Hello my younger self - Shang Qinghua and you

[wrotetheworld]

WHO: Shang Qinghua and you
WHAT: One immortal cultivator/author's got a potion of time and he's using it to return to a younger age. So much younger that he's in a whole different body.
WHEN: Aug 28th
WHERE: See starters
WARNINGS: Body transformation?

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Note: Under the influence of the potion of time, he's returned to his original body. While he still resembles the squeaky cultivator we all know and love, he's going to look more like his shut in and exhausted older? brother. For those who can sense spiritual energy, he ain't got any.

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[heavenlyscourge]

As much as Hua Cheng doesn't often appear to notice Shang Qinghua around, for how small the silly man makes himself most of the time, Hua Cheng does keep an eye on him. It would, after all, upset his husband if anything happened to the man.

So a slightly unfamiliar voice perks his attention and he goes hunting, keeping the bells silent to avoid giving himself away until he finds the source of that voice. And he finds someone who looks similar enough to be a relative to Shang Qinghua that the ghost king doesn't just attack.

"Experimenting on yourself?" He questions after a glance to the bottle in the man's hand. "Without someone right with you is unwise."

[wrotetheworld]

Aw, come on. Those bells saved him from a dozen heart attacks a day because they made it so Hua Cheng didn't sneak up on him. Without them, and without even the extended senses of a cultivator, he had absolutely no warning before the ghost spoke and let out a squeak that was absolutely just like the cultivator they knew and tolerated.

"Gah, don't sneak up on me," he said, a hand to his chest. "At worst, it would have turned me into a kid. It just took me further back than that." Shang Qinghua paused a moment. "You recognized me?"

[heavenlyscourge]

The squeak is enough to reassure him of any doubts. And enough to earn Shang Qinghua a smirk as he holds out a hand to silently request the bottle. Just to examine - he has no interest (or need) of such a thing to return to an old body.

"This is gege's house." Simple. Hua Cheng knows who lives with them. Plus...he's a very lucky ghost. "Further back than a child?"

[wrotetheworld]

"Ah, right, someone would have to be pretty dumb to even try to break in, wouldn't they?" he said, offering the bottle over. 'Potion of Time,' read the label. It was now empty, having only held a single dose.

"Oh, um. Back to my original body. It's a bit of a story."