[ there are many reasons that shang qinghua doesn't accompany mobei jun on all of his various diplomacy ("diplomacy", if you can call it that, when it comes to demons) missions. the first reason is that despite being an immortal cultivator like everyone else in cang qiong, shang qinghua is not what you would call an extremely good fighter. in fact, he's what you'd call "cannon fodder" or "particularly squishy and vulnerable". he knows this because he, airplane shooting towards the sky, called himself that before he was himself. therefore, if he went along, he'd probably be toast and or a distraction, in which maybe they'd both be toast and that would just be unacceptable. the second reason is that shang qinghua, personally, doesn't even like being in battle! see reason number one.
thirdly, shang qinghua has his own duties to attend to. since things have... happened (and boy, they have happened. you would thing shang qinghua would be the one with the insight as to Things That Would Happen, but no, he could not have predicted a single thing that happened regarding His Royal Beautiful Pain in the (literal?) Ass Mobei Jun the most Perfect Man Alive, hindsight was twenty twenty.) no, his duties back in the northern kingdoms require him to organize everything and anything he can get his grubby hands on. it's a travesty how badly this place is run. haven't demons ever heard of bureaucracy? of filing systems??? of streamlining literally anything?
...he's become fairly good at this job since becoming shang qinghua, and while mobei-jun is away, he's got a stack of paperwork as tall as he is to work through from his desk. it's distracting enough from everything else going on, even if demonic handwriting makes his shitty handwriting look like calligraphy. sitting with his bad leg propped up on a pillow at his desk, he's muttering to himself as he scratches out notes in the margins of something or other, chewing on the edge of a brush. so absorbed in his work, he doesn't even seem to notice that his king has returned from his battle....
its probably a good thing mobei-jun's not out to kill him or anything cause he'd be super dead ]
for his two facial expressions
thirdly, shang qinghua has his own duties to attend to. since things have... happened (and boy, they have happened. you would thing shang qinghua would be the one with the insight as to Things That Would Happen, but no, he could not have predicted a single thing that happened regarding His Royal Beautiful Pain in the (literal?) Ass Mobei Jun the most Perfect Man Alive, hindsight was twenty twenty.) no, his duties back in the northern kingdoms require him to organize everything and anything he can get his grubby hands on. it's a travesty how badly this place is run. haven't demons ever heard of bureaucracy? of filing systems??? of streamlining literally anything?
...he's become fairly good at this job since becoming shang qinghua, and while mobei-jun is away, he's got a stack of paperwork as tall as he is to work through from his desk. it's distracting enough from everything else going on, even if demonic handwriting makes his shitty handwriting look like calligraphy. sitting with his bad leg propped up on a pillow at his desk, he's muttering to himself as he scratches out notes in the margins of something or other, chewing on the edge of a brush. so absorbed in his work, he doesn't even seem to notice that his king has returned from his battle....
its probably a good thing mobei-jun's not out to kill him or anything cause he'd be super dead ]