#bfiasc aus

[vroomian]

actually maybe the reason Charlie makes the connection from 'yrz' to 'my uncle blue (what she called yrz as a child)' was because yrz, as the only actual responsible person Lucifer knows, was often roped into babysitting while the royal couple were busy or fighting.

i'm picturing yrz in full library demon get up and sitting at a cramped table with three-year-old charlie, having a very serious tea party. it's also important to me you know that yrz can change his height and his library demon form is the tallest. so he's folded in half, knees up to his chest, holding a plastic cup that's thimble-sized compared to him.

the fact that children love yrz hasn't changed, nor has his habit of treating them like small, unfinished people who should be Taught and Listened To Seriously. most of his patience actually goes towards children no matter how little he likes them lol.

also: yrz singning baby Charlie to sleep, of when she gets upset. maybe even the start of baby Charlie's lifelong love of music, coupled with lillith's canon beautiful voice? I'm picturing specifically Little Saphire's lullaby by Ginny Di (change saphire to ruby maybe?), if i were a fish by corook, riverboat shanty by emily axford. just cute sweet little songs.

and then later yrz is hanging out at the hotel and it's late enough that everyone else is asleep, but charlie wanders out (post-meeting adam) because she's worried about heaven. yrz makes her a hot chocolate, and they sit in quiet, and charlies like. why does this feel so familiar? yrz, who is reading a book, starts humming saphires's lullaby unconsciously. then it clicks and charlies like: "uncle blue????? Why are you short now?"

and yrz is like whoops, cats out of the bag lol. also rude. so charlie and lucifer are the only ones who know that yrz is also the library demon.

#me just now: wait. emily axford. d20 emily axford???? #turns out yes. that emily axford! #bizzare! #anyway i love sticking yrz with small impressionable children and watching him sweat lol #it'd be funny if the babysiting was what lucifer demanded as a favor. #charlie knew uncle blue but not the library demon or yrz #hazbin au #bfiasc aus

[vermillioncrown]

How would zyx interact with vroomians Yan Ruizhi?

from what i understand about yan ruizhi as a character... the two of them wouldn’t interact if left in the same space. noble gases, inert to reactions. or more like, allergic to interactions

from the side-stories, we get insight into how yrz’s very distant and aloof in general (tho main story shows that it’s more like anxious avoidance, i think), and it takes unrelenting persistence to get close to him. zyx is not the type of person to go out their way to bother someone that doesn’t want to be bothered, especially if they don’t have something that zyx wants/needs.

and zyx is a bit socially deficient. the only person they’ve chosen to interact with outside of courtesy and obligation is jzx, and that was only because he was bullying a merchant making a mess in public. every other time, they would start conversation if it was appropriate for the current social environment and with the people of related standing, as appropriate.

i’m sure if forced to interact bc stuck in dire straits, zyx would be pragmatic about it. it’d be a workable team effort with respect coming from zyx’s end, at the very least. after that, zyx would be willing to expend one (1) effort each time they happen to encounter each other to greet yrz

as for how zyx would think of yrz - given what we know about yrz, it would likely be... - as strangers: there’s enough to notice on yrz’s mannerisms to immediately clock that something is off. - as acquaintances: aight guy. still weird, but innocuous enough. low effort, pleasant interactions aka not someone to 180* and avoid - as judging from knowing yrz’s personality more: no longer favorable. too passive for zyx’s taste, lacking chuan tong guan nian/传统观念/’traditional values & customs’ (or at least, the ability to adapt to them). willfully blind to their own detriment (which might be pot calling kettle black bahaha). too into books to the point it seems like he’s hiding behind them as a crutch. BUT... clever, well-spoken, witty, not lacking potential. which makes the rest of it more frustrating

none of this means that zyx isn’t willing to become friends w him. they’re aware that they have many faults, too--but there is enough similar and enough different that it would take extenuating circumstances to make them mesh on zyx’s side of things.

#what's the etiquette here aaa #i'm trying to answer honestly + objectively + in-character #to my defense (if needed) i've read bfiasc+ditf over 200 times and my ao3 history can prove it #so while i love reading about yrz #zyx would 80% chance have neutral-negative interactions w him #which could be said for most of zyx's interactions if not for *situations* #Anonymous #inquiry #opinionated verm #zyx au's

[s-hoseki59]

A fanart for a fanfic of @vroomian called:

I don't know if it does look like what Vroomian imagine or not, sooo...

