"I do not think it was that," he murmurs.

He is very certain of it, in fact, but has no intention of explaining how he knows.

"I think he simply did not understand how I felt."

He suspects he knows the reason for that, and it may well have a great deal to do with what Wei Ying sometimes allows himself to believe about what others think.

"Now he does. And he has forgiven me for -- for that which you and I spoke of, before."