"- We only went to the Sinosphere area of the shop!" Masozi protests immediately. "We were staying out of the way of anyone who might've wanted to assassinate me!" 

"Did you skip class?" Jiang Cheng says to Wei Wuxian. 

"No, I have Monday morning shop-- come on, Jiang Cheng, it'll be fine, and you know Monday morning shop has the best stuff--"

"It is not fine."

"I am going to break your fucking legs, Wei Ying, what the fuck were you thinking--"

"It'll be fine, I'll be fine, a-Cheng, don't worry about it-- I'm really good at magic, you know that, I'll survive it--"

"You didn't even know the New Yorkers were there! You couldn't have! Fuck you, I am going to break your fucking neck, how dare you--"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah it's the shouting again and Masozi is instinctively terrified, his mouth goes dry and his stomach is churning and he wants to hide under the table - 

- but it's not him under attack, it's Wei Wuxian, and after a moment he finds that, despite it being really scary, he feels - protective? 

Instead of fleeing or hiding, he moves closer, putting himself between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian. He looks Jiang Cheng in the eye, levelly, and hopefully it doesn't show that his heart is pounding in his chest and his palms are clammy.

"Please stop threatening him," he says, and his voice only trembles very slightly. 

"I'll stop threatening him if he stops being a fucking idiot!"

"Yanli."

"You're right, yeah, both of you are going to talk to Yanli right now."

Why are they talking to Yanli now. Is she the expert on Monday morning shop? That doesn't make any sense! 

Masozi sits down, though, and resists the temptation to glance helplessly at Lan Xichen in hopes of support here. It...probably was, in fact, stupid to go to shop, and he just trusted Wei Wuxian and in hindsight that was not a great idea. 

"a-Cheng what's wrong?"

"This idiot signed up for Monday morning shop!" He points to Wei Wuxian. "And this idiot went with him."

"It's fine, shijie, it's fine, everything is fine. We started our knives and we didn't get eaten! At all! Masozi totally noticed all of the mals, he's really good at it, and we got some great supplies--"

"Oh, Xianxian," she says. "What am I going to do with you?"

Oh, no, don't use the voice. He hates the voice.

The voice isn't really working on Masozi. He's mostly just very confused about what interaction they're supposed to be having right now, he thought it was going to be getting advice but 'what am I going to do with you?' isn't advice, or if it is it's very unhelpful... 
 

"Jiang Cheng, go finish your lunch please, I don't want you to go hungry."

He obeys. Grumpily.

"Xianxian," she says. "You just wanted to get the good supplies, right?"

"It's the best shop, everyone knows it, and I can make such cool things with my affinity--"

"But it's also the most dangerous," she says. "And I'm already so worried for you."

...oh no.

Masozi isn't sure why Wei Wuxian is making such an upset face about this! Of course Yanli is worried for him. The Scholomance is dangerous. This doesn't really seem like new information. 

He has learned that the best way to handle social interactions that he's confused about is to be quiet and not do things, so he holds very still beside Wei Wuxian.