Yan Ruizhi is my favourite among her OCs, 'because I love the unintended chaos he brought the story to, god, the hilarity at his expense is ridiculous-

#Bfiasc #Vroomian #Fanfic fanart #Bcuz I need to scratch that 'need to draw this' itch #Dang I love that fanfic so much #The other AUs of him are fun to read too! #Can't wait to read the fanfic in others' pov-

[ao3feed-tgcf]

by Vroomian

au's of my own fanfic? written by me because I've lost control of my life?

It's more likely than you think!

(aka the place where I dig myself a nice little garbage hole and toss Yan Ruizhi into different canons because why not i guess)

Words: 2810, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of this whole 'being known' ordeal sure is mortifying

Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi

Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Huā Chéng

Additional Tags: bring in the memes, if you haven't read bfiasc you ain't gonna get it, minimal editing present, i do love a pretentious title or two

#ao3feed tgcf #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #天官赐福

[vroomian]

Yrz hit the garden of the royal palace in hell in ablaze of agony and with a glitching form. Unfortunately Lucifer and Lilith are out at the moment and three year old Charlie is in the garden with a pair of imp minders.

Unfortunately those imps see a random angel in the palace garden and abandon baby Charlie without looking back.

Wait, Yrz thinks through the agony, is that a fucking baby????

Also, Yrz immediately flash backs to his disastrous arrival in heaven and how he fried four weak angels just from loosing control.

Unfortunately this baby is sitting well within frying distance. She is also cute as — hah — hell.

Nope! Yrz has never hurt a baby in any goddamn lifetime and he’s not starting now. His monstrous will rises from the depths and his self control snaps it’s jaw around the agony and swallows it whole. He yanks his power into form. It still fucking hurts but that is the least important part of this situation. His glitching form snaps into a body that’s broken but solid. His paper wings and one leg are angled wrong, and what passes for ribs are for sure broken. Inky blood leaks from a multitude of wounds, turning to gold ichor when it touches the ground.

the baby remains unfried.

It only feels like he’s dying. It’s just a body. Yrz can deal.

Yrz’s still working on human adjacent facial features so he settles on manifesting one sheet of paper with a smiley face on it. “Hey honey, where are your parents?”

The little girl grins — and those are little baby fangs. “Daddy go out!”

Great.

Babysitting it is.

This, Yrz thinks, really is hell.

“You got a name, you little demon?”

The girls eyes honest to god sparkle. Why. How. “Char-char!

-

Lucifer and Lilith, alerted to an intruder by their panicked staff, show up in full demon forms.

They find baby Charlie happily scribbling over some of yrzs paper wings and chattering happily to a long suffering Yrz.

All the grown ups pause, wary.

Charlie immediately shrieks and wobbles to her parents in delight. Her very dangerous parents. Yrz recognizes that face from the archives.

Lucifer Morningstar snatches up his daughter like she’s a treasure he thought lost forever. And if that’s Lucifer the woman must be Lilith.

Yrz cannot catch a break.

Yrz clears his throat — or what passes for it. It sounds like a Peice of paper being torn apart. He morphs his stupid smiley face sheet into an origami rose. Harder to read. “I come in peace?”

Lucifer glances at the crater where his garden used to be. He raised an eyebrow.

Ah.

“I fell from heaven really, really fast in peace?” Yrz tries.

“Of course you did, And what do you do to be booted out of the pearly gates? Murder? Arson? Something — worse?” Lucifer sounded tired. He was still clutching Charlie to his chest which undermined the nonchalance in his voice.

Um. Yrz shrugs with his broken shoulders as much as he can. “Nothing really? I left.”

Yrz also trashed the place as he went, but that was more of a side effect than a cause. Besides, was a crime really committed if no one saw you do it?

“You — left.��

“Yeah.”

“You left paradise. The paradise created specifically for humans who lived virtuous lives. The paradise made specifically by God, the all knowing creator?”

“It was nice,” what Yrz had seen of it before he was locked in a golden cage for one hundred years. “But it was also kinda — boring.”

Lucifer stares. “Boring. My fathers crowning glory.”

