welcome to Silently Into The Night
Hello and welcome! We are a modern-day reincarnation AU of the novel/donghua/drama Mó Dào Zǔ Shī, also known as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chén Qíng Lìng, or The Untamed. The characters have been reincarnated into modern day, where some have regained their memories of their cultivation days, while others have not yet. Original characters are accepted, but please have a good story for them if they were a cultivator in their past life. The RP takes place in Palo Alto, California, and is set in the current year.
Modern Reincarnation AU
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JULY 07, 2020
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JULY 06, 2020
Soft opening of the site!
Educational Date (Nie Mingjue) [COMPLETED]
Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 12, 2020 21:15:14 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 12, 2020 21:15:14 GMT -8
Meng Yao had just finished tying up his hair. He threw on a plain white t-shirt, which would probably be stained by the end of the day, and then wriggled into a pair of overalls. He checked himself over in the mirror, he looked very unlike himself, he wondered if Mingjue would even notice the difference. He went downstairs and checked the bag on his kitchen table, making sure that Huaisang's shirt was carefully folded after having been laundered. Considering he's not here for me to flirt with him, I guess that's all the preparation I have to do... He scolded himself a little for his dirty mind but then shrugged, it was in his nature to think such things. He opened the door that lead from the inside of his house to his garage and looked at the '55 Ford Thunderbird. "Shit..." he muttered to himself. He had a car, but a severe lack of any sort of tool to work on a car. So our date is going to have parts, one of them being going to an auto parts store and buying the basics.....He glanced at his watch, it was about fifteen minutes until noon, he set himself up some coffee in his AeroPress, hoping to get in another few sips of his addiction before Mingjue showed. Nie Mingjue
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Nie Mingjue
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Jul 12, 2020 21:27:11 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 12, 2020 21:27:11 GMT -8
Mingjue spent the late morning on Friday preparing to meet with Meng Yao. He was strangely nervous, though he mostly put it down to not being used to making friends, especially without Xichen's help. He had made dumplings, having done most of the work for his dinner the previous night but fried half of them and steamed the other half and tucked them into insulated containers along with some sauces in smaller sealed containers that he knew wouldn't spill.
With that loaded into the car and a large thermos of tea for himself that he was able to share with Meng Yao if the other man was interested, he spent some time packing up tools that he thought he was likely to need. Most of those went into the trunk. He figured that if Meng Yao had the tools he needed, Mingjue would be pleasantly surprised, but if he didn't, Mingjue would be prepared.
Even with all the preparation that he'd done, he still ended up leaving earlier than he really should have and ended up circling the block several times to not be early. He pulled into an available parking space with two minutes to go until noon, grabbed the food that he'd packed and made his way up to knock on Meng Yao's door at noon on the dot, hoping that he wasn't actually too early for Meng Yao.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 12, 2020 21:58:25 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 12, 2020 21:58:25 GMT -8
Meng Yao had been sitting in his window seat at his bay windows that overlooked the street. He was pretty sure he'd seen Mingjue's car go by, but he wasn't sure, until he saw it again. He snorted to himself as he counted the car pass by four times before finally parking.
He watched Mingjue get out of the car and approach the door with a smile, today was going to be fun. He answered the door, "Mingjue-ge~" he started right away with his teasing. "Come in," he stepped aside to let him in.
He gestured to the left which had an upscale, HGTV worthy kitchen sat then to the right, which had a stylish, magazine-worthy living room, "we can sit wherever you like."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 12, 2020 22:14:11 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 12, 2020 22:14:11 GMT -8
Mingjue blinked at the room that Meng Yao let him into, giving him a slightly awkward, "Hi," as he stepped into the place.
He looked around, clutching the lunch that he'd made slightly too tightly and said, "Uh, it would probably be easiest to set up food on the table. I have to unpack all this."
He said, trying to keep his tone conversational, "I didn't know how much in the way of supplies other than the car you had, so I brought my basic tool set with me, but that's still in the car."
He tentatively pointed himself towards the table and added, "I brought dumplings, fried and steamed, and some sauces for them. They've got chicken and veggies in the fillings. I've got tea too, if you want some, but it looks like you've already got coffee, so I'm certainly not going to force tea on you."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 12, 2020 22:46:11 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 12, 2020 22:46:11 GMT -8
Meng Yao followed him into the kitchen, "make yourself at home, you'll be helping me out in this kitchen at some point, right? May as well get used to it."
"As for car tools, you are a genius, I have absolutely nothing. You know me already," he laughed.
He stepped over next to Mingjue, "what can I help with?" he asked, rolling up invisible sleeves and readying himself to unpack the food. He glanced over at the older man, a grin spreading on his face, "did I see you circling the block earlier?" he teased.
