The hotels don't know that! I don't even know that! Do you really expect that they'd take someone with a dog at face value even if she's little?

[These are painful life lessons you must learn, A-Ling. People ain't boutta trust no doggo unless you got hundreds of dollar. But maybe he's projecting again.]

POKEGO isn't the reason I left all that time ago. We just had interests that I learned were aligned after I left. [He would have been with the Order if he hadn't gotten lucky. But he wasn't going to tell Jin Ling that over the public network. And he absolutely wouldn't say exactly why he left right now.

As for that thing about research, that's such an obvious lie.]

Why would you need to hitchhike here for research? What research are you doing? Solo studies for someone your age should have accommodations or recommendations for a contact and lodgings.

[Says Wei Wuxian who at that age was also a notorious hitchhiker with no affiliation. No wonder a scrawny guy like him at the time got mugged to near death. But that experience just made him worry for Jin Ling more.]

And besides, shouldn't you be closer to home?