#xicheng au in which jc's head will hurt depending on the intensity of a lie someone has told.

so when he confesses his undying love for lxc and he says "i love you too," jc feels the happiest for once in years-

then he collapses. his head is being split apart and he screams.
jc pretends it was a chronic illness when lxc asks, and he gets together with lxc despite knowing it was a lie because all he ever wanted was to be with lxc and have a chance at loving him- even if it was one-sided. +
so everyday when lxc tells him "i love you" his head hurts alot and he hurls his meal into the toilet secretly after that, because of the intensity of the pain.

no one knows and wwx teases them alot and thinks theyre a real lovey dovey couple. +
it gets really bad when jc tells him "i love you" and lxc replies with: "i love you to the moon and back" or some cheesy shit, because jc actually collapses unconscious from the pain, and the physicians panic because they couldn't find a cure for the migraine so bad +
that jc could've died. painkillers somehow didn't work either which sends them into a bigger panic, but no one knows the cause of this condition.

lxc goes "oh so thats why he has so many painful episodes/migraines" and the physicians brush it off after jc's repeated assurance. +
after that, jc can't bring himself to say i love you anymore, knowing what he'd get was a lie in return. the agonizing pain was a reminder of how great a lie lxc had told, which weighs him down for the longest time. +
some time passes and jc sees lxc acting too close for comfort with another man, jgy. it's then he realises lxc has come to a point where he finally can't act anymore, but it's okay because jc wants to continue the lie as long as he can love him. +
eventually lxc falls in love with jgy ans tries to break it off with jc, but can't bring himself to do it because of how sad and quiet jc was. he was no longer angry and mellowed out a lot, maybe because it was tiring and painful to be around lxc, but he'd do it anyway. +
the fact that jc had been doing his best and giving him his world made lxc punish himself out of guilt for deceiving the poor boy. his biggest sin was tricking jc into believing there was hope and now he decides to tell jc the truth. +
he locks the door and tries to tell him but fucking chickens out.

"i love you."

jc winces.

"but i love jgy too, even more."

his pain eases.

"im sorry. i loved you."

excruciating pain.

jc doubles over, his mouth leaking blood. +
due to the number of migraines he has had over the course of their relationship and the intensity of the pain, it has taken its toll on his body and jc is to die. +
wwx figures out the cause of death because he somewhat knew. he and best friend nhs confront lxc whos shaken up after seeing jc die.

wwx is screaming, no longer the sunshine, he punches lxc and hes yelling so loud the room is spinning. +
nhs tries to break up the fight because he wants to solve this civilly but he gives up and cries.

lxc is confused and angry as to why this was his fault. +
wwx yells in hatred telling him all about jc's condition.
"I found him crouched over the toilet in his room, hurling his insides out because of how much his head throbbed. he was screaming, lxc! screaming! And i finally knew! but he told me not to tell anyone, +
because he wanted to keep loving you, even if he knew you didn't love him back!"

"I trusted his judgement, and most importantly, i trusted your character. i trusted that'll you'd tell him soon, even though you had made a grave mistake of lying to him, i forgave you. +
i believed that you'd confess and make up for it. to own up and take responsibility. but all you ended up doing was driving my brother to his death!

What did he do wrong? NOTHING! All he did was love the wrong person." wwx spits. +
"lets go," nhs grimly says. he grabs wwx, using his little strength to yank him to the door when he felt resistance.

wwx was still glaring at lxc after his outburst. he was /this/ close to losing it, he was clutching onto cq so tight and the only thing holding him together +
was nhs, who was whispering soothing words in his ear. no one notices when he pointedly looks at lxc with a gaze too knowing that it's terrifying.

out of guilt, lxc breaks it off with jgy. he comes to realise that he'd fallen in love with jc, but jc was killed by himself. +
karma. it's here to bite him in the ass. what goes around comes around, and now it was his turn to suffer.

it's punishment, for his sin of deceit and murder.

lxc accepts this. but what he cannot accept is that jc has gone before he could hold him.

[END]
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