AAAAAAAAAAA IS HE BEING FLIRTED WITH

"Thank you."

"People should not be cute while teaching; it's unfair. You should all be old scraggly men incapable of being adorable."

(Man man man he's a man he's a man--)

"...yeah."

Oh no fallen face what did he do.

"... you're not great at this 'taking compliments thing' are you?"

"People don't say nice things about me."

"Well that's a sign of shocking bad taste."

Oh he is being flirted with.

"...I'm not that kind of gay."

Dammit.

"Gay? I think something's not translating right."

"Uh. Interested in men."

"Ah, right " This is almost certainly a subtle 'cool it with the Friendly Flirting' and Jing Yi can take a hint.

And also shuffle slightly further away to not make him uncomfortable.

Oh no Jing Yi is going away. Why are the predictable consequences of his actions. 

"Um-- you don't-- I just--"

"No, it's okay, I understand."

He is going to BANG HIS HEAD INTO THE PILLOW.

"I... want to be a girl."

"You may have mentioned that."

"Right. So. I want to have sex with men because it's-- a girly sort of thing to do. I don't like men for themselves."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

"Sounds very reasonable!"

Jing Yi has no opinion on or feelings about this. He has never had an opinion in his life. What is a feeling and can you eat it.

"So I just thought. You should know that. If you're going to flirt with me."

"I was trying to be friendly, there's no-- expectation. Though the fact you are adorable is 100% true."

Oh. Right. That makes sense. 

"Is that how you're friendly in Great Tang?"

"If you're me."

Lev does not know how to process this information and in lieu of anything else to do is going to hit his head against the pillow again.

This is so much easier on Grindr.

Oh no this has gone south very rapidly.

Does burying his face in the other pillow in Sympathy help?

Mrrrrmmmph.

Maybe they can watch more about Princess Mal and, also, touch feet.

That seems like it's unlikely to go wrong. Jing Yi approves.

After a few minutes Lev says, "I... think this is from a world where the people from a series of children's stories from my world actually exist."