...He is. a similar number for her. "I'm sure you'd have done pretty well if you had the opportunity."

"Well, I'm definitely making lots of friends now--"

"And almost started a war--"

"Technically that was Lan Xichen's fault."

(A large chunk of the Chang'an table is definitely making faces about this conversation.)

"Hopefully making friends doesn't cause any more near wars?"

"Well, have you offended New York?"

"...I'm not sure who's in New York yet, so hopefully not?"

"Uh, they're white people and they're super rich. Even richer than Shanghai."

"I will do my best to avoid offending the rich white people." She makes no promises about that though.

"Anyway if you do that sounds like Chang'an's problem and not ours."

"We're allies."

"Well, other than that."

"I would really like to avoid causing any wars?"

"Don't worry. Most people go through their whole time in the Scholomance without causing any wars. Zaizai is just ambitious."

"I would assume there'd be a bunch more wars if that was the case. And that someone would have told me."

"Right. Like they say 'don't eat food if no one else has taken food from it' and 'vending machine tokens are good for trading but not really good for eating' and 'wall sits are the best way to earn mana'--"

"I like wall sits."

"You would."

"I'll have to keep the wall sits in mind." She has been generating mana through the tried and true method of being confused about everything, so everything is an effort.

"Do you have an exercise routine for the Scholomance?"

"My exercise routine is trying to get through corridors as fast as I can so I am never there for too long."

"Oh, you want something else to build mana and make you stronger-- I like the seven minute workout because I'm very easily bored--"

"Strength training is good too. Pushups, squats, dips, handstands--"

She knows some of these words! "I will keep that in mind."

After a furious and mostly incomprehensible argument she will receive several pieces of paper with sketches of how to do various exercises and suggested orders in which to do them. Also, very firm instructions about proper warmups because getting an injury in the Scholomance will kill you.