For that message, Huaisang makes time, though it is between meetings. He comes in to the library and sits, starting to answer the written questions without preamble.

He spills out answers one after the other, telling everything he knows of Jin Guangyao, who was Meng Yao, who has murdered so many and ruined so much. He's exhausted by the time he finishes, in tears, but he pushes through it. This is the gamble he's taken, the agreement he's made. The better armed his soldier, the better this will work.

Exhausted, he lays across the couch, burying his head in his arms. "What else do you need to know?"