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perfectmatch2025-06-14 10:04 am
marriagebroker) wrote in perfectmatch2025-06-14 10:04 am
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week two | match ceremony
Tonight, we're back in the courtyard. It looks similar to last week with the slight exception, there is now a plush couch near the stage, and a single lantern already lit above the stage. There's still food, drinks, all sorts of things available for the contestants to snack on and enjoy.
On the stage is Wei Wuxian, looking presentable in his hanfu for today. He's busy twirling his flute in hand as he waits for the contestants to show up and find their places, and when they do he'll extend both arms out, welcoming the cast.
"Second match ceremony! You're exempt from a black out tonight because you've already found one of the matches."
He'll gesture to that couch from earlier, which seems to be The Special Seat for Ringo and Furina to sit at if they'd like.
"Now, we know how this goes so let's not delay anymore! Team Wangji, it's your turn to announce your matches!"
On the stage is Wei Wuxian, looking presentable in his hanfu for today. He's busy twirling his flute in hand as he waits for the contestants to show up and find their places, and when they do he'll extend both arms out, welcoming the cast.
"Second match ceremony! You're exempt from a black out tonight because you've already found one of the matches."
He'll gesture to that couch from earlier, which seems to be The Special Seat for Ringo and Furina to sit at if they'd like.
"Now, we know how this goes so let's not delay anymore! Team Wangji, it's your turn to announce your matches!"
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His lips press together in a thin line, not because he wishes to press the point further, but because he doesn't. After so many years of isolation, of utter loneliness, of being left behind by the world that continues to change around her...maybe all she really wanted was one chance to experience what life is like for herself while she could. Maybe her wish shouldn't be to restore herself, but...to rest.
And reflexively — he can't help but think that he will face such a dilemma when his time here is up. This was his chance to live a "normal" life, too, even if he hasn't been left behind by time like Yingying has. This was his chance to slip the shackles of the IPC, to make the friends he wants, pursue the people he likes, live for himself — yet even if he is no longer owned in the literal sense, he isn't free. And rest from that can be oh-so-alluring indeed.
In the end, all she can do with her wish is try to make a choice she won't regret, and all he can hope is that it makes her happy, even if it's not for herself. ]
Hah, you caught me. It wouldn't do to offer up a wish I don't even really trust myself. And as they say...it's more about the journey than the destination, isn't it?
[ A beat, his features falling, for just a moment, before he regains his bravado. ]
So let's make these next two weeks count. For every chip on the table.