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    It happens too fast. One moment Feng Xin has Mu Qing's wrists pinned to the column, and the next, Mu Qing has slipped his wrists free, bunched his fists into Feng Xin's robes, and slotted a muscled thigh between Feng Xin's legs. Feng Xin freezes, face close enough to count each one of Mu Qing's eyelashes. Blood rushes south. Some little voice in the back of his head quips that he's going to develop a specific interest in Mu Qing's thighs if this keeps happening. A second little voice assures him he already has.

    Feng Xin ignores all of that, just as he does every time, and especially ignores how Mu Qing's tongue wets his lips before he speaks.

    "Hm? I thought you would be bigger than that." Mu Qing shifts his thigh slightly, subtle, but the pebble tossed into Feng Xin's pond creates waves instead of ripples. "Just this? The fabled, mighty tool of Ju Yang…." Mu Qing leans closer, his breath teasing Feng Xin's lips as he speaks. "...Turns out to be nothing more than a dull knife in a sword's sheath."

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    “Fine,” Mu Qing says out of nowhere. “Fine, but we’re going to your palace. My deputies don’t need to know about this.”

    “Um?” Feng Xin’s mind is blank. Mu Qing can’t be saying what Feng Xin thinks he’s saying. He can’t be implying that he’s willing to — to do anything about the curse. He can’t be. Mu Qing looks away, and the long line of his neck catches Feng Xin’s eye. Maybe his brain isn’t blank after all, because now it’s filled with thoughts of marking Mu Qing’s skin where it will show above his collar.

    Feng Xin and Mu Qing are sent to retrieve a cursed scroll that contains a dangerous aphrodisiac. Somehow, they both end up touching it.

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    “What?” He snapped, and it came out so very soft. He had no rage in him anymore, not when rope kept him from jolting away.

    Had Feng Xin bound him so he couldn’t run? Did the man know how exposed that left him? Did the man know how much Mu Qing loved him?

    But no, of course he did not. They were enemies who had once been bitter allies, and enemies that had now fallen into bed together.

    They were not lovers.

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    “Tell me,” Feng Xin urged, the worry in his gut only building in intensity the longer he stares at such an emotionally raw Mu Qing. “Tell me what you need.”

    Mu Qing’s eyes only opened wider at those words, more tears welling up. He couldn’t speak, he could barely even move from the position he had lodged himself into before going stock still.

    “Mu Qing,” Feng Xin had to forcefully swallow down the words that almost spilled off the tip of his tongue. Saying, ‘I would give you anything you ask for’, probably would not go over too well in this situation. “What happened?”

    “Am I unloveable?”

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    He never thought he would discuss the man of his dreams with the man of his dreams; it's all very surreal. Sue him for being nervous. "Hm. I guess—I guess I like my men, um, handsome. Dark hair. Devoted—" He thinks of Feng Xin by Xie Lian's side for years, defending him hotly from people who laughed at him openly and spat out jealous, vile allegations— "Loyal to a fault. Deeply protective of those he loves and indifferent to those he doesn't." Jian Lan. Cuo Cuo. Xie Lian. The words come stumbling out of his mouth. "Loves like he doesn't know anything else. Doesn't feel anything else. The kind of man, who if you had the honor to be loved by him, would do it as effortlessly as breathing."

    Feng Xin pointedly stares at him, and for once, Mu Qing can't tell what emotion is on his face. "It sounds like you already have someone in mind.”

     

    Or Mu Qing and Feng Xin get stuck in a pit. A few truths come out.

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