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( This is a video message brought to you by Wei Wuxian, who just learned about video in the last week or so, and definitely knows nothing about making a video well. So congratulations, he's holding his recording tablet in one hand, in selfie mode, and grinning at the camera. He tips his head toward it, since bowing... won't work with him holding his tablet, and begins. )

This whole moving images film-creating concept is fantastic! Wei Ying, courtesy name Wei Wuxian, greeting all the others swept into this library and out of their proper homes with a simple suggestion for the sake of entertainment: a reading group. I even have a starting novel for the adult audience!

( He looks offscreen to pick up a novel and showcase its simple bound red front with lovely golden writing visible: Resentment of Chunshan. This is porn. It is very raunchy, very fantasy-not-reality gay porn written by a woman from ancient fantasy China. It is also, hopefully, an amusing read? )

This one promises to be absolutely scandalous! Then for the people who are more inclined toward having a sense of any other taste, well, I have recommendations. I've leafed through many, many books this last week and then some, if it's been a week, or any, or who knows? Time here is rather... stagnant. Either way, speak up here, or find me in person, I'm hanging around the third level with all the lounging space.

( ... then the tablet shakes as he tucks the book under an arm and taps at the screen to end the video. )

[ ooc note: novel found with permission from Shen Qingqiu's player! ]

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[ this is perhaps one of the many, many moments in xie lian's life when he would probably benefit from keeping his mouth shut and his nose out of matters not his own but. but. if this man has already found one scandalous book, who is to say he wouldn't find any of the others, particularly those that may or may not star him and his demon husband? and the fact he's going around advertising them?? encouraging others to read along and discuss them?? no no no, this sort of thing surely must come to an end, and soon— ]

Wei Wuxian!

[ yes, hello, fellow cultivator who is still figure out how this tablet works, so only half his face is visible sorry about it. ]

What a great idea! Wonderful way to pass up the time!

[ why does he already sound so breathless? he's also on his way to the third floor, but he figured the sooner he speaks to wei wuxian the better... ]

Though — I wonder if maybe we couldn't choose another title? Something... more general, perhaps? After all, there are many ages here...

[This is what Wei Wuxian decided to do with knowledge of video recording. Unexpected, but Yoichi approves. The return video message is a steady image, because he's propped the tablet up on a table in the cafe.]

A scandalous book for an adult audience? Is there a porn section?

[The library has gotten less boring if so.]

( xie lian, he'd treat all your and your husband's porn with the same peanut eating reverence he's treating this one, which is at least factually incorrect porn. not that he knows that. not that he knows! shen qingqiu!

oh, oh, look! there's a film response! wei wuxian taps it so it plays and ah, yes, hello there xie lian, also you are so breathless? he doesn't know really how he does it, but he manages to link into a video call, which has the happy coincidence of cutting out the reaction time delays of video messages posted back and forth. oh, happy day! )

Xie Lian! You're certainly sounding winded. And I did say adult audience, didn't I?

( picture him looking amused. it's easy, because he's on camera, looking amused and holding up the tablet at an angle that is... showcasing he's neatly sprawled into some chair. or couch? doesn't matter, the material is all the same, black as his preferred colour schemes. )

Unless you have some specific objection? There's a whole category of the library thriving on these kinds of novels. If they're not meant to be read, then what? I certainly hope we're not supposed to live through them, that'll be awkward.

( Yoichi, this is how you've helped him, he is now here to tell everyone about the wonders of written porn. Or tell two people. He's not fussed. )

Yes, there is! Quite respectably large, too, right next to some kind of section on romance? Or is it all attached. The sign read as erotica, makes it all sound more elevated than it is. Though some of the descriptions in here are rather poetic.

( He taps on the novel he'd been advertising for the book club. )

No illustrations in this one, but the others were a mix of those that did and those that didn't.

[Corruption of youth, courtesy of Wei Wuxian.]

Erotica.

[He's missed out, avoiding libraries all these years.]

Thanks for the information. You're doing great with the video!

[ wei wuxian that is neither comforting or encouraging, also please do not inadvertently incur said husband's wrath, he's still working on his anger management you see. ]

N-Nothing specific, no... [ at least, not without incriminating himself........................... ]

It just seems, hmm. A bit irresponsible? Maybe?

[ also, please don't speak such horrors into existence, he adds quietly to himself. ]

( The kids were going to find it anyway, and he's not showing children. What are you, mid to late teens? Perfect time to embrace whatever porn-reading you're going to do if you figured out where the porn was located to do the reading!

In other words: not one of his regrets. He waves his free hand at the screen. )

You're welcome, you'd have figured it out eventually anyway. And thank you! All due to your excellent teaching. Though if you haven't been poking around the library, exactly how have you been keeping yourself busy the last few... whatever number of days it's been?

