Summary:
<blockquote>“Never in my life,” Lang Qianqiu said, “have I seen such a pathetic creature.”
Qi Rong felt a stab of vicious amusement. A fresh peal of laughter shocked itself from the recesses of his body. It rattled up through his diaphragm, convulsive and somewhat painful.
“Pathetic?” Qi Rong’s voice voice emerged on a shallow rasp. “You, you think I’m — ohhh, now that’s fucking rich, isn’t it?”
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Lang Qianqiu manages to capture Qi Rong. The question, then, becomes what to do with him.</blockquote>
➤ this really helped me make sense of qi rong as a full person; I'd struggled to understand him from just reading canon
