[7rings] postgame catchall for gu yun

[shiftingwinds]

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[shiftingwinds]

[it takes an embarrassingly long time for shi qingxuan to figure out that luca, yuri, and everyone whose worlds she visited before coming back to her own were trying to keep her from going back on purpose.

but, once she does belatedly put two and two together, she immediately goes back home. it's necessary; if she lingers, she'll get complacent again. if she allows herself that, then she'll never do the things that, by all accounts, she really, really needs to do. things are already different here just by virtue of her having been away - the watermaster hasn't fallen from grace just yet, for one thing - and she keeps a low profile upon her return, not yet heading up to the heavens to check in.

luckily, the mortals don't know that she's not been around. no prayers have come in that are too terribly complicated; her junior officials have handled things well enough in her absence.

first things first - because she doesn't know how her life will change once she does get to this, she goes to visit some of her favorite places. that's how she comes to the terrace of cascading wine, looking over the familiar sights with a smile - though when she spots a dark-haired, monocle-wearing man seated at one of the tables, she does a double-take, then stares.]

...Gu-xiong?

[what.]