Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.
Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.
Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone else arranged themselves too.
On the road, after the walls come down. Tris looks for answers; Peter looks for an ending.
Don Draper has a bad habit of throwing money at his problem. His latest problem is Michael Ginsberg.
There are other ways to engineer a crisis in Gilead.
"Step into my fucking office."
Edward receives an education in the inutility of virtue. The Earl abducts him for a session of discipline.
Peter loses, and Ego patches him up afterward. Okay, this is only going to suck a lot.
But thou dost in thy passages of life
Make me believe that thou art only marked
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
To punish my mistreadings.
They were old stones, the stones that buried Leporino, the boundary markers of a rustic edifice or a low wall. They might have tumbled down the ravine under the weight of last winter’s snow, or at an unlucky push.
(Written for cygnes and the prompt: the secret history au where it's a jacobean revenge tragedy.)
The king is sick, and the prince is his cure.