{Matchmaker Lakan}
Note: I'll try since this man doesn't get much attention. Also my first one-shot, so bare with me it's been a hot minute. (Probably boring so fair warning ig idk.🤷🏻♀️)
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You're Jinshi's childhood friend due to your mother being good friends with the empress dowager. But evidently so you ended up being one of Jinshi's only lady-in-waiting since all the previous ones are taking his stuff as souvenirs, drugging him, or not doing their job when their busy drooling over him. You don't see the appeal of him since he's practically like a brother to you, he's good-looking... but not your type.
So when you go to the Rear Palace with Jinshi to see what's going on over there. You become acquainted with the apothecary known as Maomao and get tangled up in solving mysteries and quickly realize the affiliation with her and Lakan... due to their obvious family traits of the La Clan.
And a clear indicator of knowing that he's her father is when you're not assisting Jinshi, Lakan hunts you down since you're around Maomao all the time and he just really detests Jinshi being around her and "stealing her away from him."
"Oh Miss (Y/n), would you care to partake in a lovely game of Go?" Lakan says. "Very well, but I still have work to attend to later today." You sigh. "Lovely, come on then." You and Lakan end up going to one of those tables (forgot the actual wording for it.) outside due to the nice weather.
"Shall we play I'll let you go first, and while we're playing you can tell me how my lovely daughter is doing and if that eunuch is too close to her lately." Lakan says excitedly about Maomao, then is annoyed thinking of Jinshi. "If we're doing a two out of three and I beat you what do I get out of this?" You exclaim. "Hmm, if you beat me I will let you choose whatever you want, within reason of course." Lakan exclaims happily. "Very well." You say, side eyeing him.
Since this is the first time you're playing Go with him, he assumes you'll most likely lose like all the others. But unbeknownst to him you're one of the Emperor's Go Instructor's granddaughter from your mother's side. You start first on the board and while you're both in the middle of playing you let him know that Jinshi and Maomao weren't around each other as much due to the busyness of their work at the moment.
Lakan is gleaming due to Jinshi not being near his daughter as of right now, then you take that chance and beat him in the first round of Go. "Well well well, you surprised me (Y/n)." Leaving him slightly stunned, not expecting to be beaten by someone close to his daughter's age.
You both keep playing, going into the second round while telling him about Maomao and the poison she's been finding lately in her investigations. He smiles knowingly at his daughter's habit even if it is unfortunately cumbersome. Setting his piece down, you put down the last piece to finish the game and win by a hair. You sigh in relief about this being over with. While he laughs at what he just witnessed. Not having to go to a third round.
"We should play again sometime soon (Y/n), but since you won both rounds in a row against me. Why not marry Lahan since you're both close in age and not married, you could come and go from the estate, and let me know how my dearest daughter is doing and I can play against you regularly for a challenging game of Go. Killing two birds with one stone as they say." Lahan said in amazement and shock about beating him at Go so quickly. And dare I say twice in a row.
"I'll pass on the marriage since I hardly know your son. And for my winnings I wa-" "FATHER!!! You have to hurry to the meeting, it's about to start soon!" Lahan runs out of breath and looks tired trying to chase down his father, for the meeting he's supposed to attend soon. Looking over at the person he was playing against staring a bit longer than necessary. "Hmm, very well let's go, and (Y/n) you can tell me what you want the next time we cross paths, until then." Walking away to the meeting, annoyed that she got interrupted.
(Y/n's Pov)
"Sly fox, trying to sneak away when I'm about to say what I want." Glaring at the two retreating figures. More so at your earlier competitor than the other. You're annoyed that your precious time was wasted on playing Go and not relaxing, also with him trying to strategically have you marry Lahan to get more information about Maomao's daily whereabouts, instead of getting something from him.
This is going to get very tedious for you in the coming days, you can sense it. As for Lahan he's not the most beautiful guy you've seen, but he's not that bad to look at either. You wouldn't mind getting to know him, since you'll probably come across him eventually due to work or Maomao or even Lakan's insistents of bugging you. But even so, is he still weird as others say of him?
(Lahan's Pov)
"FATHER!!! You have to hurry to the meeting, it's about to start soon!" I yell trying to bring father to the meeting as quickly as possible. I look over to see a breathtakingly beautiful lady, whom father had apparently played Go with. But unfortunately, I don't have the time to flirt with her due to the meeting, and the number she has is so pretty I could just stare at her forever.
"Hmm, very well let's go, and (Y/n) you can tell me what you want the next time we cross paths, until then." Father says to her while we walk to the meeting that's taking place. "How do you know her father?" I question wanting answers about (Y/n), since I haven't seen anyone as beautiful as her compared to the others I've come across. (Besides Jinshi even though he's a guy.)
"(Y/n) is working for that eunuch, while also being around my dearest daughter all day. She is surprisingly good at Go, she beat me twice in a row." Father says ecstatic. 'WHAT!?' I thought, my eyes going wide from pure shock knowing she beat him not once but twice? At Go seriously?
"Twice?" I say. "Yes, the first in the Rear Palace to beat me twice in a row. It was so shocking, that I asked if she would like to marry you since your close in age and I could have regularly updates on my daughter and someone challenging at Go." Father exclaims.
'MARRIAGE WITH (Y/N)!?' I wouldn't mind having her as a wife. She's pretty and seems capable to be a valuable asset later, I'll have to look into her and see who she is since I've never seen her till now. If everything's good I could propose to her and besides with her beauty and my tactical and mathematical smarts, we could have beautiful future heirs that could be smart also, when we marry. Smiling at the thought dreamily. This will an intresting encounter.
Extra:
Somewhere at the Rear Palace Jinshi's lady-in-waiting is preparing to make tea until she can't stop sneezing (Courtesy of Lahan.) needing Maomao to kick her out for the rest of the day.
Hope all of you like it and also got extremely busy and kept getting migraines so had to put it off a bit.















