"We'll buy you clothes too." Xue Yang decides, "If we need more coin, I'll get it."

Fair is fair even if he doesn't believe anything is fair. So what if he sometimes flies in the face of his own perceptions? It's clearly Xiao Xingchen's fault.

He glances at the daozhang when he falters and he smiles.

"I was joking. I won't stab you either. That's just cowardly and -" he looks away, "You're not so bad."