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Lu Guang should have realized that he wouldn’t be greeted by normalcy when he returned home, but he didn’t. He's not nearly as affected by the stab wound as he is by Xiaoshi's reaction to it all.
There's something acutely painful about watching someone self-destruct in front of you, and Lu Guang, frankly, doesn't know what he's supposed to do about it.
It would help if the world could let him chill for long enough to figure it out.–-
Two emotionally stunted young men navigate trauma, subtext, and the misery of trying to feed yourself like a competent adult, all while solving other people’s problems. In for a penny in for a pound, as they say. -
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Cheng Xiaoshi, photography, and the act of preserving the past in the face of a daunting future.
[Major spoilers for season 1's finale.]
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“No,” Lu Guang murmurs. He stares at his hands, and all he sees when he closes his eyes is his palms covered in blood. Cheng Xiaoshi’s slick fingers weakly gripping his own. In this timeline, there is no blood. Nothing has happened that should, and everything has happened that shouldn’t. “It isn’t that,” he finishes.
Silence. An inhale. “Isn’t it?” Cheng Xiaoshi asks. A moment passes. “I told you I loved you, and I’ve never seen you look so sad.”
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Ever since he was very young, Lu Guang has learned to make do with little, and to somehow make up for what he and others lacked, never caring about what he really wants.
Cheng Xiaoshi teaches him different ways of giving.
Or... 5 times Cheng Xiaoshi gifts something to Lu Guang, and 1 time Lu Guang gifts something to Cheng Xiaoshi (with the intention of doing so).
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Lu Guang can be so gentle when he wants to be. Sometimes Cheng Xiaoshi forgets. He wishes Lu Guang would let him be gentle too.