AU where it's one of those writing on skin soulmate AUs but it only applies to demons. Why? Why not.
Only demons and demonic cultivators can write on their skin and it shows up on their soulmate's skin and vice versa. And to be completely honest, most demons don't care about that like at all. The ones that care are usually royalty or nobles.
Anyway, this applies even if said demon is sealed. So when LBH wrote on his skin to remember something for later, MF found that same quickly written on his skin.
At first, MF was confused, he rarely wrote notes on himself, much less in such horrid calligraphy. He tried to wipe it but it didn't go away. He thinks maybe someone wrote scribbles on his arm while he slept as a prank with some qi infused ink.
That's annoying, but he doubts its permanent. Sure enough, the note was gone by midday. He dismissed it soon after, deeming it unimportant in his long list of tasks.
Then he finds another note. And then another. Eventually he even catches the note being written in real time. However, this time the note was a vent letter instead of the usual reminders. MF feels a little bad and writes back for the person to stay strong.
The other person stops writing and then replies to MF. They talk back and forth, mostly curiosity towards the other.
It's only the morning when MF suddenly sits up in bed and realizes that the writing thing is only possible for a demon. He looks himself in the mirror and asks if he's stupid, he decides that he is.
Throughout the day, he notices that LBH is a little more determined than usual, but he ignores it as he makes someone else run more laps for some minor slight towards their master.
At night, he finds another written note on his arm. He contemplates not answering since it's a demon and ultimately curiosity wins out. He talks to this supposed soulmate and they talk about how cruel their sect is and how his shixiong is so mean to him.
As the days go on and MF hears about this demon shixiong, he realizes something.
Some of the vocabulary sounds suspiciously like the Qing Jing disciples, which is to say way too ornate and stiff, and MF goes "ohhhh fuuuuuu I'm the evil shixiong"
And mind you, this doesn't narrow down the list AT ALL!!! He's been a bastard to everyone that wasn't NYY or SQQ. So he's stuck playing detective with his clues.
MF starts talking more to this stranger because how dare this foul demon sneak into this prestigious sect. And somewhere MF vaguely hears a voice say something about a "scenario pusher" but that's not important at the moment.
Weirdly enough, MF starts having stranger and stranger encounters with LBH.
He's not even doing anything specific and suddenly he'd fall into a lake that surely wasn't this close to the trail before. And somehow LBH always barely comes around the corner after he pulls himself out and takes off his outer robes to wring out the water.
Or the time he was knocked over by one of his lackeys and fell on his hands and knees even though he's always caught himself before. And of course LBH was coming around with NYY while MF was yelling at his posse before he managed to pick himself up.
Or maybe the night hunt he was hit with the spores of a specific plant with... Ahem, certain erotic effects. He managed to force the spores out with enough qi, but he was still flushed and slightly dazed when LBH found him on the floor. The little beast had to help him back, how embarrassing!
Or maybe when he was forced to run out in his sleeping robes to kill a demon that had snuck into the dorms, only to be ambushed by two other demons. And of course only LBH was around and managed to dispatch them without his help. MF wished he was killed instead.
No matter what scenario, LBH always looked fixated at him and then flustered before dropping to the floor and asking for punishment. Every time MF was too distracted or out of it to think of a proper punishment and gives him long, tedious tasks to keep LBH away from him.
And each time MF would end up speaking with his demon soulmate, they had a new story about how maybe his shixiong wasn't that bad. MF could feel himself withering away (he can see the obvious answer he just refuses to believe it's true).
Okay so me personally, I like my bisexual Ming Fan HC. And I think it's funny if MF isn't in the closet, it's just he doesn't want it to be Luo Binghe.
Okay MAYBE! He softens up a bit! But it's just because he's tired! It's not like he's starting to like the little beast! That's stupid! ...Oh no...
Anyway, during the abyss arc, MF is worried sick and really starts softening up to the idea of LBH. In some helpless hope, he writes encouraging messages to LBH, always places that are easily visible. He knows his master said that LBH died, but MF just hopes it's a lie.
MF waxes poetic, gives generic encouragement, says he's sorry, and tells LBH he hopes he's okay. It's not until years later when MF got a response that called him shixiong specifically. Cue a doomsday timer appearing over his head. MF feels like he fucked up somewhere but can't tell what fuck up doomed him.
Then out of nowhere Cang Qiong Mountain was invited by the new demonic emperor. And ohhhhh, it's Luo Binghe... Ming Fan is so cooked.
At some point LBH and MF end up alone and LBH starts flirting and pushing about the messages. And while MF can begrudgingly admit he doesn't hate LBH anymore and cares about him TO HIMSELF, he still refuses to admit that out loud for his own sanity.
LBH is endeared because he just thinks his shixiong is shy and not that MF will probably have an ACTUAL qi deviation if he spoke the words out loud. LBH thinks it's a tsundere situation (he's not entirely wrong), and MF is so conflicted with his own feelings that he wonders is killing LBH or himself might fix it
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