at midnight without moon [FIC]

Title: at midnight without moon

Fandom: The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 

Rating: T

Pairing(s): Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen

Warnings: Alternate Universe - Time Travel, canon divergence, time travel fix-it, angst, hurt/comfort, mentions of suicide, angst with a happy ending.

Notes: written for Moon Frost Fest 2020. Prompt #36: Post-canon where Song Lan has been wandering the earth carrying Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing's souls, and finally comes across a being who says they can bring Xingchen and A-Qing back, but not without a price.
 

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Xingchen... I'm sorry. It's not your fault.

( Xiao Xingchen finds himself returning to the time when he is eighteen, not yet entering the nighthunt competition, and not yet meeting Song Zichen. // Perhaps this time, he can save the ones he could not in his previous lifetime. )