“I’m sure God worked really hard on it?” Yrz half asked, getting a little annoyed with all the staring. “Look I don’t really know what you want me to say here. it’s not like I asked for eternal paradise okay. I literally just did my job to the best of my ability while I was alive! I don’t even worship any kind of god! I was ready for nothingness, without consciousness! Not hymns and sugar forever! No problems to solve at all!”

Yrz tried to keep himself entertained! But even all of the records of heaven couldn’t last forever for a being of pure information that Yrz had become, a thing that could just — absorb shit instantly,! make it a part of himself! He went through the whole archive in fifty years — and he never forgot anything anymore. Any longer in that cage and he would have chewed off his own wings. He would’ve broken his halo and used the pieces to see if suicide was still an option. He could feel himself slipping into that cold place where humanity meant less than nothing. The only thing that remained was the problem: a way out. By any means necessary.

Yrz was not a being made for stagnation.

Something was bound to break. So Yrz made sure it wasn’t him.

Sure heaven was a little bit… charred, but what prisoner felt bad for their jailers?

Not this one.

“What the fuck,” Lucifer said. His demon form vanished.

“Fuck!” Charlie said, cheerfully.

“Darling,” lilith said chidingly.

“Oh fuck — no I mean, darn! Sorry, dearest. Come on char-char, don’t say that, daddy didn’t mean to say a bad word!”

“Fuck!”

“Oh, this going to be like the s-word incident all over again huh? Why are children like this?”

Lilith and Yrz watched as the king of hell began to wander off, completely absorbed in his giggling daughter.

Finally Lilith broke the silence. “ you’re injured. Come and we shall see to your care.”

“And in return?” Yrz asked, wary.

He wouldn’t exchange one cage for another.

She smiled, a soft, sad little thing. “ while you recover, nothing. You shall be as an honored guest. Afterwards we shall negotiate.”

“…why?”

Lilith glanced after her husband and child. “I am no stranger to the marks left by those who are so convinced of their righteousness that they are blind to the grace of mercy. No one here is a friend to those golden cowards in their golden home.”

Yes. She would be. To be created and given to some man without choice — disgusting. Yrz would’ve rejected that commandment as well. He would belong to himself and those he chose.

“I can’t really move,” Yrz admitted sheepishly. “My — everything is broken.”

Lilith nearly smiled. “I am aware. The injures of a fall that long are also familiar. May I?” She knelt by him, careful of his wings. The scribbles from Charlie were very pink against their paleness.

Yrz blinked. Some sort of healing magic? “Sure — woah!”

Lilith picked Yrz up as if he weight nothing. He stifled a noise of agony and felt his form glitch again. He stilled with a grimness. No frying the queen of hell who’s trying to help you, asshole.

“Sorry,” he said because that had to sting.

“It is no matter,” Lilith said. “You are much more injured than I thought if your form is that unstable. “

“Well,” Yrz said. “There was a baby right there. I couldn’t just — my form is pretty difficult to withstand.”

Lilith paused and looked down to meet yrzs eyes would be, if he had any. “Thank you. She is dear beyond words to both of us. “

“I don’t need thanks for not hurting a kid,” Yrz said dryly. “Not lashing out when in pain is a basic adult skill.”

“And yet it is a rare talent.”

Yrz wished he had eyes so he could roll them. “It shouldn’t be.”

“Mama!” Charlie’s vice called out. “Come sing, sing! Fuck!”

Lilith laughed under her breath. She carried Yrz towards her home and family.

Hell, Yrz concluded, was beyond weird.

He felt better already.

#vrrm vrrm #Hazbin au #better towns au #bfiasc aus #yrzs luck strikes again! #behold my unedited draft written on my phone #if you see typos and mistakes no you don’t <3 #hazbin hotel #original characters #oc #put it under the cut because it was looong

[vroomian]

Yrz getting truly angry and sort of — dissolving around the edges as his true self leaks out

#I think Yrz is honestly kind of hard to look at without getting a headache #there’s just so much information to him and his thoughts go so fast #regular sinners and simple hellborn like imps get knocked out. brains just go haha no and shut off #alastor and hilariously vox can best stand up to him #vox because he’s literally the internet and used to lots of information #al for the same reason but radio #vrrm vrrm #Hazbin au #bfiasc aus

[vroomian]

do you have any idea how yrz would get involved with hazbin hotel? redemption strikes me as something he would be completely uninterested in (even without the whole fallen angel thing). but since he's yrz, and therefore forced to be caught up in ridiculous canon events, i'm sure he gets involved somehow.

