Shen Yuan would have been happy to keep the banter going (for what better way to acclimitize oneself to the frankly horrifying oddities of Trench than to make silly and minimizing jokes about them?) but then Lan Xichen drops the bomb that his home was destroyed, razed is the word he used, and...yeah. Shen Yuan can't make jokes about that.
"I'm...I'm sorry," he says, caught on the backfoot. He quickly bows his head, a gesture of condolensce. "Lan-gongzi must have suffered greatly, during that time. How fortunate that he had a friend like Jin-gongzi to help him pull through."
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Shen Yuan would have been happy to keep the banter going (for what better way to acclimitize oneself to the frankly horrifying oddities of Trench than to make silly and minimizing jokes about them?) but then Lan Xichen drops the bomb that his home was destroyed, razed is the word he used, and...yeah. Shen Yuan can't make jokes about that.
"I'm...I'm sorry," he says, caught on the backfoot. He quickly bows his head, a gesture of condolensce. "Lan-gongzi must have suffered greatly, during that time. How fortunate that he had a friend like Jin-gongzi to help him pull through."