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RESIDENCE ✦ 4 BR House in the Sumar Province
GEMBOND ✦ Amethyst

35. Male. Bisexual. Crushes on handsome male friends who touch him a lot and has no idea what to do with a woman besides get awkwardly drunk, cry into her bosom, and ramble about his hobbies. Professional hot mess with secret aspirations of guiding his home society into being less of an infighting shitshow. Powerful 'step on me' energy. Unfulfilled boyhood dreams of being a useless trophy husband and pillow king.

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Dinner after moving into new house first week of April

[curtails]

Standing over the stove in the kitchen, he's eyeing the knobs with a hint of distrust before looking at the paper Yanli had given him with directions. The dish itself was a simple one, fish and rice with a side of steamed vegetables, but he's still getting used to these new machines.

"It shouldn't take more than half an hour if everything works like Shijie said."

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It hadn't taken nearly as much time to save up for a proper home as Huaisang had expected it would. The two story, four bedroom house might have some peculiarities here and there and be built in an unfamilar style but it's still an improvement over the apartment he'd been living in previously. The furniture might be rather basic but as long as he lives here, Huaisang now has house and land of his own and that's comforting. There's still a lot of work and decorating that needs to be done but enough progress has been made toward making it livable that he's satisfied enough for now.

Presently, Huaisang is sitting on the same stool he's occupied during most of the moving, content to leave most of the actual labor to Jiang Cheng when he directed the proceedings and occasionally rearranged things as best as he could to his personal liking.

"You and Madam Jin are learning these things faster than I am. I still don't know how it all works."

[curtails]

"Being able to cook is a necessity. As varied as the food seems to be here, I don't think we'll find anything that tastes like the dishes we're used to." Not that the food is bad, but it's not necessarily something he wants to make a habit of eating.

"What was your favorite meal at home, anyway?"

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"I don't know. Braised pork with chestnuts, I suppose. Or steamed dumplings filled with mutton to snack on."

He's partial to meat and seafood dishes and the food in Qinghe tends to be on the salty side or have delicate flavors.

[curtails]

He files that away for later, glancing over his shoulder. "I'll see what I can do." That said, his attention returns to the food in front of him, at least for the moment.

"I'll finish unpacking after dinner. There's not that much left."

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"Thank you."

Lazy as he is, Huaisang's not so self-centered that he can't thank those who labor for him, especially those of equal rank.

"I'll handle the organizing later."

It's usually a better application of his skills.

"Once another payment arrives, we can go do more shopping if you like. There has to be better furniture than this."

Huaisang waves a hand toward the incredibly low quality furniture that been all he could afford. The house and land itself and used up most of his current savings. But at least, they have beds to sleep on, a table and cushions to sit on for meals, and enough housewares to get started here.

[curtails]

"It serves its purpose." It's not like their furnishings at home, but they're serviceable, even if the beds are too soft for his tastes so far. But he'll get used to it.

"I don't know if they'd have anything close to that, anyway."

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"I wonder if there's any artisans that would be willing to take commissions. The shopkeepers at Razzle Dazzle seem eager enough to try to recreate fashions from other worlds. I already put in some requests for clothing more like what we're accustomed to."

More clothing, too, is something he intends to pursue with future payments. He has enough for the time being, minus suitable garments to where when he's transformed. For now, he's willing to focus on the housing situation.

"Maybe there's others who would be willing to take on similar requests."

[curtails]

"Perhaps." Although the quality may not be up to the same standards as what they're used to. Wanyin turns the rice off and lowers the heat.

"It's worth an attempt."