i was thinking about this, but without explaining the whole timeline in my head it's by this point yrz and lucifer have known each other for close to 200 years or so. yrz actually held charlie while she was a baby! idk if charlie would remember yrz as anything but 'dad's friend who always sent me cool presents on my birthday (even when my actual parents forget)' though. not even meeting face to face or anything.

so yrz would check out the hotel as something like an uncle. like, this isn't my kid but people i like love this kid so i should probably make sure everything was good just in case.

and yah yrz is totally uninterested in 'redemption'. he's been to heaven and it's just more of the same. heaven only has more rules. people are people no matter where you go :/

he thinks it's pretty hopeless! even if it were possible that doesn't mean heaven would allow it. if souls could rise, then they could also fall. can you imagine heaven letting that little secret out?

#you've got questions we've got answers #yrz and vaggie are both special cases tbh. #lucifer was never a human and he was cast out #vaggie was cast out #yrz left on /purpose/ #the reason he had to fake his death was because he knew they wouldn't stop hunting him #bfiasc aus #hazbin au

[vroomian]

What type of reputation YRZ has as the Library Demon and Foxy? Like, how do the Overlords (Alastor included) view him and is there a story behind his reputation like Alastor?

yrz's reputation as the library demon is reclusive, reliable, and ruthless. unlike the other overlords, the library demon built his powerbase slowly, and it made him one of the most stable. overlords power comes from owning the souls of other sinners (according to the wiki (apparently hellborn don't have souls to make deals???)) and yrz has a ton of employees out there. he has contracts with each of them! willing, fair contracts! which means he has a lot sinners waiting to make deals with him should his employees ever quit, decide to not renew their contracts, or be fired.

while yrz is as old as zestial, he only recently became known as an overlord because some ashole mob boss decided to intrude into the stacks for his ex-girlfriend, and yrz deleted him from existence. his employee asshole. people can't be expected to produce good work if they're constantly worried about their safety! (possibly this woman is one of yrz's best authors??? she writes really good thrillers that sell well!)

the other overlords are very wary about yrz's power, but most of them learn to leave well enough alone after a few tests to see if yrz was strong enough to be an overlord. He's a steady pillar of Pentagram City, and killing him would jam up a lot of trade with the other rings, and inconvenience a lot of people. the other overlords have met the library demon face to face mask maybe three times in seven years. mostly they deal with yrz, as his own 'right hand man' lol.

#you've got questions we've got answers #bfiasc aus #hazbin au

[vroomian]

Omg i know how Luci falls for Yrz compleatly!!! This is after they’ve know each other a while though.

Yrz? Big fan of free will. Literally opted out of heaven because he haaaated the whole ‘thought crime’ aspect of a perfect utopia. Like fuck you I can think whatever I want and do whatever I want!! I don’t care if you’re literally god!!!

Lucifer literally gave humans the ability to choose. Yrz after getting drunk enough would thank Lucifer sincerely for the gift. Even if the gift lead to hell — it was better to die free.

I think Lucifer has never once been thanked by anyone for this. He literally got thrown out of paradise for his part in granting humans agency. Then he had to deal with only the worst of the worst that humanity had to offer. Who the hell would even think to say thank you besides Yrz?

#vrrm vrrm #Bfiasc aus #I’m a fucking genius!! #I love a compelling character moment #Like Yrz is grateful for his will. He rejected paradise to keep it!

[vroomian]

yrz unintentionally rocking people’s worlds and considering it a day’s work is hilarious. he’s got to have a reputation as the one who got away from multiple sinners

Yrz after another confession of love: of course you like me?? I’m very good at my job???

(Also: Yrz not believing that people can sincerely love him when he’s not acting, only accepting affection when he’s being paid to, no one would like my true self so I better surpess it so I can exist as A Person Who Lives In A Society

A major part of the reason Yrz left heaven was it turned all those feelings of being an imposter up to eleven tbh. He’s much happier in hell, where everyone sucks.)

#you've got questions we've got answers #Yrz knows his own flaws a little to well tbh #bfiasc #Hazbin au #bfiasc aus

[vroomian]

Is ruizhi older than alastor in the hazbin AU? Was he already an overlord when Al arrived in hell and started hunting his kind? Because the idea of Alastor trying to break into YRZs library to torture him and broadcast his scream is honestly too funny. All I can see is ruizhi going: “I don’t have time for you. Get lost” and then kicking deer boy to the curb.

