"If I do, Jiang Cheng and the other Jiang sect disciples will get in trouble." 

Softly: 

"I want to." 

"...Maybe we could set it up so it looked like you were kidnapping me? I mean, there's no way I wasn't going to cause trouble eventually, so really, if I leave now I'm soooort of doing Jiang Cheng a favor..." she says, as though this whole thing didn't count as causing trouble. 

"You should not unnecessarily jeopardize...." Please come, please come, please.

"Ah, Lan Zhan, you know me, if I stay I'll definitely say something dumb and everything will be jeopardized anyway, at least this way I get to stay by your side, right?"

She leans a hair closer. "How should we do it?"

"Umm...I'll find you a place to hide outside the Jiang house. I'll sneak back in and write a note saying Xue Yang told me where he hid his piece of Yin Iron and I've decided to do the right thing and tell the Wens where it is, only when I get to the part where I actually say where it is, I'll leave a big smear of ink like I was physically dragged away mid-brushstroke. I'll tell Jiang Cheng to say that's what happened. And when I signal you, you bust in through the wall and grab me and take off, okay?"

"Signal?"

"I'll throw a piece of paper out the window." 

She nods.

So she finds a good hiding place with a view of the window and wiggles back in. 

"Where have you been?" 

"I can't think of a way to answer that question that doesn't make you worry." 

"Do you think saying that isn't going to make me worry!?" 

Sigh. Pout. "I went looking for Lan Zhan." 

"Did you find her?" 

"Yyyyyyes. And, um. We sort of--found some stuff--okay, you know how every time we turn around lately the Wens are doing something worse?" 

"I don't like where this is going." 

"Well, from my perspective it already went there, and I didn't like it one bit either. Anyway, I'm going to write a note that makes me look good to the Wens, and then I'm going to signal Lan Zhan and she's going to break in and kidnap me." 

"How the hell did you get Lan-guniang to agree to a plan like that???"

"That's just how fucked up what we found was!!!" 

"Oh, god, I don't want to know, please don't tell me I have to know." 

"You don't have to know. You just have to tell the Wens I was here all afternoon and then I started writing this note and then Lan Zhan physically prevented me from completing it when she kidnapped me." 

He hugs her. 

"Please be safe," he says. 

Hug. "I'll do my best. Really, uh, given...what we found...this is probably safer for me than staying."