So apparently befriending Lan Xichen is what she's doing now. 

How... does she do that. Every one of the obvious ideas are things that a hundred people have failed at a hundred times. 

...well. There's at least one thing she knows full well that Xichen cares about, and that nobody who comes up to Shanghai's table would think of at all. 

While Masozi is engrossed in Mandarin lessons, Ayako turns to focus on Meng Yao.