Fic summaries of my Guardian wips

Since I'm posting snippets of these on Sundays, I figured I'd go ahead and put up my working summaries for them. They're both still untitled because I have a really hard time with titles and usually leave those for the end.

Future fix-it fic: After the defeat of Ye Zun, Shen Wei enters the cycle of reincarnation while Zhao Yunlan remains anchored to the Guardian Lamp as its eternally burning wick. Peace reigns as he watches over all of Haixing for hundreds of years. But that peace is shattered one day by the arrival of spaceships carrying the descendants of the ancestors of the Dixingren and Yashou who had settled on Haixing thousands of years ago. These descendants aren’t looking to settle on the planet now, though; they’re here to conquer it.

Concubine!Shen Wei fic: Dixing is one of the last States standing against Emperor Zhao Xinci’s attempt to conquer and unite all the lands. The Crown Prince, Zhao Yunlan, has been fighting at the front lines of the war against Dixing for years when his mother gifts him with a concubine. Shen Wei is beautiful and magnetic and Zhao Yunlan falls in love with him instantly. But Shen Wei isn’t just a concubine; he’s a Dixing operative who’s being embedded in Zhao Yunlan’s household to gather intel and potentially assassinate the prince. He doesn't expect to fall in love with the prince.

Sunday Six - a snippet from the concubine!Shen Wei fic

I realized I haven't posted a snippet from this one for awhile, so here's a bit from the less-angsty fic.

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Shen Wei takes a seat on a bench in one corner of the room. There’s no telling when the Crown Prince will come by, so he uses the time to focus on his breathing and steady his nerves. This is a little different than his usual missions but it’s well within his abilities to complete. Certainly he’s a better candidate for this than his brother, whose flair for the dramatic would get him into trouble from the outset. His insistence that everyone, including his own twin brother, call him only by his self-proclaimed title of Ye Zun for the duration of the war is evidence enough of that.

Some time later, a gentle knock against wood brings him out of his reverie. He can see three shadows through the screens on the doors to the guest pavilion that they’re waiting in. One of those is one of the Empress’ ladies, who announces softly, “Empress Shen, the Crown Prince Zhao Yunlan is here.”

Fests

 So I signed up for the 520 Reverse Exchange on sid_guardian and then thanks to asya_ana I just signed up for the wipbigbang ....here's hoping I'll actually be able to finish both of these. How did I go from no fests at all to joining two in the span of a couple of days? /o\

(But well, I was already committed to finishing my two WIPs! This just means that definitely one of them will be done and posted by July (and with art, too!). The other one I'm hoping will be done before then.)