welcome to Silently Into The Night
Hello and welcome! We are a modern-day reincarnation AU of the novel/donghua/drama Mó Dào Zǔ Shī, also known as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chén Qíng Lìng, or The Untamed. The characters have been reincarnated into modern day, where some have regained their memories of their cultivation days, while others have not yet. Original characters are accepted, but please have a good story for them if they were a cultivator in their past life. The RP takes place in Palo Alto, California, and is set in the current year.
Modern Reincarnation AU
silently into the night redeim
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updates
JULY 07, 2020
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JULY 06, 2020
Soft opening of the site!
Groce Misunderstandings (Yanli) [COMPLETED]
Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 8, 2020 19:08:55 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 8, 2020 19:08:55 GMT -8
"I;m glad you have Mianmian in your life, she seems like a steadying presence for you," Yanli observed. "What did she think when you told her you'd be moving in with me? She must have had some sort of opinion about that."
Yanli followed him out of the car, taking note of his preferences. "Let's go in and see what we can find."
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 8, 2020 19:18:00 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 8, 2020 19:18:00 GMT -8
Zixuan nodded and said, "I'm glad too. Mostly, she was glad that I was getting out of my dad's house, with a side of being mad that my mom sprang it on me shortly before it happened. Similar to you, she doesn't know a ton about you, but has a positive impression."
He grabbed a cart as they entered the store and looked to the two ends. He asked, "Do you want to start with fruits and vegetables, or bakery and home goods? I guess we could start in the middle and do something disorganized, but that would stress me out and mean starting with refrigerated things."
He was inclined to head towards vegetables, but home goods might also be useful, so he waited for her decision.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 8, 2020 19:23:42 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 8, 2020 19:23:42 GMT -8
"I'll follow your lead today. I think my method would stress you out. Remember, I build my meals around something, so I usually start with the meat or vegetables so I can know what else I need," Yanli explained.
She grabbed onto Zixuan's arm and stepped in closer to him as a family passed them, "sorry," she said, stepping back again. She found herself watching the family with a smile on her face as the toddler babbled and fussed to his mother.
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 8, 2020 19:36:13 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 8, 2020 19:36:13 GMT -8
Zixuan nodded and said, "Let's start with vegetables then. That's where I'd usually start. I'm definitely not as good at this, but I also like knowing what vegetables I end up with."
He was a little startled when she grabbed on to him, but he shook his head when she apologized and said, "It's not a big deal."
He followed where she was looking to see the toddler and said softly, "So cute."
He started leading them off towards the vegetables, thinking over his list in his head, glad that he had Yanli with him.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 8, 2020 19:42:20 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 8, 2020 19:42:20 GMT -8
Yanli followed Zixuan to the vegetables and made sure to select some eggplant. "I'm going to jump ahead to the meats to see what inspiration strikes," she told him.
The meats weren't too far and she could still see Zixuan. She settled on some crab, salmon and shrimp. She'd normally go for some red or white meats but she was feeling like seafood this week. She made her selections and came back to Zixuan, "anything you like to eat with any of this?"
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 8, 2020 20:05:30 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 8, 2020 20:05:30 GMT -8
Zixuan hesitated when Yanli wandered off, but he looked through the vegetables carefully, going ahead and selecting several of the little round eggplants in both green and purple. Those were things that he knew what to do with. He also grabbed napa cabbage because that was always useful.
When she returned with meat and asked him a question, he hesitated. He didn't think that this was a test, Yanli didn't seem like the kind of person who would test him like this, but he was still a little uncertain. He said, "I've never cooked crab before, so I don't know entirely for that. Maybe snow peas or pea greens? I, uh, usually put shrimp in fried rice or fried noddles, but I also really like shrimp so I think that pretty much anything you put it in would be good. Oh, and I use it in stuffed eggplant sometimes, but I usually use smaller shrimp for that. For salmon, it's good with most vegetables? So I guess what looks good. I already got some eggplant and napa cabbage, but I'm pretty open to vegetables in general."
He added, realizing that he'd been babbling, "I am really completely happy to have what you think would be best with them."
He spotted oyster mushrooms and inspected a package, picking some up because that was something else that he knew what to do with. He said, "I might want to pick something up from the meat counter too, though I'm not entirely sure what yet."
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 8, 2020 20:14:57 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 8, 2020 20:14:57 GMT -8
Yanli couldn't help but smiled as Zixuan rambled. "It's not a test you know," she laughed. She went around and selected many of the vegetables he'd suggested.
"I'm going to need some spices as well as grains and some ingredients to make sauces," she told him. "Are you ready to move on?"
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 8, 2020 20:23:54 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 8, 2020 20:23:54 GMT -8
Zixuan smiled sheepishly when she told him it wasn't a test, but he was glad to see that he'd gotten at least some of it right anyhow. He watched what Yanli picked, making sure not to pick up the same greens, but he added a few more things to their cart as well. He did make sure to pick out some heads of garlic to use, remembering that she liked it. He nodded when she asked if he was ready to move on and said, "Let's swing by the meat counter so that I can get some ground meat for stuffed eggplant and maybe some little shrimp as well."
He navigated the cart over there quickly putting his order in at the counter. This was something that he had a mental script for, and it wasn't busy.
He turned to her and said, "Which aisle next? There's fresh tofu and noodles and some sauces and oils and ingredients on this next one, and I'd like to get some fresh tofu, is there anything else you want from here or should I just grab that quickly?"
