#shenyan

[the-music-maniac]

Y'know how some relationships make you go "thank god these two found each other because they shouldn't inflict themselves on anyone else"?

Not so with Yan Wushi and Shen Qiao. It's more "thank god they found each other because Shen Qiao's the only one strong enough to handle Yan Wushi's nonsense"

[frostbzone]

Guys wtf is going on with Redbubble svsss merch😨😰

[ficklewriter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 千秋 - 梦溪石 | Thousand Autumns - Mèng Xī Shí Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shen Qiao/Yan Wushi Characters: Yan Wushi, Shen Qiao (Thousand Autumns), Yu Shengyan (Thousand Autumns) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe, Cupid Shen Qiao, Devil Yan Wushi, Flirting, Yan Wushi is a Menace, Yan Wushi Falls First Series: Part 1 of Inktober 2025 Summary:

Yan Wushi stuck out a hand, and Shen Qiao stared for a minute before putting his own out to shake it. His slender fingers with calluses from the archery were dwarfed by Yan Wushi’s. Yan Wushi's face shown with a mixture of amusement and satisfaction for getting his way. As Shen Qiao shook, he had a sudden realization that he just made a deal with the devil in the name of love.

Shen Qiao is a cupid with 100% Pairing rate, and his newest assignment is Yan Wushi, a mysterious man with the ability to see cupids and terrorize them. Shen Qiao is his last option for love.

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In the name of my current danmei hyperfixation, this year's Inktober will be all my Chinese BL pairings I love. I'm using two different Inktober prompt lists for the added challenge.

Inktober 2025 Day 1: First meetings and Shadow

Inktober Lists:

@nuagederose’s Nuagederose's List

@khaostic01‘s khaostic's danmei-tober list

[hornedqueenofhell]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I wrote Yu Shengyan x Yuan Ying creampie porn, they deserve it.

[shondhamaloti]

ingrowth

"in the end, there is no justice in love." // "in the end, there is no justice in anything."

summary

in some nebulous period between the trip to jiankang and the duel with ruyan kehui, yan wushi finds himself caught in a haunting dream. but it is not so much a dream, he finds, as an augury — of what he would almost make of himself.

tags

fandom: 千秋 | thousand autumns; shen qiao; yan wushi; shenyan; yanshen; yan wushi's unnamed mother; dream fic; character study; word count: 15 100

rating & content warnings

rated: M

mentions of poor parenting, incl. emotional abuse

kissing with dubious consent

mild sexual content

descriptions of bodily violence and injury

mild body horror

gore

acknowledgements

many thanks to zeb, without whose hours' worth of gracious medical advice this would read less like i had taken artistic liberties and more like a bludgeon to suspension of disbelief.

many thanks to my good friend for the gift of xie ling's courtesy name, and for patient, earnest, meticulous help with lexicon. many, many thanks for the creative influence that breathed this piece into life, and for friendship, generosity, and encouragement.

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[the-music-maniac]

I hadn't seen someone do this one yet (probably just missed it somehow) but you can't tell me this isn't Yan Wushi to the core

Alternate version:

[the-music-maniac]

The first two to three novels of Thousand Autumns/Qian Qiu is just Shen Qiao and Yan Wushi going "I can fix him" at each other, and then completely failing. And I think that's very sexy of them.

[the-music-maniac]

I notice people tend to only focus on Yan Wushi's affection towards Shen Qiao cause it's the more obvious one of the two Yan Wushi doesn't tend to feel any need to hide his emotions like. At all but I absolutely live for the little moments in the extras where Shen Qiao shows his fondness of Yan Wushi. The small, subtle smiles, moments where Shen Qiao laughs at something Yan Wushi says. He's a reserved person already, and while Shen Qiao does get flustered, he also doesn't generally startle easily when it comes to come ons (see his calm rejections of other people who have liked him) but since Yan Wushi does happen to be a uniquely infuriating person - it's quite sweet to see when Shen Qiao's affection does peak through, rare as it is.

Give me glimpses of the Shen Qiao that is so outwardly exasperated on the daily, but would go to the ends of the Earth for his partner. Give me glimpses of the Shen Qiao that can't help admiring the tenacious, stubborn, confident arrogant aspects of Yan Wushi, despite them believing in such diametrically opposed ideologies. Give me glimpses of the Shen Qiao that marvels in their similarities and differences. Give me glimpses of the Shen Qiao that's so exasperated by Yan Wushi's nonsense that he just has to laugh. Give me glimpses of the Shen Qiao that fell in love with Yan Wushi, against all odds.

I love it.