Observant, Lan Wangji watches as Nightingale adds things to his tea. He frowns passingly but copies what he does. The tea does not smell the way he expected it to, but perhaps it would have been more surprising if it had.

In answer to both the explanation and the question, Lan Wangji hesitates. "Nightingale," he repeats, reluctant to use no title but equally reluctant to disregard Nightingale's preference. "Most address me as Hanguang-jun, if they are not close enough to use my name. Before I earned that title, I was typically introduced as the second young master Lan."