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1. An Alternative Contract (read: blackmail) by Equinurmae

   Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   17 Apr 2024

   Tags

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   • Keqing & Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
   • Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli (Genshin Impact)
   • Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
   • Keqing (Genshin Impact)
   • Zhongli (Genshin Impact)
   • Xiangling (Genshin Impact)
   • Hu Tao (Genshin Impact)
   • Ekaterina (Genshin Impact)
   • Vlad (Genshin Impact)
   • Yelan (Genshin Impact)
   • Ganyu (Genshin Impact)
   • Teucer (Genshin Impact)
   • Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact)
   • Anthon (Genshin Impact)
   • Tonia (Genshin Impact)
   • Tartaglia | Childe's Parents (Genshin Impact)
   • Ningguang (Genshin Impact)
   • Xiao | Alatus (Genshin Impact)
   • Cloud Retainer | Xianyun (Genshin Impact)
   • Shenhe (Genshin Impact)
   • Moon Carver
   • Mountain Shaper
   • Blackmail
   • mutual blackmail
   • Politics but make it petty
   • Enemies to Friends
   • Traumatized Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
   • Overworked Keqing (Genshin Impact)
   • Oblivious Zhongli (Genshin Impact)
   • Villain Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
   • Light Angst
   • that will get heavier tbh
   • but atm it's light
   • Oops there's a dead body now
   • There's actual plot now too uh oh
   • Pearl Galley (Genshin Impact)
   • disguises
   • Genius Invokation TCG (Genshin Impact)
   • friends but in denial about it
   • Family Drama
   • Zhongli is Bad at Feelings (Genshin Impact)
   • Tartaglia | Childe is Bad at Feelings (Genshin Impact)
   • Lumine is Good at Feelings
   • Dysfunctional Family
   • Scams lol
   • a tasteful bit of fighting
   • Hyperbloom
   • So much trauma hoh boy
   • Healing!
   • or at least the start of the healing journey
   • vulnerable conversations
   • hu tao is a menace
   • Getting Together
   • First Kiss
   • Happy Ending
   • Bonus chapter! With even more shenanigans!!
   • Tabloids
   • Keqing's big day off
   • adeptus family dinner

   Summary

   Two months after the Osial incident, Childe is back in Liyue Harbour, and diplomatic immunity is the only reason he isn't behind bars. Apparently, Keqing is the only one who sees this for the absolutely terrible idea it is, so she takes it into her own hands to... encourage Childe's good behaviour. By blackmailing him. With his feelings for Zhongli.

   No, she's not proud of it either. The Yuheng isn't the only one adept at blackmail, though, and when Childe pressures her with photographs of the Rex Lapis shrine in her closet, the two find themselves in the pettiest of stalemates.

   Language:

   English

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