"You're too nice to be fair. I don't know-- how I convinced you to like me." Shang Qinghua doesn't want to be complaining about someone liking him, but he feels like he sort of is. "It's just-- I don't know how to? Be liked? I'm sorry I'm being all... ugh."

Casper is petting his hair and it is ridiculously soothing, he can keep doing that forever if he wants. "I got reincarnated and now I'm just a more complicated variety of skinny nerd, really. Cucumber-bro is like, a scholar, he's respectable, I'm just. The fantasy accountant."

"I... if you're sure, I'm not, against being protected, I just... I don't want you to get hurt. Especially not for my sake." The way Casper says 'I want to protect you' makes his chest do funny things. He doesn't want to take advantage of the younger man, but he... really, really wants to keep being around him. "I want... I'm not good for very much outside of logistics, but anything I can help you with... I'm pretty good at nursing people back to health?"