"You know, I am discovering that is a weirdly common condition!"

"Sorry. My parents said that it might be boys or girls that I want to- kiss, they didn't talk about putting my mouth anywhere else- but I don't find it that interesting yet."

"All the guys in my enclave have been horny for years! Except Lan Wangji, I think he's carved out of stone or something. Utterly immune to sex."

"Do you know why? I'm not horny yet either. Maybe it's the same reason. Has anyone studied it?"

"I think in Lan Wangji's case it's profound repression and sheer hatred of joy and pleasure."

"...mn."

...are nuzzles and leaning off the table now? Tomonori doesn't know how to ask that so he just waits to see what Nie Huaisang does next.

"You're really cute. --Is it okay if I touch you?"

"It's okay."

"Is it okay like 'yes, sure, Nie Huaisang, I'll agree to that gross wet thing you want because you really want it' or okay like 'yes I actually want that.'"

"From now on, I'll say 'I'm confused' if something is gross and wet and I'm not sure if I want it and I'll say 'I want that' if I think it sounds nice and good.

I want that."

Nie Huaisang has happy wiggles.

Good!!!

They can hug and nuzzle and lean and talk about making salt!

This is the best way to study!

Eventually Nie Huaisang says, "...do you want to be my boyfriend?"

"Mn."

Tomonori thinks about this. There's a lot to think about (what Lan Xichen will say, what Kyoto will think, what it will look like to get a boyfriend in the first week), except he's really not good at thinking about all that. Those are things his parents told him to worry about - enclaves and enclavers and how things look. He normally just applies those rules.

"Would that be different than what we did today?"

"I'd probably draw you pictures. And try to get you to do my homework for me. And cry on your shoulder about da-ge."

"...okay. I can think about that while we revise and then I can tell you when we're done."

He's going to do that and also sniffle a little bit on Tomonori's shoulder.

Sniffling is distracting but Tomonori will focus on revising the material from their first lab (especially because it sounds like he'll have to do twice as much work all the time, if he's Nie Huaisang's boyfriend) and the Golden Ratio class. Maybe he can make Nie Huaisang smile by talking about flower petals.

Nie Huaisang will BRAVELY SMILE THROUGH HIS TEARS OF REJECTION AND DESPAIR about the flower petals.

What are the reasons not to be Nie Huaisang's boyfriend?

Tomonori does not want to kiss anyone. Kissing is gross and wet.

Nie Huaisang will make him do all of his homework.

He will need to sit at the table with Jiang Cheng and Lan Zhan, who hate him. The former of whom may hit him with Zidian, next time.

What are the reasons to be Nie Huaisang's boyfriend?

Tomonori likes getting to see all of Shanghai's magical artifacts.

Nie Huaisang is interested in all of the same things as him.

Nie Huaisang will keep drawing things for him.

Maybe Lan Xichen will decide he is worth making part of their gradation alliance if he just spends enough time around him.

When Tomonori reaches a natural stopping point in the revision, he looks at Nie Huaisang thoughtfully.

"I want to be your boyfriend."

NO more crying! Only joyous smiles and a lapful of gleeful Nie Huaisang!

Nie Huaisang believes in the importance of incentives in boyfriend management.

Okay! Tomonori is glad that Nie Huaisang explained everything. Now they can have hugs and leaning and no one needs to cry (about boyfriend things).

"If you don't like kissing we don't have to kiss. We can be non-kissing boyfriends." Nie Huaisang is not sure that this is in fact a thing but if he says it with confidence it can be one.

"Maybe I will start to like kissing boys later. I don't know yet."

Tomonori has thought about kissing girls before but now that he's kissed someone he thinks it's better in his head.

"You don't have to! It's fine if you never like kissing."

It sounds VERY SAD, to Nie Huaisang. 

"Just as long as you don't mind me getting off thinking about you suddenly discovering you want to get your dick sucked."