#athough it does not burn as bright as the flames of our desire I don't think

[orsuliya]

Ok Im rewatching, on ep 13, on the bonfire , Xiao Qi started to flirt Awu, he said :

"Your eyes as bright as the moon

Your smile is as sweet as honey"

I couldn't believe he just pulled that classic, old and basic lines lol maybe turnip has more sophisticated lines than that

Does it mean that he is not a flirty man ?

I just love them so much, I cant stop giggling watching ep 13

Let us be frank, Turnip would turn a triple somersault straight into a pond before using such an awfully tired set of lines. In fact, he would have been horrified - horrified, I tell you! - had he but known that his own sister, usually a creature of true refinement and elegance, actually accepted a pair of compliments this cliche and shabby.

Okay, so how come it actually works for Xiao Qi, at least as far as Awu and us - or at least me - are concerned? Well, Xiao Qi has one unquestionable advantage over his brother-in-law. True, he may be a provincial ingénu when compared to the wordly, aphrodisiac-sniffing Turnip and yet he has mastered a skill practically unheard of among the Bright Young Things of Turnip’s set. This rare skill? Being actually sincere with an air of artlessness that forbids all suspicion that he might be exaggerating in any way.

As for the compliment itself, one of my lovely Nonnies proposed a rather delighful theory. See, those two lines do not really sound like something that Xiao Qi would have come up with by himself, much less on the spot. I mean, yes, he certainly could have... but something about that compliment doesn’t ring quite right, not when coming from a weathered general, provincial ingénu or not. But do you know from whom these words could have convincingly come from? Why, from any of the local young ladies queueing right behind Ah Li Ma. Tell me that there was no giggling of this sort going around that bonfire, I dare you! Only the original subject was not necessarily Awu...

So, a gaggle of local girls giggles and gabbles about the moon-bright eyes and honey-sweet smile of a rather interesting stranger... who hears them and, like a seasoned commander that he is, deftly turns around their words for his own benefit. Why am I so insistent it was a gaggle of girls complimenting Xiao Qi rather that a bunch of local men sighing over Awu? If men were the culprit, then they would have probably used much coarser words... or, should Awu’s admirers be of the callow youth variety, there would be less coherent talking and more calf-eyed mooning. Which I, for one, would never judge them for!

(Oh, and to make matters clear, just in case: ingénu does not mean virgin. We’ve talked about it already, but one more reminder certainly won’t hurt: this man is no virgin, no way, no how!)