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U asked for this

Date: 2019-12-11 08:17 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] firebranding
firebranding: (a stripper letting you buy her dinner)
[Asking for Xichen’s help in playing the guqin had been a good idea in many, many different ways. He’d accounted for and planned for it all. It allowed him to spend some time out of Lanling and the narrowed looks sent his way down the noses of those that thought themselves his betters, away from the whispers behind cupped hands and the sharp eyes just waiting for a reason to topple him.

No good deed goes unpunished, as they say, so perhaps it better he didn’t try at all.

These meetings offered in Gusu gave him the sort of peace he never could quite find anywhere else, though not just for the tranquility the landscape offered. It was also aided by the man presiding over his musical lessons, the eyes that never looked at him with derision or scorn, that never looked down on him.

Jin Guangyao was a man of ambition and patience; he could god himself together in the face of any humiliation or distraction, biding his time, playing the long game when he was so certain of the worthy payoff that would be rewarded to him.

He was not, however, at all prepared for Lan Xichen’s gentle instructions to be plaguing him as it was. Someone’s hands shouldn’t look that good sliding over the strings and plucking at them. He thinks the only thing worse would have been if Jin Guangyao had gotten it in his mind to ask about playing the xiao instead, because he’s seen Xichen play before, many times in fact. And seeing his mouth held steady to the tip of the instrument, poised and polished as he was, only fueled an imagination full of Xichen’s lips pressed to other things, or Guangyao practicing his technique in much more hands-on ways, or—

He doesn’t even have to fake his mistake this time, fingers plucking too harshly at the wrong time, the off-kilter twang of the string cracks sharply out of place in the cool air, and he winces with a soft hiss of displeasure at his mistake. He pulls his hand back and glances at Xichen through his eyelashes, bashful, his apologetic smile holding the hint of dimples
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Forgive me, Er-ge. My mind was elsewhere for a moment.

Date: 2019-12-18 03:24 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] firebranding
firebranding: (You can do it.)
[Guangyao shakes his head, apologetic and a bit embarrassed--he doesn't have to fake that much either, since it was his own traitorous thoughts that had betrayed him here.]

I'm afraid there's always much on my mind these days, but this time with you always helps to soothe it.

[His gaze lowers to the guqin strings-- or rather, the hands that lie atop the strings and he takes a breath, releasing slowly. Jin Guangyao is not a man adverse to taking risks, but only when he can be reasonably sure of his victory (or, at the least, that a loss would be in his favor anyhow), so he speaks carefully, gauging every movement and weighing it against the decision to speak up more.]

You are quite the unparalleled distraction.

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