Part Two of the Peony to Lotus verse by Deriliarch. In part one, Flower of Another Kind Jin Guangyao is married off to Jiang Yanli as if to get him out of Koi Tower as fast as possible. Jiang Yanli decides to make the best of things.
Meanwhile, in this fic, Jiang Yanli and Jin Guangyao decide to begin courtship, slightly out of order. But exposing themselves to the possibility of being loved also means running headlong into all the ways they've been taught they are not worthy of it.
This whole series is a favourite of mine because I just want to see if the entire cultivation world could have been saved by someone being kind to JGY, and this is a lovely, warm, delighted and delightful look at that.
I was quite happy to podfic the whole series, but luckily there is already an excellent podfic of the first story Flower of Another Kind, narrated by Sisi_rambles so I decided to start with story number 2.
The music used is Delicate Tender Calm Beautiful Strings Heartwarming Music, by REDproductions on Pixabay