I Need More Of Them

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

There were times when Hua Cheng thought, between the flashes of loneliness and anxiety that permeated through him for 800 years, about how things could have gone. There used to be a time, he remembers, where he was the closest to Xie Lian than he will ever be in the oncoming centuries, back when he was nothing more than just a useless little boy. What he wouldn't give to have anything go right the first time. — OR: Hua Cheng makes his own fix-it fan fiction and plays it for Xie Lian like a movie. ● Post-Canon, Married Hua Cheng/Xie Lian, Domestic Fluff, Hua Cheng as Hong Hong-er, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Major Character Injury, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Hua Cheng Has Self-Esteem Issues, War, discussion of canon divergence ● Hua Cheng/Xie Lian