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Shen Yuan had started to take a sip of his tea while she processed, and he has to fight not to do an actual spit-take. "Um," he says. "Technically. I threw him into a cold pond." He holds up a hand, quickly--please, terrifying impassive Empress, give me time to explain!! "We had--gone to rescue a local lord's son from Madame Meiyin. It was a weird mission, honestly--she gave this whole prophecy about my, like, love life, which made no sense for Shen Qingqiu at all, and for some reason it made Liu-shidi really mad. He and Madame Meiyin fought about it. We eventually succeeded in our rescue, but Liu-shidi was... affected." He knows both Binghe and Liu Mingyan know who Madame Meiyin is, so he is blessedly saved from having to explain that meant he had a raging boner and I was the only one around so obviously he didn't want me to do anything about it. "The cold pond seemed, uh, the best available solution."