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"You don't know why you have a cake in your office? Is there a campus stalker going around leaving goods from expensive bakeries? Or did you learn some pastry-manifestation ability when you weren't paying attention?"

Zhao Yunlan is a street magician. Shen Wei never stays until the end of his performance.

Episode 33 tag/missing scene.

Shen Wei wakes up on a bench and things go slightly downhill from there.

Shen Wei has always appreciated the city's nekomimi population. They remind him of his own people, not only in their abilities but in all the ways mainstream society subtly discriminates against them. Since no imbalance can be corrected by equity alone, he’s careful to show them slightly more respect than their human counterparts.

Some of the cat people take a human lover or partner. Some of them choose not to speak to humans at all. Shen Wei respects their choices and their boundaries. He certainly does not fetishize them.

Except for one.

“Please. Don’t make me wait.”

“I won’t,” Shen Wei whispers.

It’s the sweetest thing Zhao Yunlan’s ever heard.

An alternate version of Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei's parting scene in episode 37.

Episode 33 tag/missing scene.

Shen Wei wakes up on a bench and things go slightly downhill from there.

It started with a conversation….

If Yunlan is going to learn how to make actual food that requires more effort than just boiling water and putting hot water into stuff, he’s going to have to take all the notes.

“Right,” he says to himself. “How hard can it be?”

He watches all twenty-two minutes and fourteen seconds of Chef Shen's video without fast-forwarding. When it comes to an end, he clicks on the replay button.

He ends up taking zero notes, and the only thing he manages to learn from the whole exercise is that Chef Shen -Shen Wei- is really fucking beautiful when he smiles.

He's alone.

Of Kunlun's gifts to him, it's the ones Shen Wei can't touch he keeps closest to his heart.

With Kunlun, even a simple press of lips becomes more than Shen Wei expects.

(Almost) all of the pieces.

Intrigue has always been Zhao Yunlan’s weakness.

Hei Pao Shi keeps to the shadows but Shen Wei can’t stay away from the light.

Zhao Yunlan can be nice. He's just a little out of practice.

Episode 40 snippet.

And the story will keep on going….

The lollipop is just an excuse.