In This Twilight, How Dare you Speak of Grace
Chapter 2: Crimson Stained Nights Dawn Sombre Mornings
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Additional Tags: Rape, Rape Aftermath, Rape Recovery, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Conditioning, Discussion of Abortion, mention of MPREG, Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Happy Ending, Hurt Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Protective Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Established Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), no beta we die like hua cheng, Trans Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Summary:
There’s a broken vase on the floor, crimson shards scattered over the hardwood, gleaming in the light of the setting sun. A broken vase isn’t an out-of-the-ordinary sight, not here in Pugi Shrine. Xie Lian collects broken things, hunts for them like they are the world’s most precious treasures. He is also just as likely to break anything he managed to bring home whole. Luck, when Hua Cheng is not around to assure it, is a fickle, feeble thing that his beloved cannot grasp hold of. Broken glass, shattered porcelain, a bow in the floorboards from rot are all familiar sights by now. It’s nothing that can’t be fixed, with a touch of luck, some labour of love, but this... this is different. This is not just a broken vase, a lapse of luck. This... this isn’t something that can be fixed with an afternoon of labour.
This is…
This shouldn’t be happening.
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Xie Lian is raped by Jun Wu. Hua Cheng helps him heal.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63323848/chapters/168156793