Zhao Yunlan can't help the half-bitter laugh – and here he'd been thinking it some momentous confidence, that moment when he'd leaned in too-close to Shen Wei's ear to whisper the secret is I don'thavea daemon, Da Qing's only pretending –
Not that it takes much acting by this point, what with them already living out of each others' pockets, and it just makes things easier for the SID's chief to seem a mostly-normal daemon-having human; Lao Chu and Zhu Hong both suspect the truth, he thinks, but the only ones certain are the few Zhao Yunlan has told himself.
Or so he'd thought… except Shen Wei had already known because he'd been the one to deliver Kunlun's soul into the reincarnation cycle, ancient and solitary beyond even the moment when Nuwa had first pressed mud into human shapes with soul-animals attached, had known and said I'm not sure you should trust me with this anyway and if all this isn't messed up Zhao Yunlan doesn't know what is.
Guardian (novel-verse); Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei
Zhao Yunlan can't help the half-bitter laugh – and here he'd been thinking it some momentous confidence, that moment when he'd leaned in too-close to Shen Wei's ear to whisper the secret is I don't have a daemon, Da Qing's only pretending –
Not that it takes much acting by this point, what with them already living out of each others' pockets, and it just makes things easier for the SID's chief to seem a mostly-normal daemon-having human; Lao Chu and Zhu Hong both suspect the truth, he thinks, but the only ones certain are the few Zhao Yunlan has told himself.
Or so he'd thought… except Shen Wei had already known because he'd been the one to deliver Kunlun's soul into the reincarnation cycle, ancient and solitary beyond even the moment when Nuwa had first pressed mud into human shapes with soul-animals attached, had known and said I'm not sure you should trust me with this anyway and if all this isn't messed up Zhao Yunlan doesn't know what is.