[ TFLN 3.0 - 2020 ]

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[eternalgrief]

It is a deal then.

We'll see how it goes.

[inventive]

It's a deal!

Report back in oh... a few weeks?

[eternalgrief]

No no. Go talk to him now.

[inventive]

Now? That doesn't give me any time to prepare!

Are you going to talk to Jiang Cheng now?

[eternalgrief]

All the better and no time to back out.

Yes.

[inventive]

Going to go confess my undying love to Lan Zhan now.

[eternalgrief]

Tell me how it goes.

[inventive]

[ the next day ]

So. Uh. Things might have gone a bit unexpectedly.

[eternalgrief]

Is he good in bed?

[inventive]

The best but that's not the point. We eloped.

[eternalgrief]

YOU DID WHAT?

[inventive]

Eloped. You know, got married without family consent, in secret, kind of a hasty ceremony so we can say we're taken. We'd already made some of our bows together before, so we just had to complete them.

[eternalgrief]

Aren't you very glad I pushed you? Even though I am hurt there is no wedding.

[inventive]

I owe you for that. We'll have a banquet or something later. I want an excuse to make Lan Zhan wear red.

How did asking Jiang Cheng go?

[eternalgrief]

You owe me quite a bit indeed! And that is better than nothing of course. It must be lavish.

He left me on read.

[inventive]

You can host, if you'd like, the Lan sect has terrible banquets.

Talk to him in person. He's not gonna respond to a question like that over messages.

[eternalgrief]

I would be honored and certainly you can't let the Lan sect host it. I'll make sure there is plenty of wine flowing.

Maybe I should take the non-answer as a sign.

[inventive]

Nah, you just have to be persistent. He's not good with processing things like that. Ask in person.

[eternalgrief]

But in person he could throttle me.

[inventive]

His bark is worse than his bite, he won't throttle you. I bugged him all the time and he never throttled me that much!

[eternalgrief]

You never bothered him about something like this I'm sure! Men can be quite unreasonable about these things.

[inventive]

Uh huh and who told me to gain some courage and talk to Lan Zhan, who is also unreasonable?

Talk to him. Or I'll talk to him for you.

[eternalgrief]

No! You can't talk to him. They're also different kinds of unreasonable but fine...

I'll talk to him in person.

[inventive]

They're different but still unreasonable. Have you tried arguing with Lan Zhan?

Do it soon, so when I tell Jiang Cheng about eloping he's too distracted to yell at me.

[eternalgrief]

The situation is quite different, you know! He obviously loved you and we don't even know if Jiang Cheng is interested in men at all. Maybe I'll just tell him you guys eloped and then ask so it won't seem like such a big deal.