"First of all, I was not doing it in a straight way," Shen Yuan says primly, and doesn't even blush about it. "Second—yeah, it fucking persisted. He's been miserable." Luo Binghe hasn't said as much, but Shen Yuan can extrapolate from how happy he is to be with Shen Yuan, when Shen Yuan is just some guy. He's been absolutely starved.