"Also legal! Social acceptance--" wiggle hands "--depends who you ask."

"Well, my home culture isn't exactly thrilled by either of those either."

"Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same."

"Well, if I find someone who can turn me into a girl..."

"You'll be the first to know! Or, well, second, I guess."

Yeah okay more education.

His foot is touching Jing Yi's foot and he's not taking it away.

Two can play at that game. Jing Yi is not going to move away from that foot.

LITERALLY WHAT GAME ARE THEY PLAYING AT HERE

THE GAME OF FOOT TOUCHING, APPARENTLY

(Jing Yi is in it to win)

HOW DO YOU WIN AT FOOT TOUCHING

(distracting thoughts about jing yi's smile, apparently)

Last man standing? Last man standing is who wins probably.

(Jing Yi has no distracting thoughts about being taught science, yes definitely. He is learning to help Great Tang, and the person he is talking to is just a means to an end.)

Why does Jing Yi have such a good smile. This is so upsetting. He's not even gay.

This is a carefully devastating smile. He has no chance.

(How dare be so good at teaching science. Just because he was 'born in the digital age' and 'has practice, probably'...)

Now there is science teaching and also miserable staring at Jing Yi's lips. 

The fuck are the Landlords up to.

Jing Yi has eyes, and they are capable of seeing where other people's eyes are looking. "You okay? Need a break?"

Oh god he noticed. "I'm fine! I can teach for hours."

"You don't need to fit a thousand years of science into one sitting."

"I guess we have until your funds run out."

He should prooooobably move his foot away from Jing Yi's foot but consider: he doesn't want to.

"Which means we don't have to try and stuff everything into my head at once."

The foot slowly inches closer.

"Well, what else are we going to do, watch extradimensional TV?"

"It could broaden my cultural horizons."

The only place to sit and watch TV is on the bed together. Obviously.

Fuck the Landlords.

Jing Yi flops dramatically on the bed (because why would you flop undramatically?)

Oh no he's cute.

He turns on the TV and silently prays that the channel isn't set to pornography.

Technically it is not. Instead it appears to be set to some sort of... naked shampoo commercial? Except the person's hair is carefully braided?

He quickly flips the channel to something else. This seems to be some sort of... alternate dimension news show? It is very interested in the latest fashion decisions of some person named Princess Mal. 

Okay so all things considered he is never going to need to have opinions about this Princess Mal, on account of alternate universes, but the combination of women's fashion and implied political intrigue has him hooked