"A-Ling," the name is almost a sob, and he sits up to watch him leave with a heartbroken expression, clutching the ring like a lifeline.
As soon as Jin Ling has left, he pulls his knees up to his chest and breaks down - which is where Wuxian finds him when he returns, and he pulls his son into his arms and whispers apologies and reassurances, so focused on the crying young man that he doesn't think to go check up on his nephew, to go find out what Mentao discovered and pass the information on, he just clings to his son until his tears have run out.
He does think of it later, when Yuan has cried himself back to sleep, he tucks him up in the blankets and steps outside to go in search of his nephew - who he's told has left - and then Jiang Mentao. He should find his husband, too, and make their own arrangements to leave.
(And in his guest quarters, Nie Huaisang amuses himself with one of his favourite books and waits for everybody else to have left)
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2021-08-20 14:31 (UTC)"A-Ling," the name is almost a sob, and he sits up to watch him leave with a heartbroken expression, clutching the ring like a lifeline.
As soon as Jin Ling has left, he pulls his knees up to his chest and breaks down - which is where Wuxian finds him when he returns, and he pulls his son into his arms and whispers apologies and reassurances, so focused on the crying young man that he doesn't think to go check up on his nephew, to go find out what Mentao discovered and pass the information on, he just clings to his son until his tears have run out.
He does think of it later, when Yuan has cried himself back to sleep, he tucks him up in the blankets and steps outside to go in search of his nephew - who he's told has left - and then Jiang Mentao. He should find his husband, too, and make their own arrangements to leave.
(And in his guest quarters, Nie Huaisang amuses himself with one of his favourite books and waits for everybody else to have left)