"Safe enough to see past the curse. Safe enough that he's seen a moon grow fat twice over. Safe enough that every day is not a terrible gift, when they become as commonplace as pebbles on the riverbed. When he is safe to live how he chooses. Then," Lan Zhan says, already exhausted by the idea of losing Wei Ying, "then, I can tell him."

He will not.

But he could.