In 171 AG, a few weeks after Harmonic Convergence, Aiwei personally greeted Avatar Korra and her companions, who had come to Zaofu in search of a new airbender. When Korra claimed that she and her three friends were the only ones to have arrived, Aiwei detected that she was lying. However, he did not call her out on that until after they met with Suyin, at which point Korra was forced to confess that they came with Republic City's Chief of Police, Lin Beifong.