I just have this idea as I watch Ultimate Note.... of an Immortal Ba Ye wandering around offering fortune telling, and like he's always around the fringes of whatever havoc Wu Xie is committing and then like telling Rishan as funny anecdotes at the end of the day.
Ba Ye: I told him that tragedy would befall them if they went to that tomb, you know the one, and he actually looked contemplative for once. They still did it anyway, but you know he thought about it.
Rishan: *chokes on his drink*
Ba Ye: Oh, dont worry it wasn't that bad this time.
For a fuba first kiss, how about Rishan has always had a crush on Ba Ye and he's always known it and all the bickering is a way to hide it? Except he's not very successful at that and of course Ba Ye figures it out quickly. But he also thinks it's just Rishan's way of flirting which is very nice because it's his too. And then after Rishan push him out of some kind of danger Ba Ye just kisses him and Rishan has an internal crisis because why has Ba Ye kissed him? Was it just the adrenaline? Has he been found out? Is Ba Ye somehow making fun of him? What does it mean?
SKFKSFH THEY ARE SO STUPID PLEASE I LOVE IT
Ba Ye being all smiley, maybe even blushy like, woooah I did it! And then he looks at Rishan who, instead of, you know, being happy...is instead sporting the biggest ????????? face ever and then it’s just confusion and a lot of babbling and perhaps shoe throwing bc “we’ve have been flirting for months why are you reacting like that??” “we’ve been doing WHAT??” and then Ba Ye is just....full Surprised Pikachu Face. And yeah. It’s the most chaotic confession you might get.
Bonus points if Fo Ye and Er Ye are there, witnessing E V E R Y T H I N G and just. Simmering. In exasperation.
You know what I love? That, for some reason, we* have, somehow?? accepted that Zhang Rishan is CLUMSY when it comes to romance. And I love it. Bc quite frankly, you see these Zhang men, all fighters and super cool mysterious guys and you could...you know. Apply that coolness to the area of romance/flirting etc. But no. Zhang men can’t woo their meaningful others even if their lives depended on it. Someone send them a manual or something please.
And don’t get me started with Ba Ye. Like. Yes, he knows how to read the heart of the people but when it comes to Rishan he is just so oblivious (in one way or the other).
*I say “we” but it’s mostly about all the interactions I had about Fuba so far, which in all fairness form my own “we”...anygays you get it ksksk.
Fuba divine patrons of tomb raiders and archeologues. They end up saving this dumbass 3 times already because of course he couldn't stop himself from going to the tombs that Fuba explicitly told him not to. And of course he never fking learns his lesson so the next time Ba Ye sees him it's. On. Sight.