[Xichen's taste for the spicier things in life have certainly developed. He maintains his vegetarian diet, even if technically, he is perfectly at liberty to eat meat outside the Cloud Recesses.
He's never developed much of an appetite for meat, and Jin Guangyao has always been so accommodating - even back during the banquets, he'd always make sure neither meat nor alcohol were anywhere close to Lan tables.
It was kind. Lan Xichen only loved him all the more for it.
And that is why he never bothers with the rule of not talking while eating. Beyond the walls of the Cloud Recesses, silence at the dinner table is, more often than not, seen as socially awkward at best, and an affront at worst. He is sure his husband would happily accommodate him if he insisted on following the rule, but he doesn't. There is a certain warmth that fills him, sharing both a meal and conversation.
Besides, since they've been together, they've done far more at the dinner table than just talk. He knows there is no rule about that on the Wall of Discipline, but only because no Lan has ever been that audacious.]
A-Yao has not.
[He can hazard a guess as to why, and he certainly doesn't expect his husband to tell him every single thing. Still, Jin Guangyao gets a small, warm smile, a sign that Xichen is happy he chooses to trust him with this.]
...Would he like to?
[He leaves a way out for his husband, of course. In case he decides that he is, in fact, not ready to talk about it.]
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He's never developed much of an appetite for meat, and Jin Guangyao has always been so accommodating - even back during the banquets, he'd always make sure neither meat nor alcohol were anywhere close to Lan tables.
It was kind. Lan Xichen only loved him all the more for it.
And that is why he never bothers with the rule of not talking while eating. Beyond the walls of the Cloud Recesses, silence at the dinner table is, more often than not, seen as socially awkward at best, and an affront at worst. He is sure his husband would happily accommodate him if he insisted on following the rule, but he doesn't. There is a certain warmth that fills him, sharing both a meal and conversation.
Besides, since they've been together, they've done far more at the dinner table than just talk. He knows there is no rule about that on the Wall of Discipline, but only because no Lan has ever been that audacious.]
A-Yao has not.
[He can hazard a guess as to why, and he certainly doesn't expect his husband to tell him every single thing. Still, Jin Guangyao gets a small, warm smile, a sign that Xichen is happy he chooses to trust him with this.]
...Would he like to?
[He leaves a way out for his husband, of course. In case he decides that he is, in fact, not ready to talk about it.]