"Maybe." Shen Yuan is a mystery to him in many ways, if one that is slowly unraveling at its very edges thanks to their unwilling time together of late. He still can't understand how a man who feels such apparent tenderness for Magnus and Galahad could have been so flippant when faced with Claudius, pained and afraid for his life with tears threatening in his eyes. If that was a role he was playing, he considered the role more important than helping them or, if he truly could not help, offering any sincere kindness after delivering to Claudius the news that he could die at a moment's whim from Luo Binghe.