[ Xue Yang still doesn't blame Jin Guangyao. He had never expected anything from him. Certainly not loyalty. He probably would've done the same in his position. Xue Yang knows he'd become a liability. He had run from the Wen for the same reason. He hadn't trusted for a second that Wen Ruohan would uphold any promises he'd made once he'd gotten what he wanted.

He'd just become a little too comfortable in Jinlintai.

At least he's not completely alone. ]

I'm just... I'm so fucking tired. Everyone says I have to change, but no one's told me how to fucking do that. [ Not in words that had made much sense to him anyway. ] You're the only one... who gets it.