Wuxian sighs softly and gives his husband an impossibly fond look. He's embarrassed, yes, but he can see how difficult this is for somebody with Lan Zhan's level of propriety and self-control - he's never, ever going to see the funny side.

"I'll talk to him," he says softly - he'll apologise, they'll probably laugh about it, and then they can all move on. "You do what you need to do, it's okay."

Lan Zhan can spend the day metaphorically wringing his hands over it all and Wuxian will have smoothed everything over by dinner.

And next time he'll get the talisman right - though he resigns himself to no sex with Yuan in the Jingshi for the foreseeable future. He'll probably be staying with the other disciples soon anyway.

Embarrassing mishaps aside, he is looking forward to spending the day getting to know his son again.