[The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, All Xie] Lingering Echoes

First of all, happy holidays!!!~~ After two months of agonizing over things, I've finally crawled back!

This story has little to do with the original's setting, but it really is a product of Uncle Three's infuriating ending.

Echoes

Prologue: Heaven's Secrets

Author: Srallod (Si Yuxia)

Pairings: All Xie ships are the main focus, with plenty of romantic entanglements; main pairing undecided

Content: Partly AU, partly literary, slow burn

Plenty of deviations from the original, with both fighting and everyday life

Original characters: None survive

Ending: Definitely a happy ending

Warning:

This fic features all kinds of twists on the original, corruption, character derailment, and angst. Enter at your own risk if you value your eyesight.

Blurb: There are always some things we will never be able to see clearly.

"Even now, I still want to know who the man was who appeared at the end of the Nine Families incident all those years ago. But everyone who could answer me has gone to their graves. They took that secret with them and kept their mouths shut forever."

Who was the intruder at the Zhang family ancestral home fifteen years ago? What kind of "destiny" did Zhang Dafu Ye see in that great fire?

Why did the man who kidnapped Wu Xie ten years ago meet a violent end? And where did the boy named Duanmu go?

Xie Ziyang would rather spend three years in prison than say "his" name. Xie Yuchen crossed blades with Wu Xie because of "him." More than a dozen old photographs, all taken by the same person, lead to a man with wolf eyes. Messages left behind by the dead, and the corpses of the Old Nine Families appearing again and again. Do you know who the people around you really are?

"I feel like I know everything, and yet I also feel like I know nothing."