Gradually_Watermelon



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    “My name is Nangong Jingnu. Whatever your heart desires, I can secure it. You may declare your own reward. What’s your name?”

    “Qi-” Agula faltered. She’d really almost answered with “Qiyan Agula”! This Nangong Jingnu was dangerous. Agula took a step back and removed herself from the heat of Jingnu’s hand on her face, and her skin immediately felt bereft of warmth.

    “Qi . . .?” Jingnu prompted, her head tipping to the side. Her black hair was slightly ruffled from the scuffle. She had to look up slightly to meet Agula’s eyes, and Agula suddenly remembered that her face was exposed. She pursed her lips and looked away, trying to keep the conflict she felt hidden.

    Agula’s ears felt hot. “Qi . . . Yan,” she finished lamely.

    “Qi Yan, thank you for your help.” Although it clearly caused her great discomfort to move the sprained wrist, Jingnu brought her hands together and gave a slight bow of her head. “I don’t know your circumstances and won’t ask.” Her gaze darted down to Agula’s clothes; Agula was outfitted for stealth and combat. “But I do intend to thank you properly.”

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    Nangong Jingnu thought, if she could turn back time now, she would choose Yuanjun over the world. She would go back and doom the Wei kingdom a hundred times over for her Yuanjun, world be damned.

    Yuanjun, won't you remember me?

    The name that she’d gifted Qi Yan, that single name that had carried all her yearning and affection and the hollow ache of separation within two words. In the end, that poem had turned out bitterly apt, hadn’t it?

    (For Qijing Week 2025 Day 7 - Amnesia)

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    Qiyan Agula remembers.

    It comes back to him in pieces.

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    It is unbearable to you, suddenly, that he should fear growing old. That he should fear anything, at all.

    “I’ll take care of you when you’re old,” you promise him, “because you’ll never be less beautiful to me. Even when you’re all grey and hunched over. I’ll even paint you, if you want me to.” And I won’t change your skin, or the curve of your nose, or the color of your hair. When my paintings hang on gallery walls, people will walk past and say, look, there’s Amadeo. My paintings of you will look like you.

    Silly romantic thoughts. Boyish daydreams. Sun setting over Venice, painting Amadeo gold.

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    Dave comes home from school to find his Bro making out with a dude on the futon. At least two people are surprised by this.

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    08 Jul 2026