The ask abt satoru helping pregnant! Reader to get up bc she's too plump to get up on our own after sitting down is PRICELESS!
But I was like gurl, I want to guilt trip him so bad.
Imagine he's teasing her again but she's actually pretty frustrated and like upset for some reason and she just tears up on the floor!
Imagine this poor man's reaction 😭😭
this time, it’s after you have your bath. you’re stuck in the bathtub and can’t get up—it’s always this way lately but satoru is always standing by at your beck and call to help you.
unless this time, when you call him, he’s just giggling away like the shithead he is.
“satoru!!! i can’t get up! just help me already!”
“ahahahah you’re so cute being stuck though!”
and hot, he added internally. the way the water cascades around your taut belly somehow turns him on. he’ll fight anyone who says that they no longer find their wives attractive while pregnant, because in his eyes, you look heavenly.
meanwhile, now you’re getting real upset. you’re self-conscious that he has to see you all naked after bath almost every day, and you take his laughing the wrong way.
and doubled with your hormones, you finally tear up. “hic…”
oh and satoru’s laughter immediately dies down, turns into a panicked frown as he approaches you and gets a hold over your body. “hey, hey… sorry—let’s get you out of here, yeah?”
you’re still sniffling even after he picks you up and dries you off, but then you’re getting louder after he puts you in your pajamas.
“hey… don’t cry, i’m sorry—”
“huwaaa!!”
or it could also be you’re just prolonging your cries so you can guilt trip him 💁🏻♀️ anyway, he doesn’t know, all he knows is seeing you crying makes him uneasy.
“stop crying…” he pulls you in his arms, patting you in the back with a sad face. “sorry. i’m sorry, okay? i don’t mean to make fun of you. it’s not good for you and the baby if you’re upset… so please?”
you roll your watery eyes at him, suddenly running out of tears and pulling away. “you’re a shit.”
“—! yeah. okay…”
“you’re the shittiest.”
“mm-hmm, whatever you say, sweets.”
and that night, following ‘whatever you say’ rule, he’s sleeping on the couch.
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tgcf book spoilers, but one mu qing and xie lian snippet that I think about a lot is this one, at the start of xie lian’s second banishment when he’s surprised to hear mu qing being described as generous and kind:
as opposed to this memory from before his first ascension when mu qing started giving out cherries to the kids in the city:
I think it just really goes to show 1) how deeply mq’s actions truly affected xl and what he thought of him, but also 2) just how different mq and xl are fundamentally in the way that they think and approach things.
I don’t have a lot of commentary on xl that hasn’t already been said, but bc we get the story from xl’s pov, we see a lot of mq’s actions being framed as selfish or suspicious (which is fair, bc again, we know how much his actions hurt xl), but we also see a lot of misconstrued kindness, like in book 8 where it’s revealed that he knocked out fx in order to save him. it’s also pretty obvious how much mq still cares abt xl, with how quickly he volunteers as fu yao and the lengths he goes to protect him when he deems hc a threat, so I also think it’s very likely that mq leaving the trio first was exactly what he said it was — that he thought becoming a junior official, ascending quickly, would be the best way to take care of not just his mother, but also xl, fx, the king and queen, and himself, and so in a way, him leaving was him acting on his kindness. but ofc it doesn’t work out, and he spends the next 800 years fighting w/ fx about it, defending himself, his decisions, and his kindness, and nitpicking the accuracies of his statues while he himself remains completely misunderstood by the two people he probably cares abt the most.
and idk, I guess I just think that’s probably a really lonely way to spend 800 years.
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