Luckily for Shen Yuan, this is the Nie brother who does not care one whit about how masculine (or not) he's perceived. He blinks at Shen Yuan for a second, sizing him up and determining that he is probably not trying to be insulting here - and therefore is not high on machismo, which means: it's funny. He does indeed laugh, and if it's a giggle pitched higher than his natural laugh might be, for the sake of the bit, then yes: it definitely is.

"Is their motto something like, 'Unparalleled Beauty'? That kind of association would flatter this one immeasurably." As long as he could just, like, chill prettily, and not have to do sword practice. He's noticing "ladies only" is the only feature here, not "no sword practice."

"But I don't know... Art classes sound invigorating."