Lan Xichen listens with puzzled patience - to have such a major aspect of one's person change so suddenly and he hadn't noticed, hadn't thought to dig deeper on these many inconsistencies, had just accepted it all on face value...

...He really was making all the same mistakes again, wasn't he?

Something to think about later. For now, he wanted to get down to his blood issue.

"How did yours change you...?" he asks, brow knit in worry. How dangerous were these changes...?