"Wei Ying broke the rules," Lan Wangji responds. "And I did replace his jars," he adds, though he's sure he told this one that already. For him, those incidents happened on the same day, so it is the day he met Wei Ying, the silly boy who he had always thought would be trouble, and trouble he was.

He also had no idea what to do with his feelings then, clearly, as Lan Wangji hadn't figured it out by the time he got to the archery competition. Or by the time he'd gotten drunk. Or really, until very recently. And he knows the other one is the exact same.