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Aid at the Archway (3561 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Bàoshān Sǎnrén & Xiǎo Xīngchén
Characters: Baoshan Sanren, Xiao Xingchen, Song Zichen
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Philosophy, Baoshan Sanren POV, Canon Compliant, Angst
Summary:

Baoshan Sanren is not particularly surprised when she finds Xiao Xingchen standing there, supporting the weight of someone injured.

If she had to predict which of her students who had left would return with a request for desperate aid...Xingchen had always wanted to help the world. It was a trait she was proud to have nurtured. But he had the sort of ambitions, those desires to reach out and fix things that couldn’t be fixed, that would leave him in a situation like this. The front of his robes are covered in pink and red, fresh smears overlaying rust-dried stains. Xingchen carries himself like he is a few steps away from collapse, exhausted enough that his posture is wrong, like fatigue and distress have overridden long trained muscle memory to keep one’s back straight and one’s core flexible.

The person he half-carries looks worse.