Yuan sees yet another epiphany dawn on Jingyi's face like a secret to the universe being revealed instead of being given a different definition. It wasn't wrong to sleep with someone you loved? He looks up at Zizhen. Could it be? Was it really possible that he might not be committing a sin to sleep with.. and by sleep with, he means have sex with (since now he knows the difference).. the person he is hoping will ask for his hand?

It makes him wonder if all this time those little incidents where Wei Wuxian and Hanguang Jun were rumored to do such scandalous things if those too weren't actually wrong. Was Yuan right that even what they did last night, excluding the mistake of the talisman was a perfectly natural reunion between spouses? Would Zizhen greet him in such a way whenever they were apart?

"Really? You didn't have any friends where you used to live?" He asks with a frown. "How could that be? Who wouldn't love you? I know Zizhen and I both do."