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    Summary

    The monster did not die.

    He was kept. Tended. Loved.

    Because Shen Qingqiu looked at the worst version of Luo Binghe and said,

    This too is mine.

    ~~~

    He counts his breaths. He memorises his pulse. He presses his face between his shoulder blades and whispers words he never hears.

    Fifteen years of tea. Ten years of marriage. All of them spent watching him sleep and thinking,

    This is the only forever he needs.

    Not because they are healed. Not because they are whole. Not because this is the love that stories are written about.

    But because Shen Qingqiu looked at the monster and kept him anyway.

    And Luo Binghe will spend forever trying to be worth the keeping.

    ~~~

    A post-canon SVSSS fic from Luo Binghe's perspective. Because Binghe knew there was never a difference between Luo Bingge and him. Only the choices they made.

    Only the person who stayed.

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