#fdb having to explain that he's dfs and no he's not looking to kill him would be a trip

[mx-myth]

Post-canon difang amnesia au where someone decides that di feisheng needs to die once and for all. They don't exactly succeed but once again dfs loses his memory. When he wakes up on the bank of a river all he has is three words written on his palm: find fang duobing.

He picks himself up and finds that when he asks around everyone is all too happy to tell him about fdb. Oh yes! That gongzi, they tell him, he's a hero! He's going to kill the number one villain in the jianghu!

Dfs doesn't know it yet but whoever made that attempt on his life threw fdb under the bus. It's meant to be another donghai-sized misunderstanding except that he's lost his memories.

He continues onward and eventually finds himself at Tianji Manor. The servant who lets him in is wide-eyed but when he asks for fdb their face turns downright scared. He's timidly informed that their shaoye is out right now.

That's fine, dfs says. He plops down right there to wait.

Master He, who has perhaps not seen her son since li lianhua was supposed to be at the beach, is told of this situation. She's heard the rumors that her son is looking to kill dfs and, half-believing this, storms out to give him a piece of her mind.

Dfs is wildly confused about why this woman is yelling at him. He's vaguely scared of her but it's not because he finds her intimidating. He doesn't know why.

Luckily this is the moment that fdb arrives home. He's tired and exhausted and forcing himself to take a break from his search for llh. "Niang!" He calls.

And then he stops. Dfs stares at him around his mother. "Lao-Di?" He says. His voice is wavering and cracks in the middle.

He stands and stumbles towards him. They meet in the middle of the yard and fdb looks like he wants to hug him but he thrusts his palm out at him before he can. "Fang Duobing?"

Fdb stares at it before taking it and cradling his hand in his own. His eyes are as huge as the moon when he looks at him. "A-Fei?"

Dfs may not know the difference but he can feel it. Whoever he was before was this boy's Lao-Di but right now he's his A-Fei. The name knocks a single memory loose - knowing nothing, like he does now, and a warm and familiar voice calling him A-Fei. He looks at him and clutches at his hands. "Who am I?"

So on top of the search for llh fdb and a-fei have to hunt down whoever tried to kill dfs. Fdb knows how to exist with dfs; without the barrier of llh, he's lost on what to do with a-fei. But they relearn how to work together, how to coexist, and step by step a-fei regains his memories.

[tiny-breadcrumbs]

my friend call me at three in the morning to blurt out:

"You know? In a melodramatic xianxia, these two will be a young war god and a demon leader of the underworld organization who secretly love each other, but one of them who drowned in rage from fucked up misunderstanding will kill the other, now they stuck in a cursed plot of chasing or saving one reincarnation and dirty politic of the gods who can't be chill about their scheming and ambition or even to leave the lovers fucking in peace."

Then she start spiralling into some madness like maybe DFS is the one who died and getting stuck in a reincarnation wheel. Something something about a young spirit who being captured to be a slave/cauldron for the darker side of heaven, escaped to the underworld, masking his roots and start a demon cult. Thats why LXY heavenly sword is super lethal to him and shattered his soul. Another ramble about how Wuyan, his spiritual beast (or did she said black dragon?), following each one of his mortal reincarnation to collect every fragment of his soul and patching it up with a spiritual hot glue.

She abruptly end the call after long explaination about how FDB can be the youngest contender for a new war god position centuries after LXY went missing, because every think he is dead, DEAD. which he is not, he just go undercover in a mortal world to cool down and have some regret. That is also why his former heavenly official (everyone in sigu) friends can't find him in the book of reincarnation, because he not yet dead. And they can't find DFS either because everyone looked into the direction of soul with demonic imprint when he is actually not.

She even pick the ost and being adamant about that one ost from Ashes of love will fit perfectly😂 and now I don't know if I should be concerned or not. That friend of mine usually a strict "hetero couple only" person, and here she is screaming in my ear about di feisheng and li lianhua. I'm cackling. She clearly sleep deprived but this is such an amazing idea.