[ Well, he didn't expect to be having this talk with his brother today. ]
Once a month, women bleed for days. It has to do with their reproductive cycle and cannot be avoided, so your friend Emilia ... will require rest during those days.
Remember when we first had the sects' heirs over for lectures, and some days the girls would be absent without warning? Those days, I signed them off with leave.
( Sent sometime in the middle of the night even though he knows Lan Xichen will be asleep, and via text because it is easier to hide the slur of his words. He's aware he won't get a reply straight away but if he doesn't ask now he won't and so he'll leave it like an unpleasant gift from an errant cat. )
Master Lan, a difficult question. Your ghost. The one you told me about before. How did you defeat it?
( Maybe if he were feeling better, more clever, he might know how to handle this better. But as it is, Wen Kexing has spent the last few days living off spite, wine, and very little sleep. )
Your brother truly has not mentioned it? I would have thought him eager to expose the truth.
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