Made Up Rituals 🐍 (逆爱 Polycule EU)
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“Chengyu,” Jiang Xiaoshuai asks, lying beside him in their bed, trailing the fingers of one hand up along Guo Chengyu’s sternum, “how did you really feel about Chi Cheng back then?”
There is no need to specify what he means when he says, ‘back then.’ Guo Chengyu blinks and the world falls away and all at once he is 23 years old, he is in Chi Cheng’s arms, they are both drunk, and he is learning that he doesn’t like kissing his best friend in front of that treacherous boy and his phone. Kissing Chi Cheng is not a spectacle for Wang Shuo’s amusement. It’s not for Wang Shuo at all. It’s not dirty, or scandalous, or wrong, the way he makes it feel. It’s private. It’s…
29 year old Guo Chengyu rolls his eyes at Jiang Xiaoshuai and forces his muscles to relax. “You’re not still anxious about those old video clips, are you? We were young and stupid, and we liked to drink too much. Nothing that happened back then matters. It’s not important.”
“It doesn’t feel unimportant.”
They are just. So. God damned weird about each other I cannot take it. So here we are. 🫠
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- Part 1 of Made Up Rituals 🐍 (逆爱 Polycule EU)
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“What do you think, doctor? Am I pretty now?” Guo Chengyu asks again, batting his eyes, shamelessly flirting in front of the entire waiting room. It sounds like a joke, self deprecating and silly, but Jiang Xiaoshuai can feel the heat in his gaze. This is a thing Guo Chengyu does often — behaving outrageously to hide his feelings in plain sight, folding his desires up in humor, using plausible deniability as a safety net.
“The prettiest,” Jiang Xiaoshuai replies, adding a soft, sweet little smile that he knows no one else can see from where he’s standing.
He raises his phone to take a photo just in time to catch Guo Chengyu’s flustered expression at the unexpected praise. “See? Red is definitely your color.”
In which Jiang Xiaoshuai puts his man in satin and red lipstick and tells him he's pretty. Because if you thought I was just going to let that, "my parents raised me as a daughter" one-liner evaporate into the aether unaddressed, then you've clearly never met me.
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- Part 2 of Made Up Rituals 🐍 (逆爱 Polycule EU)
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Chi Cheng stares as Guo Chengyu stretches and the sliver of exposed skin between his shirt and pants grows wider. Chi Cheng wants to lick it, so he bends down and he does.
Fuck, he tastes as good as he smells. Chi Cheng slides up to bite at the side of his neck, his collarbone, leaving gooseflesh in his wake.
“What are you doing?” Guo Chengyu’s voice is deep, gravelly with sleep.
“What do you think I’m doing?” Chi Cheng ruts against Guo Chengyu’s thigh and pulls him closer, halfway into his arms. “Has it really been so long you have forgotten how this works?”
A morning in bed, set during Episode 19 while Wu Suowei and Chi Cheng are broken up, and Chi Cheng is staying with Guo Chengyu.
This follows a scene in Chapter 1 of The Key to Freedom, which provides additional context, but I don't think it's necessary to read that fic in order to enjoy this one.
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- Part 3 of Made Up Rituals 🐍 (逆爱 Polycule EU)
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Silence falls over the apartment after Jiang Xiaoshuai and Wu Suowei depart, unusual and strangely stilted. Even during their six year enmity things hadn’t felt awkward like this. What the fuck are they even doing here?
Guo Chengyu sighs and resolves to dive straight in. He turns to face Chi Cheng on the couch. “So. My boyfriend wants you to fuck me. I’m not sure I ever could have predicted this.”
Talking about feelings, and other inhumane methods of torture
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- Part 4 of Made Up Rituals 🐍 (逆爱 Polycule EU)
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Chi Cheng spots Jiang Xiaoshuai sitting at the bar, looking distinctly exhausted as a man standing half a meter too close rambles animatedly at him. He looks like he’d rather die than continue to listen to whatever's being said, so Chi Cheng doesn’t hesitate.
It’s showtime. He puts a wide, Guo-Chengyu-like smile on his face and walks over, stepping directly between Jiang Xiaoshuai and his irritating companion.
“There you are, Shuai Shuai!” he says too-brightly, “I’ve been looking all over. Are you going to introduce me to your friend?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai blinks, startled and visibly confused by Chi Cheng's arrival, not to mention his cheerful, corporate smile. “What are you doing here?”
Guo Chengyu is trapped at work, and asks Chi Cheng to take his place as Jiang Xiaoshuai's date at a fancy event. (The working title of this document was "Armistice Fic," which I think sums things up nicely, actually.)
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- Part 5 of Made Up Rituals 🐍 (逆爱 Polycule EU)