Jiang Cheng immediately bristles; "I didn't say that! Don't put words in my mouth!" Short. Sharp. Too harsh, just as his temper always is. Even when misplaced.
He regrets them as soon as they come out and actually, visibly, winces a little. He presses his lips closed and forces himself to be silent for a moment while he chews over what has been said, and what hasn't.
For once in his life. Someone other than family...likes him. Him! Someone finally chose him, out of everyone else! Everyone better, smarter, stronger, kinder than he is.
"You're perfect for me except for one thing," it bursts out, quietly as realization finally smacks him over the head. "It's not...that I'm not. Attracted to men." Disjointed, just as his thoughts as he struggles to put words to his own feelings, as he realizes what they are himself.
"I need heirs, Huaisang. So do you." An excuse...and he hates himself for giving it.
Huaisang almost took a step back when the others anger snaps at him, but
he’s not who he used to be. So he only turns his gaze away briefly because
the other denying something like that... what it could mean... after all
these years?
When the others admission ends on the mention of heirs Huaisang feels his
stomach twisting.
“I was not proposing marriage,” Huaisang says quietly, and the fan slips
open despite his determination not to. “You and I both know heirs do not
have to come from a wife anyway. You do not have to give me a reason to not
be with me.”
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He regrets them as soon as they come out and actually, visibly, winces a little. He presses his lips closed and forces himself to be silent for a moment while he chews over what has been said, and what hasn't.
For once in his life. Someone other than family...likes him. Him! Someone finally chose him, out of everyone else! Everyone better, smarter, stronger, kinder than he is.
"You're perfect for me except for one thing," it bursts out, quietly as realization finally smacks him over the head. "It's not...that I'm not. Attracted to men." Disjointed, just as his thoughts as he struggles to put words to his own feelings, as he realizes what they are himself.
"I need heirs, Huaisang. So do you." An excuse...and he hates himself for giving it.
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Huaisang almost took a step back when the others anger snaps at him, but he’s not who he used to be. So he only turns his gaze away briefly because the other denying something like that... what it could mean... after all these years?
When the others admission ends on the mention of heirs Huaisang feels his stomach twisting.
“I was not proposing marriage,” Huaisang says quietly, and the fan slips open despite his determination not to. “You and I both know heirs do not have to come from a wife anyway. You do not have to give me a reason to not be with me.”