Her heart goes out to him when she sees him tense up. She had heard a little bit from Nie-gongzi but put into this context, it makes her look at it a little more closely. Yanli stays in his arms and doesn’t let go of him.

“I want to stay with you. And if it is necessary for us to..do that with other people…then we should do that. Then return to each other. What matters is that our hearts belong to one another, right?”