"You're very cute, si-mei. I want to horribly corrupt you." He sits next to her and puts his head on her shoulder.

Wasn't she instructed not to do this a minute ago? She feels like she was instructed not to do this a minute ago. Not that she moves away. "--I'm not sure being corrupted would be good for my life expectancy?"

He puts his hand on his heart. "I will only corrupt you in ways that don't decrease your life expectancy, I swear on my ancestors. I like you, si-mei, I don't want you to die."

"I guess being corrupted wouldn't be so bad then."

"I like thinking about raping people or getting raped, and getting tied up, and tying people up, and being a brat until people have to punish me, and being praised, and sex in public, and getting knocked up. And wearing girls' clothes."

"I-- I don't think I have any fantasies?"

(This is not, strictly speaking, accurate. She has as many as several 'pleasant daydreams' that she is, as soon as she gets the time, reassess and realise are sexual.)

"That you know of!"

"--I guess I might grow into them?"

"Well, you could try thinking about pretty people and see what happens."

"Do you think that would work?" (Unfortunately there is a pretty person right next to her, and that is taking up enough brainpower that there is not much room for thinking about pretty people in a directed way.)

"Sure! There's a pretty person in your bedroom, what kind of things would you want to do with them?" he says, obliviously.

"--I think realistically I would be too awkward to do anything to them."

"You don't have to be realistic in fantasies! I can fantasize about throwing a pretty girl down on the bed and fucking her while she fights me but that doesn't mean I'd actually ever do that."

ahaHAHAHAHA

THAT IS NOT A MENTAL IMAGE SHE HAD BEFORE

SHE SHOULD NOT LIKE THAT MENTAL IMAGE, YET HERE SHE IS.

"I don't know, I think I'd get distracted by not acting in character?"

"You could imagine a very forthright and direct sexual partner. Or mind control, although probably that's easier if you have a crush on Meng Yao or Lan Xichen. Or you could always imagine that you're a totally different person."

"...I guess." ('very forthright and direct' is going into the mental image, isn't it.)

"I want to know what you're into but I guess you don't know."

"I haven't really thought about it?" (Which is technically sorta true.)

"I know for all the people I'm close to! Like Nie Huaisang and Jiang Cheng and I haven't asked Zaizai but I bet I could guess."

"They told you?"

"Oh, yeah, we used to swap porn recs and watch porn together and also get drunk and make out."

?????

"I-- guess you would end up knowing in that case?"

"Yeah, it was fun."

...is this a social interaction she will have to have? Like, not necessarily with the Shanghai boys, but... do the Chang'an girls do this and they just never told her?

She cannot imagine a more awkward interaction.

"I'll take your word for it."

"You won't have to do that, si-mei, unless you want to, we didn't invite Wen Ning or Lan Wangji. --Uh, until the latest drunken party but I'm pretty sure Chang'an doesn't have drunken parties."