Zizhen has spent enough time with the Lans to understand the meaning behind the ribbon, to know what Jingyi is truly saying with that offer - it's not a surprise, really, or it shouldn't be, since he already knows that Jingyi loves him, that they want to spend the rest of their lives together, but it's a solid confirmation of that fact and it has Zizhen breathing out a shaky breath, his gaze reverential as his hands are gently guided to his lover's skin.
He brushes fingertips gently up the other boy's sides, letting his eyes move from his own hands and the body beneath them, trailing up Jingyi's chest to his face.
"I love you." He says - he wanted to say it better, always wanted to say it better, wanted there to be poetry and perfect moments because Jingyi deserved it, but right now he just needs the wonderful, beautiful boy to know the depth of his feelings, and those words are all he has "I love you, and I will love you, forever."
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Yuan glows under the praise - it's not as though he hasn't heard the words before, but from anybody else they made his stomach churn, or at the very most were met with polite gratitude. From Ling, they made him feel beautiful. Precious. Deserving.
"As are you," he says softly, because he means it, and because he's not so sure Ling ever gets told that kind of thing. He's sure plenty of people praise him - hollow words in some cases - but it's unlikely to be for anything so simple as his beauty.
He pauses for a moment, takes the offered hand and brings it to his lips to kiss before letting go, leaning down briefly to pull a slip of paper from his fallen robes.
"One moment, my love." He says, powering up the talisman and tossing it onto the door, feeling just a tiny thrill in being able to show off even a small amount of his cultivation in front of Jin Ling.
(The talisman itself was designed by his father - a tweak to the original silencing talisman that allowed it to shut out noise from outside and inside. That way, there was no chance of that little mishap from when he first arrived happening again)
He takes Jin Ling's hand again with a smile, leaning in for a kiss before allowing himself to be lead over to the bed.
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Zizhen has spent enough time with the Lans to understand the meaning behind the ribbon, to know what Jingyi is truly saying with that offer - it's not a surprise, really, or it shouldn't be, since he already knows that Jingyi loves him, that they want to spend the rest of their lives together, but it's a solid confirmation of that fact and it has Zizhen breathing out a shaky breath, his gaze reverential as his hands are gently guided to his lover's skin.
He brushes fingertips gently up the other boy's sides, letting his eyes move from his own hands and the body beneath them, trailing up Jingyi's chest to his face.
"I love you." He says - he wanted to say it better, always wanted to say it better, wanted there to be poetry and perfect moments because Jingyi deserved it, but right now he just needs the wonderful, beautiful boy to know the depth of his feelings, and those words are all he has "I love you, and I will love you, forever."
~~~
Yuan glows under the praise - it's not as though he hasn't heard the words before, but from anybody else they made his stomach churn, or at the very most were met with polite gratitude. From Ling, they made him feel beautiful. Precious. Deserving.
"As are you," he says softly, because he means it, and because he's not so sure Ling ever gets told that kind of thing. He's sure plenty of people praise him - hollow words in some cases - but it's unlikely to be for anything so simple as his beauty.
He pauses for a moment, takes the offered hand and brings it to his lips to kiss before letting go, leaning down briefly to pull a slip of paper from his fallen robes.
"One moment, my love." He says, powering up the talisman and tossing it onto the door, feeling just a tiny thrill in being able to show off even a small amount of his cultivation in front of Jin Ling.
(The talisman itself was designed by his father - a tweak to the original silencing talisman that allowed it to shut out noise from outside and inside. That way, there was no chance of that little mishap from when he first arrived happening again)
He takes Jin Ling's hand again with a smile, leaning in for a kiss before allowing himself to be lead over to the bed.