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A-Lang are you keeping warm?? Are your chroma levels ok??

I am adequate. This world though strange is not too dissimilar to what I know. Commerce rules, and as long as you have something someone else wants, things can be aranged.

Do you have someone nice to cuddle? Are you getting kisses?

Funds have not been an issue.

[Because that is the only reason to kiss, right?]

My efforts to find a particular person have proven inefficient, though I know he is here somewhere.

What person? How do you know he's here?

Is it a kissing person?

I would never presume so much of Master Shen.

A mutual...

[He would not consider Shang Qinghua an acquaintance, and being Master Shen's sect brother was more than that. How should he put it?]

A member of his sect is here and I had the fortune of running into him.

[His son thinks very differently than himself. Yanyou is briefly bewildered by this information.

He's not really interested in the connections and politics, however, so he moves right along.]

I'm glad there are people here from your world! There's one from my world, too. Very handsome, very grumpy.

Let's go get tea and food. There's this fantastic teahouse on level three called Tsukiyo. Meet me there.

I am also glad that there are people you are familiar with here.

[There was something about Yanyou that reminded him of his lord, though his lord never paid this much attention to him. He could picture Tianlang Jun talking of tea houses and food just as freely however.]

I shall be there shortly.

[Yanyou arrives first, claiming a table and already starting to flirt with the waitress. He smiles and waves brightly when A-Lang turns up, pouring tea for him.] Come and sit. The tea is excellent, and the food, too. And flirting with the servers is encouraged.

[Zhuzhi Lang takes a seat casually looking around to take the place in. He can't help but chuckle at the way flirting with the servers was added at the end.]

Is that so? Couldn't that lead to misunderstandings down the line?

What's to misunderstand about flirting? It means you find someone attractive and maybe that you'd like to have sex with them. [He wiggles his eyebrows wickedly.]

Do you have any preference for men or women?

I would have thought it might be an issue for the employees.

[He was a little surprised at the direct statements and questioning. His lord, even when being so direct, had still not quite been this direct. Zhuzhi Lang himself was also rather shy about such things and had not thought of them in too much detail. He was an ugly lowly thing after all. He was content to slither behind for as long as he was useful and nothing more.]

This humble one has not thought of such things in any particular.

Ah, yes. In most establishments it is impolite to flirt with the wait staff. You never know when the waitress might turn out to be the owner's daughter and then you can get into all manner of trouble.

This place is a sort of brothel. If the waitress likes you, then you may ask her to take you to one of the private rooms in the back where you can enjoy sex together!

Ah, that makes more sense then.

[That he could understand. Not that he was interested in partaking of their services.]

I may have to decline on flirting, but, I will accept the regular services graciously.

You don't want to flirt? [Yanyou is perplexed. Flirting, kissing, and sex are all constant desires for him.]

Do you have your heart set on someone special for flirting? [That's the only real explanation, though Yanyou is personally opposed to exclusivity on principle.]

[He can't help but stop, a moment of uncertainty, and then mild embarrassment. But, he smiled and shook his head slowly.]

This humble one is... not worthy of imposing on such people.

[His lord had implied his intentions had been of such a direction, but, he felt that wasn't quite right. Though, to be honest, he wasn't quite sure.]

I would not say I want to flirt with him, I simply want to keep him safe and repay him for his kindness.

People like flirting. It's not an imposition. You can bring pleasure to people. Surely no one is too humble to bring pleasure to people.

[Yanyou helps himself to tea and snacks. He wants to encourage his son, but he's also somewhat bewildered by his ideas.]

[He lifts his cup gently to his lips and takes a sip while he thinks about that. Flirty brought people pleasure? in his experience it brought hardships. Had not his lord suffered because of flirting with a girl and playing around? Not to mention he was not sure he had such intentions towards Master Shen, someone such as him was not worthy to even consider such things. He simply wanted to do whatever he could to make him happy.]

I do not think Master Shen is of such an inclination, and one of my position would be overstepping their station. I'm not sure... I have such intentions anyway.

[Even if his Lord seemed to have been pushing him towards those sorts of things.]

Very well. [Yanyou shrugs. He wants to encourage and to teach, but if A-Lang has no inclination toward such things, it cannot be forced.] As long as you are getting enough contact and Chroma to manage in this world! You should enjoy yourself and enjoy the pleasures that this place has to offer.

[Pleasure, he had never thought about the things he wanted.]

I... had only ever followed my lord. There is not much I want or need.

[Was that true though? He had to think about it.]

But... perhaps... it would not be so bad if I could follow Master Shen if I can find him.

If you follow people, they will use you and then discard you. [He says it so easily, as if he has ever resisted that easily. When Yanyou has bounds of duty and filial piety upon him, he follows them tirelessly and at great risk to himself.]

Why look for someone to follow? Live for yourself. Enjoy life and bring joy to others.

My lord never failed me. He never asked for anything. He gave me more than I could ever have dared ask....

[Tianlang Jun was a good man, even if he was an eccentric. At least in Zhuzhi Langs opinion.]

Master Shen is also one who is upstanding.

[He had no idea what to do himself, but, to bring others joy, he could only think of one.]

I want to bring Master Shen joy. To keep him safe and make him happy.

[Yanyou shakes his head and wrinkles his nose, waving a dismissive hand at all of this.]

Better to not depend on anyone and have no one depend on you.

[Though he tries to keep a neutral pleasant expression there is a look of horror under it. What would he do... on his own?]

This lowly one has never done much before becoming Tianlang Jun's general. There wasn't a name or even the form before you. There was joy in serving him....

[consider this a declaration of intent: wei wuxian, self-aware and appropriately versed in the comedies of shameless enticement, is inviting one and all (for some measure of all, as he is only one man with two hands) to take part in a little... experiment.]

as the snow thaws,
as new grass springs from the earth,
as the sun rises, warmer—
i offer my hand to hold,
without question,
without judgment.

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a favor for a favor: a confidence, a deed, or a kiss. my ask: a child's toy for gusu lan's hanguang-jun, in honor of his fatherhood.

[Who was this shameless person propositioning him? The matters of humans were so strange.]

I must decline, I know not you, nor the party in question.

then this is the perfect time to get to know me and lan zhan!

what would you like to know?

[He didn't really care that much about humans, but, perhaps giving this one a chance would be worth while.]

Why have you approached this humble one with such a proposision? Humans are usually not of such loose action.

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