Forever would not be long enough. [it is what he hopes for, but it would not be satisfactory enough. even as he says it, xichen can imagine that he's earned an eye roll from the man in his hold.

he glances down as jiang cheng reaches for him, reaches up to wrap his other arm around him and pull him close. there's something different in the air now, a shift, and then when his husband speaks, xichen knows that it is far from simple bad dreams that have been plaguing him.] That is many things and a lot to dream of in a night, A-Cheng. A lot to survive. [other man could not have; he's certain that he would not have been able to.] I did not know there was a surgery...