binghe: what if.... i wasnt as good a person as you think? would you still spend time with me, yuan ge? sorry just forget i said that...

PIDW Sha Hualing dresses in “proper robes” now, as humans would call them. No longer is she a saintess, sent to bring glory to demon kind. Now she is a general. There’s a piece shaped like her on the war table, moved across countless maps. Silk scarves and bells are impractical. She has reason to protect her skin. Plates of leather and thick fabrics obscure her figure. She has an axe now, no longer so juvenile as to rely solely on her claws. She hates it. She hates all of it. She is so full of hate and frustration these days, but the constant war takes it all out of her. When she’s finally able to lie down, there’s nothing left.

"…Meng Mo dragged Ning Yingying into a dream within a dream, her dream was a comforting childhood memory wherein her parents let her pick flowers and ride horses…" - SVSSS 7seas Book 1 page 177

Beast peak Shen Yuan.

Nie Mess-With-Me-I-Mess-With-You HuaiSang

But that means, from an outside perspective, he is just insanely good at keeping time. One of the other peak lords watch him be deeply absorbed in the paperwork for their peak, only to jerk up and pour the tea at a perfect time. Hes taking off bandages before MQF can, because Mu-Shidi said to keep the medicine on for ten minutes! (MQF, who only said that as a generalization to get him to leave it alone, refrains from saying things like that after)

SJ gets angry at a peak lord meeting and insists that each peak lord only has a set amount of time to speak. All well and good, but cultivators are crafty bastards. When one wants to speak more, they simply flip the hourglass over to continue. It turns quickly into a game of being  discrete and not being called out on it.

It just ends with SQH having to be the mediator. Hes not even listening, but as soon as the timer in his head goes off, he interrupts whoever is speaking and tells them to sit down. (Yes, even YQY. SQH really wasn’t listening)

SJ: It's because of me that YQY's soul is bound to his sword. It's all my fault for asking him to come back for me. I ruined YQY's life, his cultivation. I can never ask him for anything ever again and never let him try to protect me, he might actually die for me next time. I'm poison to all that I touch.