The moratorium was added by an edit if you opened a tab with the update it would not have been added till you refreshed it if you clicked on it before the edit was made. Furthermore a moratorium if we wanted implies that people would call for it before it would be applied. One person asked for one and other questers posted. Gaz did not outright said he would add one but put it under a condition of questers wanting it. Therefore I think it is reasonable for other questers to think he would not apply one till he posted it, because again only one person asked for it. I honestly don´t know why you need me to elaborate this for you or why it bothers you.
-[]Discreetly inform him that you owe a favour to certain powerful indiviual for the removal of Leng Jun and do not want to drag allies into this arrangement. (Shift blame)
-[]Inform him that at the moment you do not want to marry, because of the bandit threat. You know what it was like to lose your father in battle and don´t want someone you treasure to experience the same thing. (Stall)
-[]Inform him that the support you got may involve your hand being promised to someone else. Meaning the spot of first wife may be taken but you are open to more marriages. (shift blame + counteroffer)
This is what I wrote. I am not outright stating names. Like I have already said my write-in uses a three ponged approach of stall, shift blame and counteroffer. The nice things about it is that Shu is not outright lying but using implications to make Ge Lang believe he has made a deal that would need him to maybe marry someone. The best lies are always founded in truth. Shu is not outright stating he has to marry someone but there is the high probability his hand is owed in response to support he got. While yours essentially tells everyone that we will marry Linqui even though we have asked neither Lü Bu or Ding Yuan about it. Pot meeting kettle, mate.
The first statement does not need an explanation and is simple a motivation why a marriage right now would be bad out of Shu´s perspective. I don´t think anyone thinks this is a lie.
The second statement once again is not a lie. We owe Dong a favour and don´t know what will be asked of us and Jia Xu´s words give the whole transaction a bitter aftertaste making it possible for Shu to be unhappy about the whole situation. He does not know what Dong wants from him only that he is okay with murder of an official and now has leverage over him. No lie there or even just an implication of a lie.
The third and last statement is the ambigious one and is probably what most consider a lie. Shu of course does not know if something like that will happen but it is possible making it not an outright lie in my mind. So do I think there will be repercussions about it? No I don´t. If the roll fails it does not matter which option gets chosen because all would fail if they are rejection. The borrowing of authority is not that big a deal as you make it out. First this offer was made in private and not out in the open , meaning any rejection would not be talked about in the open. It is important to safe face in such circumstances and a prideful man like Ge Lang would not proclaim something like that loudly to his friends and associates. Ding Yuan is a by the book guy and did not even take statements from merchants and people from Xinshen about the state there seriuosly till someone (Shu) told him they were true. Why would such a guy immediately take action if he would hear a weird rumour about his adoptive grandaughter without waiting for an explanation? It is not like her honor would be harmed just a rumour about him getting one over an old clan head. You try to paint a worst case scenario with massive repercussions without any real evidence in the text that the characters will act the way you said. Why would a prideful old clan head drink himself into stupor and rage against the Inspector? Something like that is absolutely unbecoming of a noble clan head.
If Ge Lang would take the statement for being about Dong there is only one real way it could come to his ears and that is through Jia Xu. He would simply add it to the list of favours Shu owes him. I think such an option is extremely unlikely but it is better than losing support right now. Dong is a general of the Han and has an enormous rank and Ge Lang only knows what Ge Maiyu told him. Why would he dig into these mattes? If Lang talked to his granddaughter he knows we would owe this general a favour and rumours about Leng Jun being dead should have already come to his ears. He talked with the new prefect before us so he should be aware of it. Ge Lang is a politically astute clan head he gets the exchange of favours and how if you are beholden to more important people sometimes your hands are bound. In such matters you only involve yourself if you have no other way.
Last I would like to say that you stated all these points without addressing any point I made against your write-in. You try to paint a worst case so here is mine for you. Lü Bu hears about your marriage to his daughter and comes knocking and Ding Yuan is like you said angry about you marrying his granddaughter without any word from him (I only state the possibilty of a marriage you outright state there is one). Ge Lang is angry that you rejected his great offer and lied to his face about true love. He can recognize a political marriage if he sees one. Such support from the Inspector is not for free...do I need to go on? I do not like to use such arguments because I consider them flawed by itself but because you did not address one point I made maybe you will respond to that.
