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lan wangji
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He embraces life, so where are you? My arms are empty. ☹️

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Your arms can only carry silk.

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Oh? I say they can carry you across a threshold!

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And sink thereafter.

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It's a swoon, and it'd be romantic, you and me, and some comfortable surface I can collapse us both on!

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The floor.

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Comfortable for me!

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A pauper once, a pauper forever.

[weifinder]

No, no, I mean my version of comfortable, so more than a floor. Comfort vs straw on stone, you know how it is!

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You should not have needed to.

[weifinder]

No, I shouldn't have. But I did put myself there, as much as anyone else did. These days, if I knew what I do now about myself and people, I'd not push so hard to make sure I was the only one waiting to fall.

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You would. Your kindly nature.

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Not limitless.

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True. Would not share peanuts.

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A man sometimes has needs. Even if they're not superior peanuts!

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If we are unsuccessful here, returned on the road. Then, I shall find you new peanuts.

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... Roasted?

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How else?

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Covered in chili powder!

( he took that as an invitation even though he knows what was meant )

Or garlic.

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You suited whites.

( You will suit widowhood too, sir. )

[weifinder]

Yours can be plain!

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Wei Ying's mercy honours him.

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I'm resigned to our slow journey on the road to more complex tastes. Can't blame you for having the stomach your clan cultivated for you!

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Nor do I fault Wei Ying for seeking death with each lone bite.

[weifinder]

Glad we can agree we both have horrible tastes in the opinion of our other halves!