[Yuan's been sitting on this all day. His jaw clenches, unclenches.]

And it didn't occur to you to ask.

[Putting aside the fact that in retrospect it does make a kind of logical sense, to have someone who's familiar with the family and already -- somewhat -- sympathetic to the situation be the one to look after it...]

Why was going behind my back to force me into it your first course of action? I'd thought--

[Yuan cuts himself off hard there. Grow up, Ka-Fai; you can't own a man and be his friend. You should have known that, and wishful thinking was all that was saying otherwise. He shakes his head, short and brisk, dismissing whatever he might have thought.]