Blossoming (джен)

Lan Zhan had a secret.
He knew it was a secret because other people didn’t know it, and that is what Elder Brother and the tutors said a secret was. Secrets were very adult, so he was almost proud of having a secret, except that he was sad nobody else knew his secret.
The secret, which he hadn’t thought was a secret, was this:
Lan Zhan was a boy.