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Nie Mingjue
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Jul 12, 2020 23:06:25 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 12, 2020 23:06:25 GMT -8
Reassured that he was on the right track, Mingjue started neatly unpacking the food. Two insulated containers of dumplings: half fried and half steamed; three sauces--a spicy sauce, a simple soy sauce based sauce, and a garlic sauce; and the thermos of tea. He said, "Everything is ready, but dishes and chopsticks would probably be helpful, and if you want tea cups."
If Meng Yao didn't want tea, he'd just drink it straight from the thermos. He opened the containers, letting their smell fill the apartment. He knew that the dumplings that he made were good. Even at his most contrary, Huaisang would come out of his room when Mingjue made dumplings for him.
He sighed a bit at Meng Yao's teasing, but he admitted, "Yes. I overestimated how much time I would need to get here, and I didn't want to be earlier than I said I'd be in case this was early for you."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 13, 2020 8:06:37 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 13, 2020 8:06:37 GMT -8
Meng Yao stepped into the kitchen and retrieved some plates, chopsticks and two Asian style tea cups. He brought them back and set them out, arranging them in a host-like fashion.
"Was that a sigh I heard? You can't be tired of my teasing already, you haven't even been here five minutes and you have to know it's going to get worse," he grinned, flashing those dimples. "I feel like we need a safe word, something you can say so I know you've really had enough of my teasing and I'll back off."
He realized that his last sentence had probably seemed like more teasing, but he was serious. He thought about clarifying that but decided to see how it landed before continuing.
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Nie Mingjue
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Jul 13, 2020 9:04:43 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 13, 2020 9:04:43 GMT -8
Mingjue nodded at the selection of dishes that Meng Yao had brought over. He said, "I figure that we can serve ourselves the dumplings because I'm not sure how much each of us will want."
He indicated the two types and said, "They're the same thing, just prepared differently. I wasn't sure which you would prefer between steamed and fried."
He pointed out the different sauces in turn and said, "That one's just a simple soy sauce based dipping sauce, that one has chili oil in it so it's spicy, and that one's got garlic. Which again, I wasn't sure which you'd prefer, so I figured I'd bring all three of my go to options for serving them."
Finally, he poured tea into the two cups, the one for Meng Yao first, followed by his own and said, "And this is green tea from Zhejiang, specifically from the area my best friend is from originally. His family brings in nice stuff, and I always just end up getting him to get me some too."
Once he was done explaining the food that he'd brought, he said, "I'm pretty sure that I can figure out to tell you if I'm done with being teased. I was at least half sighing at myself, and at the fact that you noticed."
Wanting to move them to a different topic, he said, "So, tell me about this car."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 13, 2020 9:24:32 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 13, 2020 9:24:32 GMT -8
Meng Yao sat down in one of the chairs, crossing his legs beneath him and chewing on his bottom lip as he listened and noted the different types of sauces and dumplings. He reached forward and moved the spicy dipping sauce further from himself, "I don't do well with spice," he said, "but I do have an unhealthy obsession with garlic," he was practically making googoo eyes at that dipping sauce.
"Fancy tea," he mused, accepting the cup and taking a whiff, "it smells really good." He took a tentative sip and sighed contentedly.
"Okay, but make sure I know you're done with being teased. And don't worry about the circling the block. I think it was very considerate..." he tried to hide a smile before adding, "and adorable."
He chuckled a little before picking up one of the steamed dumplings and dipping it in the garlic sauce. He took a bite and exclaimed "mmm!" He finished chewing and said, "you have to teach me how to make these! They're really good!" He took another bite, making sure to not double dip.
After thoroughly enjoying his first dumpling he came back to himself, "Oh, the car. '55 Ford Thunderbird," he pointed over his shoulder at the door that lead to his garage "she's in there, I've had her about a year, but haven't done anything other than put her in the garage."
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Nie Mingjue
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Jul 13, 2020 18:17:43 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 13, 2020 18:17:43 GMT -8
Mingjue smiled at Meng Yao's praise of his food. He said, "The garlic sauce is my favorite as well, but I figured it would be best to provide options for a variety of tastes until I knew. Next time, I will just bring that one for something like this."
He contemplated teaching Meng Yao how to make the dumplings and said, "They take some patience, but it's meditative making the dumpling skins. You can buy them from the store, but I enjoy making them by hand. It's much easier to work out frustration and other emotions on dough, and then it's productive."
Mingjue didn't bother to address Meng Yao calling him adorable, again. He wasn't sure what Meng Yao was going for with that description, but he was pretty sure that it wasn't mean spirited, so he was just going to act like he was ignoring it until he had a better read on Meng Yao.
He nodded at Meng Yao's explanation of the car and said, "That's not what I'd usually pick as a starter car, but it's a good car, and you'll definitely learn things from it. Does it still run at all, or is it sitting in the garage like a pretty lump?"
