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    Satomi doesn’t know how long he stands there, gawking, before the woman’s eyes catch his and she says, “Hey, Kyouji, that kid is staring at you. You know him? Looks awfully straight-laced for you.”

    Kyouji looks his way, raises his eyebrows, a familiar expression. “Oh, him? He’s just a stray cat I feed sometimes.”

    These things are true: Mammals require air. Polar bears have black skin. Platypuses lay eggs; so do echidnas. Some snakes can asexually reproduce. Oka Satomi wants Narita Kyouji like a cat wants a nice patch of sunlight.

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    16 Oct 2025

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    “Yes!” Shang Qinghua said immediately, then backpedaled at Shen Qingqiu’s withering glare. “Okay, no, not exactly—but, Bro, the optics! People already think you’re secretly betrothed. The rumor mill’s gone into overdrive.”

    Shen Qingqiu pinched the bridge of his nose. “This sect truly needs better hobbies. Regardless, I repeat: I am not flirting. I am negotiating. Politely.”

    “Politely negotiating with your eyes all soft and your hand on his arm,” Shang Qinghua muttered into his sleeve.
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    In which a wondering cultivator makes his way to Qing Jing Peak and no one at Cang Qiong is happy about it.

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    "What's wrong, Satomi-kun?" Kyouji asks, his breath warm again Satomi's ear, and Satomi makes his decision.

    "Uh…nothing," he says. He shakes his head as if to shake away the insecurities. He's an adult. Kyouji comes up from Osaka three times a month at least to take him out for dinner and walk him home and kiss him sweetly inside his tiny apartment before taking him apart thrust by thrust on his shitty little futon.

    What does it matter that tucked away on the rickety desk Satomi studies at is a little five by seven picture frame?

    Or, Satomi keeps a picture of Kyouji on his desk.

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    15 Oct 2025

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    “This shidi thinks he ought to stay by his shixiong’s side and be a filial shidi,” Shen Yuan said, carefully. “Shen-shixiong is sick and alone. It worries me.”

    Shen Qingqiu seemed to sober up a little and openly scoffed at this, saying, “Is it because you now know I have a weaker cultivation than even the usual weak? I don’t need your pity.”

    “This shidi does not pity shixiong,” Shen Yuan replied quietly. “He only wishes to... I just want to help you with this.”

    “Hah. Shen-shidi, you really are so kind,” Shen Qingqiu muttered. The mocking tone was still there, but it came out sounding more wistful than cutting, tinged by exhaustion.

    Or: Shen Yuan's perception and bias against the notorious Scum Villain of Proud Immortal Demon Way is challenged. Will it change his feelings about him? If it even requires changing, at all?

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    Lately Satomi's been pushing the envelope, as if inviting him to cross some unacknowledged line between them. It’s a good thing Kyouji has plenty of practice from resisting a thousand unintentional, innocent temptations.

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    10 Oct 2025