WIP Wednesday

 Day late, but here we are. ROUGH, at the moment.

"“But why have you brought us all here, Binghe?” he asked, taking a sip of tea, and then struggling not to spit it out when Binghe enthusiastically answered that thanks to his newly-discovered heritage, he believed he might have found the solution to ‘Without A Cure’. Shen Qingqiu listened with mounting horror when both Mu Qingfang and Yue Qingyuan actively encouraged him to accept Luo Binghe’s ‘help’.

Binghe looked deeply crestfallen at Shen Qingqiu’s immediate, emphatic refusal.

“Shizun,” he whined piteously. “The seal has to break sometime, and the process itself could hardly be less invasive!”

Shen Qingqiu fought to keep from sputtering at that. Says you, stallion protagonist!

“All we have to do,” Binghe coaxed him, “is a simple qi transfer, like you did for me when I was injured, remember? The text says we only have to cultivate together.” 

“Does my disciple assume his master ignorant of the contents of his own library? I have always known this method existed,” Shen Qingqiu snapped, closing his fan with a flick of his wrist and smacking the guard down on his knee. “I simply didn’t know any fully-awakened heavenly demons, and now that I might, it changes nothing!”

Binghe flushed under the reprimand. “But Shizun—”

“Because you,” Shen Qingqiu interrupted him, “are just a child, and a medicinal qi transfer is not what ‘dual cultivation’ means!”

At that point, Yue Qingyuan did spit out his tea, and was forced to mop himself with a handkerchief. Mu Qingfeng muttered ‘ah’ to himself. 

Luo Binghe blinked at him, confused. “It’s not?”

Shen Qingqiu buried his face in his hands, and only when neither of the other adults in the room stepped in to save him (thanks a lot, brothers) did he throw himself off the parapet. 

“Dual cultivation,” he said slowly, “is a form of spiritual energy transfer that is intimate in nature. Sexually intimate,” he stressed before Binghe could belabour the point by observing that, as master and personal disciple, they could surely be considered close."

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