Jingyi is reassured that Zizhen will be okay. He'll have Jiang Cheng there to protect him too, who was a formidable foe. Now that his marriage had fallen apart, it was too bad there wouldn't be anything soft in his life or someone to watch over him for a change.

He gets to his feet and starts toward the door before pausing and looking back. "May I have permission to take Yuan to town later? It might help as a distraction."