sunday-monday snippet
I'm late but I don't open Tumblr all that often. Thanks @j-c-nth for the tag! Here is my moshang I've been working on. :D
“I seem to remember my king confessing to me,” Shang Qinghua says at last, voice husky and rough. Mobei-jun swallows and gathers his courage.
He looks up and says, “En.”
Shang Qinghua stares down at him, unshed tears making his eyes wet and shiny. The sight is common enough. Even still, Mobei-jun feels dread start to collect in the pits of his stomach.
“But why?” Shang Qinghua asks, sounding bewildered and betrayed. “Why me, of all people?”
Mobei-jun’s brow furrows. He doesn’t understand the question because— “Who else would it be?”
“That—” Shang Qinghua cuts himself off, biting into his bottom lip hard enough for it to go white, some tears starting to spill over onto tan cheeks. Somehow, it seems like the human can never cry all his tears out; there’s always more. “You could have anyone, my king,” Shang Qinghua whispers.
“This king does not want just anyone. Qinghua does not need to feel the same, but there is no one else, not for him.” The anguished expression hasn’t abated from Shang Qinghua’s face, and Mobei-jun doesn’t know what to do to fix this. “Does Qinghua wish for this king to feel differently? To want another?”
“No, it’s not—” Shang Qinghua makes a garbled noise, burying his face into his hands and kicking his legs slightly, his entire body wiggling in place. “It’s not like I want to see you with anyone else!! I just don’t get it. Is it only because I’m loyal that you feel this way? You were supposed to kill me, you know! Suddenly getting all this courtship and love talk instead is seriously messing with me.”
I'm working on the last chapter for One More—This Time With Feeling. Hoping I can finish it sooner rather than later but we'll see. 😩
