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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-09-24 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, but it's less personal to start with the other stuff.]

It's not that difficult. [At least, the doing isn't difficult. The watching is, sometimes, when there's nothing more to be done.] The hardest part has always been making him stay put, but there's not very far to run here. He's only tried it a few times, and not with very much success. He should know by now that there's nowhere he can go that we won't find him.

[That... might be a threat. But he doesn't mean it to be. Mostly.]
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-09-29 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if Inigo did mean it with more concern, Fang Duobing would never take the implication as anything but Li Lianhua's problem. The sheer level of self-confidence encased in him obliterates any other possibility. He himself is perfect, but he'll always wait outside Li Lianhua's door with a fist full of Get Well Soon balloons for whatever demons are plaguing him.]

Right? I'm a great friend, but he gets so stubborn about it, saying there are better uses of my time. Can't a man decide what's worthwhile on his own? If I say my time is best spent next to him, then it is and that's that.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-10-05 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Precious of Inigo to think that Fang Duobing's affection is finite or limited in any way.]

[There is no lightning rod. There is only the storm.]


He might as well give up then! I'll go easy on him if he forfeits. I'll only remind him that I'm his best friend once a week instead of every day.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-10-09 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[If only Inigo could hear the noise that Fang Duobing made on the other side of the phone screen.]

Go on, I dare you to say that to him. He'd never stand for being third in anything. He can barely tolerate being second.

No, I'm the one they keep secrets from. Can you believe it? When we first met, I didn't know who either of them were, and they were always running off together for this and that. Aren't they lucky that I'm nice enough to allow it now? They probably need the pretense of having secrets to feel enriched, when one of them has no one to fight and the other has nowhere to run.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-10-13 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you're right about one thing: They should feel like the luckiest people alive because they are. But that doesn't make me the third wheel either. Maybe the wheels don't need to be ranked, huh? None of them are unnecessary because they all do different things.

Whatever Li Lianhua is to Di Feisheng, that's not something I am or want to be. Whatever I am to Li Lianhua is not something Di Feisheng can be. The people that both of them are to me are not exchangeable or replaceable, and I'm sure it's the same for them as well.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-10-21 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
What's so surprising about that?

I have every reason to be confident in myself and my abilities. I come from a good family, my skills are unparalleled, my swordplay is excellent, and my looks are good as well. Shouldn't I be rightfully proud of that?


[Confidant? More like arrogant. Feel free to hang up on him at any time, Inigo.]
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-10-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Not any that I can think of.

Why? Are you trying to tell me there is?


[You would say that? To him??]
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-11-04 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he took that more seriously than it was meant to be.]

It's alright, I didn't think you meant offense by it, and I'm not offended regardless.

You've never met... What? Someone who had nothing bad to say about himself?
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-11-09 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that makes sense. Any one can be confident if they pretend to be. But I know where my strengths lie, and I've worked hard to improve myself. So it's not an act for me.

What about you? Are you saying you're not a confident person?
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-11-23 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[It's... everything, yeah.]

Alright. Fair enough.

Tell me something you do well.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-11-25 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[... Okay, that's pretty neat actually.]

[Anyway!]


You'll have to show me that sometime!

Tell me another thing you do well.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-12-01 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dang. He hoped to keep this going for a little while longer before Inigo caught on.]

Everyone should have at least five things they know they do well.

You've said one, so now you'll need four more.
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[personal profile] detective_xiaobao 2024-12-06 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
So what if it's made up? It's still true!

If you're a confident person, then five things should be easy. Come on, what's your second skill?

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