A-Xiang also messaged him: we’re taking bets on whether you’re actually bringing your boyfriend or if you’re just going to hire some actor. you want in? WKX: you think i would lie to my entire family at new years? AX: yeah. you want in or not?
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(No one other than WKX and A-Xiang know exactly how they’re related. WKX has an endless supply of increasingly unlikely Gu Xiang origin stories. A-Xiang just tells everyone that WKX picked her out of the trash, which is usually enough to get people to stop asking)
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It does occur to him, later, that he should maybe warn ZZS about his family. Or at least arm ZZS with blackmail material in case they try to intimidate him. ZZS has already met some of them, because for some reason ZZS knows how to fix just about everything.
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But meeting them individually is different from meeting them en masse. Everyone knows that when the size of the enclosure is kept constant, the level of chaos rises exponentially with every additional relative (even controlling for factors like age, sobriety, and chaos potential)
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He doesn’t, in the end, because he is hoping that one day he will be able to present ZZS to his family for real. So if ZZS is going to run screaming from his crazy relatives, then it’ll be good for WKX to know that before he truly falls in love with him, haha
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The day itself is a hurricane of moving parts and moving people. WKX arrives early to help Luo-yi and the adults (despite being almost 30, WKX isn’t an adult and won’t be until he’s married; it’s a Chinese family thing) prep the food,
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drag the lazy susans and the extendable pieces of the dining table up from the basement, shove aside furniture so that they can assemble everything, carefully remove the fancy dishware from the china display cabinet, and set up the ktv machine and the ping-pong tables.
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The only reprieve he gets from the chaos is when he has to go pick up ZZS from his woodworking class. ZZS can drive, but for the safety and sanity of those around him, is not allowed anywhere near a car unless he’s fixing it. So, WKX drives.
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Fortunately, he's also able to park the car before catching sight of ZZS, because. Here’s the thing. ZZS is the kind of man who wears oversized hoodies, knee socks, and slides, and correspondingly LOOKS like the kind of man who wears oversized hoodies, knee socks, and slides.
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The ZZS that greets him in the parking lot is wearing clothes that actually fit him, and looks like this: For a moment, WKX forgets to breathe. Then, he thinks, in italics, OH. [end part 1]pic.twitter.com/lBPmZ9xZj8
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