Thread by @rikkainhaz

#chengxian + #cuckji (future)

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Divorced chengxian modern AU who have shared custody over JL and JL stays with JC on the weekdays and WWX on the weekends. The arrangement works fine for a couple of years, WWX often subtly asking questions about how JC is doing to learn about

JC via JL and vice versa, but JC is more blunt and fierce with it—asking JL whether WWX’s house is a pigsty, did he make sure JL’s room was clean from dust? JL cannot afford to be sick!

One day, when JL is around 8 years old, he goes over to WWX’s as per normal but

there is another man in WWX’s house—whom WWX introduces to JL all cheery as his new BF, LWJ.

JL immediately turns on the waterworks and throws a tantrum about how he doesn’t want to stay with WWX and wants to go home.

WWX not expecting that reaction starts panicking

and calls JC because JL is threatening to stop breathing if he is forced to stay there—this method won’t work on JC but always works with WWX, JL has memories about it from his younger days, so even though he’s too old to pull this, he still does it because WWX will fall for it.

After JC berates WWX up and down for making JL cry (he doesn’t know the reason), he drives over to WWX’s house and picks up JL who has eyes as swollen as a tennis ball and immediately turns into a nagging mum again. He spots a car he doesn’t recognise in the driveway

but doesn’t pay any more attention towards it because JL is his priority.

Only when he gets home and JL tells him the truth about his tantrum does he piece it together and—oh.

Turns out WWX is able to move on after all.

Of course, it wouldn’t be cuckji if it ended there. But JL being the mediator and device ways to get chengxian back together and also the two dumbasses realising their true feelings and getting back together 😤