#grayclaw I could accept because at least shu jun has (gestures at all of him) all that going on

[hunxi-after-hours]

Smoke held his breath; he reached out a finger, gently poking the delicate, silky flower petals. This week, there was a bellflower in the vase. Shu Jun threw a t-shirt to Smoke. "You like flowers?" "I see them very rarely where I live." Smoke didn't undress yet. He held the t-shirt carefully, as if afraid of getting it dirty. "I heard people say that there's a huge ocean of flowers outside the city, they even set up a viewing tower," Shu Jun said cheerfully. "Once I become an official member of the corps, I can leave the city. We can go see it together then." Smoke turned his head, and that peculiar expression appeared on his face again — he seemed to be enduring something painful, sorrow surfacing in his eyes. Swiftly, Smoke turned his head away, and Shu Jun could no longer see his face.

ok so I don't usually go for 竹马 backstories but this one gets rights because ow