While There Are Green Hills, There Will Be Wood To Burn.
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Diligence is the Root by ellethinthewoods, little-smartass (Linxcat)
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
29 Jul 2022
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Jiang Yanli has a hand on Jiang Wanyin's arm now, shaking her head and asking quiet questions that Huaisang can only partly make out. Other disciples are responding, and it must have got out that he wasn’t at practice because Meng Yao is making That Face - a reserved Oh Dear Young Master, This Humble One Is Disappointed Once Again that is covering for a You Little Shit that is only seen behind closed doors - so Huaisang knows he’s going to be in trouble later. The branches aren’t as comfortable as they were a second ago, so he might just slide down and head straight to the lunch hall, where the Lan rules will stall any yelling right up until the point where someone tells Lan Qiren. All bets are off then.
Jiang Wanyin might just beat Lan Qiren to it, even if he doesn’t know Huaisang is around to hear him. He looks livid. Huaisang is just getting his hands and feet moving to begin his descent when Jiang Wanyin’s molton gaze sweeps the diplomacy students, razes the pavilions, and then locks on to Huaisang and begins to burn through his skull.
Oops.
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Morality is the Priority by ellethinthewoods, little-smartass (Linxcat)
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
05 Sep 2022
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"So I beg you, Jiang-guniang, stay safe. Keep your stupid, stubborn brothers safe - Jiang-gongzi owes me money, and I want to see Wei-gongzi be ridiculous around Lan-er-gongzi again, and I want to gossip with your disciples and get glares from your handmaidens, and I want to speak to you again, Jiang-guniang. Despite - despite everything, I think of you as my friend.”
Her hands shake in Yanli’s grasp, so she tightens them to chase the tremors out; Yanli squeezes back.
“I think of you as my friend too, Luo-sima.”
It may be stupid, to be fond of a woman her gongzi has insulted and broken a troth with, to be fond of a woman she may never see alive again with war towering over them. She cannot say otherwise. But she also doesn’t care.
“Call me Mianmian. If we’re friends.”
“Then you must call me Yanli.”
“Stay safe, Yanli.”
“Do not worry. I will.”
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Harmony is the Value by ellethinthewoods, little-smartass (Linxcat)
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
07 Nov 2022
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They walk the rest of the way in pleasant silence; with the view out over the sprawling city of Lanling from Koi Tower, and the way the sunset paints the flowers and glinting gold buildings in soft pastel hues, and the sweet looks A-Yao keeps flashing him from under his eyelashes, it ought to be a perfect evening, and yet-
Probably, it is just residual discomfort, but the deeper they walk into Koi Tower, the more he can feel his spiritual senses… twinging is the best description, like he’s walking on a sprained ankle. With all the beauty and warmth around him, having this strange but insistent pulsing of unease feels like listening to music played on a guqin with one single string out of tune. It doesn’t help that the whole place seems oddly deserted - corridors he has seen previously ringing with the footsteps of servants are conspicuously silent, side rooms usually full of cheerful bustle absent of guests.
He can’t bear the idea of ruining this long-awaited reunion, though, so he pushes down the unpleasantness, down and down, and when A-Yao knocks on the door of a guest suite, and da-ge answers it, smile already blooming on his face - well. It’s easy to ignore. It's probably nothing.
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