Every ridge hand-picked by the late sun’s slant light, by wildestranger

Zhao Yunlan gets up to greet this man, his destiny – who is currently scowling behind his fancy embroidered mask – and smiles as filthily as he can make it. Whatever else they might be to each other, Shen Wei has been taunting him for weeks. Zhao Yunlan is going to take him home and fuck him until he cries and he wants Shen Wei to know that. 

“Long time, no see,” he says. 

The Black Cloaked Envoy blanches.

Adult, missing scene. I am 100% convinced that Zhao and Shen do have sex for the first time after the tea scene, and this is a deliciously believable scenario (with some shades of novel!characterization).