[X] Remain silent, thank her sincerely for her trust.
Yeah, no. The arguments about friends not hiding things or reciprocating Cai's 'show of trust' is bullshit. Cai started this, she pried and spied into Ling Qi's personal life and background, even if I get why. Plus she asked for Ling Qi's loyalty, and as Ling Qi pointed out in this update Ling Qi doesn't do loyalty to those she knows literally nothing about. This frankly should be Cai reciprocating for her intrusion into Ling Qi's life, understandable though it may have been it was clearly something Ling Qi didn't want people knowing about.
And for all it was clearly difficult for Cai to talk about it isn't really that much of a secret. It's certainly less damaging than her letting out that Ling Qi is/was the prostitute daughter of a street thief would be to our face.
This is literally the kind of information that we need for Cai to hit foot in the door level on Ling Qi's loyalty. It is not some kind of final capstone of great friendship.
Besides which, there are different levels of friendship, Cai is in the 'bare aquaintance who might someday be a good friend camp'. Building a friendship does not entail splurging every secret you have on someone's face the instant they tell you something even a tiny bit personal.
This can and probably will have serious consequences. Remember what Ling Qi said would happen to her if she was caught 'Banned from the market for the rest of the year at absolute minimum' and with Cai punishing us and Xiang (and let's be real here, she will) we're gonna have a lotta trouble getting access through our friends. Especially with Su Ling, Suyin or Xiulan, for whom green drugs are a pretty obvious sign they're buying for us.
Nevermind what this would do to our relationship with Li Suyin, or Su Ling or hell, even Xiulan. Xiulan's a consumate noble, and won't exactly be happy to have one of her best friends outed as a theif, nevermind the damage to her face being associated with us will cause her. And the rest of our friends. Plus the face damage we've reflected onto Meizhen (and Cai) for trusting us
Oh and let's not forget Fu Xiang, not only will we have just thrown 200 RSS away, but we've now given him motivation to fuck us and pointed him in the direction of Yan Renshu. Because the only thing better than having a powerful green intrigue master after your ass is having two of them.
Furthermore let's say we get confined like Ji Rong? Well we can kiss any chance of placing in the tournament this year goodbye, which makes us utterly dependent on Cai kindly ignoring her principles and not withdrawing her offer. So good job of cutting off the sect route entirely.
Oh and we're actually a noble now. So this might not get shrugged off the way it would if we'd been caught while still a commoner.
And if this is a test of: would you lie to me? Screw Cai. We haven't given her our loyalty yet, and asking us to screw ourselves and all our current relationships, who we are loyal to, is a terrible test. She wants an intrigue master she has to deal with that sort of thing.
If she isn't aware and we join her we can do more to protect her from people like Fu Xiang from inside her circle without screwing her opinion of people permenantly and reveal it when we have a much stronger bond and have ensured we won't get instascrewed.
PS. Damn you Fu Xiang.
Yeah, no. The arguments about friends not hiding things or reciprocating Cai's 'show of trust' is bullshit. Cai started this, she pried and spied into Ling Qi's personal life and background, even if I get why. Plus she asked for Ling Qi's loyalty, and as Ling Qi pointed out in this update Ling Qi doesn't do loyalty to those she knows literally nothing about. This frankly should be Cai reciprocating for her intrusion into Ling Qi's life, understandable though it may have been it was clearly something Ling Qi didn't want people knowing about.
And for all it was clearly difficult for Cai to talk about it isn't really that much of a secret. It's certainly less damaging than her letting out that Ling Qi is/was the prostitute daughter of a street thief would be to our face.
This is literally the kind of information that we need for Cai to hit foot in the door level on Ling Qi's loyalty. It is not some kind of final capstone of great friendship.
Besides which, there are different levels of friendship, Cai is in the 'bare aquaintance who might someday be a good friend camp'. Building a friendship does not entail splurging every secret you have on someone's face the instant they tell you something even a tiny bit personal.
This can and probably will have serious consequences. Remember what Ling Qi said would happen to her if she was caught 'Banned from the market for the rest of the year at absolute minimum' and with Cai punishing us and Xiang (and let's be real here, she will) we're gonna have a lotta trouble getting access through our friends. Especially with Su Ling, Suyin or Xiulan, for whom green drugs are a pretty obvious sign they're buying for us.
Nevermind what this would do to our relationship with Li Suyin, or Su Ling or hell, even Xiulan. Xiulan's a consumate noble, and won't exactly be happy to have one of her best friends outed as a theif, nevermind the damage to her face being associated with us will cause her. And the rest of our friends. Plus the face damage we've reflected onto Meizhen (and Cai) for trusting us
Oh and let's not forget Fu Xiang, not only will we have just thrown 200 RSS away, but we've now given him motivation to fuck us and pointed him in the direction of Yan Renshu. Because the only thing better than having a powerful green intrigue master after your ass is having two of them.
Furthermore let's say we get confined like Ji Rong? Well we can kiss any chance of placing in the tournament this year goodbye, which makes us utterly dependent on Cai kindly ignoring her principles and not withdrawing her offer. So good job of cutting off the sect route entirely.
Oh and we're actually a noble now. So this might not get shrugged off the way it would if we'd been caught while still a commoner.
And if this is a test of: would you lie to me? Screw Cai. We haven't given her our loyalty yet, and asking us to screw ourselves and all our current relationships, who we are loyal to, is a terrible test. She wants an intrigue master she has to deal with that sort of thing.
If she isn't aware and we join her we can do more to protect her from people like Fu Xiang from inside her circle without screwing her opinion of people permenantly and reveal it when we have a much stronger bond and have ensured we won't get instascrewed.
PS. Damn you Fu Xiang.
