<blockquote>Sometimes, you're just kind of cruising along on autopilot, comfortable in your own lane, and then you get smacked right upside the head with contrived plot devices and have to deal accordingly. Shang Qinghua will later concede that putting Literal Flowers That Cause A Fandom Disease into his story was a stupid idea, but it all worked out in the end, so he still counts it a victory.
An ending, and a beginning.</blockquote>
➤ a fun variation on hanahaki; airplane tried to write in a reason for it, and also it's cured by confessing, not by having it be requited
