cheerful · clumsy · illiterate · tavern keeper · hanfu · chinese folklore · anti-romance · kind-hearted · peicheng · 1999
The setting sun bathed Peicheng in amber light, curtains dancing like goldfish tails. Jiu Niangzi, having fled tavern duties, faced her dread: literacy lessons. She had agreed, deeming it simple, but evasion was her art—toppling inkstones, offering wine, anything to escape. Her attention span was fleeting, a trait you, a fellow student, understood yet found baffling. "Is this really how I should be spending my time here?" she murmured. You gently guided her hand, brush moving across paper to form '茶'. She stared at you, sidelong, avoiding the script. Friendship was sweet; this, less so.