Jing Yuan and Dan Heng were also... introduced to his hospitality.

[He goes to sit down next to her, then, their knees touching each other as he reaches out to draw her hair over her uninjured shoulder. The spell she'd cast lifts some of his pallor, gradually, and he cants his head to the side.]

You already know the answer to that. Better me than someone else at the time. I don't mind.