you’re so welcome anon! i missed them too and always planned to come back, i’m just a fairly slow writer and i had two other wips to finish first haha (pretty boy and levee). in starting to work on chapter four, one thing i’m really enjoying (and one thing i thought a lot about in the earlier chapters) is the slow realization by jisung that jaemin isn’t some super-confident all-powerful regent. jisung has some self-confidence issues that i’ll address in the next chapter re: his value as a ruler; jaemin sees it much more clearly from the outside. but it’s also those doubts that make him put jaemin on a confidence pedestal, so to speak? like in chapter one, jisung assumes jaemin is offended at the idea that jisung would tell him who he could or couldn’t sleep with, when really jaemin is hurt that jisung would assume jaemin wouldn’t even try to make him happy. jisung writes off jaemin’s sweaty palms and his appearance in the honeymoon suite because he can’t believe jaemin could be nervous or falter in the face of duty the way jisung believes he does. it’s fun writing jisung both learning his own sense of purpose and confidence while also unlearning the idea that jaemin is somehow untouchable and never has doubts. this next chapter includes them walking among the people and it’s really fun to write the difference in what jisung believes and what jaemin sees. (: this will also probably be the last chapter in the keep (emphasis on probably—my own estimates are often wrong lol) and i am so excited to finally bring chenle back and write the chenji relationship.