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for @sunriseverse!
thank you for mind-melding with me and contributing to lin-gege springing out fully formed from our hive-mind brains <3 may he live long and prosper and annoying forever😌
everyone else... here's original timeline!LQS/LQS/RNZ shenanigans😏 some spoilers for later parts of the novel, but if you got through the show it's not anything TOO different, the rest is basically show/novel frankencanon. warning for explicit sexual content.
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Cheng Qianli has put on what he's sure he thinks is a wise, elderly expression. He strokes an imaginary beard. "It's okay, Linlin-ge. You're both the same people, so how can Ruan-ge prefer one over the other? He's definitely not cheating!" "How can he be cheating," Lin Qiushi grouses, "if we're not even dating?" The fake beard-stroking stops. Cheng Qianli looks at him with a struck expression. "Oh no, Linlin-ge," he says, looking as if he wants to pat Lin Qiushi pityingly, "it's even worse than I thought."
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