Summary:
Lin Chen did not look up from his book. “What on earth,” he said, clipped and precise, “makes you think that I would want to meet the man you're busy dying for?”
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In which Lin Chen joins the Consort Jing fanclub, Mei Changsu re-evaluates several tenets of his existence, and Xiao Jingyan decides that if everyone else is having an emotional crisis, he might as well join them.
➤ HELLO it's a 12k Lin Chen/Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan ship fic I am there with bells on!!!
➤ mcs has a thing with jingyan and separately a thing with lin chen. he wants to make them be in the same room with each other.
➤ mcs gets what he wants and immediately gets to regret it in like five different ways, which is exactly what I love to see
➤ it's got so many delightfully fraught conversations between various iterations of the characters!
➤ it involves lin chen and jingyan talking about mcs behind his back!
➤ it involves lin chen and consort jing teaming up!
➤ LOVED IT.