That they had such different conversations only cements in Lan Wangji's mind that the rabbit man is not to be trusted, and assumed that Lan Wangji wouldn't have enough words to speak between them to have figured out his plot against them. Honestly, he almost hadn't; they'd barely talked about it.

"The Queen has not seen the King in some time," he answers. "If he was great and powerful before... his spirit has deteriorated. His answers are not as fearsome as she thinks." He'd been here for maybe hundreds of years, wasting away, as she grew more and more powerful. In her madness, she might still see him as that worthy opponent he once was.

"Do you have Inquiry?" he asks, because how would they even get more answers out of the White King anyway? Is Wei Ying planning to invite his other self along to speak to him? See what he missed?

Lan Wangji does not think this will end well for his stubborn husband.