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周子舒|周絮 (Zhou Zishu | Zhou Xu) ([personal profile] lonelydream) wrote2023-10-29 10:27 pm

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Zhou Xu

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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-18 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Xichen sits back, hands in his lap. ]

I understand, your meridians are nearly gone so how could you cultivate a golden core? But you never lost one. Never had one to begin with. So, in theory, you have been pumping your qi around your body yourself without a proverbial golden heart to do it for you, straining yourself. I wonder if that is why your meridians broke so badly.

In any case, since you never lost a core it stands to reason it is still within you, waiting to be awakened ... meridians or not.
Edited 2023-11-18 09:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-18 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see why not. Men cultivate them when they are grown, you have broken meridians but not a missing core. If you could gain even a small one, it would heal you. That's the only plausible theory I'm left with.

[ He tips his head, thinking. ]

Lady Wen Qing is a professional healer, her insight would prove invaluable. You should speak with her.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-18 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly. Please allow me to introduce Wangji as well, although ... we may not be able to bring Wen Kexing.

[ Awk. ]

I apologise, they had a misunderstanding and Wangji does not forgive easily.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ With a grateful nod, Xichen's smile softens. ]

I expected you to be somewhat different than you are, but I'm glad that isn't so.

[ Wen Kexing painted quite the picture. ]
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
In his retellings, you always seemed ... very forceful. Like a towering shadow of a man whose beauty made the birds ashamed to sing. A more obnoxious version of a softer, pleasanter reality. [ Chuckling, he gives a small shrug. ] I was worried you might hold less tolerant values.

This is all because he was very excited to speak of you, when he finally did.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That was something like the face I'm sure I had while he waxed lyrical about you.

[ Mmm, tea. ]
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no need. I'm curious as to how he described me to you, in return.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He blinks a little, mildly confused. Still, he admits, ]

He is possibly, between this world and my own, one of the only true friends I have ever had. Besides my brother.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His smile warms, dark eyes crinkling as he shakes his head. ]

No. You make him very happy and I can see why. I hope we can work together to help your condition, then I might one day be able to host the two of you at Cloud Recesses. That is what I want.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, please.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
There is no need for such a conversation, one way or another.

[ The patient look he weighs on Zhou Zishu speaks volumes (he would try to be there for Wen Kexing to help him through his grief, offer a home, a poor consolation of a friend in place of a zhiji but one there all the same). Xichen would. ]

You are here now, so bend all your efforts towards remaining with us. That is my last request today of you.
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[personal profile] lanclan 2023-11-19 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Xichen hums. ]

I think I am more like you, which explains why he was first kind to me.

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