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
And we're officially open! Feel free to leave questions or chat with us in the cbox. :)
JULY 06, 2020
Soft opening of the site!
Fundraiser versus Hellraisers (Zixuan)
Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 12, 2020 9:01:36 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 12, 2020 9:01:36 GMT -8
Yanli stood in front of the mirror and smoothed her dress down. It was black with white polka dots and could be described as a 50s style swing dress. Happy with her dress she went to the bathroom to add makeup and try to do something with her hair. She realized that though this was a work function for Zixuan, it was their first sort of date. They'd have to remedy that. She debated curling her hair but didn't want to take the time to do it. Instead, she settled on a half up half down look that framed her face and matched with the dress. She added some eyeliner and mascara, but not too much as well as some red lipstick. She could only imagine her mother's reaction to the lipstick, she loathed red lipstick on women, but Yanli didn't care. With the 50s style she was wearing, the red just looked right. She found a pair of diamond stud earrings to put on but took them off, she was coming off as too pretentious now. She put on some small gold hoops instead. She stood back and admired herself in the mirror, "Do I look like a pinup?" she asked herself. Maybe her mother had been right about the red lipstick. Her stomach was full of butterflies fluttering around. This was their first date if you didn't count shopping and hanging out at home, which she didn't, so she was nervous, and possibly overdoing it. "He's going to hate this, isn't he?" She sighed and went to the kitchen to grab herself a glass of water to cool off before attempting to rethink her outfit. Jin Zixuan
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 14:17:02 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 14:17:02 GMT -8
Almost everyone left the office early except for the people watching over the teen program because of the fundraising dinner that evening. Zixuan might normally have volunteered to stick around with the teens and ducked out of the fundraising dinner, but he'd offered to bring Yanli with him, and she'd seemed interested in going, and his coworkers were excited to meet his fiancee, which was a nice feeling. He didn't talk a huge amount at the office, but even he could tell that the organizer who was going around getting responses from people had been pleased when he'd said that he would come and bring his fiancee. She'd sounded so happy for him.
When he got home, Yanli was in the kitchen, and he went to hug her, making sure to give her time to get her water out of the way. He said, "Hi. You look wonderful. I'll have to pick an outfit that compliments what you're wearing well. And actually, just a second..."
He trailed off and hurried to his bedroom, grabbing a little box that he'd been dithering over giving Yanli. An adult older sibling in one of the families that the company was working with had a small jewelry business, and he'd bought a gift for Yanli from them several weeks ago, but he'd been worried about how she would react, but it matched well with what she was wearing. It was a necklace on a delicate gold chain with a small filigree gold heart with a little red stone, possibly just a piece of glass, but it was pretty, and it had seemed like the choice that would most suit Yanli. He held out the little flat jewelry box to her slightly awkwardly and said, "I'm sorry it's not wrapped properly, but I'd not decided when to give it to you yet, but it seems like it would go well with tonight's outfit."
He waited nervously to see what she thought of his offering, hoping that he'd not wildly misjudged her tastes.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 14:44:09 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 14:44:09 GMT -8
Yanli smiled and moved her water, hugging Zixuan back. She enjoyed their new dynamic where she actually got to touch him. She was relieved when he said she looked good but felt herself tense up again when he left to room in the middle of a sentence.
When he came back with the box she smiled and took it gingerly. She opened the box and exlaimed, "It's beautiful." She leaned forward and kissed Zixuan on the cheek, "thank you, would you put it one for me," she said, about to lift her hair and return the box to him but instead had to giggle.
"Oh no," she said, setting the box down on the counter, "I'm sorry," she used her thumb to wipe at his cheek. She'd left a red kiss mark on his cheek. "Let me clean this up for you."
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 14:54:57 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 14:54:57 GMT -8
Zixuan grinned when she liked it, relieved that his taste had been on track. This kiss on the cheek only added to the grin. He reached to take the box so that he could put it on for her, but then froze when Yanli went to wipe his cheek. He was confused for a minute, but then saw that her lipstick was slightly smudged.
He chuckled and reached out to wipe the smudge of lipstick from the corner of her mouth. He said, "Don't worry, I can clean it off while I'm getting ready. Let me help you with the necklace."
He took the box and carefully took the necklace out, stepping behind her and gently brushing her hair out of his way. He fastened the necklace carefully and then carefully got the hair out from under it and let it fall back into place. He came around to look at her, and a small smile came on his face. It looked about the way that he'd imagined it, and he said softly, "You're beautiful."
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 15:07:12 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 15:07:12 GMT -8
Yanli was surprised when Zixuan reached out but realized if she'd left a mark on him, her lipstick must have smudged. She held her breath as he put the necklace on for her. There was something particularly intimate about the action, maybe it was because she'd romanticized it for so long, but it just felt right.
