wen Qing & Jiang Cheng
Rating/Warnings: G
Author's Notes: Unbetaed
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“Please! I know you don’t—” his lips pressed into a firm line, “I need to do something.”

Wen Qing took his outstretched hand in both of hers, tipping the weight of the purse into her palm. It was heavier than it looked. They may survive the winter.

As they stood there, the lives of her tiny clan cupped between their hands, Sandu Shengshou’s formidable gaze eased into something closer to the warm light of the boy she’d first met. For just that moment, she let herself live in the skin of another Wen Qing, the one with a beautiful comb.

Current Mood: hopeful

ranalore

This week's prompt is from the poem "By Chance," by Xu Zhimo: "The light exchanged in this encounter."

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narie - (no subject)
setsuntamew - The Light Exchanged in this Encounter: Grief’s Resolve
littledust - the light exchanged challenge: endure
undeadrobins - The light exchanged in this encounter: Moonlight
ranalore - The light exchanged in this encounter: Reverberating Illumination
elizacake - The light exchanged in this encounter : Basically Harmless
ivoryandhorn - The light exchanged in this encounter: You and I Met in the Dark Sea
hhimring - The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Undiminished
dragonofeternal - The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Glimpses of the Sun Through the Clouds
ehyde - The light exchanged in this encounter: Visible in the Eclipse
amedia - The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Phoenix Mountain
elizacake - The light exchanged in this encounter : Afterimage
ranalore - Prompt: Poetry fragment by Xu Zhimo

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Entries tagged with prompt: the light exchanged

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The Light Exchanged in this Encounter: Grief’s Resolve

the light exchanged challenge: endure

The light exchanged in this encounter: Moonlight

The light exchanged in this encounter: Reverberating Illumination

The light exchanged in this encounter : Basically Harmless

The light exchanged in this encounter: You and I Met in the Dark Sea

The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Undiminished

The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Glimpses of the Sun Through the Clouds

The light exchanged in this encounter: Visible in the Eclipse

The Light Exchanged in This Encounter: Phoenix Mountain

The light exchanged in this encounter : Afterimage

Prompt: Poetry fragment by Xu Zhimo