Yue Chenqing || 岳辰晴

“Yue Lifei…it’s beautiful. So long as we don’t decide to name our next something like Ling Diaoyong I see no problem at all.”

He had wondered sometimes if he and his ge were destined to fight from the moment they were named. Snowy night and Bright Morning couldn’t have a normal relationship.

“Supernatural power… I’ve heard of great exorcists who were half fox. I wonder what ours will be able to do…”

He sighed watching her hand touch the baby through him.

“Have you thought of a name? It will have to fit in with both the living and ghosts but I only know the styles of the living…”

“I imagine there will be adventures enough once I bear a Ghost Queen’s child…”

“Deputy General… but most of what I did was keeping morale up… Xihe-jun is really bad at that…”

It felt strange, to be offered this support by a ghost…

“Besides, you need more than a deputy general position to become a god don’t you? If every general ascended the heavens would be in perpetual war”

“Becoming a god sounds like hard work… I am not talented, I am just a spoiled young master…”

“Jiejie…”

Ling Wen had been good to him. He wanted to believe her. He pushed through the fear he had for ghosts and wrapped his arms around her.

“Why did you choose such a useless, spoiled young master… am I going to become a ghost when I go too?”

“I just want to be free of them… and I don’t want them destroying Lin’an… I see them in my dreams, feel them sneaking up behind me with every sign of aging I see in myself…”

His eyes went wide. He had not considered that marriage to a hugely powerful ghost might have that effect.

“They will listen to you? You can break the curse?”

“Once every three years… it’s terrifying… dead soldiers almost surfacing from a pool of my family’s blood… knowing I have to do that myself when my father steps down… it is the reason I have no choice in whether I have children… because they will have to as well…”

“Umm… Lin’an sits on a rift into the ghost realm… my ancestor was unable to destroy all of the ghosts that came through but he promised them that they would one day be able to consume his flesh and soul if they were suppressed in a cave… so we have to feed the ghosts our blood and qi…”

“Jiejie… umm… you know there are other ghosts bound to my blood? How will it affect this child if it is part ghost and promised to other ghosts…”

Chenqing’s face paled. He had known since birth that there were ghosts that desired his flesh, but they had always been locked away in a cave… horrifying faces jostling to breach the surface of a pool of blood…

“You are joking… I can feel our child kicking… surely a g-ghost and human couldn’t”

“Yes?”

“I’m fine, really… it’s not like they can do much at this point, right? The baby is coming whether they like it or not and the baby will be a Demi-god so it would not be advisable to make me abandon it…”

“At this moment? I do not know… but he should be staying at our estate in Lin’an… there were some trade agreements he had to see to…”

He sat down gratefully. He hated how his back felt after even a short time standing these days…

Vinegar sometimes works.

But I find it easiest just to wear clothes I can bleach… don’t ask me why…

“Please be careful… I know you are powerful and everything… but bring someone else with you… my father is not pleasant to women…”

(Busy period is over time to get back into writing)

“Ahh you see… my life was more or less planned out for me from the moment my mother was promised to my father… going outside that plan is unacceptable to my father and the emperor…”

“My leave ended and I had to go back to the front…they sent me home when I started to show though…”

His usually sunny demeanour faded a little.

“Father is not happy with me about this… apparently the mother being an honoured goddess is not a high enough rank for him to count it as worth this…”

// provincial election! We have to get Doug Ford OUT

//come in my DMs talk to me about this. I’ve been running a campaign and I have a lot of faith in our chances

// YOU HAVE UNTIL 9 PM

I’m still here, I just feel terrible..

[he taps his swollen belly]

This little thing is taking a lot out of me…

They were scared… that quick sh— the ghost was very strong… but still you should be willing to fight when called upon to or how do you call yourself a man!

Right now I’m seeking new friends… my old friends were cowardly little turtles, so I’m looking for more who won’t leave me to fight a mass murderer alone!

Right here! I’m the head of it!

The previous thousand grasses society was all cowards who acted like they would protect the maidens they flirted with but ran away when one actually needed help!

🥺 it’s what I call my friend group…

THATS THE SPIRIT!

Then come join the Thousand Grasses Society! You seem like a promising young master! This is a society for promising young masters!