She nods. "I concluded you were almost certainly injured or discovered, to have not returned, and that if you were discovered it was likely to include... physical discipline."

If it was a punishment, he can't be healed or it will be worse for him, of course.


"We need not speak of it again, if that is your wish." She is curious; but Wei Wuxian will be livid, and Lan Wangji does not need to contend with that and her.