Random Peixuan thought of the day
Post-canon, while figuring out what else do with his life, Shi Qingxuan gets into busking to earn some money…. or tries to anyway. A broken arm and leg make the more interesting things Xie Lian told him about kind of difficult.
But hey, Shi Qingxuan has always been a great storyteller and after 800 years of living in the biggest gossip hub in the universe (and being one of THE most sociable of the bunch), he’s got so many stories to share! Stories about the gods mortals could never hear about otherwise!
And they’re all 100% true!
(Save for any embellishments the officials who told SQX the original story added, naturally)
Obviously he won’t air out anyone’s private matters - but he’s got plenty of material to work with!
While SQX’s stories and vivid way of telling them are instantly popular, he quickly learns the officials the people (and their wallets) mostly want to hear about are:
3) Hualian - a problem because SQX doesn’t know too many stories and even less about what XL wouldn’t mind retold
(XL: anything’s fine, there’s nothing I haven’t heard before. :)
HC: think very carefully about what you repeat. :))
2) Ju Yang - a bigger problem because SQX never actually knew Feng Xin that well and doubts there are ANY of the kind of stories people want to hear about him.
1) Pei Ming - the biggest problem because…. it’s Pei Ming.
Well in fairness, SQX does actually know plenty of stories about PM, mostly stuff he witnessed or his brother told him about.
No, the problem is Pei Ming is absolutely DELIGHTED about this revelation having kept an eye on things (and maybe having snuck in generous clones among the crowd). If SQX wants stories about him to tell, he will provide!
And so begins a 1001 nights (days?) of PM telling SQX really random stories of adventures/relationships he’s had over the past 800 years, for fun and profit!