433 You belong here

Calmly, Xi Yuan allowed the girl to melt into him, wrapping his arms around her protectively as if trying to shield her from something evil, something monstrous. Placing his chin over her head, closing his eyes, his shirt soaking in her tears, a wave of realization finally struck him. It was now that he'd realized that amid all his attempts of protecting her, he had forgotten just how important transparency was in this relationship. 

Even though he knew that Rong Xinghe was hurting, the fact that she'd never hidden anything from him, whether it was about her Ripper incident, or the Andrea's proved how much she confided in him. He, on the other hand, was constantly keeping her out of the loop, not letting her into his predicaments. Talking about the whole human experimentation stuff, the hell she had once walked through, couldn't have been easy for her.