Perhaps it is how much she has been discussing Shen Qingqiu that has brought her disciple days to the front of her mind, but when Liu Mingyan sees the game room she misses her shizun with a sudden and startling ache. Qi Qingqi had gone missing after the siege in Cang Qiong, and Liu Mingyan sometimes imagines she sees her face in strangers that pass her in the street when she is out on night hunts, or in wandering cultivators drinking alone at inns. How wonderful it would be if instead she had been taken here, allowed to take up any of these strange and dazzling games and enjoy these strange and dazzling people. What joy it would have brought her gambler's heart.
Liu Mingyan's heart is somewhat less enamored of games of chance, but she has an equal love of games of strategy. She notices a go board arrayed on a table at the back, and nods to it. "Do you play?"
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Date: 2023-12-23 12:20 am (UTC)Liu Mingyan's heart is somewhat less enamored of games of chance, but she has an equal love of games of strategy. She notices a go board arrayed on a table at the back, and nods to it. "Do you play?"