HOW DO YOU WIN AT FOOT TOUCHING

(distracting thoughts about jing yi's smile, apparently)

Last man standing? Last man standing is who wins probably.

(Jing Yi has no distracting thoughts about being taught science, yes definitely. He is learning to help Great Tang, and the person he is talking to is just a means to an end.)

Why does Jing Yi have such a good smile. This is so upsetting. He's not even gay.

This is a carefully devastating smile. He has no chance.

(How dare be so good at teaching science. Just because he was 'born in the digital age' and 'has practice, probably'...)

Now there is science teaching and also miserable staring at Jing Yi's lips. 

The fuck are the Landlords up to.

Jing Yi has eyes, and they are capable of seeing where other people's eyes are looking. "You okay? Need a break?"

Oh god he noticed. "I'm fine! I can teach for hours."

"You don't need to fit a thousand years of science into one sitting."

"I guess we have until your funds run out."

He should prooooobably move his foot away from Jing Yi's foot but consider: he doesn't want to.

"Which means we don't have to try and stuff everything into my head at once."

The foot slowly inches closer.

"Well, what else are we going to do, watch extradimensional TV?"

"It could broaden my cultural horizons."

The only place to sit and watch TV is on the bed together. Obviously.

Fuck the Landlords.

Jing Yi flops dramatically on the bed (because why would you flop undramatically?)

Oh no he's cute.

He turns on the TV and silently prays that the channel isn't set to pornography.

Technically it is not. Instead it appears to be set to some sort of... naked shampoo commercial? Except the person's hair is carefully braided?

He quickly flips the channel to something else. This seems to be some sort of... alternate dimension news show? It is very interested in the latest fashion decisions of some person named Princess Mal. 

Okay so all things considered he is never going to need to have opinions about this Princess Mal, on account of alternate universes, but the combination of women's fashion and implied political intrigue has him hooked

Princess Mal is attending a charity ball! Princess Mal is opening a school! Princess Mal is visiting China!

The depicted Chinese outfits look to Jing Yi rather like it would look to a British person from the twelfth century if someone were simultaneously wearing a toga, a codpiece, 18th century slippers, and a WWII helmet.

So it's possible that the combination of 'future' and 'alternate universes' explains this fashion... situation, but also it is so bizarre it becomes beautiful in its bafflingness.

There may or may not be a startled 'snrk!' sound.

This seems safely away from Landlord Shenanigans.

"What's up?"

"That is not how clothes work! At all! ... Well maybe they are how clothes work in alternate universe futures, but--"

"This isn't my world, in my China people wear business suits and are not ruled over by... a white princess?"

"It is not the princess that's getting me, it's the hairpins--" Any explanation of what exactly is wrong with the hairpins is smothered by helpless giggling.

"You're cute."

FUCK

"You too."