what does that even mean! if you're going to set rules at least say them clearly :/ why do i have a feeling that nothing i do is going to be good enough for you..... ah wait.... a revelation is coming to me... could it be that you get off on being withholding, cucumber-bro
[ ok but that's about as much of this back and forth he can handle without getting desperate now that it is apparent that bullying shen qingqiu is not working. time for his tried and true strategy ]
ok seriously what do you want from me, i'll do it, just please let me at least have the first volume! its not like i'm gonna give it to anyone, obviously, it's just that it's the only thing here from home besides my clothes and i'm homesick and it would really be a huge comfort just to have one volume! come on bro its really not that big of an ask please pleaseee
yes it matters! you were the one who wouldn't shut up about how bad it would be if someone else read it! and now someone's using it as leverage?? this puts my ass on the line too you know! i'm all tangled up in your scheme, i'm potential collateral damage, i deserve to know who's blackmailing you and why!
Ugh... It was just some guy who found out I'm from a book and he said he'd keep it to himself but he wanted to see the book. So I gave him the first volume. He was just curious, it's not a big deal, he's from a book too so I figured it was only fair.
[ if shang qinghua had like, 10% more self-awareness, it might occur to him that what he is feeling right now is probably how he makes shen qingqiu feel a lot of the time. like he just wants to reach through the tablet and throttle him a little bit into being less stupid. because that sounds pretty stupid even to shang qinghua. never mind that he probably would not have handled the situation a whole lot differently --
shang qinghua responds like someone who spent too much of his past life on message boards and responds only by sarcastically quoting shen qingqiu's first message ]
>>What the fuck are you doing, you moron?? Did you get dropped on your head? Do you WANT people to know you're a transmigrator? Some of us are trying to keep a low profile here, you know? Some of us don't want every other asshole stuck in this library to have the luxury of reading your whole stupid novel and drawing a bunch of stupid conclusions about who we're supposed to be, did you consider that?
Fuck you, this is completely different! He already knew about it and it was only the first volume! And anyway he thinks I'm the same as him, that the book is where I came from originally. Obviously it's not ideal but it's fine!
how is that fine?? why would you want him to think you were the original goods?? cucumber-bro help me out i'm really stuck on your circular logic here! what the fuck book is he from that that seemed like a good idea??
[ Shen Qingqiu tries to recall the precise details of his conversation with Yan Qing that led to him handing over the book, but most of what they actually said is kind of eclipsed in his memory by all of the... suggestive looming...? These wuxia guys have really impressive arm muscles, it turns out! ]
It's complicated OK! I figured I could explain some of it to him when he'd read it! I just messed up while I was talking to him and I needed to make him promise he wouldn't let Shen Jiu find out he's from a novel!
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Date: 2021-01-04 04:51 am (UTC)Could it be that you get off on being a huge useless pain in my ass
Anyway you're right! I'll decide what that means if and when I feel like letting you take a look, and the onus is on you to convince me! Good luck!
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Date: 2021-01-04 04:58 am (UTC)ok seriously what do you want from me, i'll do it, just please let me at least have the first volume! its not like i'm gonna give it to anyone, obviously, it's just that it's the only thing here from home besides my clothes and i'm homesick and it would really be a huge comfort just to have one volume! come on bro its really not that big of an ask please pleaseee
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Date: 2021-01-04 05:06 am (UTC)What, do you want to sleep with it?
Anyway I don't have the first volume so I couldn't give that one to you even if I wanted to.
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Date: 2021-01-04 05:42 am (UTC)And yeah I don't have it. I gave it to someone else.
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Date: 2021-01-05 04:38 am (UTC)It was a bribe. I'll get it back. You can look at it then.
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Date: 2021-01-07 04:01 am (UTC)It doesn't matter.
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Date: 2021-01-11 12:03 am (UTC)shang qinghua responds like someone who spent too much of his past life on message boards and responds only by sarcastically quoting shen qingqiu's first message ]
>>What the fuck are you doing, you moron?? Did you get dropped on your head? Do you WANT people to know you're a transmigrator? Some of us are trying to keep a low profile here, you know? Some of us don't want every other asshole stuck in this library to have the luxury of reading your whole stupid novel and drawing a bunch of stupid conclusions about who we're supposed to be, did you consider that?
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Date: 2021-02-01 03:26 am (UTC)It's complicated OK! I figured I could explain some of it to him when he'd read it! I just messed up while I was talking to him and I needed to make him promise he wouldn't let Shen Jiu find out he's from a novel!