summary:
“Go to bed,” he says. “It’s late, and I have people I still need to speak to at the party. We’ll play more tomorrow, hm? Uncle will take you somewhere fun, out of the palace. But shh, it’s a secret. We’ll sneak out together during the morning.”
That’s such an exciting promise that sleeping at all suddenly seems impossible. And Uncle always keeps his promises, too, so it’s really happening.
“Okay,” he says, and makes himself climb underneath the sheets. Uncle smiles approvingly.
“Good boy,” he says, smoothing the sheets for him. “Sleep tight. Tomorrow is going to be a good day.”
If Uncle says it, then that must mean it’s true.
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The last day of Mobei-Jun's childhood, spent with his favorite uncle.
➜ svsss fic about Mobei-Jun as a young child, and his relationship with his favourite uncle Linguang-Jun, before the betrayal
➜ wahhhhh ;_; it's so GOOD, mbj is so young and earnest and trusting, and the reader (who knows what's going to happen) can read impending tragedy into everything lgj does
➜ the way lgj's betrayal permanently altered mbj's ability to trust, to believe in someone's love and care! the loss of the person he could otherwise have grown up to be!!!
➜ 2.5k words long
