I do like businessman Hua Cheng, but after thinking about it for a while, I think my favourite coffee shop AU hualian is with Hua Cheng being an utter mess of a person. Like, dropped out of school, spent the last five nights at a bus station kind of mess.
He hasn't washed his hair or changed his clothes in weeks and he'd rather perish than take He Xuan up on his awkward offer to sleep on his couch. The days are getting cold. Normally, he wouldn't spend what little money he has on coffee, but well.
There's a café near his bus station. It has cosy lights and the prettiest waiter Hua Cheng has ever seen. He knows he'll probably get thrown out, but he goes inside anyway, just to warm up for a moment, he tells himself.
Xie Lian has watched the young man for days now. He never comes inside the café, but he walks past it sometimes. He looks... sad, is the best Xie Lian can come up with. A little neglected. No drive in his gait.
He has been fighting the urge to invite him in for just as many days. Or at least run outside and press a hot coffee into his hands. But in the end, he has always felt too awkward to actually do it.
When Hua Cheng enters the café, he sees two of the employees freeze, obviously hesitant about allowing him inside. He knows he doesn't only look like he has no money, he also looks dangerous. Inspiring more fear than pity.
He's about to leave. Then, another employee, the pretty one, is suddenly hurrying towards him, ushering him to a table. Xie Lian is a flurry of blankets and hot, suspiciously cheap drinks and an endless onslaught of words.
Xie Lian knows he's too much and much too overwhelming but, after the first tense second, the man stops looking like he wants to run away and settles under the two blankets Xie Lian threw over him instead.
Xie Lian comes to talk to him every free moment he has between serving other guests and, at the end of his shift, Hua Cheng is calling him gege and softly teasing him.
To erase the bad things the other day, I offer you lots of fluffness...
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Imagine Puzzleshipping and it’s Atem’s first time experiencing Winter in his own body ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Yugi is just so happy because Atem keeps making OAO and O.O faces (it’s the 1st time he’s experiencing snow) he’s so adorable....
Also, Atem prefers longer coats because “Aibou, I didn’t realize Winter could be this cold! How could you survive it for years??”
🧣 – to wrap a scarf around my muse’s neck to beat the cold
Marco felt the cold creeping through the hallways of the Moby Dick. It wasn’t that bad, but it did leave to his brothers wearing a little more clothes. He had put a blouse on, a simple dark purple one, which did have the simplified Jolly Roger of the Whitebeard Pirates on the chest.
Smiling, he greeted his family, as he passed them on his way out. As soon as he was outside, he swept his eyes over deck and spotted the person he’d been looking for. Without missing a beat, he walked over to her and gently wrapped a warm scarf around her neck, the wind was a little chilly and it was colder ut here than indoors, but not enough to keep you indoors all day.
“Can’t have you getting a cold, because you’re underdressed, yoi.” He smiled, as he made sure the scarf wasn’t going to blow off her neck.
