*grins* It's really a lot of fun to write, because it's so /easy/. Just one or two tipping points and behold, Meng Yao has pretty much everything he ever wanted, all from Lan Xichen's hands. And then the Wen sect interferes and the only thing keeping Meng Yao from trotting around the Qishan pleasure quarters and commissioning the mass poisoning of the Wen sect is that Lan Xichen would look at him sadly if he did.