Qi Yan shakes her head, mystified. The translation is nonsensical, but the idea of different pronouns for different genders is simple to grasp. "It doesn't make any difference to me. But what I've told you is private, so you may use the masculine ones with others." It varies, which words in her own language feel like her, and which do not. She is Bayin's sworn brother, and a prince to her people. The word princess would sound inaccurate. Xiao-Die calls her gege, but she wouldn't mind jiejie, if it was ever safe to acknowledge their relationship. She would not like to be called a woman within the Wei court, especially as it would make her title Empress, which makes her skin crawl just to think of. But if Nangong Jingnu were to call her wife... The flame that lights in her heart, she must immediately extinguish before the heat reaches her face.

With all that in mind, it is impossible to choose how she might feel about gendered words that mean nothing to her culturally. "Lan Wangji knows." And Qi Yan mentioned her gender to Gu Xiang, but she doesn't know if Gu Xiang understood what she meant. "If you're speaking with him, you could indicate that I am a woman." Lan Wangji knows that she is a certain type of woman. He won't misunderstand.