The smile fades after that fleeting moment, but Lan Wangji's expression stays, by his standards, warm. Wei Ying often exclaims over how funny, how smart, and how romantic he is. These are compliments he never could have imagined receiving before they were married; he would have once assumed Wei Ying was teasing him insincerely. Now he knows how love can make one person fascinating in the eyes of another -- and he knows just as well how Claudius adores Galahad.