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SCENE CITY OUTSIDE

 

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Ai Douya:

Wow! Check out this bustling place!

 

Ai Douya:

I'm glad I came this way!

 

Ai Douya:

Aih, if only I had more money to spend...

 

Ai Douya:

Anyway, it's time to get some grub! I'll just check out that tea house nearby!

 

 

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SCENE – TEA HOUSE

 

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Young Tea House Helper:

Hi there! I see you're a new face! Welcome to Plum Blossom City's branch of our Honey Tangerine tea house!

 

Ai Douya:

Yup, that's me, a heroic new face!

 

Ai Douya:

I'd like to have some food and drink if you don't mind!

 

Young Tea House Helper:

Thanks for selecting us! We serve dim sum as well as tea here.

 

Young Tea House Helper:

Unfortunately, our tables are all taken up... maybe you can come back later.

 

Ai Douya:

Hmm... I suppose I'll just have to come back later then.

 

Young man's voice:

Hey, wait up!

 

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SCENE – Private Room

 

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Rowdy Young Man:

Hey! You can sit here with us!

 

Refined Young Master:

....!!!!

 

 

Refined Young Master:

(Frozen)

 

Rowdy Young Man:

...Tiangua?

 

Refined Young Master:

(Frozen)

 

Rowdy Young Man:

Bro...?

 

Refined Young Master:

(Frozen)

 

Rowdy Young Man:

Are you alright? You've just frozen up here...

 

Refined Young Master:

....

 

Refined Young Master:

A fairy...

 

Rowdy Young Man:

Huh? What fairy?

 

Rowdy Young Man:

He's obviously a squirt.

 

Ai Douya: //Appears angrily

Hey! Who are you calling a squirt!?

 

Rowdy Young Man:

Heh, you of course!

 

Rowdy Young Man:

Tiangua, you've gone blind!

 

Refined Young Master:

I'm not blind.

 

Refined Young Master:

My two eyes are sharp enough to watch him do everything.

And things being done to him, besides.

 

Ai Douya:

.......

 

Ai Douya:

This guy's a weirdo. I'm outta here...

 

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SCENE – TEA HOUSE

 

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Ai Douya:

So where should I go next?

 

Rowdy Young Man:

No, no, no, don't go away! Look, we'll treat you to a meal. Just come and sit with us!

 

Ai Douya:

A free meal huh...

 

Ai Douya:

Alright then!

 

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SCENE – Private Room

 

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Rowdy Young Man:

Yes, he's coming right over!

 

Refined Young Master:

He seems to have very little self-awareness...

 

Ai Douya:

I'm here!

 

Refined Young Master

Well… introductions first, I suppose.

 

Refined Young Master:

I'm Xizhang Tiangua. Nice to meet you.

 

Ai Douya:

I'm Ai Douya! Nice to meet you!

 

Rowdy Young Man:

I'm Da Hong Zao!

 

Ai Douya:

(Hmm… they don’t seem too bad.)

 

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Menu:

 

So tell me your story. How did you end up here?

Call food and start eating.

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Menu Selected: “So tell me your story. How did you end up here?”

 

Ai Douya:

So tell me your story. How did you end up here?

 

Xizhang Tiangua:

Hong Zao and I are both martial artists roaming around to find our paths.

 

Xizhang Tiangua:

I, Xizhang Tiangua, am the youngest son of the illustrious Xizhang family. My father and mother are rich and powerful. As for my brothers, they're powerful too, but not half as handsome as I am. I'm the tallest in my family, and I'm also the most accomplished. I may have facial paralysis but my dreams are huge. My dream is to get married to a person who's a bit on the short side, has a very cute face, has a good body but it's fine if it's not too good in the future, has lived in the countryside with his shifu until his twenties before he came out wandering around to become a protagonist of his own tale, and is preferably a person who can put up with my tendency towards intense voyeurism and enjoy himself at every circumstance, whom I will walk around the world with to find treasure and raise my own skills as a martial artist. I ended up wandering with Hong Zao, who also has the same goals. He's just not my type and neither am I his, so until today we're still wandering around until we stumble upon some windfall.

 

Xizhang Tiangua:

We ended up in Plum Blossom City. This was when I spotted someone from afar and noticed a good-looking face and I decided to myself that I'll follow him wherever he's going.

 

Da Hong Zao:

........

 

Da Hong Zao:

Bro, you can actually talk a lot in front of a pretty face, huh?

 

Ai Douya:

(…I think I did the wrong thing by choosing to sit here...)

 

Young Tea House Helper:

Excuse me, sirs! Here's your meal!

 

 

Ai Douya:

Oooh the food is here!

 

Ai Douya:

This is so tasty!

 

Da Hong Zao:

Keep it up, squirt! You'll grow bigger in no time!

 

Xizhang Tiangua:

It's fine even if he doesn't grow bigger.

 

Xizhang Tiangua:

I'll still watch.

 

Da Hong Zao:

......

 

Da Hong Zao:

Sometimes you really scare me.

 

 

 

See you next chapter!