#liujiu

NEW FIC for sv fic exchange ‘21!! this was for aledono over on ao3, and my prompts were liujiu+soulmates.

Liu Qingge couldn’t take his eyes off the newest Qing Jing Peak disciple. He was beautiful, of course: pale-skinned and slender and graceful. But that wasn’t why.

There was a red string tied around his left pinky.

Liu Qingge stared at it.

The other boy noticed, for all that Liu Qingge was much further down the line than he was. His dark eyes narrowed to slits, and he tucked his hand behind his sleeve.

Liu Qingge looked away, eyes falling to the red string tied around his own finger. He sent a pulse of energy into it, and the dangling thread appeared in a brief flash of crimson.

One of Liu Qingge’s shidis made a shocked sound, but Liu Qingge ignored him. It wasn’t like it was taboo to make the string visible; some couples kept theirs visible at all times.

The string trailed along the ground towards the new boy, the vibrant red vanishing into nothingness without the other boy’s willingness to make his end of the thread visible.

Huh, Liu Qingge thought, letting the red on his end slip away into nothingness as well. The thread vanished from sight, but the knot around his finger remained, visible only to him—

And to his soulmate.

[continue reading on ao3]