<blockquote>Jingyan falls in love with Xiao Shu in the spring. Hopefully he'll get his man by winter.
A "Marquis Xie's Chiyan-Meiling Plot Fails" AU.
(The working summary of this travesty was "Xiao Shu channels Art of War to get Xia Jiang. Jingyan channels Art of War to get Xiao Shu", but a more accurate summary would be "Xiao Shu channels Art of War to get both Xia Jiang and Jingyan, and Jingyan has no brains".)</blockquote>
➤ canon divergence au where the chiyan plot fails, and wow this vision of what a young and unembittered Lin Shu is like is incredible
