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[yueshen]

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[yueshen]

[ he tilts his head a little, just to clarify. ]

Why don't I doubt you? Or why I don't regret it?

[malewife]

Regret.

[ He says this like it's obvious. ]

Whether you doubt me or not doesn't matter to me.

[yueshen]

[ his mouth twitches a little, but, xie lian takes another long moment before he answers, as if gathering his thoughts. ]

...Because, I can go through hell over and over. After what I've seen, now - I don't want it to happen to anyone else. Maybe I can't prevent all of it, but maybe I can use my experience to intervene.

And - maybe I can't, either, and maybe I can't prevent things from getting worse. [ for a moment, an old memory surfaces in the back of his mind, the voice of his old teacher. of another person entirely, behind a half smiling, half crying mask. you're going to lose, xian le!

... ] But that doesn't mean that I don't want to try. That I have to try. If not me, then who will?

[malewife]

[ He doesn't need to look at Xie Lian, instead focuses out to the sea beyond his lure. It's blue, vast, and dark. ]

Insinuating that no one will to justify your actions is an unnecessary excuse. You've already made your choice for your reasons.

[ They aren't detailed reasons, but Joonghyuk gets it. There's no accusation or scolding in his tone. ]

[yueshen]

[ oh - he huffs a little, almost a laugh? and ducks his head. ]

That's true. I don't need any excuses - I have simply made up my mind.

[ the amusement stays, even after that very shonen protagonist moment, there, and xie lian glances over at joonghyuk. ] ...you reminded me a bit of my former tutor, for a moment there. [ guoshi... ] Ah, what a sense of deja vu.

[malewife]

Your tutor must be wise.

[ shut up joonghyuk ]

[yueshen]

[ xie lian laughs for real this time ​]

That's what he would say, too... [ his poor stressed guoshi ] He was very wise, maybe moreso than I ever was ready to listen to, even a few years ago. I know that, now.

[malewife]

... My master was wise, too. But also a nuisance.

[ HMPH. ]

[yueshen]

Masters are quite like that, aren't they?

[ ha ha... he sounds fond, though. ] Guoshi always had a lecture for me about something or other, every day, relevant or not. From bowing to the gods to sword techniques, to even how I wore my earrings in a parade costume...

[malewife]

... Yours sounds proper.

[ Which implies something about his own. ]

[yueshen]

[ the idea of guoshi being improper. very funny. ]

And yours wasn't? That is hard to imagine! What was yours like...? Was it a master for the martial arts, or for moreso than that...?

[malewife]

... Yes, both martial and sword arts. She gets too personal and also has a short tempter.

[ Says the man is short-tempered. ]

[yueshen]

[ he can totally see this. ]

I see! She must have been an incredible teacher, even still. Perhaps sometimes we could spar? I would like that. [ xie lian, known martial arts nerd.

anyway, ] Guoshi was...almost completely the opposite. Unendingly patient, and rare to share any details about himself, though... I suppose I didn't ask much. [ hm. ] I grew up under his tutelage, though. He had cultivated to immortality, as well.

[ a pause. ] Though, I only ever saw him become terribly impatient was when he would sneak off to play card games. Mostly because it seems he was terribly bad at them...?

[malewife]

I'll think about it... [ for the sparring. ] Everyone has to have a weakness, even when they attain immortality.

[ SUCKS TO SUCK -yoo joonghyuk. His wolf huffs. ]

In the end, what matters is that they can teach well.