Shen Wei was not very good at social interactions. What he had been trying to do was give her a head's up without going into details, but instead she was crying, Zhao Yunlan was tense, and Shen Wei was feeling the upset in the bond he shared with Yunlan. He glanced over at Yunlan, looked back at Hong and felt the urge to just summon a teleport ring and get the hell out of sight.
Instead Shen Wei took a deep breath and set the handkerchief down and closed his eyes. Would a partial truth help here? He had managed to tell Zhao Yunlan a little about himself before.
"Oh, yes, that," he said, his hand going for his neck before he remembered and turned the motion to adjusting his glasses. "Before I started working with them, I was investigating a series of murders that were by the hands of a criminal from my homeland. Unknown by me at the time, so were Hong and her colleagues, so when I came upon a woman screaming for help, I accidentally found myself stumbling into their investigation as well. I spent a few hours being interrogated by them as a suspect until the Chief let me go.
"The Chief later became my lover."
Shen Wei looked over at Zhu Hong, seeing a portion of his misery in her face. It was different; she had been a co-worker and a friend in Zhao Yunlan's eyes. She might have wanted more, but Zhao Yunlan's heart only started beating when he had met Shen Wei. Shen Wei should have felt terrible about it, and in a way he did, but not as much to stop loving Yunlan.
"I'm not betraying him even now."
He fixed Zhu Hong with a stare that was one step from icy, hoping that it would keep her from saying anything more about the past in front of Yunlan. They need to talk so that none of Yunlan's true past could come to light. Shen Wei refused to lose him again for a third time and he was willing to use whatever tools he had on hand to prevent that.
"Yes, the alien thing. Zhu Hong is a member of one of the other groups. In my homeland, I'm an enforcer, I guess you can call it? She is a princess. Of sorts."
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Instead Shen Wei took a deep breath and set the handkerchief down and closed his eyes. Would a partial truth help here? He had managed to tell Zhao Yunlan a little about himself before.
"Oh, yes, that," he said, his hand going for his neck before he remembered and turned the motion to adjusting his glasses. "Before I started working with them, I was investigating a series of murders that were by the hands of a criminal from my homeland. Unknown by me at the time, so were Hong and her colleagues, so when I came upon a woman screaming for help, I accidentally found myself stumbling into their investigation as well. I spent a few hours being interrogated by them as a suspect until the Chief let me go.
"The Chief later became my lover."
Shen Wei looked over at Zhu Hong, seeing a portion of his misery in her face. It was different; she had been a co-worker and a friend in Zhao Yunlan's eyes. She might have wanted more, but Zhao Yunlan's heart only started beating when he had met Shen Wei. Shen Wei should have felt terrible about it, and in a way he did, but not as much to stop loving Yunlan.
"I'm not betraying him even now."
He fixed Zhu Hong with a stare that was one step from icy, hoping that it would keep her from saying anything more about the past in front of Yunlan. They need to talk so that none of Yunlan's true past could come to light. Shen Wei refused to lose him again for a third time and he was willing to use whatever tools he had on hand to prevent that.
"Yes, the alien thing. Zhu Hong is a member of one of the other groups. In my homeland, I'm an enforcer, I guess you can call it? She is a princess. Of sorts."