By the Milk-Light of Moon

Description

Vampire AU; 1920s AU: Minseok has fought his way to one of the best jobs the city can offer a classical pianist. It's there that Lu Han sees him and offers him a job. 

Foreword

Based on this prompt from the Twitter account @xiuhanaesthetic (seriously if you're not following them you should, they're amazing!) 

The title comes from the theme song from Over the Garden Wall: 

Led through the mist,

By the milk-light of moon,

All that was lost, is revealed.

Our long bygone burdens, mere echoes of the spring,

But where have we come, and where shall we end?

If dreams can't come true, then why not pretend?

While I was writing this, I mainly listened to the soundtrack for Crimson Peak; it's really good and atmospheric!

Also I apologize for the last third of this. I wrote the last 4k of this in like 4 hours help me. 

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hazel_kitten #1
Chapter 1: ASJSJ I LOVE THIS
MuchAdoeAbout #2
Chapter 1: THIS WAS SO ING BEAUTIFUL HOLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM TRULY ING ALIVE THIS WAS AMAZING
Royalmushroom #3
Chapter 1: God my heart was being murdered with such a beautiful story. Thank you so much for writing this. My face is streaming with fuzzy emotions anD YOUR WRITING IS JUST GORGEOUS, SO DAMN PRETTY. DESCRIPTIONS, SETTING. EVERYTHING. I honestly adored Minseok's reactions to everything, like I truly felt like I was seeing through his eyes, feeling what he was feeling hehe. I'm absolutely terrible at piano, I'd rather listen/watch people play than do it myself LOL, I love luhan's character ahshdla;; HUHU AND I HONESTLY loVED ALL OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS ASDJS
Najli123 #4
Chapter 1: *Cry* bravo bravo.Q_Q .omg I love It. ...everything was perfect. .very detailed description. ..the atmosphere. .just thank you for this amasing story
m_riefkohl #5
Chapter 1: Bravo... really this was great, the way you describe everything and the way their relationship progress was so amazing and beautiful! It felt like a movie to be honest. You really made justice to that prompt! thank you for doing this great xiuhan fic! and sharing it! <3
Deem99 #6
Chapter 1: So good! I like this. Sooo much :D
London9Calling #7
Chapter 1: klajdfkljdkadj I love it! You are a very atmospheric writer so this setting was perfect for you. As I said before, you set the stage so well. I love how their relationship progressed and you showed the potentially bad parts as well as the good. Also, you used this line, I love you forever:

Nothing gold can stay.

Great job!!! Keep writing or I will hunt you down! Hehe
chocolala #8
Unlike many vampire fics (highly mysterious, lust-filled), the tone here was mostly relaxed, soothing (maybe im just saying this due to minseoks lullabies or the pieces he played idk), yet You were able to keep the plot driving. Amazing. I love how it's set in the past. I was always peeved with centuries-old vampires using smartphones etc. I like how it s set in the 1920s. people were less uptight. Although they were in a rather elegant setting, everyone in the mansion was relaxed. For me, this may be unintentional, the time setting helped me picture how easily the pair bonded( sorry that doesn't make sense. Didn't want to make it to o long) the way you describe things/your syntax was lovely. And great choice with Nocturne. Oddly enough, to me, this totally sets the tone of the story.
Again sorry this was long and nonsensical. I was trying to be a bit more brief but now it looks like jargon.
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