She felt her cheeks flush when he called her beautiful, "well if you're going to clean it off anyways, I may as well make it match," she teased before planting a kiss on his other cheek. "I don't wear red lipstick ever, so I don't have one that doesn't smudge."
She touched the necklace, "thank you, it really is beautiful. I love it."
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 15:27:25 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 15:27:25 GMT -8
Zixuan thought back about something that Mianmian had said once and asked, "Do you have a lip gloss that goes over and dries?"
He laughed as she made the kiss marks match, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her closer. He said softly, "Thank you for going to this with me. My coworkers are excited to meet you, and I'm glad that I'll have you with me. It will make this sort of event so much easier. I don't go to most of these. I do things like volunteer to look after the kids instead or something."
He said, "I would rather stay in the kitchen and kiss you, but I should get dressed for this."
He leaned down and tentatively brushed his lips against hers before retreating to the bathroom to wash his face, blushing. Once the lipstick was cleaned off, he headed to the closet. He picked out a dark red shirt that matched nicely to the color of her lipstick and the stone in the necklace. He took out a well tailored black silk suit with white satin accents that he thought would pair well with her dress and a white silk tie. He carried them out to the living room and held up the combination for Yanli to see, asking, "What do you think? I need to get my cuff links and change in my room."
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 15:42:33 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 15:42:33 GMT -8
"Smart man," Yanli said, acknowledging the lip gloss. "Of course I'll go to things like this with you. I'm going because I want to spend time with you, but it'll be nice to meet your coworkers too."
She blushed and smiled as Zixuan kissed her and rushed off. "How can he be so large and so cute," she muttered to herself. She always felt dwarfed by him, but she enjoyed the feeling too. She snuck into the bathroom and fixed her lipstick, adding the lip gloss before heading back out to the kitchen. She should have known she's leave a mark on him, her lipstick was all over the glass of water she'd been drinking. She washed it and placed it in the drying rack.
When he came back out with his outfit she approved. She loved that he'd matched her with his own clothes. She cleared her throat, she'd found it was her habit before asking or saying something that made her uncomfortable. "Can I tie your tie for you, once you're dressed?" She knew this played back into her domestic, girly fantasies, but she was tired of other women telling her that domestic meant being a bad feminist. She just wanted to tie his tie.
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 16:01:29 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 16:01:29 GMT -8
Zixuan was not entirely sure why Yanli would want to tie his tie for him, but he nodded and said, "If you want to sure. I'm just going to leave it out here so that I don't do it on autopilot."
He draped it carefully over the back of one of the chairs in the dining room, in place that he was pretty sure that it would be safe, and carried his clothes to his room, changing relatively efficiently and fixing his hair in the little mirror he had hanging on the wall for just this purpose. He used only a lightweight styling product as he'd tended to since discovering that Yanli sometimes liked to pet his hair, which he didn't want to discourage, so that it was soft to the touch but also smooth and well behaved. He tried to put the little gold cuff links, also featuring small red stones on and struggled. This was normally something that Mianmian or his mother would help him with before events because he could never get them to sit right.
He realized that he could just ask Yanli, and he headed back out to the common area of the apartment, cuff links in hand. He offered them to her and said, "Other than these and the tie, I'm ready, but would you mind helping me with these too? I can never get them in correctly by myself."
He figured that now that he wasn't living at home, he'd probably look into getting more event level dress shirts that didn't need them since they'd always just been something that his mother had insisted on because cuff links made things fancier, but he didn't feel like anyone would ever actually care at work. If he'd had a nice shirt that matched Yanli well that wasn't one with cuff links, he would have gone with them instead.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 20:56:30 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 20:56:30 GMT -8
Yanli walked over to the tie and ran her fingers along the fabric, excited to do this small thing for Zixuan. She turned and looked at him when he came back into the kitchen, "you look great," she said, reaching up and fixing his hair a bit.
She took the cuff links from him, "sure, let me help." She carefully secured them for him, then started with his tie. "Is it weird that I always imagined tying my husband's tie? I used to practice on teddy bears and my brothers," she laughed at herself. She blushed a little as she realized she'd essentially called him her husband but didn't know how to undo the verbal misstep.
When she finished she stepped back to look at him, "you look very handsome."
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 21:10:19 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 21:10:19 GMT -8
Zixuan blushed a little at her comment, but rapidly shook his head and said, "It's not weird. It's nice! I'm glad that I know how to tie my own, but there's something really nice about having someone else do it."
He stared out over her head, trying to get his face back under control and said, "I mean, I think that there's something nice about taking care of someone else, and like, that's a gesture of it."
He toyed with the thought, knowing that both of them had been expected to marry each other sing they were quite young. He wondered if Yanli had actually expected it to happen for real in those fantasies. He didn't want to ask though because he wasn't sure what he wanted the answer to be.
