He didn't like it any more than Lan Zhan, and from the sound of things, they'd both had very different conversations. If he was only risking his own neck, it was one thing, but if the man wanted to see Lan Zhan hurt as well? He'd immediately gained Wei Wuxian's ire.

"He made it sound as if he was working against the queen," he admitted. Those few hints they'd received, that there might be a resistance, some stealthy rebels in their midst, it had him hoping, but...

"So..." he lets out a frustrated breath, "we just play along with their rules like good little children?"

He can certainly understand Lan Zhan's hesitance though, "I know it's a risk, but, if the queen would punish so severely for something as simple as talking to the White King... doesn't that mean there's something there to learn? Something we need?"