#I wrote this scene from JC’s POV and I won’t pretend I wasn’t sympathetic to it

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While I love most of your Untamed fics(I am saving your latest to read once we get past family medical stuff and I have energy to comment.), the one that sticks in my mind is "

Lan Sizhui was nodding along, hopefully. “He looked after me all the time when I was little. He was so gentle and kind to me. I don’t think he’ll frighten her, Jiang-zongzhu—I can’t ever remember being afraid of Ning-gege!”

“So you see, Jiang Cheng?” Wei Wuxian said hopefully. “There’s nothing to worry about! Shu-er couldn’t be safer with Wen Ning!”

Jiang Cheng breathed in through his nose, and out, and in, and out, and and then lost it. “That’s fine. Was Jin Ling’s father safe with him?”

And now, the entire room was as tense as his jaw. Fifteen minutes ago, I was happy… He regretted saying that in front of Jin Ling, and yet." From the Challengers series. Just...so much pain, but also so damned justified. (I also love One Slash, Two Hearts!, but this is the one scene I keep returning too.)

I’ve been there recently and I know much that eats your brain. ❤️❤️❤️ I hope your family medical stuff resolves as well as it can. (And I hope the story you’re saving for later is a pleasure or a comfort to you when you get there. But if you never read it, that’s okay too, because I know how that goes, truly.)

Oh man, that said. Y’all keep pulling up my greatest hits. I LOVE THIS SCENE. *flails* I love conflict…I didn’t deliberately put all these characters into this situation just to see them squirm? But my god that was a bonus.