Original ao3 fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66097861/chapters/170339617

original ao3 fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66097861/chapters/170439322#workskin

"You're selling me for money? Your own child?"

A modern arranged marriage AU. Xie Lian's family's business is on the verge of failing. Hua Cheng has money and a horrible reputation. A match made in heaven? Well, it's certainly been made somewhere... Are reluctant marriage partners the next power couple or a train wreck waiting to happen? Spoiler: they're Hualian, so likely both?

original fic on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66097861/chapters/170339617

Link to original fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62633644/chapters/160327075

Link to original fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62633644/chapters/160327075

Link to original fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62633644/chapters/160327075

Hua Cheng took a step towards the bed and leaned closer, his inky eyes studying him closely. After a moment he sighed and flopped on the bed next to him, a hand lazily reaching up to Xie Lian's head and scratching it gently.

"Who am I kidding, we both know I'm going to keep you. I don't even get why...there's just something about you that won't let me throw you out the door."

Unable to say anything Xie Lian tilted his head slightly and watched as the corner of the ghost's thin lips arched a little. It was such an endearing look.

or

Xie Lian is turned into a ferret by a curse and gets adopted by an unaware Hua Cheng. The ghost turns out to be very doting, exceptionally charming and severely starved for talking about a mysterious lost beloved of his.

ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/74062661/chapters/193221856

A man in white cultivator robes stood on the threshold, hands shaking and eyes wild, his expression somehow both elated and desperate. Tears streaked his god's cheeks and the warm gaze he turned on the ghost made his mind go numb as his hand fell from the saber.

Xie Lian lunged at him without hesitation and with few steps he was throwing himself at him with full force.

or

After coming back from dispersion Hua Cheng doesn't remember finding Xie Lian again on Mount Yujun nor anything that happened afterwards. When unexpectedly his god shows up at Paradise Manor hugging him and crying that he missed him Hua Cheng is a little surprised (he panicks).

ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/70257996

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58446625/chapters/148878772

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58446625/chapters/148878772

Skin. The bare skin of someone's hand just mere inches away from him. His eyes flew open and the sight they were met with shocked him frozen.

On a nice bed, covered in sheets finer than anything he ever owned in his mortal life, resting on a pillow so close he could feel the warmth seeping from his body, was Xie Lian. Asleep, relaxed, a soft smile adorning his slightly parted lips, Xie Lian was sleeping with a peaceful expression, something that Wuming hadn't seen on him for many long years.

or: Hua Cheng and Xie Lian both fall victim to the memory monster. A barely out of Yong'an Wuming wakes up next to pre-third ascension Xie Lian and doesn't exactly know how to deal with that.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58446625/chapters/148878772