CHEONGMYEONG GREEN TEA CHEONGMYEONG GREEN TEAAA SAJHDVFHTJDGVAB
I have been watching a lot of those tiktok chinese dramas and now i'm cackling at the mental image of Cheongmyeong all like "it was my fault! I didn't meant toooo" annoying and too sugary, clinging to someone's arm, fake crying, jesus
I like to think about him learning these things when he goes alone to wander the world, even before knowing Tang Bo, like that sidestory where he meets the founder of the Eunha Guild and the child is like "i'm an orphan" and Cheongmyeong is like "oh, hi! Me too:D"
Imagine him just for some reason seeing a couple of women trying to ruin(?) eachother without fighting while he eats in the background. He just getting more and more exasperated by how they twist words and don't fight honorably(??) and then comes the husband or whatever anD HE BELIEVES THE MOST FAKE ONE and Cheongmyeong is ?? wondering what the fuck happened
I think he should watch this happen a couple of times before finding the pattern, and then, when people do this to Cheong Mun (since the sect leaders are always the ugliest geen teas), Cheongmyeong is like "i get it now!" and becomes able to counter like this
"Retreating to advance" he says, all proud.
"How do you even know that strategy?" Cheong Jin looks at him all incredulous, because he only knows that from books written by famous strategist and generals.
"I guess i'm just that smart hehehe"