( 08/08 ; un: @jiangyanli )

[soups]

hello, i am pressing the buttons very slowly so i don t make many typing mistakes.

every one has been through a lot lately. if you are hungry or cold or upset by these events, i have made a large p ortion of soup if you would like some. it is a simple soup so there is quite a bit. it has no meat if you are concerned about this.

i'll show you the soup !

❰ here is the soup! ❱

i can bring you some if you would like. our residence is very out of the way. there are many bowls with lids here so it will not be any trouble.

i am very impressed by people who use phones well. the letters are very small!

regards
jiang yanli

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[soups]

I actually thought about this the other day when talking to Wei Wuxian...do you think such a thing is possible? That they should, or could?

It's practically all the Lan clan disciples have ever known. It would be hard to abandon all their principles.

❰ and on a different level, yanli does understand it. despite this being a world without their clans, letting go of their culture and way of life...is there a good enough purpose? is it okay to give some of it up, but hold onto other parts? ❱

I wonder sometimes how much we should acclimate into this world.

[porndealer]

[... she does have a point. Huaisang feels a little bad now, quiet for a moment before speaking up again.]

... I guess that's true. As long as they don't expect us to follow their rules, they can keep them to themselves.

[And Lan Sizhui and Jingyi haven't pushed any rules on the cabin since they've all been here. Honestly he wasn't worried about them, it was more Lan Wangji or even Lan Xichen that would be more stern about such things. Or maybe they wouldn't since this wasn't Cloud Recesses. Who can say?]

It's a good question, but I really don't know the answer either. Everything is so strange and different from home, it's hard not to use things that are here.

[soups]

It can be so hard to adapt. I think after a while I'll have to succumb to the clothes at the little food shop.

❰ she's been to the gas station -- had a slurpee, that was weird. poked a honey bun or two. but her brain kind of melted looking at what she could only assume were clothes to be worn based on the material they were made from. so revealing, both in how they lacked any cover in the arms, and the long pants revealed the true shape of one's legs. ❱

I don't really like the way they're styled but...it's inconvenient to have to wash my one hanfu every day.

❰ and also all of the under-dressing separate from it...wearing clothing is so inconvenient here when she would reasonably have to wash her robes, wait for them to dry and then be completely naked for hours in the meantime. ❱

[porndealer]

If not for the dreadful heat I wouldn't have worn any of these new clothes! Well... the shirts aren't uncomfortable, but it's so strange wearing just the one small shirt and the pants-!

[Not uncomfortable either, but so tight!]

It almost feels like I'm wearing nothing with how tight they are, but it is a lot less hot in these clothes than our robes.

[soups]

Ah, Nie-gongzi. I want to assure you that I don't judge you for adapting in such a way. Not in the slightest.

❰ just in case he's noticed the behavior she's about to describe and took any offense to it. ❱

But that is at times how it looks and feels, so I have a hard time looking at anyone wearing the food shop clothes...! Perhaps it will get easier with time. I also don't want to feel so...exposed, to others.

❰ even her brothers have never seen her bare arms...what a dangerous precedent to set with the people from other worlds, just showing her intimate skin willy nilly!! ❱

[porndealer]

[She's so terribly sweet, truly. Even if she did judge him he wouldn't take it too hard. Everyone had their ways and this place was testing them a lot. Maybe that he'd always been a little different from most others when it came to what was expected of him made it a wee bit easier... and as weird as the clothes were trying them on and learning about this kind of fashion was kinda fun.]

It's okay it's okay, you don't have to assure me.

Hmm... I'm not sure how to make it easier for you, but maybe we should try finding you something that will cover you properly first.

[Even if it won't be what she's used to at least everything that needs to be covered will be. Huaisang considers for a moment then-]

Ah-! Jiang-guniang, your cabin is very big, there are extra rooms right?

[soups]

Yes, I think the covering is the most important part. I think I can potentially become adjusted to...the tightness.

❰ she isn't referring to tank tops or skinny jeans -- even a pair of sweatpants show off too much of the form of a person's legs to make her happy, but it's a compromise she'll make. ❱

We do have many rooms...I can't even decide what all of them should be for.

[porndealer]

[See he didn't ask about all these rooms for no reason, promise it's connected to the clothing thing.]

Maybe until you need all of those beds, you could use some of the bedding to make a few more lighter hanfu?

[soups]

That's quite a good idea...I wonder if there will ever be a way to find fabric here. There are a number of people here, and even those who want to use the clothes from the shop...they can't possibly clothe everyone here.

And it's so easy for things to stain -- especially cleaning this large house.

[porndealer]

It's hard to say... they seem to be able to do so much, maybe they can? It would be nice if you could find just fabric to sew with.

Maybe you should see about seeing if anyone would help clean? Since it's so big a house. You can pay them with delicious soup!

[soups]

It's a fine idea...but maybe I'm selfish for wanting it to be refinished by A-Cheng and I. That way it truly does feel like the real thing.

❰ well, there is one other person she would have no complaints in helping. but jiang cheng would never allow it. ❱

[porndealer]

That doesn't sound selfish at all. A lot of work, but at least then you know it will be done how you want.

[Oh Jiang Cheng.]

[soups]

It's true...even if it doesn't exactly look like how Lotus Pier did, and it can never be truly replaced, something refined by mine and my brother's hand may be the close I ever get again.

❰ but yanli quickly shakes away the wistfulness, realizing how droll she's suddenly become. ❱

I'm sorry, Nie-gongzi. I didn't mean to suddenly get so nostalgic.

[porndealer]

[He can only imagine. Even during the Sunshot campaign and with the Wen soldiers trying to bring down The Unclean Realm, they hadn't managed the devastation that had been wrought upon Lotus Pier.

Even from when he'd been taken from home, Jiang Cheng had still been working to right everything. There was so much to rebuild. His people had suffered so much, as well as his family. Then losing with Wei Wuxian defecting from their sect...]

No no, please don't apologize. In this place we have to make whatever peace and happiness we can. A little bit of home in any way is better than nothing at all.

[That's why he'd wanted to catch a bird, just to have something like back home.]