( A good egg. He peaks out from his fingers. )

You'll like him. I don't doubt that. He seemed glad when I told him about you. He'll probably thank you for keeping me busy, or for at least occupying me enough that I didn't try to take over the entire world. Something like that. The two of you will get on.

( He wants them to, desperately. He never got to introduce Zhou Zishu to Luo Fumeng, nor Liu Qianqiao. This will be the first friend he has made independently. He wants the two sides of his life to work. )

The girls will gossip.