#she suffers

[rainechiime]

201 souls worth of survivor’s guilt

[murieltheawful]

Shen Yuan is walking home from a manga shop to his fuerdai apartment when he stumbles onto a very attractive (and gifted!) salesman. Wild, shoulder length black curls, an easy grin and a waist to die for. If Shen Yuan was a maiden who was into young men with slut... slim!! Slim waists, that is!

The salesman is offering some massage courses, which is a little weird, but one has to try everything once in their life! Shen Yuan is not a coward! He will go up the ladder to their shoddy office (they must he just starting out!) and endure the ogling from the sleazy administrator at the desk (Shen Yuan is not a prude, but that top couldn't be more non-existent if it tried, Mrs Sha!!) for a chance of some alone time, ahem, for some individual practical lessons with the salesman of his dreams! He is the epitome of manly manliness! His hands are so big! He must give good massages! Yes! Massages! A perfectly safe and above board activity!

Yes, he wants to go to Luo Binghe's private room, of course, why are you asking?!

- three hours later -

"Did he really spend his whole evening with that rich boy and hadn't extorted more than one grocery bag worth of money? And fed him his soup?! And his fried chicken?? And his spicy noodles?!" Sha Hualing's voice rings in the air. "He dares?! And when I, poor little A-Ling, try to treat the warrior woman of my dreams to some leftovers in the fridge..."

She gets cuffed upside the head by Mobei. She might have stolen his portion of sushi once (or twice, or more times, who cares! it's petty to keep a score like that!).

A scuffle ensues. Sha Hualing loses (this time!).

"That client fully believes we're a massage studio!!" she shouts, offended by Mobei's lack of support towards a fellow coworker. "We are a respectable scamming agency!!! We offer everything from bad relationship advice to toxic masculinity camps!! If that man..."

Sha Hualing senses a predatory presence behind her back and quickly shuts up. When she turns, she is greeted with one of Luo Binghe's blood-curdlingly sweet smiles.

"If Shen Yuan wants this to be a massage studio, this respectable establishment better have a proper massage table by tomorrow evening," he says, light as spring breeze, and leaves.

Sha Hualing waits for him to appear on the outside security cameras and starts yelling, "So a random pretty man can get a foot rub around here for nothing, but I, selfless and prudent Sha Hualing, have to work overtime..."

"You haven't come in to work on time in over a... Well, never. You are always late. We only keep you because old lechers and middle-aged muscular ladies are attracted to you like flies to rotten meat," Shang Qinghua, the brain behind their tiny scam organisation, says, entering the dusty parlour. "I'd pretend to work harder, if I were you."

Shang Qinghua gets promptly whisked away by Mobei and is unable to enjoy the full spectrum of Sha Hualing's sulking and pouting expressions (they're not meant for him, but it's always good to stay sharp). Soon, all-too familiar rattling sounds assault Sha Hualing's senses. She sighs and takes the portrait of a giant furry tiger in a lotos position off the wall (the portrait came with the room; stop sneering at her!) to avoid accidents. Old Tubby will be safer under her table for a while. It's not like they can expect new clients with Binghe distracted like that.

Her boss is so mean! Running after a pair of cargo pants while his underlings have to work their own asses off. Sha Hualing sighs and slumps over her desk. Life is so cruel to her.

Dammit. Sha Hualing fears no one, but their massage clinic needs the stupid massage bed... Table... Whatever.

"When I, A-Ling...", sounds in the empty parlour, accompanied by lazy typing. "And they..."

She clicks "buy" on the first item she sees and sprawls on her chair, exhausted. What a day! Even her tits are tired!!!

Well, that's one problem that's easy to fix. Sha Hualing grins and takes out her phone. Time to bother a certain hotty.

...and if tomorrow their studio receives an urgent delivery of a high-tech sex bed with a prostate massage function, it is between Sha Hualing and her faulty laptop.

She asked Shang Qinghua for a replacement as soon as she got it, didn't she? Jokes on them!

It's hard to be perfect in an imperfect world, if Sha Hualing is saying so herself! 🫰🏻

[criatchura]

He's the girl anachronism...

[duelblades]

emilia's hands? unheld. emilia's nose freckles? unkissed. her shoulder and chest freckles? unkissed. her forehead? cheeks? lips!? also tragically unkissed.

[shesinbloom]

my tummy hurts and i’m not being brave about it

i think i’m going to eat soup when i get home and hope i feel better (this is the consequence of working your life away)

[jonathanbyersphd]

At least once while high Jonathan told Argyle that he wanted to shrink down so Nancy could carry him around everywhere

[paddysnuffles]

My dog: *is mildly inconvenienced about anything*

My dog: I have the hardest life anybody has ever had in the history of the universe.

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Note: She would usually grumble and moan unhappily the most while laying so relaxed on her bed that she was almost liquid from relaxation.

Like this:

And the more we agreed and commiserated with her the louder and more dramatic her complaints got.

[platanchorsociety]

I think Nancy Drew needs love potions and then Ace accidentally gets covered in one and of course he immediately falls head over heels, embarrassingly, schoolboy crush level in love with Nancy. And she loves him back but she keeps pushing away his advances because that isn't Ace, its the love potion talking. And she moans to Bess about how much she wishes she could just give in but she can't because Ace won't love her when they cure him and he won't be her friend if she takes advantage of the situation.

So they then manage to cure Ace and he is immediately very awkward about the whole thing and Nancy is sure that he if horrified by the way he was acting and the idea he could have feelings for her so she goes home upset and then Bess is cornered by Ace who tells her that he knows he is completely cured from the love potion but he is still in love with Nancy and he realises that all the things he was doing to try and seduce her while under its spell, he still wants to do but is devastated because Nancy wouldn't even go near him when he was suffering under the love potion and things she hates the idea of them being together.

And Bess just wants to slap sense into both of them.