#di feisheng: terrible nurse who WILL make you take medicine demon's newest prescription so help him god is also very funny.

[where-the-water-flows]

canon divergence where the poison kicks in earlier/harder, and so instead of having their Dramatique Divorce Hatefuck Fight in the east sea, Di Feisheng gets to whatever beach he's going to storm the sigu sect/fight Xiangyi on etc, and finds Li Xiangyi face down in the sand, poisoned to shit and barely breathing, clearly in zero state to fight because of the near death experience he is currently, uh, experiencing.

no worries though, Di Feisheng has medicine demon on call. Clearly whatever the fuck is going on here is uhhhh Incredibly Sus, given someone has now tried to murder both of the leaders of Sigu sect and apparently actually succeeded killing 1/2, but honestly, not really Di Feisheng's problem! his problem is getting Xiangyi back into fighting shape and then, y'know, fighting him. best of luck to the Sigu sect but he's different.

except of course he -- and everyone else on the boat, one assumes -- rock back up to medicine demon's weird offsite lab living situation, and medicine demon is like good news boss I recognise this poison! bad news boss it's super ultra fatal and also the poison is coming from inside the house alliance

which is very extremely no bueno, both because uhhh who the fuck betrayed him like this he needs their heads on spikes yesterday, and also because what the fuck do you mean there's no cure, fucking work one out!

long story short: di feisheng spends the next mmmmm several years laying low, maybe kinda faking his death/seclusion a little by implication of dropping off the map after a big duel was meant to happen, while he and the few people he's sure he can trust go right the hell through the Jinyuan alliance trying to find all the people who betrayed him.

and also playing the world's scariest nurse/buddy cop duo to Li xiangyi, who is not yet dead of poison thanks to medicine demon's questionable approach to medical ethics and informed patient consent, is very fucking angry about life, and very fucking determined to find out who murdered his shixiong and made him break the treaty under false pretences.

(and also poisoned him, he guesses).

#mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #di feisheng #waters words #i just think the idea of two mid twenties fuckheads trying to red string conspiracy board wtaf #is funny! #di feisheng: terrible nurse who WILL make you take medicine demon's newest prescription so help him god is also very funny. #to me. specifically. #(also why doesn't li xiangyi go home to sigu sect? well bc it disbands per canon obviously #why doesn't he show up like 'hey not dead please help'? #uhhh similar reasons to canon. #plus also the several unanswered questions #like who poisoned him. who set di feisheng up. who murdered his shixiong) #(also for real where the fuck was di feisheng's ship going. like did the sigu sect also have a port division) #also again sorry for any weird spelling etc eyt i am writing this on mobile