#but not to the straight up sweetly saccharine doting extent that Huaxiu does to Minglian

[arcxnumvitae]

While writing out that bag stuff, for a bit I wavered over whether Huaxiu would have also had pictures of him and Minglian. Mainly because he would want to, but ultimately wouldn’t/would feel a bit awkward about it. Huaxiu and Minglian’s relationship has this nebulous “like father/daughter and also like brother/sister” vibes to it where for all intents and purposes, they’re family. Incredibly close. He’s done things like show her ways to do her hair, cooks for her, dotes on her, she looks up to him, etc. But, on paper their relationship is simply “teacher and student”. 

For some reason, the both of them are trying to act out the professionalism of those titles and are embarrassed to acknowledge that they consider each other like family. Don’t ask me why but it at least won’t last forever, pictures of Minglian eventually will be put up in his house alongside family pictures with the husband and daughter too. This is just how they are now at this moment. Anyways, I can go on for ages about how much Huaxiu cares for her, I think it’s very cute. He spoils her, really. But I digress.