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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics by CyaKn1ght
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Sep 2025
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We all know the story: After the Death of Rex Lapis, one of his greatest foes, Osial, Overlord of the Vortex, had reawakened. The Liyue Qixing, the Millelith, the Adepti, and the legendary Outlander banded together to defeat the ancient god in a pitched battle over the Sea of Clouds.
The fact that Liyue's relationship with Snezhnaya soured somewhat afterward may or may not have been coincidental.
But what if there was more to it?
The Fatui is a massive machine with the Harbingers at the controls, their respective underlings cogs and gears responsible for all sorts of tasks both glamorous and menial...mostly menial.
But what if one little gear in particular had the potential for change? Tiny, inconsequential change, the kind you'd barely notice, yet the kind that could ripple through the Bishui River and lead a tidal current into the Sea of Clouds...
After all, amateurs talk tactics, but professionals study logistics.
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When the Fatui requested the services of Wansheng Funeral parlor, Zhongli didn't expect he would find himself at the door of an apartment that looked suspiciously similar to his, with one hand on the handle and a takeout box grasped lightly in the other. He opens it and comes to his entrance hall, …except not. There’s a bowl for keys he doesn’t use with a bundle already in it and an additional pair of shoes slumped to the side.
“Zhongli? Is that you?”
Childe?
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pain is a well-intentioned weatherman by minazalea
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Jul 2025
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The God holds him closer, and he could feel his lips trembling over the crown of his head. Childe tenses, preparing for the onslaught of pain about to come from the rejection—the push that is expected when his doors open to exhibit bones too heavy to bury.
Zhongli’s lips worships his temples and sees everything beyond him, “I love you.”
Ajax closes his eyes and dreams of soaring among the stars.
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Zhongli, caught in a trap meant for his Yaksha, is pushed into the abyss. Celestial beings won’t withstand such corruption for long and the Adepti are helpless. But there is one person they know with ties to the abyss. One person who has survived it before. The only question is…after the betrayal at the Golden House, will he be willing to help?
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He lay awake at night as sleep continued to evade him, every interaction he’d ever had with Zhongli replaying in loops, each moment scrutinized for cracks or hints that their shared experiences were nothing more than an elaborate manipulation, a game played by a deity who thrived on his suffering. Every fleeting smile and warm gaze he once cherished now regarded with hateful suspicion.
Or; after all, pawns were meant to be used. What are one’s feelings compared to a God’s? Betrayed and battered, Tartaglia grapples with the harsh consequences of being a pawn in a Celestial game of chess.
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Zhongli wakes to a knife at his throat.
00:31:23 :: Written by theLoyalRoyalGuard.
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The boy whistles softly. “Whoa. You’re not even taking me out to dinner, first?” He clicks his tongue in what seems to be disappointment. “Chivalry is dead these days, isn’t it.”
In the aftermath of the events that led Rex Lapis' Gnosis into the Tsaritsa's hand, Zhongli and Childe are left navigating a strange relationship, which leaves Zhongli uncomfortably restless. Then Zhongli gets an idea, one that could solve all of their problems and then some.
For a god who has existed for so many years, he can surely be shortsighted.
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never love an anchor (hoping you'd come around) by Utanaza for azoo
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 Nov 2024
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With a smile, that old friend had said –
When you have children, Zhongli, you’ll come to understand how much they can hurt.
“.. Or have I never been good enough, no matter how hard I try?” Her voice cracks, as she covers her face with her hands. “Do I just grasp at… nothing? Is nothing all I’ll ever have? I – I don’t want to be alone.”
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the probability of skateboards by mousiekosmos
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Aug 2024
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At this point, Xiao was beginning to suspect he might be the victim of some bizarre form of psychological torture.
Before, he’d been devoted in every limb to the most powerful being of them all. A formidable god of war who could level armies of millions without breaking a sweat, the golden form of a dragon majestic and gleaming as it carved dark ribbons between the clouds of a bloodied evening sky.
Now, he was devoted in every limb to the most powerful being of them all, who worked at a funeral parlour for some reason and had just torn through Jueyun Karst on a glowing skateboard.
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zhongli has a mid-life crisis. somehow, this becomes xiao's problem
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Keeping up his mortal form has begun to take its toll on Venti, but he refuses to rest in fear of forgetting the face of the Nameless Bard. Zhongli refuses to watch him suffer.
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- Part 10 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Perhaps the hurt had been too deep that he wanted to forget everything—that even in his ideal world there was no Zhongli, no dinners, nothing. Just his quiet lost world where all that’s left are the people who loved him.
Perhaps Zhongli should leave him here after all.
