If you're determined to make it a challenge you'll have to narrow it down yourself.
[Begrudgingly he has to admit she is being fairly reasonable, even if inquisitiveness is still a barely hidden motivation, and even if the tiger squabbles are fascinating and possibly beneficial for all parties, including his. Or would be, without such an unsavory spectre to contend with. But no matter how directly the comparison was made, it just...sticks, in the same unyielding part of his nature that won't let other discrepancies stand, past some line in the sand inscrutable even to Di Feisheng. She's being reasonable, but that can only take her so far, when half the comparison isn't his to make.]
I barely understand what he saw even now. You're no subordinate of mine. If there's power you want, you won't get it by betraying me. Or marrying me into your house. And you enjoy qi too much to want to break my will.
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Date: 2024-02-09 12:03 am (UTC)[Begrudgingly he has to admit she is being fairly reasonable, even if inquisitiveness is still a barely hidden motivation, and even if the tiger squabbles are fascinating and possibly beneficial for all parties, including his. Or would be, without such an unsavory spectre to contend with. But no matter how directly the comparison was made, it just...sticks, in the same unyielding part of his nature that won't let other discrepancies stand, past some line in the sand inscrutable even to Di Feisheng. She's being reasonable, but that can only take her so far, when half the comparison isn't his to make.]
I barely understand what he saw even now. You're no subordinate of mine. If there's power you want, you won't get it by betraying me. Or marrying me into your house. And you enjoy qi too much to want to break my will.