Yrz is older! His timeline is weird. He spent like fifty years in heaven hated it and sent himself to hell about 200 or so years before canon i want to say?

he did become an overlord before alastor as well. It’s just his part of town (nick named The Stacks because library demon lol) is pretty impenetrable for people who don’t already live there. The stacks are occupied by yrzs employees (contractors cough) all of whom are ferociously loyal. The library demon is considered the number one demon to work for in hell. Good benefits: protection, food, good pay, peaceful accommodations, and a time limit on the contract (it can be renewed though).

so alastor would have a hell of a time getting in, not to mention even finding where the library demon lives considering only the Manager (aka Yrz, aka the library demons right hand man) knows that. Also Yrz and alastor have met before and it was pretty pleasant, so while yrz would kick his ass out they’d still be on pleasant terms later.

( this is so when alastor comes back to the city after his seven year disappearance (before the hotel) he has someone with safe, reliable housing. Yrz is like ….. -.- Kay but don’t eat any of my employees or you’re out on your ass.)

#Bfiasc aus #you've got questions we've got answers #Hazbin au

[vroomian]

As a fallen angel do you think yrz can go to the other rings or is he stuck in pride?

.......i didn't consider this but, yeah yrz can probably leave pride??? because it's sinners that are confined and yrz is technically not a sinner. he's more like a guest in Lucifer's house, not a prisoner subject to his will.

we already know that once a person is an angel they're an angel no matter what they do. yrz can do whatever he wants -- he's already been judged righteous. "if angels can do whatever and still remain in the sky" you know??

#huh #intresting #i love the implications here and also i am pondering them #vrrm vrrm #you've got questions we've got answers #hazbin au #bfiasc aus

[vroomian]

aw, did lucifer go to check on yrz and help him with adjusting? it has to be right after falling if yrz hasn't figured his form on his own, right?

Oh it was purely business in the first part. Yrz hit hell, realizes he stood out waaaay to much, and decided to hit up Lucifer. Hell is technically his house so it’s just good manners.

Luci was like what the fuck an actual fallen angel of considerable power???? But Yrz is like heeey I ditched heaven can you help me with the *gestures* biblically accurate thing? And Lucifer is like. In return for a favor I guess? And Yrz is like iuuugggghh fiiiine. He really didn’t want to go back to heaven because he knew the mess he left behind, and he’d be for sure in charge of cleaning that up. No thank you!

So Luci does some magic to force Yrz into a regular body and Yrz is like thanks bro and takes off. Once a year Yrz has to go and get the spell renewed until he can hold the shape on his own. It’s surprisingly difficult! By the time Yrz can do it it’s been like twenty years and he and Lucifer are much more friendly. They continue meeting once a year after that just because lol.

#vrrm vrrm #you've got questions we've got answers #Luci is still married so no affair lol #Hazbin au #bfiasc aus

[vroomian]

What would the relationship between yrz and Alastor be like? Also, the fact that yrz slept with Valentino… *siiiigh* yrz, I thought you had standards…

he does have standards! But only two of them :)

Yrz standards for sex partners: hot and consenting.

Yrz standards for life partners: ten year acquaintanceship (minimum), yrzs tentative trust (hard mode), and filling out a billion tedious forms (in triplicate).

Yrz is pansexual and demiromantic! He doesn’t equate love and sex. He doesn’t factor in his partner’s personality for sex, and personality is all he cares about for love.

For Val it’d be before he got really powerful and more possessive. He’d be working as a dancer himself still, before he met the other Vs. They simply ran in the same circles and fell into a situationship with benifits :) I do think Val is a little in love with Yrz in a ‘the one who got away’ sense, but like hell Yrz would give Val the time of day romantically. Vox hates yrzs guts.

I think alastor and Yrz would get along really well actually. They first met while Yrz was still working, he hit on alastor, noticed alastor was uncomfortable, and never did it again. Because they’re in hell and decency is hard to come by, Alastor definitely noticed. He strikes me as a man who appreciates manners and weird, hilarious people, and Yrz fits both of those descriptions. I wouldn’t be surprised if they become friends. Yrz wouldn’t care about the caniball thing btw. If he was still alive sure it’d be a deal breaker but Yrz adapts to where he is, which is you know, hell. When in rome etc (Perhaps a queer platonic relationship??? Those are fun (it’ll make vox hate Yrz even more))

anyway alastor knows that Yrz is foxy and works for the library demon, but not that Yrz is a fallen angel or that he is the library demon.

