Seeing that Xian was in no mood to even so much as joke about this, Will backed off at once, his greasy hands raised in surrender. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I was just kidding, okay?”
Xian was silent for a while as he forced himself to calm down. He’d known Will for a long time. He had a nasty sense of humor at times, but he wasn’t a bad person. Just now, he was being pretty much his usual self.
It was Xian who had changed. Some things that he could have let slide before, he now couldn’t.
After all, Lance was no longer an unrelated person that he barely even knew.
Xian heaved a sigh and said with quiet force, “He’s my friend. It’s one thing if you poke fun at me, I don’t really care. But I don’t like it when he’s being made fun of, especially in that way, given what you know.”
Will rig
