Thread by @cicerfics

...So, wait. In CQL, when WWX and LWJ meet Lan Yi in Cold Pond Cave. They go through a weird timey-wimey thing, right?

Like, it feels that they're only in there for an hour, and then they come out and it turns out they've been missing overnight?

I'm remembering this correctly, right?

I'm honestly way overdue for a CQL rewatch, and some of the CQL-only details are getting a little slippery for me. 😅

I didn't make this up, right? As far as everyone else knows, they were missing overnight?

I am, predictably, thinking of this scene in the context of a/b/o and #omegaLWJseason.

I just think it would be Very Funny if O!LWJ and A!WWX happen to ~disappear~ overnight, and everyone is like 😱😱😱

The Lans, with their long history of ill-advised love affairs and elopements, are like, "Oh my god. He fucking eloped with that trouble-making guest disciple, didn't he. 😭"

The rest of the guest disciples are just delighted over the ~scandal~ of an a/o pair sneaking off to [redacted] in the middle of the guest lectures.

JC is having a nervous breakdown, because OH GOD, WWX ran off with the second jade of Lan to DESPOIL HIM, YZY is going to murder EVERYONE INVOLVED.

Then LWJ and WWX turn up all soggy and disheveled, not realizing they've been gone for a day and a half, and totally unaware why everyone is suddenly SCREAMING at them.

I dunno, it's just funny.

LQR narrowly avoids a fatal qi-deviation, because "hey, we found this horribly dangerous relic that was guarded for generations by the spirit of a clan ancestor" is actually much better news than "we ran off to [redacted] each other's brains out".

But, uh. Everybody Knows that these two were unchaperoned for a whole day and night, all by themselves, in a secluded cave in the back hills. So now they GOTTA get married, or their reputations will be ruined. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just think it's VERY FUNNY if wangxian reappear like, "Omfg, we just had the WILDEST time, here's some YIN IRON, now we gotta go find the REST before the Wens can get their hands on it!"

And everyone else is like, "*exhausted sigh* Ugh, yes, fine. We'll look into that after we finish planning your wedding. Hurry up, we need to fit you for your new robes right away."

Wangxian:

Some ancient great-aunt takes LWJ aside to scold him for "giving into temptation" and "behaving like a common harlot". She tells him he's "lucky we can put pressure on the Jiangs to force the boy to take responsibility".

LWJ: 😳😳😳

Well, yes, he DID let WWX touch his sacred ribbon in the cave. But that was a life-of-death situation! Surely that doesn't make him a common harlot?? 😭

Great Aunt: You had better not be pregnant already! Don't you know how embarrassing it will be for our clan if you give birth to a "premature" baby in seven and a half months?!

LWJ, wondering if you can get pregnant from someone touching your ribbon: 😳😳😳

Someone definitely has a similar conversation with WWX.

And he definitely winds up doing the ancient China version of Googling, "can u get someone pregante by touching their ribbon?? can u get prengan by going in a cold spring together??? can u get gregnant-"