Snuggles! (She has a devious idea in class the next day and instead of whining at teachers, she makes her face Very Serious and responds with 'mn' to everything.)

The teachers seem pleased by this behavior. Jingyi attempts desperately to hide his helpless giggles whenever this happens. 

Oh no now it's hard for HER to resist giggling.

He makes a face at her when nobody else is looking. 

She sticks her tongue out at him.

He crosses his eyes. 

She bursts into giggles.

Laughing for no reason is forbidden. 

She was laughing for a reason, though! Because life is good and things are funny!

What things are funny. 

She isn't going to TATTLE...

"Butterflies are very funny!" she says after some thought. "They do silly things."

"There aren't any butterflies here, so there isn't any reason to laugh."

"Sometimes memories are funny, though."

The teacher gives her an unimpressed look. 

"Well, me laughing had a cause - I didn't roll dice and decide 'evens' means 'laugh' - so I wasn't laughing without a reason!" she says, very sagely. "Everything has reasons."

The teacher sighs disapprovingly but does not assign punishment copying. 

Oh WOW apparently if you're good enough at LOGIC you can get away with breaking rules! This is amazing and startling news. (Yuan decides to learn SO MUCH LOGIC for future rule-breaking.)

Jingyi looks similarly amazed!

Heeee. (She resists cackling evilly.)

After class, she reports this discovery to daddy! (Does he have suggestions for learning logic?)

"There are texts on it in the Library Pavilion." 

Ooooooooooooooooooo. That sounds very interesting!

He is proud of her and her discovery and loves her very much. 

"I love you too daddy!!!"

Hug. 

The next day when she comes in he is reading one of her stories and looking sad. 

"Is everything okay, daddy?"