Zizhen is not awake - he does stir a little bit when Jiang Cheng steps closer, but he only mumbles something about Lan Jingyi and falls still again, clearly fast asleep.
Jiang Cheng can get that good night's sleep after all, and he can even do whatever he likes the next morning because nobody bothers him at all until the afternoon, when a servant comes to announce that he has yet another visitor.
This one comes with a small retinue of servants because he has to as sect leader, but in deference to what's been going on he's brought only his most trusted people and he's brought the minimum number he can get away with.
He's waiting in receiving room the servant took him to, idly fidgeting with the bracelet on his wrist. He's wearing the perfume, too.
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Yuan nods along with the explanation, giving the other disciple a friendly smile as he looks into the room with interest. He follows Jingyi into his room and looks around - it's nice, it has the same understated elegance as the rest of cloud recesses, and he can almost see himself sitting to work or play qin or otherwise take time to himself in one of these rooms. He's not really used to having a space that's a sanctuary - he had his own room at the Golden Hare, of course, but it was the same room that he entertained clients in, he couldn't really retreat to it because it was constantly violated by the presence of other people.
Even sharing a space like this would feel like blissful tranquility.
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Zizhen is not awake - he does stir a little bit when Jiang Cheng steps closer, but he only mumbles something about Lan Jingyi and falls still again, clearly fast asleep.
Jiang Cheng can get that good night's sleep after all, and he can even do whatever he likes the next morning because nobody bothers him at all until the afternoon, when a servant comes to announce that he has yet another visitor.
This one comes with a small retinue of servants because he has to as sect leader, but in deference to what's been going on he's brought only his most trusted people and he's brought the minimum number he can get away with.
He's waiting in receiving room the servant took him to, idly fidgeting with the bracelet on his wrist. He's wearing the perfume, too.
~~~
Yuan nods along with the explanation, giving the other disciple a friendly smile as he looks into the room with interest. He follows Jingyi into his room and looks around - it's nice, it has the same understated elegance as the rest of cloud recesses, and he can almost see himself sitting to work or play qin or otherwise take time to himself in one of these rooms. He's not really used to having a space that's a sanctuary - he had his own room at the Golden Hare, of course, but it was the same room that he entertained clients in, he couldn't really retreat to it because it was constantly violated by the presence of other people.
Even sharing a space like this would feel like blissful tranquility.
"It's lovely," he says genuinely.