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I really love the "scapegoat child is given away to an arranged marriage with someone they've been given reason to believe is likely to hurt them or otherwise make them suffer, except it turns out that person is actually very kind and saves them from their abusive family by showing them their first taste of genuine kindness" trope immensely and in the 3zun sphere I usually see it with nieyao, probably because the Jins are awful to Jin Guangyao and the Nies are very suitable for having a bloodthirsty and potentially violent reputation given their saber cultivation... but now I actually really want to see it with xiyao!

Give me a Jin Guangyao who is set to marry Lan Xichen and is genuinely terrified of what he has heard of the Cloud Recesses. He has heard that they are strict disciplinarians, that they have a wall of thousands of rules, and that if you break any of them then you get whipped—his cultivation is not strong enough to withstand that, he is certain. He has heard that they value purity of body, mind, and spirit, and have banned alcohol from Cloud Recesses—nevermind what they must think of a prostitute's son. He has even heard whispers of what happened to the last person to have married a Lan sect leader—the example that the current Lan-zongzhu must have been raised with.

He is very, very determined to be perfect, even more so than he had been at Jinlintai. As far as he is aware, that is the only way he will survive at all.

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