In my (voracious) opinion, there can never be too many fox / huli jing Liu Sang stories. And just in case no one's gathered them all in one place, here are my recs so far. (My 'bookmark' links to my AO3 bookmark comments and tags if you want further info.) Feel free to add any that I've missed!
by xantissa @xantissa (E, 18k, pingxie, pingxiesang, 2 works, my bookmark)
Summary: Red Moon was a term only the shifters used and only they understood. It was a period of three nights every month, when their animal was closest to the surface, when instincts ran stronger than ever. // aka Liu Sang bites off more than he can deal with when he does the fox equivalent of flirting at Zhang Qiling.
by Merinnan, xantissa @merinnan (E, 42k, pingxie, pingxiesang, 2 works, my bookmark)
Summary: When Wu Xie was seven years old, he snuck away from his guardian during one of the digs that Sanshu took him to. Only things went wrong, the entrance collapsed, and it took a week to dig the child out from the near collapsed tomb. // They expected a body. They prayed that the child had somehow survived, but seven days without food or water for an adult would have been deadly, a child had no chances of survival at all. // They found Wu Xie deep in the tomb, sleeping on his little backpack. He was warm and healthy, confused at why the adults were yelling, looking like he’d just stepped into the tomb five minutes ago.
by Merinnan, xantissa (M, 30k, pingxiesang, 2 works, series in progress, my bookmark)
Summary: It was meant to be a straightforward, simple, legit job. Help some university students and their teachers find a relatively safe tomb, and then babysit them while they study it. // Of course, when it came to Wu Xie, nothing was ever ‘straightforward’ or ‘simple’. Which would explain why Wu Xie was instead fleeing for his life, carrying an injured fox, while a giant monster chased them both through the tomb.
by Merinnan, xantissa (E, 79k, pingxie, pingxiesang, my bookmark)
Summary: After weeks of being on the run from the people who'd been experimenting on him, Liu Sang was cold, hungry, and still hiding as a fox. When he came across a live capture trap in a large garden, baited with good, good food, he decided it was worth the risk. Then kept coming back again. And again. // Wu Xie just wanted to catch and socialise a feral cat into a pet. He hadn't planned on a fox deciding the trap he'd put out was a convenient and consistent source of food.
by Merinnan, xantissa (E, 13k, pingxie, pingxiesang, my bookmark)
Summary: Wu Xie wasn’t the first one to notice the fox, which he considered a personal failure as he was usually exceptionally skilled at noticing any and all fox shifters around. After all, fox ears were his absolute favorite kinds of ears. // Now, how to get the aforementioned fox to go to his hotel with him? Use his undefeatable asset in the form of Xiaoge, of course!
by Merinnan, xantissa (E, 42k, pingxie, pingxiesang, 3 works, series in progress, my bookmark)
Summary: The time when everyone was convinced that Liu Sang was having a torrid affair with Zhang Qiling - on the job, no less.
by Sanctified_Jasper @january-summers (T, 2k, liu sang & zhang qiling, my bookmark)
Summary: Liu Sang gets in trouble and has to run, he manages to hide in an old manor complex. The men following him know exactly where he is, but they won't come in after him, he can hear them say as much, but they won't say why. // Liu Sang has accidentally broken into the Wushanju. // There's an intruder in Xiaoge's territory. // Not malicious, he'd be able to find someone from their ill intent. It blazes like a beacon, but feels like gunky slime in his senses. // Who ever it is, is very good at hiding, at knowing where everyone is at all times.
by Kholran @kholran (M, 57k, liu sang/zhang rishan, kan jian/luo que/huo daofu, my bookmark)
Summary: Wu Xie's plan failed. // That's the simple truth of the matter. That's why life is the way that it is now. It's hard to get people to admit it. Most of them don't want to talk about it at all, even though everyone knows that's the reason everything went to shit. But what's the point in sugar-coating it? Being tactful isn't going to change anything. It won't make it better. // Maybe nothing could have changed the outcome. Maybe Wu Xie did everything right, but maybe that wasn't enough. Maybe failure was inevitable. // There were too many ways something could have gone wrong. // And clearly, something did.
by Snowy (G, 13k, no liu sang ships so far, more may be coming, my bookmark)
Summary: Zhang Rishan picks up the sole survivor of a burning house who the flames don't seem to touch and brings him back to the headquarters of the Jiumen spirit association as their prime suspect. // The truth might not be more than what the eye can see and it's up to the special investigators to uncover it. // Meanwhile it seems some of them are already taken in by their charge.
by fox_of_nine_tales @foxofninetales (T, 23k, iron triangle, iron triangle/liu sang, my bookmark)
Summary: Wu Xie and Xiaoge are Pangzi's, in the same way that the cottage is theirs, and the cats, and the magic they share between them. // That is not Pangzi's fox.
by chancellorxofxtrash @chancellorxofxtrash (T, 6k, iron triangle, iron triangle/liu sang, my bookmark)
Summary: As long as Wu Xie could remember, the fox never left Wushanju.
by fox_of_nine_tales (T, 4k, liu sang & zhang qiling, WIP, no bookmark yet but it looks like it'll kill you)
Summary: The fox had been with him almost as long as Zhang Qiling remembered. // What he no longer remembered was that the fox had been there much longer than that.
by daydreamorama (T, 10k posted but will be about 15+, Liu Sang/Bai Haotian/Li Cu, but mostly so far Liu Sang & Bai Haotian)
Summary: Bai Haotian paused with her hand still on his face, then took it away like she had been burned. “Your hearing really helped. Last time it exploded right in my face! I was blowing sand out of my nose for weeks!” // “This… happens often?” Liu Sang asked. He didn’t know much about magic, the scripters on the station preferred to keep an air of mysticism about what they could and couldn’t do, and the little magic he had been able to afford was apparently crap. He was pretty sure though that they didn’t explode things regularly. // Liu Sang really had no clue what he had signed up for.
BONUS ANIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Cat xiaoge and Snow Leopard xiaoge
by Merinnan, xantissa (G, 15k, pingxie, my bookmark)
Summary: As much as Wu Xie disliked the fact, Pangzi was right, they were used to Xiaoge just up and disappearing on them like this. // What they weren't used to was coming across a snow leopard in the middle of a tomb.
by afrikate @momosandlemonsoda (G, 9k, liu sang & zhang qiling, my bookmark)
Summary: Liu Sang gets a cat.
by snoozingkitten @lipstickprint (E, 17k, pingxie, my bookmark)
Summary: Wu Xie is trying to be a normal, reasonable person about letting Xiaoge go on a job without him. One missed check-in leads Wu Xie back into his old habit of dropping everything to chase Xiaoge across China. // The Xiaoge he found wasn't quite the one he lost.
