Like to imagine Xie Lian’s first birthday after Hua Cheng comes back, and everyone knows he’s going to stop by Heaven at some point that week and that Crimson Rain WILL BE COMING WITH HIM to be sure his beloved has a nice birthweek. So of courses there’s a whole scramble to get him a gift so as not to offend Hua Cheng and end up dead.
The entire court is looking for presents, and at first they try to get Fengqing to make recommendations, but those two are completely convinced that every question is from a spy acting on behalf of the other to get them to reveal their present so they can plot to get something better and so of course they will not say shit. At some point, a random official remembers he’s a Sword Guy and a freaking Martial God, so they finally chill like, oh yeah, we know what to do with those kinda guys.
Cut to Xie Lian being handed swords like flowers in the streets, except most of the swords are his old swords he had to sell that other officials picked up, and Hua Cheng is sitting in the back, patting himself on the back for sneaking a clone into Heaven and securing Xie Lian his reparations.
