Scenes That Should Have Been in Bromance But Weren’t: IKEA Edition
I just got back from a trip to the local IKEA and now I desperately need an extended scene of Yanuo and Zifeng visiting THEIR local IKEA.
Just think of the possibilities:
Zifeng dismissing Yanuo’s suggestion that they get a trolley, because ‘we’re just here for a few things’.
Zifeng realising, barely a quarter of the way through, that there’s no way they’re leaving with ‘just a few things’, and having to backtrack all the way to the entrance to fetch a trolley.
A very smug Yanuo teasing Zifeng mercilessly about the trolley incident, until she’s distracted by a pile of panda soft toys.
Yanuo getting carried away and putting item after item into the trolley, many of which Zifeng has to remove as diplomatically as possible.
Zifeng, against his better judgment, also getting carried away and putting item after item into the trolley, many of which an indignant Yanuo forces him to remove, citing parity.
Yanuo and Zifeng comparing the merits of two different sets of bedding: This one goes better with what Feng Jie already has in the house / But THIS one has cute cartoon hippos on it!
Yanuo showing off her martial arts moves with a curtain rod.
Zifeng, not to be outdone, also showing off his martial arts moves with a curtain rod.
Yanuo and Zifeng pretending to be very interested in curtain rods when a suspicious sales attendant passes by.
Yanuo chuckling as she discovers an artificial potted succulent abandoned near a shelf of real ones: ‘They must have thought, I don’t need to make do with a fake plant, I can have real ones!’
Yanuo and Zifeng playing house in essentially every single room display.
Yanuo presenting Zifeng with an increasingly outlandish assortment of kitchen implements, and asking him what each one is for.
Zifeng squinting in befuddlement at Yanuo’s last offering for a full five minutes before admitting defeat.
Yanuo, cackling triumphantly, revealing that it’s not actually from the kitchen section at all, but some sort of automatic watering device from the gardening section.
Zifeng retaliating by cornering Yanuo near the saucepans with a tickle attack, and Yanuo shrieking with laughter as she tries to fend him off.
Yanuo and Zifeng pretending to be very interested in saucepans when the same sales attendant passes by.
Zifeng flopping down on one of the beds and gesturing for Yanuo join him. Yanuo refusing on the ground that it would be too embarrassing.
Zifeng pulling Yanuo down onto the bed with him anyway, and Yanuo cutting short a yelp upon realising that it would only attract more attention to them.
Yanuo admitting after a while that the bed is really quite comfortable, though Zifeng needn’t be quite so smug about it, also she’s pretty sure there are rules about appropriate behaviour in IKEA showrooms--
Yanuo and Zifeng leaping up and trying to act like they weren’t on the verge of making out when the same sales attendant passes by yet again.
Yanuo and Zifeng sharing a plate of meatballs, and engaging in a heated debate over how they compare to the meatballs from that stall near work which is only open at lunchtime and always draws a queue a mile long (conclusion: the IKEA meatballs are definitely not better, but they have the advantage of being novel)
Zifeng surprising Yanuo with a panda soft toy once they reach the car park. I saw you put this back! You said we didn’t need it! / Well, we didn’t NEED it, but you clearly wanted it, so obviously I had to go back for it.
Sigh. Just think of what could have been if IKEA, rather than Samsung, had been one of the show’s main advertisers.
(also, I wonder how much money I would have to pay Megan Lai and Baron Chen to lark about in IKEA in-character. No reason. Just wondering)
(please, fandom gods, don’t make me have to write fanfic about this)
(...I’m going to have to write fanfic about this aren’t I)
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