"You're not innocent! You slept with him! Deliberately!"

"I feel like we would be having bigger problems if Jing Yi slept with Jin Zixuan non-deliberately," Wei Wuxian says, quietly enough that only the other freshmen hear.

"Even the peacock wouldn't do that."

"Actually, I tripped and fell right into his arms, it was kind of an impressive accident, really-- after I asked if you were cool with it. And you assumed I meant the freshman?"

"Like you wouldn't sleep with the freshman!"

Masozi is trying to focus on catching as many Mandarin words as possible, which is mana-building as well as good for learning the Nie Huaisang isn't telling him all the context because he thinks it would scare Masozi? But actually it's MORE SCARY to be confused? 

He's pretty sure he recognizes the word for 'problem'? ...How reassuring. 

Nie Huaisang is just going to keep translating things for Masozi as they happen.

Excuse you, Jing Yi is easy, but he is not unstrategically easy. "Do you want to sleep with the freshman? It would explain the assumption."

"No!" He reconsiders this. "Probably not!"

Oh good he can focus 100% on the language part and not on the scary parts. No one else looks scared except for Wen Ning, who's scared of everything, so maybe it actually is fine? 

...Also he's missing SO much subtext about why this is the kind of thing Jin Zixun would get mad about? But that's a lot harder to get a translation of in real time. 

Really making your case here, Zixun. (Life would be so much easier if it was Zixuan who was good at wards. ...actually no, but it would be a different class of difficult. Zixuan, at least, would not be doing this in public. He appreciates that Shanghai may want the distraction, but could they at least not drag Chang'an into it?)

"What a confident statement."

"You were the one who failed to specify a surname!"

"Because I had no clue of Hu Zixuan's existence."

"How is that my fault!"

He pinches the bridge of his nose. "It's not your fault, but I had no way of knowing what you were assuming, or that you had such a particular definition of incest? You are the one he knew there were two Zixuans, you could have asked!" (That is very much your fault.)

"Look, everyone agrees you shouldn't fuck your lover's cousin! I feel like this is very basic etiquette!"

"He has a point, I don't want to sleep with someone who's sleeping with Jiang Cheng."

"But you're not related."

"Thank God."

"He's still my shidi."

"We're all shidis. Doesn't that imply that if you're sleeping with one of us you shouldn't sleep with anyone of us?"

"- What does 'incest' mean?" Masozi asks Nie Huaisang, when he translates this to English. He's not familiar with the word in either language. 

"Yeah, but Jiang Cheng is my shidi shidi. You know."

"Right. I'm definitely not having sex with someone who's having sex with Wei Ying."

"See!"