花吐き病 「xicheng」

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It was morning when Jiang Cheng started having a lot of irritation in his throat, it was terrible, he couldn't even speak properly. Angry with all that was happening, he went for a check-up to discover what was happening with his throat. He walked down the streets of Yunmeng till he found the doctor he would always visit with Wei Ying.

"Could you please see what's happening with my throat?"
he asked calmly, he had a lot of respect for that man, he could remember all the respect he had for them and how he had the patience for Wei Ying. Unlike the other doctors, he didn't scream at them to shut up neither he was cold towards them, he was very caring towards them acting as they were his children.

"You came back! after all that happened, I never imagined to see you again haha"

"I'm sorry for not visiting you, sir"

"No need to apologize. Now tell me, what happened to your throat?"
Jiang Cheng looked at him and then started staring at the floor trying to understand what it felt like, it was very strange, he didn't have a clear explanation for it.

"I guess it hurts? and sometimes I can't speak properly because of it, I also feel like I'm going to cough"

"interesting, I'm going to take a look now."

The doctor seemed calm but at the same time confused, which made Jiang Cheng even more stressed about what it was. Did it even have a cure? He had never seen any throat hurting without the victim having any type of illness. As the doctor went to take a look to see what was happening, he took a light and pointed towards Jiang Cheng's throat, he immediately turned white and closed his lighter. After realizing what happened Jiang Cheng started panicking, from the reaction the doctor had it couldn't be something good.

"hm, Jiang Cheng? do you have anyone you like" Jiang Cheng was surprised, very surprised?

"no, why?"

"You might not know what it is or why you are having it but you have Hanahaki, a disease in which the victim coughs up flower petals when they suffer from one-sided love"

"one-sided love?? are you joking?"

"wish I was"
The doctor said as he looked at the floor.

"is it that bad?"

"well, It ends when the beloved returns their feelings, or when the victim dies.. and you don't even know who you like"

"that's so fucked up, am I going to die?"

"I mean, if that person starts loving you back then yeah but if not.."

"Okay okay, I'm probably going to die. Does it have any cure? Instead of what you said?"

"It can be cured through surgical removal, but when the infection is removed, the victim's romantic feelings for their love also disappear. They can also have memory loss after it"
Jiang Cheng felt relieved as he heard about the surgery, right now he didn't care about anything, he just wanted to know where he could get it. He couldn't let Jin Ling alone just because of someone he likes that he doesn't even know who it is, it would be a total disaster.

"Is there any place that I can make the surgery??"

"surgeries here are very bad you could die with it, I don't think it's a good idea"

"so I would die both ways?"
And that was it. He was going to die, He just knew it, he was certain about it.

"yeah"

Jiang Cheng started thinking about how he wanted his funeral to be like, he was so scared that he couldn't even form phrases in his head. The doctor couldn't do anything.. and he was old, very old and with magical resources he managed to make himself look 20 when he was indeed about 180 years old, he lived a peaceful life and had a lot of knowledge and to hear him say that was the same as hearing that the doctor would have to turn off the mechanism that made you live. It was so out of a sudden, he never had liked someone as a love interest in his entire life, he might've felt what love was but he really couldn't remember anything. Knowing Jiang Cheng, he would also keep that a secret, he wouldn't have the courage to tell anyone.

Jiang Cheng started creating some phrases he would say if people asked why he was coughing flowers. Thinking more about it, he hadn't coughed any flowers so he was probably at the beginning, which was something very good! he still had time to think about a lot of things and maybe even find his love interest.

2 hours had passed and he said goodbye to the good doctor, he was going to have a big day today. Today he was going to think about a way of hiding his problem, he thought of making a mask but it would be too revealing so he would probably just improve some hand moves that made it look like he was just coughing normally.

He walked down the streets trying as fast as he could to get back to his Sect. Life wasn't easy for him, it never was, he went through so much and he never stopped getting more and more problems, he didn't like to say he was unlucky he preferred to say that he ran so fast that even luck couldn't catch him. It was childish but it matched his inner personality. No one knew how he was inside, maybe Wei Ying knew a bit but probably had forgotten about it. He also wasn't good at making friendships, back then he would have Wei Ying to make him get friends and even participate in a group, they used to have a trio that had Wei Wuxian, him and Nie Huaisang, sadly they went apart and Jiang Cheng never got the courage to speak with them again he just let them go to their usual life. Jiang Cheng also didn't want to make a change in his life, I mean back then, because nowadays he wants to have peace and get rid of those stupid flowers...

he changed a lot over time.

Anyway, enough of thinking about the past, we should focus only on the present and future! He needed to find who it was, who was the girl or boy that he liked. But It was impossible since he didn't know much about the subject, he was too stressed about everything to know a single thing about that stupid thing called 'love'. Jiang Cheng discovered the illness he had just a few hours ago, and he had already made so much drama.