He chuckles at the tease and rolls his eyes. "I was, but you will have to do until they arrive. Think you can entertain me that long?" He steps closer and reaches into his robes' sleeve. Drawing out a small gift, wrapped in a silk cloth, he passes it over. "A-Sang, I've missed you."

Inside the bundle is a gold necklace with a gold and jade pendant with the words 'Little Nightingale' on it.

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Jingyi's eyes widen as he listens with growing horror. "W- was she.. was the debt even fair? Like how would you even know? She could make up whatever number she wanted and say you owed some crazy number. You just.. you just had to pay it? So.. all of that time.. you weren't really working for you, you were working off this debt?" Yuan was sleeping with people just to pay back some arbitrary debt?

He reaches out and takes Yuan's hand. "No! I know this is hard to adjust to, but no. You won't have to pay the Lan Clan back for anything except with gratitude and respect which we both know you'd already do anyway. There's no keeping scores or.." He gets up and opens one of the chests. He pulls out a small purse and hands it over to him. "This is yours." He has no idea how much is in it, but he has a couple of them. Which.. how sad is that? He has a couple of money purses and doesn't even know how much is in them!