[He's ready to laugh it all off and move on, maybe start looking into other leads. But Lan Xichen keeps talking, and it's hard not to let his mouth fall open, as he tries to grab hold of what to say. To hear a Lan, especially a sect leader, saying that the rules didn't matter, that right and wrong weren't always clear, that was well more than enough to leave him floundering. But to add that he thought Wei Wuxian, of all people, was a good man?]

Ah... Well... Zewu Jun, it's not... I don't disagree about things like that, but...

[But why have I never heard this before? Just how much has changed in the time he was gone? Why the change of heart? Especially when it contrasts so deeply with many of the Lan sect's rules?

He can't help the nervous remnants of a smile that cling to his lips.]

I'm not sure what I've done to earn your favor, but it's ah... kind of you to say so.