[ There's a small frown at that ashamed look - he has no doubt that his brother did anything else than his best. It seems counter productive - they have already been captured and held here against their will, incapacitated, what purpose does something like this serve? ]

It would have been unreasonable to expect that anything you were provided to quench your thirst might have another purpose. Now we know.

[ And now things are much more complicated than he originally thought, finding himself here instead of in seclusion back in Coud Recesses, but at the moment he's only capable of focusing on one thing at a time, and this is much more pressing.

Irritating though it might be, Lan Xichen considers it a small mercy that it seems that anything that Wangji was in contact with is also effected by the potion. ]

We will ask them together.