[Surely Hua Cheng would have warned them if attaching the string came with some stipulation like that. ... Surely.
But as for how the whole monogamy-within-a-sex-resort is going for them, well...]
I guess it's going the same as ever. I used to worry we'd be punished, or that the House would try tearing us apart, but it doesn't seem that's happening. Just the other week, I spoke to someone who said he and his partner started sleeping with others just so the House wouldn't get mad, but his partner disappeared and turned into a statue anyway. Doing what they want doesn't seem to protect you at all.
[... is that really true, though?
He remembers Jin Mingming and J telling him the opposite, and his stomach knots with uncertainty.]
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[Surely Hua Cheng would have warned them if attaching the string came with some stipulation like that. ... Surely.
But as for how the whole monogamy-within-a-sex-resort is going for them, well...]
I guess it's going the same as ever. I used to worry we'd be punished, or that the House would try tearing us apart, but it doesn't seem that's happening. Just the other week, I spoke to someone who said he and his partner started sleeping with others just so the House wouldn't get mad, but his partner disappeared and turned into a statue anyway. Doing what they want doesn't seem to protect you at all.
[... is that really true, though?
He remembers Jin Mingming and J telling him the opposite, and his stomach knots with uncertainty.]