this isn’t an ask I just want to share the blurb in my brain that I love the hc that og!luo Binghe has forcibly straightened hair and bingmei has curly hair
says so much about their past lived experiences with such a little detail… the power of Shen yuan’s love can be seen in bingmei’s perfect, well moisturized, bouncy curls
i've always loved this idea 🙂↕️ AND i raise you:
as a combination of not having the means or knowledge to care for curly hair in his youth, and being in conditions (abuse, living in a woodshed, etc) that would make anyone's hair difficult to care for, bingge's hair was likely already horribly damaged before he was even pushed into the abyss. if he then tried to constantly force if to look "respectable" by using heat to keep it straight, he'd only damage it further.
when your hair gets damaged enough, there's no chance for it to look good as-is, you really just need to chop off the most damaged parts and start over. but since doing so would have negative social connotations, emperor bingge naturally could never do such a thing.
and then he goes to the modern world to chase after a nice shizun of his own, and decides to cut all his hair off in order to blend in better; for one reason or another, he's aware of sy's personality prior to this, so he knows he has to go about this as if boiling a frog and decides a disguise and subtlety would be the best approach. his plan is to let the hair grow back as he gets to know sy, so by the time sy is ready to be bridenapped back to PIDW world, bingge's hair is once more at a respectable length.
what bingge doesn't see coming is that his hair grows back undamaged. he of course is still keeping it straight, but maybe the first time he stays the night at sy's place, or if they caught in the rain together, sy would gasp, delighted at how cute bingge's curly hair is, and the rest is history 😌😌
the idea of bingge's hair suddenly poofing out into a beautiful curly mane during a defining moment of bingmeification is very funny too of course but i think this more realistic method would fit well also hehe
