Meng Tang hates his name.
Because it comes from the man who abandoned his wife and son, Meng Yuanzhou. Every time someone calls me, it's like being cut with a knife.
But he smiled, every morning and dusk in Liangzhou, he smiled. He wore a red earring on his left earlobe, which looked like a drop of solidified blood and a small cinnabar mole. His mouth is sharper than a knife, and his eyes are crooked when he curses, making it difficult to tell whether he is angry or happy.
Qin Mengtang also hates his own name.
Too soft, too gorgeous, like a heroine in a drama, and incompatible with a wandering knight-errant.
But after he met Meng Tang, he became unlike himself. His tail - if he had a tail - would be wagging at Meng Tang. He still looked lazy and indifferent to others, but as soon as Meng Tang appeared, his eyes lit up, like a big dog that saw its owner come home.
"My name is Meng Tang."
"Qin Mengtang."
The two looked at each other, both feeling that the other's name was both strange and coincidental.
Later Qin Mengtang said: "I give you the word 'Meng'. From now on, you will be called Meng Tang, and I will also be called Meng Tang. The half you don't like belongs to me."
Meng Tang bent his eyes and smiled, smiling like a fox, but he said: "Are you sick? Can you give me your name? Then give me the word 'Qin' and I will sell it for money."
Only later did Meng Tang find out that this man had changed his family tree, changed his name tag, and dismantled the word "admiration" just to have the same name as him.
"You're crazy." Meng Tang said, but the corners of his mouth were raised.
Qin Mengtang squatted down - yes, he squatted down, looked up at Meng Tang, his eyes bright: "I have been crazy for a long time. From the day you picked up my copper plate by the Yinma River."
——But the craziest thing in the world is not to fall in love with a person, but that the person you fall in love with happens to be the son of the subjugated princess, happens to hold the key to a former treasury, and happens to be targeted by three forces at the same time.
And all of their names point to the erased palace incident twenty years ago.
Intent: By describing the process of two people searching for the truth, it reflects the progression of relationships between people.