"Yes, later." Lan Wangji takes another short pause. He has always known this story would continue to intersect unavoidably with some painful memories. He would not have volunteered to tell it if he did not already trust Claudius with these things. "In the escape from Carp Tower, Wei Ying's identity was revealed and he was injured. We took him back to the Cloud Recesses so that he could recover. Our next move was uncertain, because I trusted Wei Ying, and my brother trusted Jin Guangyao."