so this is a yizhan thread
rewatching the ddu ep where the bros have to 'sell' themselves to the guests by showing off their awesome cleaning skills so:
yibo convincing xz to move in together by showing off his awesome cleaning skills

(not that he has to do anything to 'convince' as far as xz's concerned, but yibo's a man on a mission)
xz's a little dumbfounded, tbh, when yibo starts his pitch because yibo's confident about so many things but also painfully blunt and honest

"We both know I can't cook," he says easily, the two of them vividly remembering the time he tried to 'surprise' xz with a meal.
It certainly was a surprise, and not one they were ever repeating (not until xz finishes teaching him how to cook but they're both busy af)

"But I can clean, and I'm good at it too," he tells xz, "so I figure that makes up for it."
"O...kay?" xz says/asks, because yibo still hasn't actually said what this conversation is about
"I'm particularly good at folding," yibo keeps going, "cleaning floors too."

"Not really a fan of cleaning windows but I can make it work if that's something you want to negotiate on."
"Negotiate on?" At this point xz is just stuck asking questions because he has no idea what's happening.
"For housework," yibo says bluntly, "when we move in together."

It all clicks into place and of COURSE yibo isn't even asking, he's just assuming it's a done deal because honestly that's how every stage of their relationship has gone

Even their first time - yibo's first time with a guy, outside of handjobs and blowjobs - just kind of...happened. Not that it was out of their control, or didn't mean anything. It was both unplanned and yet not surprising at all, he'd realised afterwards

He didn't like to think of the idea of anything in life being inevitable, but after, with yibo snoring not-so-softly against his shoulder, xz had never felt so certain about anything in his life

They fit together so naturally - physically, yes, but more importantly as people - that he couldn't even consider any other outcome, now.
They hadn't talked about it expressly, with both their schedules crazy as they were, they were lucky to get any time alone together

but filming on the untamed had long since ended and they were still stretching those scant free hours they had just to be able to see each other, and for all that xz knew how he felt about yibo, that should've been more than enough proof of how yibo felt about him

and here was more proof, now - yibo was still advertising his cleaning skills as if he EVER needed to do that to persuade xz to move in with him.
"Changing the sheets is never fun, but I suppose if I'm helping dirty them up as well I should probably take responsibility."

Yibo was joking - his voice was joking - but for all his boundless confidence xz knew him well enough to see the fear and hope inside him, just the same.

so, xz pretended to think it over for a few moments, before announcing, "tell you what - you agree to cleaning the toilet and it's all good."
relieved and annoyed in what seemed like equal measure, yibo tackled him back onto the sofa

grinning himself - stupidly, he thought - he cupped the side of yibo's head where he'd gone still on top of him. "You had to know I'd say yes."
yibo's hands clutched at him. "Never done this before," he said into xz's neck. "Still scary as fuck."

"Give you an adrenaline rush?" he asked, arching and eyebrow.
Recognising the tone, yibo pushed himself up and smirked down at him. "Now that you mention it, I do feel like I have some pent-up energy that needs to be released..."

"Is that what that is?" xz asked, rubbing up against him. "I thought that might be your cleaning implement of choice."
"If I've suddenly got a mop between my legs we're BOTH in trouble," yibo muttered and they both chuckled stupidly into each other's mouths as they kissed

and - yeah. It was risky and stupid and they could get found out - but they'd already known that already, when they'd started dating.
(xz had already quietly been making plans to work as a designer, again, if it ever came to it, because he wasn't giving up yibo)

the world was a wide and scary and fascinating place.

But they had each other.

It'd be okay.