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 13, 2020 20:27:33 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 13, 2020 20:27:33 GMT -8
"Oh, sorry. I didn't know it was your favorite." Meng Yao pushed the garlic dipping sauce closer to Mingjue and then scooted his chair closer as well, "this way we can share better." He wasn't even flirting this time, just genuinely trying to share better, maybe flirting just came too naturally to him.
"Oh yeah... dumpling skins... that's might be a little too advanced for me at this stage and I hate admitting defeat, so enjoy that win," he chuckled and grabbed a fried dumpling this time.
"She's just a garage ornament, I had her towed in there almost a year ago and she's just been sitting. That's why I was really excited when you said that you'd teach me to work on cars. She deserves much better than she's getting." He dipped the dumpling and took a bite, sighing in delight. "I am very jealous of your brother if he gets to eat like this all the time."
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Nie Mingjue
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Jul 13, 2020 21:24:11 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 13, 2020 21:24:11 GMT -8
Mingjue said, "I'm sure that you could learn to make them as long as you didn't get discouraged when the first hundred or so came out much sloppier than you wanted them to."
Mingjue nodded, thinking over how he'd approach a car like that, and he said, "Well, the first thing that I'd do with a car like that was get under the hood and maybe get under the car and do a diagnostic. What does it need replaced, what's there but just not aligned right, why's it not running."
He thought for a second and added, "Now's also a good time to figure out what kind of specs you want it to have long term. Like do you want it to be a manual or an automatic, either would be authentic since the original came with both, though for an automatic I'd probably upgrade to a newer style with a vintage look, how much engine power you want it to have, that sort of stuff. Generally, you're going to want to do some subtle internal upgrades if it's not working so that parts are easier to replace as you need them. The old stuff isn't made the same anymore because it's not up to the environmental code, which is another good reason to upgrade."
Mingjue laughingly added, "And my brother complains that we never order things like pizza and if he wants them he has to get it when he's out doing things with friends. I mean, he does like a lot of the things that I cook, and these are one of his favorites, but I think that the novelty's worn off."
He made sure to pace his eating to Meng Yao's, not wanting to leave the other man without enough food, especially when he knew that Meng Yao would be dancing tonight.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 14, 2020 9:06:13 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 14, 2020 9:06:13 GMT -8
Meng Yao laughed, "yeah, I don't think you brought enough tools. I don't even know if I have a jack in that garage and I know I don't have one of those rolly under car things.... We may need to do some shopping before we get started."
In reference to the dumpling skins he said, "I don't think I've ever done something wrong that many times.... it might honestly break me." He pondered it a second, "no, that's a lie... I've definitely been stuck on dance moves that long. I guess that's why they say practice makes perfect..."
He gave Mingjue some side eye, debating whether or not to tease him, he couldn't resist. "When the club installed the poles, I nearly died. The pole takes so many different muscles and I would get all kinds of rashes and friction burns on my hands. That's when I got a pole installed in here," he pointed towards the stairs, implying he had a stripper pole in his bedroom. He held out his hands, palm up for Mingjue to see, "they look smooth, but you can feel the calluses," he said.
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Nie Mingjue
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Jul 14, 2020 15:03:33 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 14, 2020 15:03:33 GMT -8
Mingjue laughed and said, "Nah, I've got a bottle jack, a pair of jack stands, and a creeper seat, that's the rolling thing for going under cars, in my trunk. If you had something giant they wouldn't be strong enough, but I figured you wouldn't have a jack or jack stands. That's part of my basic kit for working on cars."
He reached out, vaguely curious, and poked at Meng Yao's hand, nodding when he felt the layer of callus. He said, "You'll probably get new calluses from car stuff if you stick with it. The ones you have from the pole aren't in the same places as the ones you get from holding tools."
He showed the hand that he wasn't eating with in exchange. It was much more obviously callused from a visual standpoint than Meng Yao's, though Mingjue didn't particularly mind that it was obvious from looking that he worked with his hands.
He told Meng Yao, "And just like dance or martial arts, things like making good dumpling skins is muscle memory. It's just very small muscles for the most part. There are lots of things where practice helps even if you know what it's supposed to look like the first time."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 14, 2020 17:16:10 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 14, 2020 17:16:10 GMT -8
Meng Yao watched as Mingjue poked his hand and was delighted when he offered his hand in return. He reached out and traced his fingers along the calluses, then withdrew his hand, making sure to behave himself and not overstay his invitation to touch the older man.
"Color me impressed that you not only knew how unprepared I'd be by bringing a jack, jack stands and a... creeper.. That just does not sound like the right word," he laughed. "But you somehow remain completely unfazed by my suggesting that I have a stripper pole in my bedroom. The boss really lucked out when he hired you to be a bouncer."
He picked up another dumpling, dipping it in the sauce, "adorable," he smirked, taking a bite.
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