TGCF Clone Week 2025

A TGCF creative event that will take place in May 11-17th in 2025 Header made by the wonderful JuicedPeachy! Icon by ZeldaCW from the English novels

[tgcf-clone-week-2025]

TGCF CLONE WEEK 2025

Hello everyone, and welcome to the blog for the TGCF Clone Week Event!

This event will be mainly hosted on Tumblr, but shared on Bluesky and Mastodon as well. At the end of it, I'd like to make sure it's all brought to a collection on AO3 for easy finding ❤️

The purpose of the event?

To celebrate any and all uses of clones in TGCF!

Whether it's Hua Cheng making a clone to keep Xie Lian company while his presence is required elsewhere, the adventures of one of He Xuan's clones at a post in Heaven, or even exploring deeper into Bai Wuxiang's activities while Jun Wu is making a public spectacle, there's a lot of potential!

Feb 8, 2025: I'll be reblogging recommendations of clone-themed fanworks while we build up the anticipation until official clone week! Feel free to tag this blog or directly send us some of your favourite works!

Note: We will not be reblogging anything from offsite without credit to the creator. No reposted art will be featured without direct permission from the artist.

Thank you so much for your interest in this event, and feel free to reach out!

May 11, 2025: clone week has officially started! Please submit your works to the AO3 connection and tag the Clone Week accounts wherever you personally share so we can boost them!

Note: the AO3 collection approval is not automatic, so that and reblogging your wonderful work is all done by hand by one human who does have sleeping hours. Please be patient if you don't see your work in the collection, and if it ends up pending for more than 12 hours, please feel free to contact me directly ❤️

June 16, 2025: the discord link is now unusable and will be replaced with a new one when another event is set. If you would like to join the server before then, please contact me and I will provide a link 😊

Link to the AO3 Collection

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[soggycardboardbox]

Good on Xie Lian for bagging a husband who can shapeshift AND clone himself.

[rynnerie]

TGCF Clone week

Day 2: Sentience, doubt, past

Something was wrong.

Something was very wrong.

Xie Lian stared for what seemed like hours

There, on the far right, the coffin for his father.

Next to it, the coffin housing his mother. And to the left of that-

Another coffin.

That wasn’t right.

This tomb was for Xie Lian’s Parents. Whose body had been keeping them company for hundreds of years?

As Xie Lian approached the final coffin, any offering for his parents forgotten, he ran through all of his family members.

Only the Royal family of Xianle were allowed to rest here for enternity. Traditionally, Xianle families were kept with their spouse, and then their children as well if the children died before marriage, but Xie Lian’s parents had no other children. Xie Lian took hold of the lid of the mysterious coffin.

Perhaps it was Qi Rong’s? Even though there should have been a chamber for Xie Lian’s Aunt, it could have been destroyed or disgraced after she broke off her engagement to run away with her body guard. So unless Qi Rong suddenly ran out of self preservation instinct, he probably moved his body and this coffin should be—

Xie Lian’s pupils shrank. This coffin was not empty. It wasn’t housing Qi Ring either. Instead the body he was staring at was-

Himself.

Dressed in black robes made to preserve bodies, the crown prince of Xianle looked almost asleep, from the neck up.

Xie Lian’s trembling fingers gently parted the corpse’s robes to inspect the damage further.

The mangled flesh spanned from the throat, all across the torso. Organs and ribs shined in the faint light of the torches. This body was barely being kept together. It looked like it…

It looked like it had been stabbed a hundred times.

Xie Lian’s breath quickened as he turned and pulled back the bottom of the corpses robes to find a pristine ankle, free of a cursed shackle.

This was Xie Lian’s body after-

After…

Xie Lian scrambled back, heart full of fear, before throwing frantically himself forward once again. Whatever this thing was, he would get to the bottom of it.

He checked the palm lines, the hair, and found it was not a puppet.

But then what was it?

Xie Lian gently brushed the hair from the body’s face, and pressed two fingers to its temple.

His face paled.

It had Xie Lian’s life force, at least, traces of when it was alive. But that couldn’t be so, because if this thing in the coffin was Xie Lian-

Then what was he? Was he the real Xie Lian? Who was the imposter, the thing in the coffin or the thing staring at it?

And if the thing staring at the coffin was not Xie Lian like he had known himself to be all this time…

What was he?

The only answer that came to mind was a clone. But when could Xie Lian have made it? Did he make it? Or was he the clone?

That could only be the truth, right? If he couldn’t remember the creation of the thing in the coffin that meant he was the creation.

Xie Lian slammed the coffin lid shut, breathing heavily as he leaned on his mother’s coffin for support.

His hands were trembling and his lungs burned and his head hurt and his stomach felt like there was a heavy stone suck in the pit of it and when he touched his cheek Xie Lian realized his face was covered in tears.

All he could do was slide to the floor and stare mindlessly for what could’ve been days, years, centuries, or minutes.

When Xie Lian finally calmed down, he stood up, grabbed a torch, and opened the coffin once more. After staring for an undetermined amount of time, he softly closed it, and shoved the coffin onto the floor.

He set the evidence of his creation on fire, and made sure to scatter the ashes.

Whatever had happened, it had already been done.

The only thing Xie Lian’s clone could do now was live for the both of them.

