(Back to your CSZ's reaction here--I really like it, I kept thinking about it. Because it just works! Like, in canon, Shen Wei apologises to him for not telling him sooner, and CSZ says he'll always support him--and he doesn't apologise for anything that might've been disrespectful in retrospect, from his perspective at least. Because if the Envoy wanted him to act differently, he would've told him! The trust!!)
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