A mind full of worlds

Something a bit different, well it's still H/C and for a Cdrama, but it's not MLC (yes I am still working on that last part of Before the Dawn) This is for Heroes (2022) and is Di Feijing canon divergent thing. I'll post it here are 3 shortish parts over the next couple of days. Then once it's done I’ll put it on ao3.

The Fei character in Di Feijing's name is the same as in Di Feisheng, but the Di character is a different one.

Di Feijing - 狄飞惊

Di Feisheng - 笛飞声

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Title: Caught on the Tides of Life.
Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Heroes (2022) ("Shuo Ying Xiong Shei Shi Ying Xiong" (说英雄谁是英雄))
Rating: general
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Di Feijing & Lei Chun, Di Feijing and Qi Shaoshang
Characters: Di Feijing, Qi Shaoshang and Wang Xiaoshi (breifly) Lei Chun mentioned a lot (Di Feijing misses his sister)
Additional Tags: Canon diverent AU - for Di Feijing at least, hurt/comfort,


There is no shelter here, but then he has never taken the easy path. A faint, weary smile forms on Di Feijing's icy, bloody stained lips. Unable to go on, he sinks to his knees beneath the bare trees.

He'd never expected to survive his fight with Fang Yingkan. That he has managed to blind him, leaving him defenceless and wounded in this wilderness will have to be revenge enough. The vile young marquis will never harm another. He is content to let him wander in pain and fear before the ice and snow claim him.

He presses a hand against the wound in his side. There is no warm welling up of blood now - the bitter cold has stopped the bleeding. Perhaps if he'd reached safety or if someone was searching for him there might have been a slimmest chance of survival.

There is no one coming this time. It had been a miracle that Lei Sun and his wife had found him on that snowy night all those years ago.

Fate it seems cannot be outrun, not in the end.

Tired, barely feeling the cold around him, Di Feijing closes his eyes, breath slowing, barely misting in the icy air.

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( Someone is shaking him, one hand on his shoulder, the other holding his hand. The voice is familiar, although in his disorientated state Di Feijing can't bring whose it is to mind. )