#wow lena u weren't joking fr ...

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“ I will protect you. ” - I'd never lie to you I'd kill yiling patriarch again for you🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 so this is from mr righteous xxc

 there were way too many metaphors to be mentioned about this . a lamb offering the wolf security , a man with his head inside a lion's mouth and whispering he'll protect the lion while his neck bleeds . xue yang can't settle for any , he chooses to create something worse than a hostile lion in his head and simply , call it xue yang . he wants to laugh at xingchen until his lungs ache , wants to break his pretty jaw , and all he can do it sit behind the campfire and stare at xingchen's sickly sweet smile like he's been punched in the gut .

 it seems to him , the pale cultivator had found the strategy with which he could defeat something terrible like a lion . he seems to have come to conclusion that tenderness was a greater weapon than his sword , and it was — it leaves xue yang speechless .

 he mentioned a man from his past just once during the dinner , because the brat was whining about a guy who got touchy with her and she had to run before taking all his money . ‘ you're nothing special , brat , we all went through that . so shut up and eat your rabbit meat . ‘ and if a-qing is really blind , she couldn't aim for his wounded knee that precisely and hit him so hard . his knee still throbbed , xingchen hasn't let go of the little story he told to scare a-qing . whether it was the truth or him bragging about his clever ways of getting rid of touchy men , it didn't matter , what mattered was that it horrified the kid . he didn't want to worry xingchen , he genuinely didn't . ❛ . . . daozhang . you always remember everything . ah . ❜   with an annoyed huff and roll of his eyes , xue yang leaned back against the board . toying with the stick he used to eat his meat with , and keeping his gaze low even though xingchen wasn't able to see how ashamed he was . ❛ i don't need protection . i need your piece of meat . i need energy to get better yeah ? are you going to let me starve to death ? huh , daozhang ? give me your food , i will tell you a better story if you do . ❜  while he rambles , he's crawling closer to the older man . sitting beside him on the step , nudging his thinner arm with his , a little harshly to make him sway . playfulness swimming in dark eyes , eagerly smirking , waiting for xingchen's kindness again . ❛ do you like snakes ? hm ? i'm going to tell you a story about snakes . ❜