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thesuspense) wrote in
eastbound2022-03-01 12:12 am
[un: Chengmei] video
Did any good come from your parents?
[Perhaps that seems like a personal question. He does not care.]
What's the point of family?
[Now, this may seem cynical, and it possibly is, but he doesn't really sound it. He doesn't seem bitter, he smiled a little, then looks to a point off-screen.]
See, daozhang? I'm trying.
[A pause, then he corrects himself with a wave of one hand.]
Hear.
[Perhaps that seems like a personal question. He does not care.]
What's the point of family?
[Now, this may seem cynical, and it possibly is, but he doesn't really sound it. He doesn't seem bitter, he smiled a little, then looks to a point off-screen.]
See, daozhang? I'm trying.
[A pause, then he corrects himself with a wave of one hand.]
Hear.

un: chengmei | video
[Accessibility is a truly important feature when one is possibly trying to show off potentially positive conversations to someone very much blind.]
You know, it takes a lot to criticise my question by asking an actually pointless one yourself. Now you have that in writing. Embarrassing.
If I knew, why would I ask?
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[ And you're not Xiao Xingchen, or Zhou Zishu. So he's not going to behave himself. ]
And if you want an answer from me, answer mine. Don't be dull.
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Perhaps it's for the best you don't speak, if this is how it goes when you have the time to write, no doubt your tongue would spew even more uselessly.
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VIDEO cause whatevs
[Judging by how he modulates his voice? Slowly, mostly.]
I hope your face is pretty, or we'll know you owe your parents nothing.
VIDEO because now he's irritated, GOOD JOB XY
Happy?
[ But then he manages to adjust his irritated expression to a haughty smirk. ]
My parents are why I'm alive today. Maybe that means nothing to you.
VIDEO ha :)
[He may not know his parents, but he does know how life finds its way.]
If you delight in stating the obvious, try poetry. It's tedious, but with flowery enough words people listen to all kind of crap and think it's wise.