( nursed back to health shipping meme. )

[forthemayqueen]

Nursed Back to Health Comment with your character, preferences, preferred role, and any information you'd like to include. Your character has either been injured/sick and had to be taken in (possibly against their will) or has been the one to help somebody like the former. Through the mending process, the two characters in a thread have fallen in love - or at least grown closer and more affectionate. Reply to others. Thread.

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[cuscumber]

[He sees that murderous aura all right, he just chooses to ignore it. It's not like he doesn't understand what Liu Qingge's going through - Shen Qingqiu knows full well what it feels like to be helpless and dependent on others - but pride isn't something worth dying for.

(Any hypocrisy there might be in that last statement is promptly blocked from his mind.)

The one good thing about Liu Qingge being paralyzed is that it means the guy can't beat the shit out of him when he loosens his robes to get an unobstructed view of the wound. Shen Qingqiu exhales lightly but makes sure to keep any sign of pity or distress off of his face. He does, however, let some exasperation show in his eyes.]

If there's anything this shixiong has learned, it's that Liu-shidi's definition of 'fine' is very different from everyone else's.

[He's not about to wash an open wound with river water and sadly isn't the type of person to carry alcohol on him wherever he goes, but his inner robes should be clean enough to at least stem the bleeding until Liu Qingge's qi can take care of the rest. Ripping the sleeves off, he starts winding the fabric around where the worst of the bleeding is.]

[chengluan]

[ shen qingqiu reaches his hands out, and liu qingge, despite not quite knowing why, holds his breath as the other man carefully pulls back the layers of his robes.

shen qingqiu really is more suited for books rather than the sword. his touch is gentle - slender, scholarly fingers pulling apart the stained cloth, but liu qingge flinches away from it (or at least, tries to), the skin of his nape flushing hot. ]

... Shameless!

[ if anyone comes across them accidentally, what would they think??? ]

[cuscumber]

[If anyone comes across them accidentally, what they would hopefully think is 'Wow, Shen Qingqiu is such a thoughtful friend and trustworthy ally! He's definitely not someone we should sentence to be horribly tortured and turned into a human stick!'. At least that's his story for why he's stripping down Liu Qingge and he's sticking to it!]

Yes, yes. You can scold me about it after you stop bleeding all over the place.

[Honestly, it's difficult even for someone as thin-skinned as Shen Qingqiu to worry about propriety when confronted with a wound severe enough to - as far as he can tell - cause Liu Qingge to flinch from pain. The only other time he can recall seeing the man showing any sign of physical distress is their first meeting, that fateful qi deviation when he'd been inches away from a predestined death. He doesn't like the recollection, that reminder that the Bai Zhan war god is flesh and blood as much as he himself is, and it shows in the furrow of his brow as he carefully tightens the bandages around his side.]

sqq........... please, so oblivious

[chengluan]

Don't- [ but shen qingqiu is insistent, no matter what liu qingge has to say about it, and it is a rare sort of moment for him - to be treated as if he didn't know any better. liu qingge has gotten used to getting his way, most of the time. liu qingge has gotten used to going wherever, fighting whoever, and feeling that all his actions were accountable only to himself.

it is strange, to read the concern in shen qingqiu's eyes.

he manages, somehow, to reach an arm up - not to touch him, not directly, but to push him away; his careful fingers, the careful eyes. ]

Don't touch me.

it's his number one talent

[cuscumber]

[He isn't surprised by Liu Qingge attempting to push him away, but soldiers on nonetheless.]

I know you find it distasteful, but try to bear with it for now. I promise I won't try to touch you again after this.

[He can't blame the man for being repulsed - after all, who would enjoy being touched by the scum villain of this world? As much as he's tried to change others' perspectives on him, he knows he has a long way to go to begin making up for the hateful actions from the original goods. That Liu Qingge is able to tolerate his presence at all is already surprising in and of itself.]

they only have 1 brain cell between them

[chengluan]

That's not-

[ liu qingge stops himself, biting at the inside of his cheek, and drops his gaze away from the other. it's... so shameless! just laying here, his body bared so openly... if he could qi deviate now, he sure hoped it could happen soon.

his fingers twitch minutely, grasping a handful of dirt beneath. ]

You don't need to.

I'm fine.

sometimes they have zero brain cells at all!!

[cuscumber]

I know I don't need to, I want to. Is it so hard to believe that this master doesn't want to see his shidi in pain? [yeah he's just going to casually use their shared brain cell to completely misinterpret liu qingge's meaning!!

He finishes wrapping the bandages, tying the ends into a knot before surveying his work with a frown.] I've done the best I can, but I'm no healer. Once the paralyzation fully wears off, you should still pay a visit to Mu Qingfang.

[Naturally, it's at this moment that movement can be detected in the woods.]