Do you understand?
This is the critical question of protecting the major concerns over the minor ones: Yu Shunzhou is essentially Gao Yuan's own family, meaning that no matter what circumstances arise, Yu Shunzhou's only choice is to ensure Gao Yuan's safety over anyone or anything else, no matter how precious or rare they may be.
Yu Shunzhou, Nie Erlong, and Song Qian—these three are the trusted confidants of Gao Yuan, his true iron-core loyalists.
Gao Yuan can call them useless; that's because he is frustrated they aren't living up to their potential, and besides, he himself is not above self-criticism. But Zhao Qiang can't call them useless, not even in a roundabout way.
That's why Gao Yuan responded to Zhao Qiang with a veiled counterstroke—if Zhao Qiang insisted on replacing Yu Shunzhou, then he would rather replace Zhao Qiang instead, or he might as well not go at all.
