Part two of my series of unrelated one-shots, following widely different parts of the HZGG timeline. Includes AUs, outtakes from longer fics, crossovers etc.
1. Introduction
2. Rainbow - A bolt of fabric. You'd think it would be easy to agree on what colour it was. Apparently, the thing that may end up tearing them all part was not any of the challenges the palace posed, but this one bolt of fabric instead. – Xiao Yan Zi, Zi Wei, Yong Qi, somewhat cracky; 1,130 words
3. Choice - It's Nan Er's first birthday, but she doesn't quite care for any of the goodies in her zhuazhou. – Xiao Yan Zi, Yong Qi; 4,270 words
4. Now - A modern AU meet-cute. - Xiao Yan Zi, Yong Qi, Zi Wei, Er Kang, Er Tai; 18,417 words
5. Ambition - "Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." What prince had never dreamed of jiangshan, of tianxia? (Let the Year Sculpture Our Love universe.) - Yong Qi; 14,000 words
6. Persimmon - A ripe persimmon was like his heart, and unfortunately she had the power to make both bleed red. – Xiao Yan Zi, Yong Qi; 1,720 words
7. Debt - Zi Wei's mother paid the price for a painting of lotus in the rain throughout all of her life and even beyond. Zi Wei wanted her to be able to stop. - Zi Wei, Yong Qi; 4,315 words
8. Dæmon - A series of drabbles and short stories in a dæmonverse AU. - 13,892 words
9. Coffee - What's in a name? Or, this fandom needs a coffee shop AU. – Xiao Yan Zi, Yong Qi; 1,582 words
10. Service - The first imperial examination held in Yong Qi's reign was…interesting, to say the least. Let the Years Sculpture Our Love universe. - Xiao Yan Zi, Yong Qi, Qi Zhi Gao; 12,734 words
11. Alliance - Yong Ji has a crush, Yong Qi has too many things to worry about, and Qing Er goes match-making, of a sort. Let the Years Sculpture Our Love universe. - Yong Qi, Yong Ji, Qing Er; 10,861 words
12. Time - Years before Yong Qi met Xiao Yan Zi, he already knew she would one day be his wife. Except, now, she is his sister instead? How does that work? Time travel fic based on "The Time-Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. - Yong Qi, Xiao Yan Zi; 11,195 words
13. Reincarnation - Seventeen years after the death of Empress Fucha, Wei Ying Luo meets Chen Zhi Hua. Crossover with The Story of Yanxi Palace. - Ling Fei, Zhi Hua; 1,100 words