Luo Binghe chooses his words carefully. He does not want to make Shen Yuan feel bad for something he cannot help, especially since they've already argued about it. He does not think of Shen Qingqiu when he looks at Shen Yuan, but there is some tension—some amount of work his heart must do to separate the two men—that is absent now, and the absence of it is a relief. But he would never say it.

"I will have you in whatever way I can, and count myself impossibly lucky. But the fact that you dislike it—that it matters to you that he hurt me—is not something I find stupid."