An epistolary follow-up to "the thing with feathers." Exchanged letters.

Following the return of Wen Ning's spiritual cognition, Wei WuXian doesn't pull away quickly enough to avoid Lan WangJi discovering his secret. Cover by artist, twitter user kresilvania! Thank you!

With the trial and incarceration of the real culprits, Wei Ying's reputation officially cleared by the courts, things have settled down for the Wei family. They don't stay that way, as Jiang Cheng attempts a reconciliation in an emotionally constipated way. Sequel to "I look up and see the bright moon" and "frost on the frozen ground" in the moonlight falls corporate spy modern AU.

Wei WuXian continues to recover from his traumatic near-death experience, and the cultivation world slowly reacts to the event as well. Continued from "a candle blown out" and "a ghost in the mirror."

In a world where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji didn't have drunk relations and there was no confession in the temple, the pining continues as they travel across Jianghu post-canon. In which Wei Wuxian learns Mo Xuanyu adored Xianzi (Fairy) and decides to honor him by again attempting the impossible: curing his cynophobia. Largely novel and donghua canon.

Mo Xuanyu comes to awareness with surprise, then anger. He let go after summoning Wei Wuxian, freely offering his body in exchange for revenge and the oblivion of non-existence. He had expected nothingness from the Soul Sacrifice Summons spell, and he has been denied even that.

The cultivation world consumed Wei Ying as surely as fire, a sacrifice to its greed, and Lan Wangji thought them parted forever, Wei Ying somewhere Inquiry couldn't reach, separated from the world as surely as Chang'e from Houyi.