A marriage written in the stars

Entropy

TWO chapters in one month? It's amazing. So amazing that I can't believe it—and I WROTE this chapter myself. I swear, playing DW9 must have renewed my passion in writing this fanfic. It's not like I didn't have passion before (trust me, I've been plotting this story in my head for over 3 years now) but with the game out, it just made me want to get this fanfic over and done with. It's only chapter 18 and the epilogue and then this story is over BUT I won't be done with Liu Shan and Xingcai just yet. I've got some oneshots planned for the future.

So as I mentioned earlier, I got DW9! Whoo! But I also am busy on the weekdays so I can't play until the weekends. Boo. But I have been GRINDING through Liu Bei's story to get to Liu Shan's and I've been enjoying myself immensely in the process and now my enjoyment is even more immense because I LOVE LIU SHAN AND HIS STORY AAHH! So I didn't actually speedrun from Liu Bei's story because the open world is just too much fun but when I got to Liu Shan's story the first thing I did when I got control, LITERALLY THE FIRST, was to send a letter to Xingcai and invite her to the love shack.

...turns out you can't send a letter to Xingcai as Liu Shan...at ALL. BUT you can do the reverse with Xingcai in free mode, THANK GOD!

For those of you who have yet to hear EITHER of their hideaway lines, I'll just spoil it here. They're both horndogs. They're both SUPER duper horndogs and I'm surprised by this point in time in the fanfic they didn't go 'screw it' and screwed each other anyway. I mean, I'm TEMPTED to change the fanfic to do this but that would be too much work and then I'd have to change the rating and add more chapters, bleh, I'll just stick with the slow burn.

If you guys haven't bought the game yet, let me tell you I LOVE it. The story's better, the combat requires a LITTLE more thought and you have no idea how much of a life saver the lock-on and grappling hook is until you have it. The open world is beautiful, LIU SHAN AND XINGCAI ARE AMAZING, and just...yeah, get the game. Preferably on console. The only reason DW9 has such bad reviews on steam and pc is because of some bad porting issues so maybe wait until the game's patched for PC before playing.

Of course, I'd love to hear how your experiences with the game have been (and also with Liu Shan/Xingcai because let me tell you, they did change their personalities a bit). And also leave me a comment about the story. I can't believe how close I am to the end of this story, I'm already in a state of awe.

I don't own KoeiTecmo, I don't own Dynasty Warriors (though I FINALLY have a copy of the game), and I don't owe the mafia thousands of dollars. That's—heh—so stupid. T-that'd be a...a very stupid and silly thing to do, h-heh heh.

Chapter 17: Entropy

Liu Shan awoke at the ungodly hour of 7am. It was not unusual for him to wake up at this time but what made it particularly annoying was the fact that one, he barely got any sleep last night, and two, he was suffering from the worst hangover of his life. Despite his weary body's plea for rest, his mind was already active and with a loud groan he got out of bed, put on a half-decent robe and made his way past the living room to get to the small kitchenette.

His movement was sluggish as he filled the teapot with tea and water and plopped it onto the stove to heat. He doesn't recall what specific flavor he chose, just that the jar the leaves were stored in held a biting, acrid scent and figured that just one good gulp of hot, stinky tea could simultaneously wake him up and relieve him of the throbbing around his temples.

While he was impatiently waiting for the pot to slowly heat up, he glanced around the room. Ordinarily there would be servants and maids mingling about, cleaning his quarters, and preparing his breakfast but the order he gave right before he fell into a drunken stupor was for the servants to leave him alone for the next 24 hours. Evidently they took it quite literally. But it was fine. It was better this way. He'd rather make his own tea and his own breakfast and not have people flitting about and filling the air with unnecessary, painful noise.