svsss, qijiu au - yue qi turns out to be nobility
a few thoughts about a yue qi who has descended cang qiong mountain for the qiu estate only to find ashes on the wind and a husk of a manor...yue qi making the long trip back home and encountering a duke's retinue, only to learn that he is the long-lost son of a duke...the politics of it all doesn't matter—it's the setup and resources.
i think it's critically important for yue qingyuan to be obsessive about a deceased xiao jiu and still craft their marital chamber with characters for double happiness in red permanently adhered...
and when it turns out xiao jiu is alive—well, isn't this their happy ending? they can finally be together and yue qi finally has the power to protect him. xiao jiu, why are you leaving? don't you like the grave i built for you? don't you like the marital chamber i built for you? you would have hated to be forgotten; i let you haunt me.
we can sleep under the same bedding in life and lie in the same grave in death.
the bird in the cage longs for its former woods, while the fish in the pond misses the deep? i will take my sword to fly after you; i will plunge myself into the nai river after you.

















