Catboy / Catman

FUCK YEAH

he cheng: do you like my brother?

mo guan shan: no.

he cheng: his personality?

mo guan shan: i hate it.

he cheng: then why are you with him?

mo guan shan: i love him. can't do anything with that, unfortunately.

he cheng: same, bro... same...

*while he tian's teaching mo self-defence*

mo guan shan: i win.

he tian: i have you pinned to the ground.

mo guan shan: exactly.

he tian: if i say i love you, will you say it back?

mo guan shan: yes.

he tian: i love you.

mo guan shan: it back.

jian yi: does anyone know why tian is crying?

i was rereading 19 days and for some reason i imagined he tian playing the piano after chapter 270.

now i headcanon that he tian so confidently promised to learn to play the guitar in a week not just because he's a pretentious asshole. he tian already knows how to play another instrument, the piano, because in his childhood his mum often sat him next to her or on her lap, and little tian listened to her play with a throbbing heart. she taught him for a while, and then, after her death, he tian continued to practice simply because it reminded him of his mother, of those few bright and warm moments from his childhood that he wants to cherish and preserve forever.

he tian doesn't have a piano in his apartment, because technically it's not his apartment, but his uncle or some other relative. or he was too lazy to move it/buy a new one, idk... after all, he tian still hasn't sorted out the boxes with his stuff since moving into his current apartment, and he's about to move again soon (.,_.).

i just can't get over the picture in my head where he tian is playing some melancholic and sorrowful melody, and guanshan is leaning his forehead against the glass of a huge window, watching the raindrops trickle down. when he tian finishes, they huddle together on the couch for a few minutes and then tian rests his head against redhead's lap. guan shan gently strokes his hair, and they talk and talk and talk...

tianshan are literally:

he tian: can i pat it?

mo guan shan, holding a cat: yes.

he tian, patting mo: oww, so cute.

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she li: *drowning*

he tian: i'd save him, but who i am to play god.

he tian: guan shan and i don't use pet names.

jian yi: i see... what did your mum call you as a child?

he tian: she died when i was 4. i don't remember much.

jian yi: i see... :(

___

jian yi: then... what do bee's do?

he tian: honey?

mo guan shan: what do you want, dickhead?

Mo: [carrying all the groceries in both arms]

Tian: [reaches out to help]

Mo: [switches all the bags to one hand to hold Tian's with the other]

Tian: That's not what I--

Tian:

Tian: Okay.