DMBJ: Small-Med Pairing Exchange
May. 6th, 2026 05:42 pmThank you for writing for me! I would love a variety of fics mostly centered around our beloved Zhang Rishan Fu Guan and/or Qi Tiezui Baye and their relationships with each other or with either Foye or Liang Wan (or both, I am always up for them having several relationships across their time alive).
I would love to have a fic or vid influenced by the fact that Zhang Rishan is qilin blooded, and that in the novella M9: What Happened in Xiangxi, Baye is mentioned as having a family rule about not doing readings for qilin tattooed individuals.
General likes:
I tend to like fairly dark things with a happy or bittersweet ending (ok, who am I kidding, I love crying my heart out as well) - but I also really like fluff (if you want to do one where Zhang Rishan learns to be a better cook because Baye keeps wanting food when he's over or anytime really, so he wants to have food that makes Baye smile, that would also be frigging gadorable)
Chinese Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War are fine - if you want to have Baye try to get Rishan more experience and instead he gets captured, and Foye has to go rescue him.
post 1949 is absolutely fine too. (If you want to go full "Foye wtf?"/Mystic Nine extras while Baye and Zhang Rishan watch, either in a FuBa or a FoBa or both situation, I would love that)
I am absolutely fine with age gaps.
I am also absolutely fine with past they count as an adult because they have undergone the coming of age ritual and passed with flying colors.
Potential prompts listed under the relationship, (although you in no way have to do one of these)!
1. Zhang Rishan x Qi Tiezui Baye - both negotiating and dealing with Zhang Rishan qilin blood and Baye's family's rule that they are really not supposed to read qilin tattooed individuals, how do they both bend that rule so they can be together. When did they first meet? How do they deal with the Zhang family ancient manor declaring Baye functionally a Zhang or has enough Zhang blood (via soup in the book!) or bodily fluids in him to count as a Zhang. (Does Foye afterward when he hears the story assume it's one bodily fluid when it's actually the other? Which one would it be more fun if Foye assumed for it to actually be the other?) How does Baye deal with the fact that he's now considered Zhang enough by Zhang family ancient manor what with his family prohibitions?
1b. On that note, does heating Zhang Rishan's qilin blood and trying to transfer its bug-proof properties accidentally do to Baye the same transfer as was done in Southern Archives? How would he find out? What would his reaction be?
1c. Trans man Zhang Rishan x Qi Tiezui - Zhang Rishan is trans. Potentially he and Qi Tiezui are Qi Yu's parents (maybe the Qi family rule against reading qilin tattooed individuals interacting with qilin blood is why Qi Yu is so bizarre). But also, how does Zhang Rishan react when he first sees Wu Xie, given that Qi Yu looks exactly like him and writes exactly like him and even puts his books exactly like him?
1d. Zhang Rishan gets partially tianshou'd at Siguniang. This can be as angsty as you like and can involve Golmud while Zhang Rishan recovers himself.
1 and/or 2 idea a: Someone finds out Zhang Rishan is qilin blooded and kidnaps him, and Foye and Baye team up to get Zhang Rishan out of there. Could involve Foye x Baye, could involve Rishan x Baye, but either way, both of them care about Rishan a lot and he's kidnapped (either by the Leader of "IT" or the Wangs up to you)!
1 and/or 2 idea b: Hey, if you want to go full Foye takes a hard fall off moral cliff and go AU, you could have Foye taking on the position of Leader of "IT" under Chairman Mao's instructions, complete with what that means about who they were trying to bury in the Zhang family and what happened with that body. (Particularly in dramaverse Sha Hai where the past events in Gutongjing all happen in the 1940s and 1950s, or in book verse, you could easily have either Baye or Fu Guan making it seem like he is still alive by wearing a facemask, particularly if the one doing it is very uncomfortable with the idea, and so is the one seeing him do it. If it's FoBa, and Rishan puts on the facemask, Baye not handling well, or possibly Baye doing it directly, and Rishan just breaking down/Baye having to do Gutongjing himself. And if it's Rishan doing it and it's book verse, he would have been the one to give the Wangs that out. He knows for a fact that the rest of them didn't want to leave. If it's FuBa and either of them put on Foye's facemask, just identity fuckery and them coming to terms with the fact that as much as they both admired him, there might have been some terror of Foye in his Leader of "IT" days)
2a. Zhang Da Foye x Qi Tiezui Baye
Baye dealing with Zhang Da Foye's Zhang Da Foye-ness, however you would like to interpret that.
Foye seems to disregard Baye's fengshui and prediction a whole lot to his face, but he's still over there asking for them all the time and having Baye come along.
Baye can canonically only read Foye some of the time. Other time he get a sometimes catastrophically wrong prediction. (Aka, exploring the What Happened in Xiangxi novella with its implication about their potential weirdness). Does Baye have any thoughts about why? Has he told Foye he's having a tough time reading him? Does Foye know Baye's family's rules? Does Baye know how closely Foye's is related to a qilin tattooed Zhang?
3. Zhang Rishan x Liang Wan - Potential ideas include:
3a. Zhang Rishan reveling in the fact that he is marrying a Wang (though one who didn't know she was a Wang, but still, converting a Wang to their side!), and giving Liang Wan training so she is at least able to work out next to the Zhangs at any family get togethers. Picture her going into a Zhang family event where the Hai branch is working out topless or in the outfits Haixing (or A-Ning) wear, so their tattoos are visible, and just she starts working out too and her phoenix tattoo becomes visible and everyone else is like "must you, Zhang Rishan?" and he is like "yes."
3b. Could involve pregnancy and Zhang Rishan being a very overprotective soon-to-be- dad about that, and telling her about qilin blood and how rare and absolutely secret that is.
3c. Could involve whatever Zhang marriage rituals you want to come up with because Zhang Rishan wants to make it official. (Are there even weirder ones for qilin blooded individuals?)
3d. Might involve Zhang Qiling blessing the wedding and then cornering her and being like, "tell me everything that went down with Wu Xie, and I will tell you what I know about the Wang family" because he strongly suspects Wu Xie will not tell him what he wants to know. (Maybe it's before Wu Xie actually tells him about what he did)
3e. Or could involve Zhang Haixing doing an "I'll make a Zhang (branch) furen out of you" and sets about training her (and potentially only then does Liang Wan find out that nobody in the Hai branch realizes Zhang Rishan is qilin blooded).
Any of these or anything you write or vid of these relationships would be awesome!
DNW:
no omegaverse
no Yan Sanxing
no Liu Sang in a relationship with either Zhang Rishan or the Iron Triangle