"...I don't know how to sit properly or stand correctly, and I'm not sure what constitutes talking behind other people's backs or noise, and if you want me to do any magic you are going to need to find some really big bowls or relax that rule for me. Also 5am is early but I guess I might keep hours that early if everyone else did and there's no electric lights?"

(Electric) (lights) (?)

"We have more advanced technology in my world including lights that run on tame lightning so it's not inconvenient to be up and about at night."

(Tame) (lightning) 

(That) (seems) (much) (more) (exciting) (than) (candles)

"It isn't exciting after you're used to it but it's convenient."

Lan Wangji's hands hesitate over the strings, but he plays before his brother speaks. 

(Rules) (exist) (for) (a) (reason) 

(When) (the) (reason) (is) (absent) (rules) (can) (be) (set) (aside) 

"What's behind the arrogance rule?"

(Being) (overconfident) (can) (get) (oneself) (or) (others) (killed)

"If nobody's dead, how do you determine if someone was arrogant?"

(Taking) (stupid) (risks) 

(Being) (obnoxious) (about) (talent) (or) (status)

"Fair enough. Is that a representative sample or are there going to be a hundred of them that are about nothing but, like, etiquette for addressing visiting subs from important families versus visiting doms from random farmer families...?"

(Subs) (?) (Doms) (?)

"...I don't know enough about how your translation magic works to patch a confusion here. Uh, normally I would sort the people around and see if you could get the categories from that but I am aware I can't just guess off all of you having long hair, even in modern China in my world that's not the same as it is where I'm from, and I'm not picking up whatever cues are used here instead. ...I'm a dom? If that helps?"

(It) (does) (not) (I) (am) (afraid)

"...I assume you people pair off - or more complicatedly form arrangements, potentially - and get married and have children in some way. In my world doms date subs and vice versa. Uh, I guess in the historical period corresponding to this year and tech level it was mostly conflated with gender but in the modern day it's not that strongly correlated, for example I am a female dom and that's a minority."

(I) (see) (We) (do) (marry) (and) (have) (children) (Typically) (men) (and) (women) (marry) (although) (some) (do) (prefer) (their) (own) (sex) (I) (do) (not) (believe) (children) (are) (possible) (in) (these) (cases) (however)

"I mean, yeah, that's true in my world too that you need a man and a woman to have children, but ideally people are also compatible beyond that in dynamic. And I think most people don't have much preference genderwise? At least where I'm from; maybe that's culturally malleable. Uh, loosely, with lots of individual variation, doms prefer to be in charge of things, give orders and make decisions and typically but not always be dishing out preferred forms of domestic violence, and subs are the other way around, preferring to be led and bossed around and if they are into the domestic violence they typically prefer to be on the receiving end. Like, the fact that I walk around with this cane is not literally about suggesting to onlookers that it is very attractive that I could hit them with my cane, but it isn't not about that, a sub would probably prefer a different assistive device."

It is highly unlikely that anyone not already familiar with Wangji's microexpressions would notice the pinking of his earlobes. 

(Oh) (I) (see) (insofar) (as) (we) (have) (that) (it) (is) (considered) (a) (private) (matter) (between) (partners)

"Huh. Sounds inconvenient but you do you, I guess."

Lan Xichen says something which Lan Wangji does not immediately translate, instead raising his head to look at his brother and say something in return. Jingyi bursts out laughing and Sizhui blushes and covers his face. 

(Xichen: "You can guess, sometimes. Sect Leader Jiang, for example, with his whip--" 

Wangji: "Brother, I am not translating anything of that sort about Jiang Wanyin.") 

After a short spell of staring, Wanji plucks, (Not) (everyone) (has) (such) (preferences) (at) (all) (but) (in) (some) (cases) (one) (can) (guess) (that) (if) (they) (were) (it) (would) (be) (one) (or) (the) (other)

"There are nondynamics at home who are neither but they're rare. And switches who're both, more common than that."

(It) (is) (not) (something) (which) (has) (been) (rigorously) (studied) (here)

"Yeah, that makes sense if it's considered private. Sorry for the awkward, uh, translation issue."

(Better) (to) (know) (in) (cases) (of) (mismatched) (expectation)