“Perhaps it’s the food, perhaps it’s the comfort of having a fan again, perhaps it’s that strange lightness Shen Qingqiu feels, but he finds himself calm in this crowded dining room.” x
commission for @redketchup of a scene from their fic “A Cat Beneath the Wintersweet Bush” on Ao3, linked here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63628285/chapters/163085311














