"Mostly."

"What's wrong? Ambient proximity to Lan Qiren's goatee?"

"I'm kinda worried about," she waves a hand vaguely.

"Mmmmm. Don't worry too much, as far as these people are concerned 'Mo Xuanyu' is just a harmless lunatic." 

"I'll try."

"Good. I'm not going to leave like that again; this time I'll stay as long as you want me around." 

"Good."

"Admittedly the amount of time you spend not in the Cloud Recesses will make it easier for me not to accidentally tip off Lan Qiren as to who I am by breaking a dozen rules at once." 

"No one else does that?"

"Not like me!"

She laughs. "If we were staying here any longer I'd propose a competition."

He laughs. "I think Lan Zhan might get upset if we actually sent his uncle into qi deviation." 

"He'd probably sigh."

"And narrow his eyes slightly!"

They reach the gates. Lan Wangji speaks to the disciple on guard duty, who asks if his guest is going to need a guest room made up; Wangji hesitates for a moment before saying that he'll stay in the Jingshi. 

(He chokes, slightly, at that.) 

"So you'll be with us," she explains to him. "It might be a bit crowded, but we never stay long..."

"Oh, yeah, I guess it makes sense, if you stay there too because it's not for long." 

"Probably I'll need my own rooms sooner or later, but yeah, sharing's more convenient for now."

"I promise to try not to wake you in the middle of the night if you'll promise not to wake me at your unbearably Lannish hour by jumping on me, I think that's the kind of thing that's only cute and non-internal-organ-damaging when you're little." 

She snickers. "I don't remember that! But I promise not to."

"You don't? You used to wake me at the most absurd hour of the morning by jumping right onto my stomach, Wen Qing would scold you for it if she caught you but I wasn't a snitch so she usually didn't." 

"Aw. And, yeah, I never did that with other dad, and I've forgotten a lot about being really little..."

"Ah, that makes sense. I don't remember that much about my parents either...you didn't? Hanguang-jun just too proper?"

" - Oh, no. It's - he was injured, for a few years. I got a lot of very serious talks with Uncle about not jumping on him."