"Oh. Oh, geez." Shen Yuan titters nervously and grabs Lan Xichen's arms, trying to pull him back up right. "Please don't do that, it's not really that big a deal...any halfway decent person would have done what I did, and anyway Jin-gongzi's been so kind to me...this one would gladly do much more for the sake of his friendship."

Once Lan Xichen's stopped embarrassing them both by bowing (!!!) Shen Yuan quickly turns away, seizing on the necessity of making another pot of tea to give himself an excuse to turn away and avoid all eye contact.

"So far as this one's core is concerned," he says, speaking more easily now that his back turned, "Xiu Ya -- my Omen -- and I have determined to behave as though it never existed, and that this is a new body just beginning the path of cultivation."