Y'all. This is what we call character growth 🥹
chi cheng had been burned once by love- betrayed by his best friend, and his lover- and he is still healing from a seven year old heartbreak. so when he suspects suo wei- his second chance at love, the person he least expected to fall for, but did anyway- is maybe possibly cheating on him too, he predictably goes off his rails with misplaced anger and hurt, tearing to their office in the middle of the night to catch suo wei and the other potential culprit red handed.
but then he gets hit with this instead :
suo wei had been staying up late, acting shifty for weeks, just because he was building a giant terrarium for chi cheng's snake 😭
(maybe it was a gesture of apology in part as well? because keep in mind that that chi cheng had killed one of his prized snakes to save his life weeks earlier- and so, maybe, suo wei wanted to make up for it somehow, in a roundabout way- by doing something meaningful for the ones that were still there, the ones they both saved.)
suo wei even got hurt in the process, presumably while handling the heavy logs/bones/ skulls etc. (harmless scratches, but still), and in typical suo wei fashion, he simply brushes it off, saying it wasn't important, he'll just put a bandaid on it- but you can see how much it touches chi cheng, that suo wei would go this far just for the sake of his pet (just like in the past, when suo wei had put himself in danger with the thugs to save er bao, back at his old house)
Wu Suo Wei had also carefully researched Er Bao's species, procured the optimum moss/ trees/ rocks that most suited her, and chi cheng is once again floored by the amount of thought and care he put into it.
I don't think anyone ever did something so selfless and unexpected for chi cheng. Fancy gifts like clothes and shirts and other material objects were commonplace in chi cheng's affluent lifestyle. and so was betrayal, and partners cheating on each other.
But this? Staying up late for weeks, painstakingly handcrafting a vivarium just so Er Bao, his little snake his child could live more comfortably? as an indirect gesture of love and affection towards him? That was something no amount of money can ever buy, and chi cheng knows it. once again, he's hit by how genuinely soft hearted wu suo wei is. That despite all his scheming, all his little mind games, his attempts at cunning, wu suowei was someone who's always worn his heart on his sleeves.
And that's why, he immediately feels incredibly guilty that he ever suspected a person like wu suo wei of cheating, and he apologises immediately
But suo wei surprises him again, when he simply comes out and says this :
Wu Suo Wei admits that he wasn't used to a same sex relationship yet, but like everything he does, he isn't gonna back down easily, now that's he's slowly becoming confident in his queer identity (he even looked up cute date ideas for men, and tried some out with chi cheng- such as going shopping, bless his heart 😭).
He's learning, and he's learning fast. he reassures chi cheng verbally that he was trying- and confidently takes up the challenge that he'll become one of the "Top 10 best boyfriends".
But unbeknownst to him, for chi cheng, that spot was already taken, by wu suo wei himself 😭 to chi cheng, he was already one of the top 10 best boyfriends- if not the best boyfriend of his whole life- because suo wei kept proving it again and again, through his unwavering, selfless kindness towards chi cheng, especially when chi cheng least expected it (like staying up night after night in secret, making that vivarium, hoping to surprise chi cheng, doing something nice for him, simply because they were in a relationship now 🥹)
this whole scene served to solidify suo wei's place in chi cheng's heart and calmed down his fears. It proved to him, that no matter how the the circumstances may appear, at his core, wu suo wei was loyal to a fault. He was kind and selfless and nothing like anyone chi cheng had ever met, especially, not wang shuo.
I don't know how the whole "revelation of suo wei's secret about yueyue" will unfold, but in the meantime, I'm gonna bask in the softness of their honeymoon phase 🥹💗
