By the time you figure out the rules I broke

Oh, Huaisang hurts all over. He's going to be feeling this beating for several days, at least. But it's a small price to pay for peace of mind. So long as they take care not to antagonize Lan Wangji too much they should be fine, he thinks.

Jiang Cheng should be fine.

A slight, pained smile curves his lips as he reaches over to weakly rest his hand on top of Jiang Cheng's head.

"It'll be all right now, I think," he says softly, closing his eyes as he gently strokes the other teen's hair. "Old Man Lan doesn't know anything and if Lan-xiong was going to tell him anything, he would've done so then. But it'd be best if we didn't push him too much, at least for a while."

Neither one of them are Wei Wuxian and Huaisang doubts anyone else could get away with it the way he had.