#Yrz: it’s just sex who cares lol #Yrz: oh no I felt An Emotion mayday mayday mayday abort abort #You’ve got questions we’ve got answers #Bfiasc aus

[vroomian]

What do you suppose has Alastor deciding yrx is friend-shaped? I remember you posting about how yrx sees how uncomfortable Alastor gets to being hit on and recognizes yrx being respectful of his boundaries, so I’m curious what would be a turning point in their relationship?

ok so this is the accumulation of many many random meetings. after yrz quits sex work but before he finds his perfect location for his bookshop, he bounces around hell working random jobs just to have something to do. he waited tables, ran drugs, delivered food, and worked at a coffee shop just to learn the secret of their peppermint mocha blend. (this has the effect of making yrz's network of 'i know a guy' people hilariously wide. if yrz doesn't know a guy, he knows a guy who knows a guy. yrz has more friends in this au than any other.)

while he's running around he develops a habit of listening to Alastor's radio show. it' a good way to get gossip, events, and genuinely entertaining. alastor, surprise surprise, is good at his job :)

the second time he and Alastor meet it's while yrz is out running errands for an elderly imp who needs a personal shopper, yrz sees alastor on the street and instead of avoiding him like a sane person decides to say hi. alastor does remember yrz as a strange spot of decency on an otherwise uncomfortable night. they talk about alastors latest show and yrz drops some hot gossip about a deal gone wrong between so and so and alastor's deer ears perk up like owo whats' this?? a source of the good tea???

and that's how it starts. yrz seems to know a little about everything, actus as an informal informant, plus he's good at listening and we all know how much alastor loves a captive audience. i think the turning point from acquaintances to actual friends is that Alastor actually offers yrz some of his personal cooking (it's people obviously) and yrz actually has some (yrz: when in rome lol). It's not to yrz's taste but he's game to try anything at least once. how else would he learn new shit?

(look. They are literally in hell. Yrz is all about relative morality tbh.)

But after that alastor genuinely finds yrz to be good company and feels comfortable enough to ask a favor to stay with him after he gets back into town after his disappearance.

(i think that maybe the reason that alastor’s radio towers are still standing after he’s been gone so long is because yrz has been keeping an eye on them.)

#you've got questions we've got answers #bfiasc aus #hazbin au #the oh /oh/ moment comes later when canon comes around #alastor def falls first #because yrz will not consider romance with someone who's previously told him they have no intrest in such things #because why would he lol

[vroomian]

“It’d be pretty easy to take out Yue Qingyuan,” I mused. “Like, super easy.”

Shang Qinghua flailed. “Bro, what? He’s the Xuan Su sword! He’s OP as hell! There’s no way you could take him in a fight! Even the protagonist needed an ambush and poison.”

“Obviously. Who said anything about a fight? I don’t need to win, he just needs to lose. That fancy sword is tied to his life, right? All I would need to do is wait for him to draw it,” I downed the shot of alcohol and enjoyed the burn. I placed the empty cup down. “And then I’d take the sheath.”

Shang Qinghua was staring at me, pale. “Bro…”

“It’d be easy. Simple,” I said, speaking to myself more than him. “To contain something powerful as Xuan Su the sheath has to be special. Probably one of a kind even, because god forbid anyone in this fucking sect thinks of backup plans.”

Shen Qingqiu would’ve, but dear sect leader wouldn’t tell him about his stupidity. Of course not.

“So. Take the sheath. Let Yue Qingyuan burn himself out. It might take a while but, hey. We’re immortal. I’ve got time.“

A painful silence settled over the room. I poured myself another shot, and held the bottle up in silent question.

Shang Qinghua stared at me, then slid his cup over to be filled. “Has anyone ever told you, you’re kinda — intense?”

“How rude,” I said pleasantly. “I’m a nice young man. Ask anyone.”

#vrrm vrrm #bitter water au #bfiasc aus #look yqy can die and Yrz is happy to volunteer #he’s a dutiful person. ask anyone.