[If Cat could see his face, he'd see how taken aback Fang Duobing is by this. But he can't, even if he were present in the room.]
[Still, the response is slower to come back this time. There's an emotion to grapple with that he doesn't know how to voice. The idea that he might not be as high on Cat's list of confidantes as he would like. That there are things he might now tell Inigo, but not him. That his companionship with Cat has somehow lessened in some way in the past few months--perhaps because of him.]
I didn't mean it like that. I don't think you're shady. You play things close to your chest. Li Lianhua does the same, and I've chosen not to mind it. But I've seen how dangerous that is right now.
I shouldn't have pressed you. If you say there's nothing else, then I'll believe you. I just didn't want you to think you had to suffer alone. Especially after you've just started to feel better.
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[Still, the response is slower to come back this time. There's an emotion to grapple with that he doesn't know how to voice. The idea that he might not be as high on Cat's list of confidantes as he would like. That there are things he might now tell Inigo, but not him. That his companionship with Cat has somehow lessened in some way in the past few months--perhaps because of him.]
I didn't mean it like that. I don't think you're shady. You play things close to your chest. Li Lianhua does the same, and I've chosen not to mind it. But I've seen how dangerous that is right now.
I shouldn't have pressed you. If you say there's nothing else, then I'll believe you. I just didn't want you to think you had to suffer alone. Especially after you've just started to feel better.