( Hah, so there is something specific. Which is odd, in a sense, but he doesn't decide to call Xie Lian out on it right now, just files it away as something more that Xie Lian knows and Wei Wuxian doesn't. The books and their stories are links and keys, he's guessed to that much, but...

... to what extent are their stories here too? )

To encourage adults wishing to read smutty novels to enjoy chatting over what they're reading with a group of other adults who also enjoy chatting over smutty novels they're reading?

( Look, look at him lean forward and rest his chin in his hand. )

I did offer other recommendations too. I like to consider myself well read, when so inclined.

[Yoichi will venture to this erotica section later today, and maybe start reading his first book since he got here. The days have bled into each other, and it's still disturbing how the light never changes.]

It's never dark, so you can run outside at any time.

[He means that literally, running through the park paths.]

I hadn't been outside for like over a month. I've been running up the stairwells too, and-

[He holds up a half eaten pastry.]

There's always food available, so I'm here a lot. I can sleep whenever I want, and the couches are so much more comfortable than mats on the floor, so...

[He's been doing nothing library-related, and despite being trapped in this place, there are far less restrictions on his movements and his time.]

[ Fuck!!! Shen Qingqiu had been SO preoccupied with freaking out about Proud Immortal Demon Way being on the shelves here that he completely fucking forgot about about Resentment of Chunshan! Of course someone must have written the damn thing down! He is absolutely not recording a video or audio response to this, but he pulls up the touchscreen keyboard to furiously tap out a reply: ]

Why did you think this was appropriate to post publicly, there are children here?? If you have to share porn at least pick something that won't damage their views so horribly, do you know what kind of thing this work contains? 'Scandalous' my ass, I've read scandalous, that book is inexcusable. If you have any self-respect you'll burn it.

( look here is someone being very silly, so he responds to what's relevant in this: )

So you've read it before?

More like put up with people singing it literally everywhere I went before I came here. If I have to hear that song again anywhere in or around this library I will hold you personally responsible.

Yeah, the lack of night makes me think of Nightless City in a whole other way... that is, are you training? Running like that sounds like some kind of training to me.

( He shifts, nestles the tablet on the arm of the chair or couch or whatever he's on, and rests his other arm across the same. )

These couches make my back ache, they're so soft! The whole constant access to food part is nice, though. I'm not sure how it works, and it's weird you can't bring most things out of the eating area, but this library has strange arrays like that.

Oh, it's a song? I'm so glad you told me! The lyrics must be in here somewhere, let me find them!

Anyway, who is this "I" holding me personally responsible?

[There's a tiny laugh, and he looks a little disappointed.]

There's not anything to train for anymore.

[And yet, he still will, for the time being. Examining what's left of the pastry, he contemplates the food issue.]

It's magic. I didn't think that kind of thing existed before, but it's the only explanation I've been given here so far that makes sense.

[The claim that magic is just science that hasn't been sufficiently analyzed and interpreted is proving true. He's not going to worry about it.]

[ Oh he is going to fucking castrate this guy. He's going to beat him to death with his own arm. ]

Shen Qingqiu. If you sing a word of it where I can hear you I swear I will break every bone in your hands.

( he is going to compose a song! only he reads the name of the guy here and pauses to pull the book back to himself, and checks. twice. )

You're not saying this novel...

Was written to spite you?

It might as well have been, but seeing as I was dead when it was written I don't think the author really cared what I'd think about it.

That explains a certain section of the book, but how did you... wait. Correct me for making wild assumptions, but did you resurrect?

Yes, obviously. I was dead for five years and when I came back this garbage was everywhere.

I have to say, you know, that's not normal? Most people don't die for a period of time then come back like nothing happened. There's nothing close to obvious about that?

( this coming from the guy believed to be dead for sixteen years while... uh... even he doesn't know what happened for that sixteen year gap of being nowhere. )

( Ah, magic. Frankly his follows different rules, and all this summoning of food from nowhere is rather weird, but also, keeping them fed. It makes him nervous because he can't control it, but he'll also accept that it's happening for now. )

Magics of various kind aren't unknown to me, but I agree the mechanics of this are strange even then.

( That aside, and his attached concerns with it: )

What was it you used to train for, then?

Soccer.

[Which likely means nothing to Wei Wuxian, so he amends it with what Yan Qing had referenced. He's not sure what time period Wei Wuxian is from, but there seems to be a few people around from ancient China. It's a safe bet the game is familiar.]

It's like Cuju.

( In theory, he'd recognise that, but growing up first on the streets and then in an elite cultivation household where the fun activities were practise, practise, and also shooting arrows at kites, he's uh. Sadly out of the popular culture loop. )

That involves a ball, right?

( At least he has this much... vague familiarity... )

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