Because... you must understand what it is like to come to this place.

[ It's an explanation that comes carefully as Lan Xichen considers the best way to phrase it. ] You call me cultivator, so you must know that coming here has been unlike anything familiar. It is not home.

You may judge that I have little experience with the world outside of the sects. That is not wrong, but it is not something I wish to be forever. If Hua-gongzi will spare his time, I am willing to learn. It's just if I ask anyone else, I'm afraid that they won't understand.