@SistertotheQue1 as they got back inside, everyone applauded them and xie lian hid his blushing face into hua cheng’s chest while hua cheng laughed loudly, freely. free from all the pressure, as if he could fly. but xie lian swore to himself he’d get his revenge by proposing back one day
modern au in which hualian are friends but they decide hua cheng will fake propose to xie lian to get free dessert at a restaurant. except when he does it, hua cheng looks so genuine that xie lian bursts into tears because he’s so in love with him
@SistertotheQue1 outside, in the obscurity of the night, xie lian felt brave. he looked at hua cheng and all nervousness left his body. he hugged him tight. "i wish you could see yourself through my eyes." he mumbled, and it took all of hua cheng’s courage to ask: "and… what would i see, then?"
@SistertotheQue1 xie lian was overwhelmed, unable to truly process what just happened. he needed to explain his reaction, but mostly, he needed to understand hua cheng’s, and it wasn’t a conversation he wanted to have in public. he stared at hua cheng’s ring on his finger as hua cheng went to pay
@SistertotheQue1 terrified and unable to look at xie lian in the eyes, hua cheng told him he’s sorry, that they can pretend nothing happened, it was supposed to be a joke, right? nothing had to change if xie lian didn’t want to. he’d do whatever xie lian wants. accept anything
@SistertotheQue1 for an awful second, hua cheng thought he went too strong and xie lian saw he wasn’t acting. that he meant every word of love he said to propose. but he knew xie lian too well to misunderstand his reaction. this world was crazy, crazy enough to get xie lian to love him back
when he finally found him, hua cheng didnt have to learn to love a new version of xie lian. to him, xie lian was always the same because he always saw him for who he truly was
hua cheng spent 800 years working on being good enough to deserve to be by xie lian’s side without knowing xie lian accepted him as he was from the start