Of course Shang Qinghua knows how to make Luo Binghe feel loved—he deliberately withheld it from him for character development! What kind of tortured brooding morally gray hero feels loved! Saying this would be courting death, though, or at least a nasty fan-whack, so he just grins. "Didn't you get mad at me before for saying he was your darling baby and the apple of your eye?¹ Look at you now, bro. This is adorable."

Actually, speaking of that conversation, when they were on a certain quest... "Hey, what are you going to do about, you know, the backup body? I guess you don't need it anymore, if he's not going to kill you?"

¹SVSSS, Vol 1, p. 289.