Lie Down For Me, Ch9 - naysaltysalmon - a 陈情令 | The Untamed fic - AO3
Words: 7,710 Genre: Drama/erotica/suspense Rating: E (body dysmorphia, tr*nsphobia, inc*st, dubcon, attempted r*pe/noncon)
Pairing: NieYao Characters: Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Jin Guangshan, Original Female Character(s), Meng Shi, Jin Zixuan, Lan Huan/Lan Xichen
A/N: I finally got the space to update last Sunday!! With any luck there is only one chapter left. Please give this fic some love!! I have poured so much time and care into this fic.
Preview:
Before Jin Guangshan in the medical ward, Jin Hua projects innocuous, blank neutrality. Shaking her head, she apologizes at every question the Jin patriarch asks about Jin Guangyao’s whereabouts. Her whitened neck bends, red-painted lips fix into a tight line, and she bows, raising her hands over and over again.
“I am sorry, Clan Leader Jin,” she demures. “I do not know where he is.”
“No?” The Jin clan leader clucks, shifting backward on the medical bed. White bandages obscure half his forehead. “I would have thought Jin Guangyao confided in you.”
“No, Clan Leader Jin,” Jin Hua answers with self-fabricated remorse, lowering her gaze. “I only saw Jin-gongzi rush past me in the hallway after destroying all the things in his room—a horrible waste of cosmetics if you ask me. I followed him to ask what was going on, but before I could get an answer, he was out of my sight at the bottom of the palace stairs.” She tilts her head to one side, the golden beads and combs in her hair clinking, her gaze appealing. “I can only assume he tried to escape Jinlintai. It would have been the smartest choice after attacking Clan Leader Jin.”
Jin Guangshan shows no outward change to his face. But underneath his skin, he is blistering. He already knows she is lying. The guards posted on the palace’s entrance stairs had seen her and Jin Guangyao venturing down together, clutching each other, not arguing or avoiding, but focused and silent. She knows where Jin Guangyao is hiding. That was why she had been difficult to track down yesterday: She had been going back-and-forth between the palace and that place.
If that was the case, then she could be the one to lead him to it.
