But he can’t. He can’t leave Childe here. He can’t look at him in the eye, his face pleased and open, thinking that he belonged here when he did not. At some point the Abyss will eat him alive. At some point he might not even be a person anymore. And what would Childe do then, being one of the monsters of the Abyss? He had been here before. The Abyss would not let him escape a second time.
OR: It is an unspoken fact that the Abyss takes anything and everything so as long as they can keep it. In this case, the Abyss takes Childe and gives him what he wants—a world in which he doesn’t hurt and a village that he believes he has lived his whole life in.
That is until a new villager called Zhongli appears in his life. And suddenly, Childe doesn’t know what’s real anymore. Especially when Zhongli claims that Childe knows him even when Childe has never met him before.
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Childe finds a wounded Adeptus during his stay in Liyue and decides to take matters into his own hands..
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your red goes well against mine (maybe we could take this somewhere else?) by SakanaKana
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Dec 2023
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On a scenario completely accidental for both parties involved, Yanfei passed out in Diluc's arms without both of them knowing each other's identities. Their next meeting confirmed a few suspicions, and dragged something into the light that slightly perturbed the conscience of the wine tycoon and the legal advisor.
The question is: do they want to realize what is happening between them?
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A crewmate distantly calls out for the Eleventh and both of them look towards the ship. Ajax gestures towards the general area of the dock and Zhongli nods in understanding.
He turns his back to start walking to the ship before the consultant speaks up again.
“Take care, Childe.”
His feet come to a slow stop. He swallows whatever comes up in his throat and without turning around, grants his greatest confession.
“It’s Ajax.” He tries to keep his voice even. “You know that.”
He waits for any sign of a response. It comes in the form of gentle wind and the brush of a silk coat.
“Take care.. and farewell, Ajax.”
Ajax left a piece of himself at the City of Gold, where the lanterns never dim and the merchant boats flow to no end. He knew he could never return peacefully, with his newly adorned title as the enemy of state. This was how business usually went. And yet, even after everything, the city finds a way to call his name.
Or, the one where Ajax returns to Liyue a year after summoning a sea monster and tries to rekindle (to the best of his ability) something that once was
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"Abyss does terrible things to people. However, you seem to be an exception. You didn't die, go mad, or lose all reason. But looking at you, I can see that something was broken. You keep chasing things that make you feel alive. It's admirable in its own twisted way, but recklessness that comes with your passion worries me. It's evident how you are running out of ways to hold on to something that was lost long ago. However, there could be a way to change that. I am suggesting finding that way."
"Why?"
"Childe, you have charming eyes, and I am sure they would be even more beautiful if they glowed."
Or a story about Childe and Zhongli's search for answers that can lead to unpredictable results. Meanwhile, the Tsaritsa has an agenda of her own and a contract that long ago should have come to an end.
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He said, "No one has to know what we do" by rainstormsluver
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Nov 2023
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"His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room
And his voice is a familiar sound
Nothing lasts forever
But this is getting good now."From strangers to acquaintances to friends to fuck buddies to enemies to ?...
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- Part 3 of love (Taylor's version)
- Part 2 of Busy Being Yours To Fall For Somebody New
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Letters for the Snezhnayan man [TartaLi] by ritaliya
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Nov 2023
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The Lord of Geo hasn't seen the cheery orange-haired Fatui Harbinger for more than a year now. He sent him letters every day, hoping to get answers from the man. Zhongli was desperate, as he deeply harbored feelings for him. He almost lost hope, thinking that Childe wouldn't forgive him, and he doesn't want to see him ever again--- not until one day, where there was an uninvited guest inside Zhongli's apartment.
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'Cause he was sunshine, I was midnight rain by rainstormsluver
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
04 Oct 2023
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"All the love we unravel
And the life I gave away
'Cause he was sunshine, I was midnight rain"Zhongli is just an ordinary Liyue citizen working at the Wangsheng funeral parlor as a consultant while Childe is a fatui harbinger as usual. How will their relationship take a turn after Childe's participation in the attempt to drown the homeland of his beloved?
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- Part 1 of Midnight Rain
- Part 1 of love (Taylor's version)
- Part 3 of Busy Being Yours To Fall For Somebody New
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For though Xiao has only scratched the surface, there is one petal which falls slower than the others. A petal more brilliant and precious than every one his eye has beheld.
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On the new Liyue Harbor
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Childe was the opposite of a safe bet. Zhongli had let himself get carried away, and out of his mission. Out of his contract. No formal breach, of course. But a breach of conduct. A metaphysical death. A promise to self and decency – shattered. Lying on the ground with all the pieces of Zhongli’s soul that only existed in Childe’s hands. Not that it mattered. After all, it had been a month. It had been a months of wallowing and callous back and forward with the youngest and darkest parts of Zhongli’s mind.
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or, the fic where i wax poetic about zhongli maybe being a little bit sad.