[ He frowns, hesitates--and that might be an answer in and of itself. But then he rallies, and sighs, knocking lightly on Wen Kexing's forehead with his knuckles. ]

I know.

You make some decisions without telling me. They weren't necessarily bad ones, but if you had let me know what you were planning, things could have gone very differently. None of the plans we make individually ever go quite as well as the ones we make together, Lao Wen.