Sundial Exchange gifts!

[dorinda]

I received three stories for the sundial_exchange Guardian and Guardian-related Lunar New Year fanworks exchange! Three! I am so delighted--they're all completely relevant to my interests, but all coming at it from different angles. ♥____♥

My gift is a cozy, domestic Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng pre-relationship story, with an interesting worldbuilding premise and a Lao Chu POV voice that is coming to appreciate and care about (and even need) Changcheng without consciously realizing it (unreliable narrator ftw):

You Can't Escape the Light (3424 words) by MonroeKnox
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng
Characters: Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Pre-Relationship, Character Study, Introspection, Fluff and Angst, Spoilers for Chu Shuzhi's past
Summary:

Living in a world that isn't made for you has some drawbacks. Chu Shuzhi, big strong healthy man that he is, passes out suddenly at work. Guo Changcheng is tasked with watching over him. A job he takes very seriously.

While under his care, Chu Shuzhi tries to forget the past, deal with the present, and consider an impossible future.

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One of my treats, a surprise from my pal amedia, is a fun ensemble case story, ending with Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng hurt/comfort & rescue (Changcheng getting to help Chu-ge for a change), and a lovely little coda between Chu Shuzhi & Shen Wei:

The Netwielder (4960 words) by Amedia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng, Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán (background)
Characters: Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng, Zhù Hóng, Lín Jìng, Dà Qìng, Shěn Wēi, Zhao Yunlan, Special Investigation Division | SID Ensemble (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Loyalty, Self-Sacrifice, Case Fic, Snake Tribe Awesome Tribe, Competent!Lin Jing, Da Qing curled up with his paw over his nose
Summary:

The SID race to stop a renegade Dixingren.

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And my second treat (!!), a surprise from the devilish and wily marycrawford, is an intense and intensely-satisfying moment between Chu Shuzhi and Shen Wei in full Black-Cloaked Envoy form, stranded in Dixing during a killer storm, with Chu Shuzhi injured and Shen Wei's powers depleted--a vignette of devotion and care:

like thunder under earth (1726 words) by marycrawford
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi & Shen Wei
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Chu Shuzhi
Additional Tags: Bandaging, Hurt/Comfort, Shelter, Loyalty, Injury
Summary:

Chu Shuzhi is wounded and his Lordship can’t help him, but that’s all right. He doesn’t deserve the help, anyway.

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