Happy Pride!! The Untamed please. :)
a continuation of 1 2 3 4 5 6
"I think Lan Wangji hates me by proxy," Jiang Cheng complains, collapsing on the ground and leaning on Wei Wuxian's side.
She shoves him off, but he just loses his balance and ends up mostly in her lap instead. He shifts, purposely elbowing her in the stomach, until his head is resting on her thigh. She doesn't shove him off again, so she must feel at least a little guilty. "If you hadn't gotten caught, then you wouldn't have been punished."
"You're the one that was sending him love notes," Nie Huaisang says. "If you'd been able to keep it in your pants, Lan Wangji wouldn't have confiscated it and gotten him in trouble."
Jiang Cheng doesn't make a face at that through years of exposure to Nie Huaisang giving him and Wei Wuxian shit for their engagement. "It was literally her gloating about finding the hot spring before us. Which is why I got punished."
Wei Wuxian and A-jie high five. He's still convinced they cheated, somehow.
"But what did it say?" Nie Huaisang presses.
"Uh, 'I'll show you something really cool tonight if you're good', I think," he says, then looks up to scowl at Wei Wuxian who seems very proud of herself. "Because clearly if you're going to gloat you have to be patronizing about it too."
"Obviously," she says, unrepentant.
Nie Huaisang looks between them all, eyebrow raised. "You know he totally thought that you were going to sneak out to fuck."
A-jie wrinkles her nose at the same time that Jiang Cheng says "Gross" and Wei Wuxian asks, "If that's true, then why was he so mad about it? Obviously sneaking into the hidden hot spring is bad, but why would he care about me and Jiang Cheng?"
Nie Huaisang has that look on his face that he gets whenever he thinks Jiang Cheng is being particularly stupid. He's not used to seeing it directed at Wei Wuxian. "An absolute mystery. There's probably a rule against it, or something."
"There's at least four," A-jie points out, and then it all devolves into a conversation about which Lan rule is the most ridiculous.