I lived bitch. (Bingqiu)

Shizun

"Ah sorry, I didn't catch your name?"
"Ah it's Luo Binghe." Shen Yuan's mind definitely didn't go elsewhere at that...
"Well, thank you Luo Binghe for the directions." Shen Yuan locked his car and started to walk away, whereas Binghe stood stock still. Coming out of his mouth, the unfamiliar address just felt so... wrong.
"W-wait!" Binghe didn't know what he was saying, "what class do you have first? The buildings look quite similar I can take you there if it helps..."
Shen Yuan softly giggled behind an open hand then ruffled Luo Binghe's hair, ahhhhh such a cute white lotus! He saw Binghe go a little red, then realised what he did. He schooled his expression so he was no longer smiling, he must've embarrassed the (not so little) lotus! Ah his friends must be around here somewhere and he'll get teased later.
"This teach would like that." He smiled a little again, "the teacher timetable is a little odd... 12ANC1 P1." He said the first thing on the table then handed it over for the little lotus to read.
"12th grade Ancient History 1 period 1, shizun must be smart to be a full time ancient history teacher." Shen Yuan almost tripped over himself, his head shot back to meet Binghe's gaze, obviously the epitome of grace. Shen Yuan would not loose face over a simple address!
"Shizun? I may be a teacher but I'm certainly not your master..." his brows furrowed and Binghe caught onto his mistake. He blushed a bright red and looked away again, he didn't even know why he called this man Shizun! He barely knew him yet the word just came out. He scrambled to try and find a way to reply to that, flailing his arms in front of him in denial. He felt cold, smooth, long fingers grab onto wrist with a hidden strength. He stopped moving and met this new teacher's gaze. "Luo Binghe. How exactly did you get these bruises?"
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By fourth period he had the year 11 Ancient History class. Binghe was practically drooling the whole lesson, Mr. Shen, as he later introduced himself, looked like the hottest refined scholar at the peak of his looks and although beautiful he's perfectly mature too (if Shen Yuan or any of his siblings heard they'd probably die of laughter). Ning YingYing, his desk buddy and only friend could see the heart eyes he was making at the new teacher all period. She mischievously put a hand to her mouth to stifle any laugher.
"Luo Binghe, see me after class." The stern sounding teacher broke him out of his trance, the previously quiet class all let out a laugh. Except Ning YingYing, who looked between them with a wiggle to her brow.

Binghe felt exceedingly nervous about staying here to get scolded by his favourite teacher, but he also felt excited. Surely his detention with mr. Shen can't be all too bad?
As the students filed out of the room one by one, Ming Fan spat at Binghe's desk. Binghe just shrank back, at least being in detention would prevent the relentless attention of his bullies for around 45 minutes.

"Ming Fan. I'll see you after school." Binghe looked up with sparkling eyes at this amazing teacher, was he actually going to do something about his bullies? No one had ever really cared for Binghe since his adoptive mother had died from illness. He could see the pure look of disdain in his teachers eyes at the pig who used to be top of the class. He shut the door and walked over to Binghe in long, sharp strides.

Binghe wiped his sweaty palms on his pants and tried to calm his heart rate... what if he had already made this teacher hate him too?
"Luo Binghe," he started, then pulled out a chair and sat directly across from Binghe so they were at the same height.
"Ah! Just call me Binghe Mr. Shen..." mr. Shen gave him a funny look for two seconds then sighed, this innocent filial boy! No wonder it's easy to pick on him!
"Well then... Binghe, as a teacher I've already reported your bullies. But you're going to have to be completely honest about some things they've done alright?" Binghe stilled. He started shaking a little, though he hated the abusive Ming household if their son ends up getting suspended because of him they might just toss him to a home that's even worse.

Shen Yuan seemed to notice that something was wrong and rubbed his hair in soothing circles, "shhhh..." he never was good with crying people. When he was in school he was also at the butt end of bullies pranks and harassment, he knows at least somewhat of what Binghe's going through by his own experiences. "I also noticed that you didn't get all your work done in class today... can you tell me what's distracting you?"

When Binghe lifted his head Shen Yuan just wanted to hug the little lotus, his eyes were all red. This is probably the first time he's let out tears in a while. "Ah, never mind if you don't want to tell me I won't pry."
"Foster family..." Shen Yuan heard a bit of the whisper.
"Sorry what was that?" He leaned a little closer to hear him.
"If Ming Fan gets in trouble... I'll surely be kicked out of my foster home. I don't want to be put in a home that could be worse... I-I... I've been distracted because I know when I return this afternoon I'll likely get punished..." Shen Yuans heart broke for this little innocent bean!
"Well we can't just let him keep bullying you though, can we?" Shen yuan took his hand off Binghe's head and Binghe couldn't help but miss the warmth.

While Binghe was "in detention" he caught up on some things he was missed during class, he was almost caught glancing ever so often at his teacher, who stood next to him while helping him.
"Shizun?" Binghe had to get something off his chest, he knew Mr. Shen would be honest with him. Shen Yuan sighed, he had no clue why this kid kept calling him shizun. May as well indulge him for now, "what's [Proud Immortal Demonic Way]?" Shen Yuan started choking on air.
"Uh... what brought this up?" Shen yuan tried to keep his dissolving composure.
"Well... these kids keep trying to tease me about my name... and..." he trailed off, maybe it's not something he should discuss with his teacher?
"It's... well... a novel or so you could call it..."

(A/N: Obviously as you could probably tell by now I have zero uploading schedule 😳🤚 I'm just extremely bored during quarantine... I might do a quarantine spicy special. Who knows.
Anyway, you've probably guessed that Binghe isn't as innocent as a-yuan makes him out to be. Which is correct~)