He would normally go through each aisle carefully by himself, but he didn't want to drag Yanli through the whole store inch by inch if that wasn't how she operated in the grocery store.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 8, 2020 20:33:57 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 8, 2020 20:33:57 GMT -8
"Oh yeah, sorry. I don't mean to take over the shopping. I'm just used to doing it alone." She waited at the counter with him until his order was complete.
"We can go aisle by aisle if you prefer. I'm not terribly efficient and I end up flitting back and forth all over the store." She put her hand up in salute, "I'll follow you captain," she joked.
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 8, 2020 20:47:30 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 8, 2020 20:47:30 GMT -8
Zixuan shook his head and said, "You don't need to apologize. This is different for both of us. I tend to be very systematic, especially before I'm familiar with a specific store and its layout. I'd appreciate going through in order so that I can learn where everything is, but also, feel free to hurry me up if I'm lingering over something too long."
He made it to the fresh tofu and found what he wanted in a brand that he was familiar with and new he liked, so he added it to the cart and said, "OK, that's what I need from this aisle."
He continued along the aisle, going to make the turn to the next one while glancing at things to make sure they weren't missing anything. He asked as they passed sauces, "You have oyster sauce and fish sauce and sesame oil, right? And tián miàn jiàng?"
He slipped into the Chinese name at the end, not knowing what it was called in English and trusting that Yanli would know what he was talking about. Considering his own pantry at home, he figured that she'd have everything that he considered a staple sauce base, but he also hadn't thought to take stock of the sauces before leaving.
He asked, slightly perplexed, "Did your brothers never go along with you even to just help you carry stuff since you cook for them a lot?"
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 8, 2020 21:35:54 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 8, 2020 21:35:54 GMT -8
Yanli found herself half doing what she said, which was following Zixuan but half doing her normal routine. She'd stop by to check what aisle he was in and to add things to the cart but go around the store grabbing her supplies.
"Sorry, I know I said I'd stay put, but my creative cooking juices apparently don't like to work on an aisle by aisle basis. I hope this is okay," she said.
"I think I grabbed all the sauces we need," she said holding them up. "And no, my brothers pretty much never came along shopping. My mom could maybe convince them to help bring the groceries in when we got home, but they were too crazy running around the store all the time, even as full grown adults," she laughed.
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 8, 2020 22:09:41 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 8, 2020 22:09:41 GMT -8
Zixuan was initially somewhat stressed by Yanli's running about to find the things she needed, but he started to notice a pattern to it, and he relaxed a little bit. He didn't mind the grocery store, and she was finding the stuff that they needed, so he kept steadily moving along the aisles, acquainting himself with a new store and adding his stuff, tidily rearranging things in the cart so that similar things were together and everything that needed to stay cold was tightly packed together so that it would help keep itself cold. The only aisle he skipped was the freezer aisle, and on one of Yanli's returns to the cart, he told her, "I'm going to go to the freezer aisle very last so that if I get anything there, it has less chance of melting."
One of the times that she lingered near the cart for longer, he asked, "What were your brothers like when you were all younger? I only ever saw them in the context of formal events, and I feel like that may not have been the most honest impression of any of us. I know I seemed stuck up and aloof. When I was a teenager, I thought that Jiang Cheng would have been kind of hot if he didn't seem angry all the time, and Wei Wuxian seemed like chaos personified, but like he meant well and wanted the people around him to be happy. He also made me anxious even before the time he punched me. Actually, I think that he made me less anxious after the time he punched me because I felt like I knew when to duck better."
He gave her a sheepish smile and said, "That was probably at least half my fault. I don't hold it against him."
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 9, 2020 7:17:05 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 9, 2020 7:17:05 GMT -8
Yanli agreed to the freezer comment then found herself perplexed by the comment about Jiang Cheng. She wondered if the reason things had always been so awkward between her and Zixuan had just been explained.
She didn't know how to ask him if he liked men, but why else would you use the word "hot" to describe someone else unless you were attracted to them. If he was gay, that actually took a lot of pressure off of her. She'd still been operating under the assumption that they'd likely get married and have kids some day, but she had no intention of being someone's cover.
"You should have told me," Yanli said gently. "We're you worried about hurting my feelings? It's fine, it actually clears up a lot of things," she said. "I support you."
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 9, 2020 10:26:32 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 9, 2020 10:26:32 GMT -8
Zixuan was a bit puzzled by Yanli's phrasing, but he nodded and said, "I'm sorry that I've got a weird impression of your family in some ways. I know that my family isn't great, and I'm sorry that you've had to deal with them more recently, though mom's normally pretty alright."
He added, hoping that his point had actually come across, "With us living together now, I do hope that I can get to know your brothers as adults, and we can maybe form better impressions of each other. I don't think that formal events were a great setting for any of us. I do want your family, especially the ones who are important to you, to like me."
He felt like he was going to need to go over this conversation with Mianmian later, like he'd missed something.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 9, 2020 10:40:35 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 9, 2020 10:40:35 GMT -8
"Formal events are weird for everyone. I think of the two of my brothers, Jiang Cheng has the better impression of you, so that's a good start. I'll talk to him to see where he falls on the issue." Yanli placed a hand on Zixuan's shoulder. "I'll help if I can, okay?"
She removed her hand and offered a warm smile. She was surprised that a part of her felt loss at this new turn of events. She really wished Zixuan has been brave enough to tell her long ago that he was gay, then she wouldn't have spent so much of her life trying to figure out if she could catch feelings for him.
She made a mental note to text A-Cheng and ask his opinion of Zixuan, it was likely to be different without A-xian around. With the burden of trying to develop a romantic relationship with Zixuan lifted, she felt more relaxed. Maybe she'd even accept that date her sous chef kept proposing.
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