I often feel sorry for Saerlund. Part is that my characters (or at least me personally with 4th wall knowledge) align with him politically and his opinions are part of his problems. Another is being put down by his own family. His mother is a clueless idiot but thinks he's possessed or cursed. The mage that his mother has investigating him is a scatter brained dunce. His brother is just a favor-currying sell out, pandering to their mother's puppet-stringed ideas and willing to have his brother killed over ideals he doesn't really hold himself.

So, I tend to use whatever Sexlab mods to make him feel better, often in front of everyone in the court.  Mod are also an easy way to get Laila to rank four on the relationship scale and SL Eager NPCs then lets you ask her to throw a party. Being rank four, or being thane gives you access to the jarl's quarters so Calia (my imperial PC) found Laila up there one night had a nice fireside chat with her newest bestie.

Not really wanting to let her in my grand plan I got her to agree to host a few other close lady friends for a small party. (SLEN randomly picks, but when I saw who it picked this story started to develop and I grabbed all the screen shots to tell it ).

Dravynea, the mage from Kynesgrove, was certainly acceptable even if she was a Dunmer. Annika, a skilled alchemist from Riften (mod added alchemy trainer and further modified to use a Bijin look) was also invited. (For some reason Laila was invited by SLEN as was Saerlund which made this work).

All too soon though I revealed my true reasons for throwing a party...   girls! in Saerlund's room!  at least mom is there to supervise, though all she ended up doing was watching us play.

Eventually she gave up and left.  Dravynea just swapped in for Annika to get a little of Saerlund for herself.

Then we rejoined Annika in Laila's room!

We even had the whole thing catered through Laila didn't know about that ahead of time.   Kept the interruptions from the kitchen staff down though which was a good thing.