"Oh, that makes sense," Claudius says out loud. "Everything you've said make senses, of course. Luo Binghe's a deeply dissatisfied individual, with his myriad emotional weaknesses -- he'd rather bear physical pain than unkind words. But our entire first encounter makes sense now, too. I assume you're not easily scandalized, if you just came out of an erotic fiction?" he asks, to be considerate. It's strange how quickly he's progressed from casual flirting to metaphysical speculation to a surprisingly two-sided and cathartic conversation about what Luo Binghe's problem is, but that tends to happen with these story-travelers. All Claudius's conversations with Shen Qingqiu -- Shen Yuan have some element of strangeness to them.