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“These paintings are stunning,” Maomao said, squinting at them. It occurred to her that if a certain elegant beauty had been there, he could practically have blended right in. (An irrelevant thought if there ever was one!)”

“Holy shit,” Kelly breathed.
“You love him,” Joe whispered.
I glared at them. “I do not. Shut up.”
“No,” Kelly said, voice growing louder. “You looooooove him.”
“Kelly, I will kick your fucking ass!”
Joe fluttered his eyelashes. “Ooh, Gavin. You made my cold, dead heterosexual heart burst with super gay life and now I can’t—oof!”

You know, he said, voice a little hoarse, I hope you guys are on your way to working out whatever the fuck is going on between the two of you. I mean, it was really gross to watch my uncle carry you up the stairs in his arms like some damsel in distress and snarl at anyone who tried to go into his room to check on you.
I turned slowly to look at Mark, who suddenly found the wall very interesting. “You did what?”

“Speaking of which, have you and the Emperor’s younger brother—”

“I think I’ll get some shut-eye,” Maomao said, flopping over onto the bed beside her.

“Hey! Where am I going to sleep?”

“There’s a couch right there.”

“You should have more respect for your elders!”

“I thought you elders were supposed to dote on us kids.”

such a sibling fight

“Who the hell are you, anyway?”
A little late for that question.
She’s my younger sister, dear brother.”
“I’m a complete stranger, sir.”
“Which is it?!” Lahan’s brother clenched his fists.
Maomao and Lahan looked at each other, then Maomao said, “He certainly is easy to get a rise out of.”
“Right? They don’t make many like him—he’ll actually throw out a comeback when you want one.”

“Do you think me a terrible person?”

After a second Maomao said, “I don’t know, sir.” Jinshi had only done his job. Somebody would have had to sooner or later, or the culprit would have fled to the west. And they had to avoid that.

Unable to think of anything else to say, Maomao remained silent.

Finally Jinshi said, “Let’s go,” and his voice was cold.”

stop maomao my baby needed reassurance 💔

“I would swear it took you an extra moment to answer,” Basen said as he entered. There was a man with him, but it wasn’t Jinshi. Unsure how to feel about that, Maomao swallowed her food and pretended she didn’t know what Basen was talking about.”

missing jinshi after the make out session are we ??

“Jinshi was almost on top of Basen, who was pinned against the wall with Jinshi’s fingers brushing his lips in what was unmistakably a lover’s caress. Basen was sweating and his face was completely bloodless.

The two guards who had come in trying to restrain Ah-Duo covered their eyes with their hands and peeked out between their fingers. As for Ah-Duo, her eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open.”

“He didn’t want to relinquish the sensation that still lingered on his lips.

He let his fingers brush across his mouth, as if to confirm for himself what had touched them just an hour before. His body was possessed by a combination of heat and gloom that wouldn’t seem to go away.”

“His hand in her hair pressed so hard. Something more than breath came past her lips. Now she saw those obsidian eyes, that feral look, from inches away.”

the most absolutely roundabout way of saying they kissed 🤨