"Can you be persuaded to set aside your differences, just for this one thing?" Yao Shen asks, not at all hopeful that he'll get a positive answer.
Xie Bian fans himself harder. "Are you under the illusion that I'll be the one to approach him first?"
Yao Shen decides it's in his best interests not to answer.
Turns out he doesn't need to, because Xie Bian takes the opportunity to go on a rant about how Fan Wujiu betrayed their solemn duty as Impermanences, and took sides on a petty squabble between gods, putting others before their lifelong bond and...
Yao Shen interrupts him. "Just what is the nature of your relationship?"
Xie Bian glares at him over the arch of his fan. "I fail to see how that matters, seeing that at present we don't have even a passing acquaintance."
He slams his fan closed and smacks it down on the table with such force that Yao Shen worries he's going to crush it under his palm.
