#(sorry hx you're not getting a satisfying revenge in this version either)

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF thing I really want to write but probably never will:

At the Rain Master's farm, SQX refuses to go with Pei Ming and stays behind while the rest go to save the fishermen/let SWD know his brother is safe (but refusing to meet with him)

He Xuan completes his revenge. The Water Tyrant falls and SQX becomes a drifter. Guilt and regret weigh down his heart but "Ming Yi", his best friend, is there to help him through it...

it's a horror story :D

#random tgcf thoughts #the best friend at your side; letting you find out a truth and giving you a way out #and never letting you know the whole truth.... #the other version of this scenario i've toyed with (and partly written) is that sqx does learn that ming yi was hx all along afterwards #but he learns it through others. never sees my again. no closure #but i like the horror story version more xD #i think realistically though if sqx hadn't gone to swd hx wouldn't appear to him again either way #hx may be a vengeful ghost king but he's still a very righteous person (if you're not named ming yi) #i don't think he's someone who could kill his friend's brother and then maintain the friendship as though nothing had happened #aaah i do kind of want to write this now! the sqx chooses to stay in yushi but hx & swd pov #honestly i imagine swd would be extra smug in their confrontation now because his brother's safety has already been guaranteed #he has no reason to care what happens to him #(sorry hx you're not getting a satisfying revenge in this version either) #...........maybe it should be a time loop story #hx gets revenge on swd over and over but in any scenario where sqx lives its not satisfying (because swd is a dick about it) #but any scenario where sqx dies is also not satisfying (because hx doesn't like it) #(and this has become a why option 1 was the only good revenge option and why are there no fics about it xD)