Time travel fic: Where I can bear to live (Ye Zun)

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Where I can bear to live (8881 words) by china_shop
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shěn Wēi & Yè Zūn
Characters: Yè Zūn, Guō Chángchéng, Sāng Zàn, Shěn Wēi
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, Brief hints of suicide ideation, References to past slavery, Imprisonment, References to solitary confinement, References to Abuse, Canon-Typical Vore, Kindness
Series: Part 6 of Back to the Middle (parallel time travel fixits)
Summary:

The portal yawned and disgorged him onto a city street. He landed heavily, face-down, panting, and struggled up onto his elbows, gulping for air, fighting to suppress the cough still lodged in his body. The night was chill. His hair tangled around him like a net. He was alone again, and his illness, the bane of his childhood, was tightening his chest. It was almost laughable how pathetic he was, he who had amassed such dreadful powers, who’d held the fate of the world in his palm just minutes ago.

(Six down; one to go!)