bonus:
cssr wakes up in the hospital to see her son sleeping in lwj's arms, he's bandaged up, but alive and breathing and the lan is holding her son like he's something precious
she never particularly liked the whole "the wei and lan families are enemies" narrative, she just -
rival families wei and lan who have never gotten along, especially this generation's lwj and wwx, they're always at each other's throats yelling and screaming, moments away from physically fighting and maybe killing each other -
emperorji nighthunting and accidentslly shooting an arrow and hurting foxxian:( after seeing the poor animal whimpering in pain he has no choice but to take it back and nurse it by himself (all according to foxxians plan) (it wasnt an accident lwj’s gut was correct)
Emperorxian, who’s also a bunny shifter.
Advisor: your majesty, it is time for you to pick your harem. The kingdom needs a heir and—
Emperor Bunxian, shifting into bunny because no: 🐰
Advisor, with an exasperated sigh: your majesty, you cannot simply escape duty by—
Bunxian:
lan men giving their partners a piece of their forehead ribbons to braid into their hair or hang their jade tokens from as a “romantic gesture” when in reality the ribbon acts like an airtag so the lan partner can track them down 24/7 (the lans and their restless atticwives…)
Lqr: GO TO YOUR ROOM.
A-Yuan: That’s not fair, Shūgōng 🥺
Lqr: Do as I say, A-Yuan.
A-Yuan: But you never send Baba to his room when he’s in trouble.
Lqr: Because your baba never leaves his room. If he were in trouble, I’d make him sit in the living room.
Wei Ying having a nightmare while his husband is on a hunt. With no one else to comfort him, he goes to Shufu and hopes he will show him some mercy. But what he gets is even better. Shufu escorts him back to the Jingshi, tucks him in and hums a lullaby that used to-
lwj getting hit with a fatal curse that can only be broken by his soulmate's blood, wwx going to break it only to be denied, some deity tells him that mxy is not lwj's soulmate, wwx screams that he isn't mxy, the diety just says his blood is mxy's, thus the curse cannot be broken