Summary:
It was easy to want what you couldn't have. Ever since her father had told her that she was destined for the royal harem, Jian Lan had been confident she'd make it to the rank of consort. But she'd also known that, in the meantime, she'd be having a passionate love affair with some unsuitable man around the palace.
➤ TGCF fic about the era after xianle falls to yong'an, when Jian Lan finds work in a brothel
➤ Jian Lan's perspective on her developing relationship with Feng Xin
➤ I love the sharpness, the awkwardness, the quiet ground-down miseries - and yet the grasping onto what hope and beauty and love that can be found in the midst of it all
➤ Jian Lan and Feng Xin are doing their best! I'm emotions
➤ and I love the gentle femdom that Jian Lan leans into when Feng Xin's women issues make it challenging for them to have sex <3
➤ 5k words in length
