#then sqq catches her flinging her cards through the gap in the doors

[niemensch]

My slightly different, but very much inspired by this, take on how this escalation into (very) dirty laundry reveal might go:

Shang Qinghua introduces it in a desperate attempt to stop the tensions in the peak meetings. Nervously laughing as he explains about a fun, strategic game he has discovered on his travels, that supposedly helps one relax.

SQQ? At first: Doesn’t give a shit about this idiotic, inane game of his.

One game later, losing miserably to everyone else: He’s the Peak Lord responsible for the defense and strategies of the sect, can anybody blame him for instinctively honing his skills in psychological warfare in this game? Obviously, he is more motivated now, him losing first was part of his strategy to figure out everyone’s play style, stop being ridiculous, Wei Qingwei.

YQY? He’s about to reject, tired after the meeting wrangling the Peak Lords into some coherence of order, just wants to try to convince SQQ to drink tea with him later. Looks to the side to do so, seeing SQQ ready to ignore him the second the meeting ends, packing his scrolls already, smiles good-natured and gently and proceeds to wrangle everyone into staying for the game with subtle guilting and jabs at their empty calendar for this day for the shameless (SQQ and LQQ) ones.

LQG? He’s a natural. Wins the first round so fast even Shang Qinghua does a double take. He’s just vibing, full laser focus, enjoying it. At some point ‘Why is everyone so emotional about me winning?’ when Wei Qingwei slams down his tea cup so hard it shatters after LQG makes him take more cards and proceed to win immediately after. Starts winning the next round. The next one too. The Peak Lords start working together to defeat him.

Tensions start to rise, their head disciples attempt to convince them to leave the game, hesitantly, use the wrong words, immediately aggressively shut down by the now defensive ‘I can win’ of every Peak Lord.

Shang Qinghua suddenly attacks with stacked UNO card attacks and absolute chaos breaks out.

SQQ loses his entire mind about it, accusing SQH of being a slimy vermin who only knows to use underhanded tricks. SQH doesn’t expect to get insulted like that, snaps back at him about how SQQ’s the slimy one - sabotaging the sect’s arts fund to pay for prostitutes (it’s actually SQQ paying the brothel workers there who are part of his spy network).

The Peak Lords can’t believe it at first, exception Qi Qingqi lol, then see SQQ’s defensive face when he is questioned. YQY tries to intervene, makes it way worse, gets shut down by an enraged SQQ, who taunts him for his cowardice and inability to be honest.

Cue SQQ turning to SQH back in anger and revealing how he’s the one that’s been using LQG’s peak’s funds for literature to start a clothing business that’s miserably failing. (It’s actually SQH paying his demon spy contacts + networks with the business as cover-up lol)

LQG on the side: My peak has a literature fund??

….ending here cause length ( that’s also why the other Peaks didn’t get their moment here sry) but I think my general outline of events is communicated with this? Didn’t include the Play or Die dynamic here but it definitely would work with this too imo.

Someone put a Uno game cards in Cang Qiong's monthly Peak Lords meeting. Please. PLEASE. Instead of a fuck or die, a play or be locked in forever or something like that. Definitely everyone would uncover all the dirty laundry of EVERYONE PRESENT just because of that game. Please. I NEED IT