"The Vicodin should begin working soon. Tell me if you need another dose."

... how did Lan Wangji get that? "Thank you. For that and for rescuing me."

"You don't have to thank me."

"... it's either this or constant apologising?"

"You don't have to apologize either."

"Right, yes, but I think I may have left my scraps of assertiveness in the Pentex building."

"Are you hungry?"

"Uh. They didn't feed me?" YES.

Lan Wangji disappears into a different room. 

Wen Ning is going to valiantly stay conscious with the promise of immanent food. 

Lan Wangji returns with vegetarian chicken soup and a spoon. 

He puts the soup down, guides Wen Ning to sit up, sits next to him, takes the bowl in one hand and the spoon in the other, and brings the spoon to Wen Ning's lips.

He tries to make himself maximally convenient to hand feed. 

(The soup tastes like the divine nectar of the gods, but that might just be the hunger talking.)

Lan Wangji mechanically feeds Wen Ning the entire bowl of soup.

The nice thing about being in love with everyone is that this is awkward in a 'my crush is handfeeding me' way and not a 'I am too incompetent to feed myself and am now inconveniencing people' way.

But being mechanically fed by Lan Wangji is... a lot. 

"Do you need more?"

He is hungry enough to eat an entire cow, offal and all, but also he is realistic about what happens to people who don't eat for days and then eat a lot at once. "Not right now? Thank you." 

"Is there anything else you need?"

"I think I'm alright." 

Then he will guide Wen Ning to lie down and put him under a blanket. 

He is being tucked in by his crush and he is going to CATCH FIRE. OF EMBARRASSMENT. 

...assuming he doesn't fall asleep first, which is looking pretty likely. 

"I can read to you to help you sleep."

So, this is how the Ordeal is deadly.

"...if you would like to?" 

He gently puts a sleep mask over Wen Ning's face.

It transpires that the book available for bedtime reading is Masonry and Stone of the Middle Ages, and Lan Wangji's monotone is extremely soporific.

Also, the vicodin is hitting, so Wen Ning is out like a light after one minute. 

He awakens to the smell of soup.