[mespinozart]

Drawing for the prompt "past" for the TGCF Clone Week 2025

Best I could do with the limited time I had lol. Still like it tho!

[sadisticssre]

🦋Happy Birthday, heart eater!🌸🎂

[tgcf-clone-week-2025]

Happy Clone Week!!

There are still incoming works but we've officially reached the end of the week. The collection will remain open for a few months for those who still wanted to participate but were short on time, and I will still be reblogging from this account if tagged!

I appreciate the heck out of everyone who participated, supported, and encouraged this event! I also want to thank everyone for being patient while some things were figured out ❤️

I would suuuuper appreciate if y'all fill and share this Feedback Survey so I can know what was done right, what might've gone wrong, and if this is something that should happen again in the future!

[tgcf-clone-week-2025]

Happy Clone Week!!

There are still incoming works but we've officially reached the end of the week. The collection will remain open for a few months for those who still wanted to participate but were short on time, and I will still be reblogging from this account if tagged!

I appreciate the heck out of everyone who participated, supported, and encouraged this event! I also want to thank everyone for being patient while some things were figured out ❤️

I would suuuuper appreciate if y'all fill and share this Feedback Survey so I can know what was done right, what might've gone wrong, and if this is something that should happen again in the future!

[crystalsamethyst]

My last prompt for @tgcf-clone-week-2025 !!!

Ripples to Waves

Summary:

Xie Lian has been contemplating for a while about adding E'ming to his and Hua Cheng's intimate activities. The way it unfolds is up to Hua Cheng.

[ajmasch]

@tgcf-clone-week-2025 day 7: rest

My final fic for clone week! I had so much fun with this event, and what better way to end than with Hua Cheng getting taken care of like he deserves

Read it here

[soapy-soartp]

Day 6 of @tgcf-clone-week-2025: Familair!

Maybe fafa was too scared to face his mother as the real him :’))

[crystalsamethyst]

The Other Piece

Summary:

Hua Cheng makes a clone for E-Ming to inhabit, and Xie Lian has a blast with him.

For @tgcf-clone-week-2025 Day 6 Prompt: Familiar

[ajmasch]

@tgcf-clone-week-2025 day 6: familiar!

My first time writing beefleaf even though I love them lol. Read the fic here

[dragongoats]

Fic: Ghost City Cookery

Hua Cheng/Xie Lian Rating: G

Over a hot wok, Xie Lian tosses saucy noodles and vegetables quickly and deftly scoops it up into a warmed bowl with a flick of his wrist. The presentation is impeccable, his flourishes, entertaining, but as usual, the dish looks absolutely nothing like what the customer had ordered... Read on Ao3 For @tgcf-clone-week-2025 prompt: Imperfection.

[rynnerie]

TGCF Clone Week

Day 5: Switch

AU where during Xie Lian’s mission to find Ming Yi, he takes Shi Qingxuan’s advice to use his friendship with Hua Cheng to investigate Paradise Manor, but switches places with a clone to distract Hua Cheng while Xie Lian and Shi Qingxuan sneak around.

(Hua Cheng knows it’s a clone but he thinks it’s funny)

[artingstarvist]

Deceiving the Heavens to Cross the Sea

Main Tags: Xie Lian & Mu Qing, Clones, Mission Fic, Pre-Xie Lian's 3rd Ascension, Humor, Light Angst, Canon Compliant

Chapter 5 is now posted!

Clone Week Day 4 Prompts: Earth, Music, Switch

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65240518/chapters/168457573

Chapter Summary: Mu Qing clears up some misunderstandings in Heaven. With the jade pendant secured, his last remaining clone and Xie Lian make some progress in tracking down the gold-tasseled fan.

Preview Snippet

His heart clenched at the sound, and a lump instantly formed in his throat as the wave of nostalgia crashed into him. The soft twangs were drifting out from somewhere just ahead, played more slowly than was normal. It gave that cherished melody a sad, soulful sound. It was like the song was mourning its own death. A funeral dirge for their fallen kingdom and its culture. Mu Qing’s feet moved on their own and brought him before the crown prince. He was seated on a barrel on the side of the road with a shoddy-looking pipa in hand. He knew the prince had been trained in many arts, but he wasn’t entirely sure if he’d known the pipa back then or picked this up in his travels. Either way, he played wonderfully, his eyes closed, his straw hat at his feet and the dog lying next to it, dozing off. A fair amount of coin had been thrown in. The onlookers knew not where this song came from nor what it meant, but they were moved nevertheless. The song ended on a long, drawn out note, high-pitched, like the inconsolable quivering wail of a new widow. His eyes fluttered open and found Mu Qing’s at once. For just a moment, the two of them just stared at one another from across the street, and Mu Qing didn’t really know how to react. For a moment, he forgot he was disguised as Chou Wuqing. It seemed for all the world like Xie Lian and Mu Qing were meeting eye to eye, and they both knew it.

[crystalsamethyst]

@tgcf-clone-week-2025 Day 5 prompt: Switch

You, and All of You

Summary:

Plural Hua Cheng's headmates have been increasingly desperate to front, giving him headaches more and more often. Xie Lian suggests an idea to lessen the pressure: make clones for each of them to inhabit to give his head a break. What he should have expected was that having five various versions of his husband calls for even more chaos.

[ajmasch]

@tgcf-clone-week-2025 day 5: music!

Read it here