bang! crash! the lightning flashed!! -- that's another story, nevermind, anyway!

[qingxinling]

Jiang Wanyin sweeps along the shores of the lake, glowering. This is not his beloved Lotus Pier. These waters are cold, foreign, uninviting. Clearly there's been some trap: he's been distracted by duty in this hunt, and when he followed the slight tug in his chest, he ended up getting pulled into unfamiliar territory.

No matter. He draws himself to full height, letting cool arrogance slip down his shoulders and suffuse him. Sandu is naked in one hand; Zidian crackles in the other. He can handle whatever monsters may arrive.

Comments

[sporesprouter]

"Fair enough, I guess." She follows his gaze across the lake. "Huh."

[qingxinling]

Jiang Wanyin barely spares a glance at the girl. "You know them?"

[sporesprouter]

She nods. "Yes, I've met them both. I know Lan Wangji better than Wei Wuxian, though."

[qingxinling]

That doesn't make any sense at all. Unless she means she knows Lan Wangji because he's so dull that there's nothing to know. He glowers.

[sporesprouter]

"So I'm guessing you... don't get along, then?" She can already tell that's an understatement, even.

[qingxinling]

"What the fuck are you talking about," Jiang Wanyin snaps. As if it's any of her business!

[sporesprouter]

"... Right. I'll be getting back, then, I guess. Nice to meet you?"

[qingxinling]

There could, perhaps, be a world in which Jiang Wanyin is perfectly polite to a strange young woman¹, but that world is on in which he has not locked eyes on his former shixiong cavorting about with Hanguang-jun, the man who proves that some jade is actually worthless. He barely even bows as she leaves.


¹Citation needed!