When she complemented his appearance, he smiled shyly down at her and said, "You look very beautiful, and we match, so I, uh, think that means we're ready to go?"
Zixuan figured that if he got there on the early end, he could duck out before it got too late, though he'd stay as long as Yanli wanted.
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 21:19:15 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 21:19:15 GMT -8
Yanli stepped forward and adjusted his tie a little. There was nothing really wrong with it, she just liked fiddling with it. "Yes, I just need to grab my bag," she said, ducking back into the bedroom to grab a small black clutch.
"Ready," she said, opening the door and heading to the hallway. She was already happy, so the smile was luckily in place when Mary Lou opened her door with a grin.
"Well don't you two just look the sweetest," Mary Lou said in her overly honeyed voice. "Is it date night then? You look like y'all are ready to go dancin' or somethin' like that," she gushed.
Yanli smiled and reached for Zixuan, looping her arm through his, "work event, we don't want to be late. You have a nice night now," she said, using her linked arm to steer Zixuan away before too much could happen. Theoretically, because attending a work function with him was part of her future "wifely duties" her mother should be happy with Mary Lou's report.
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 21:49:38 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 21:49:38 GMT -8
Zixuan was glad for Yanli's handling of their neighbor, and he walked with purpose, enjoying the feeling of having her on his arm, until they reached the parking area. He hesitated and looked over to her then, asking, "Were you planning on drinking tonight? I don't much, but I do often just accept one drink early on and nurse it the rest of the night at events like this because it's easier than figuring out alternatives. I guess maybe your plans affect who's car we should take though, since my usual method has been that the worst thing that happens is I have to leave my car at the office and get a ride back and forth."
He'd only been to a few of these sorts of events since he turned twenty-one, and he missed the not being given alcohol because he was still under the legal drinking age element that had once come with it when his mother had taken him along to various events where she was a donor. He hadn't quite figured out how to politely not get something non-alcoholic early in the night and just hold onto that. He maybe should ask someone at work that because they might know. Events like this were stressful enough without the added drinking, and it made plenty of people behave worse than they might otherwise.
He scrunched up his forehead, still staring at the cars and said, "I just realized, my mom might be there. She is a donor, so she gets invited to all these events."
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 21:56:11 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 21:56:11 GMT -8
Yanli followed him to the car, "I guess I didn't think about drinking. I guess I might," she wasn't too sure really. "Would you mind driving, I'm not the biggest fan of driving at night in unfamiliar places."
She quirked her head to the side when he mentioned his mother. "You know that means my mother might be there too, right?" She realized as soon as she'd said it, that she'd likely just added to his stress. "Don't worry, I'll handle her. You don't have to worry, and I won't get loud or argue with her," she said, trying to soothe any damage she might have done.
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Jin Zixuan
MDZS Character
no
bisexual (prefers women)
engaged (but confused)
Etienne
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Aug 15, 2020 23:04:33 GMT -8
Post by Jin Zixuan on Aug 15, 2020 23:04:33 GMT -8
Zixuan nodded and said, "I'm happy to drive. It's obviously a familiar drive for me, and I'll try to just manage to get a properly fancy looking non-alcoholic beverage in my hand before people start handing out drinks. They'll have them since there are going to be a decent number of the teens from the programs there."
Zixuan headed for his car as he responded to her comment about her mother, "For all that I am not a fan of big donor parties like this, it does mean that our respective moms will likely be on their party manners, and we'll be in a place that I am comfortable, even if not an event that I'm comfortable at. Thank you for handling your mother though. I hope that if she's there, you don't have to deal with bad behavior from her."
Zixuan didn't really have to think about the route down to his office in San Jose, if anything, it was easier at this time of the evening instead of when he normally went in during the morning rush hour because he was moving reverse commute direction a little bit. He'd given them plenty of time, and he figured that they'd probably get there before the event actually started and he could introduce Yanli to his coworkers and help with any last minute set up. He told Yanli, "Unless traffic is extraordinarily bad, we're going to get there early, so I can introduce you to folks and show you where I work before the event actually starts. I might get drafted into helping with some set up though."
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Jiang Yanli
MDZS Character
No
Straight
Engaged
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 23:11:03 GMT -8
Post by Jiang Yanli on Aug 15, 2020 23:11:03 GMT -8
Yanli was glad Zixuan has been willing to drive. The thought of meeting new people who only knew her as "Zixuan's fiancée" and socializing the whole night while also possibly fielding her mother was a lot. She didn't want to think about driving and limiting alcohol intake to make sure she could drive. Though she'd never admit it, she could drink her brothers under the table, even Wuxian, but she had no intention of doing that.
"I'm excited to meet your coworkers. What do they, um, know about me?" she asked curious how much and what he'd told them. "I'm happy to help set up too, and don't even bother trying to stop me, you know I'll help anyways."
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