As for how Hua Cheng and Xie Lian met...
Xie Lian was a student and had to complete a student internship after the second year. He was accepted into the Crimson Red Company and became Hua Cheng's secretary or something... ๐ค
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As for how Hua Cheng and Xie Lian met...
Xie Lian was a student and had to complete a student internship after the second year. He was accepted into the Crimson Red Company and became Hua Cheng's secretary or something... ๐ค
๐ this!!!!!
and when Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are busy with each other, Qi Rong adds an awful lot of salt to the pot boiling on the stove. Hua Cheng still happily eats the food Xie Lian prepared, praising his cooking skills ๐
OMG YESSSS THIS!! And Qi Rong would definitely steal some of Xie Lian's clothes and wear them when Hua Cheng dropped by their place
22.02.2026 22:51 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0PLEASE BRAINSTORM WITH ME
22.02.2026 22:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Or Qi Rong telling Hua Cheng that Xie Lian is impotent and won't be a good partner, unable to satisfy Hua Cheng's needs (which is obviously a lie, because Xie Lian is a very healthy man and Hua Cheng has witnessed it firsthand many times lol)
22.02.2026 22:31 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0literally the apple of his eye. But his reluctance doesn't discourage Qi Rong. quite on the contrary, it makes the desire to pursue Hua Cheng stronger.
There are so many hilarious situations that can happen pleeease...... ๐ญ๐ญ Like Xie Lian's jealousy suddenly showing up...+
Every time Xie Lian is in the bathroom/kitchen/out of sight Qi Rong tries to win Hua Cheng's heart (because Hua Cheng is both handsome and rich). Hua Cheng obviously ignores him, often telling him to scram, because Xie Lian is +
22.02.2026 22:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0and stays overnight.
(We can assume that Xie Lian still lives with his parents [and Qi Rong] or that Qi Rong is a minor and Xie Lian is taking care of him).
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(presumably Hua Cheng is older than Xie Lian for the sake of the plot), but Xie Lian's cousin - Qi Rong - also developed some kind of attraction to Hua Cheng.
The fact that Xie Lian and Qi Rong live together doesn't make things easier because Hua Cheng often visits Xie Lian+
So... I just had a thought I'd like to expand on. I'm sure you are familiar with the trope of two people being together and that one sibling meddling in their relationship.
So uhhh... a modern AU where Xie Lian and Hua Cheng are together+
*THROWS HUA CHENG AT YOU*
#TGCF #FANART #HuaCheng
Just letting you know that there's a new chapter :)
archiveofourown.org/works/697999...
Xie Lianโs father is getting more and more insistent that he finds a wife. His mother is getting anxious over how many unsuccessful blind dates he goes on, matching him with someone new almost every weekend. XL canโt really describe why heโs so disinterested, he just likes his routine and his catโ
19.02.2026 14:44 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0ๆฅ่โค๏ธ๐๐งง๐งจ #TGCF #ๅคฉๅฎ่ต็ฆ
18.02.2026 15:56 โ ๐ 318 ๐ 154 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0After a few months this fic has been updated, yay! ! ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ Many thanks to everyone who has been patiently waiting for a new chapter, you are the best. ๐ญ
Don't be /fooled/ by the text below.
๐ archiveofourown.org/works/697999...
This would be a Xie Lian right after the novel downfall of Xianle... so maybe he wouldn't be so much OOC ๐๐ Still young (though a little bit older than 17 lmao), and still naive.
12.02.2026 22:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0(even if he made that choice for Hua Cheng's own good~ or at least he thought so lol)
12.02.2026 22:40 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0But I was thinking if this whole matter didn't make Xie Lian a little bit OOC. Because making such an important decision without Hua Cheng (and ending their relationship) made him quite selfish, no?
12.02.2026 22:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And yeah, there'd be smut because they both were sooo much touch starved. ๐ค
12.02.2026 22:37 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hua Cheng admitted that he never stopped thinking about him, and that his love for him kept him going, too. Hua Cheng begged Xie Lian to never again make such an important decision without him, because this is what love and a relationship are about - you are together forever, in good and bad times.+
12.02.2026 22:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0he would come back to Hua Cheng (but only if the latter was willing to ever see him again) - but as it turned out, the reality was brutal and Xie Lian had been without a roof over his head for years. He also confessed that thinking about Hua Cheng helped him survive these past years.
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Then he gave him food (but because Xie Lian had hardly eaten in the past few years, he couldn't eat much). So they drank tea instead and talked.
Xie Lian admitted that he had planned on starting over and that once his name wasn't solely linked to his family's business fraud +
Haha sorryyyyy, but I thought that if I ever were to write this fic, I'd leave the details for the actual thing ๐ But anyway :3
I thought that after that, Hua Cheng took Xie Lian to the most luxurious hotel and took care of him. He helped him bathe, wash his hair and massage his tense muscles.
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now excuse me, I'm going to read more getting back together hualian fics ๐๐คฃ feel free to drop your recommendations!
12.02.2026 21:12 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0AND THEN THEY TALKED AND LIVED HAPPILY EVEN AFTER.
(in short. lol)
like his beloved Xie Lian.
It took Hua Cheng just a minute to locate where the video was taken, and half a day to get there.
That day, Hua Cheng and Xie Lian met for the first time in many years, years that hadn't changed their hearts one bit.
all the money he could on his search of him.
But luck wasn't on his side. That was, however, until one day when Hua Cheng saw a viral video on Douyin titled:
"A homeless man humours a group of teenagers with his magic tricks".
A homeless man who definitely looked+
his choice would hurt Hua Cheng deeply.
Hua Cheng's heart never healed, nor did he forget Xie Lian, the love of his life.
Years had passed, and while Hua Cheng had indeed gained recognition in the art world, he never stopped searching for Xie Lian, spending+
Before the worst could happen, Xie Lian left Hua Cheng a farewell note, explaining his choice, and then he left him, fleeing from the city and his dear memories of his first and only love, hoping that time would eventually heal Hua Cheng's heart.
Because Xie Lian knew that +
unloved by his own family and mocked by his peers.
And Xie Lian didn't want Hua Cheng to go through this hell again, all because of his family's fraud. He couldn't let Hua Cheng down now that he was getting famous and recognized in the world he had always dreamt of.
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