"Your sense of responsibility towards our jailers is overblown," Mingyu reminded sharply, tilting his head back in a look of defiance that also, incidentally, bared his pale neck towards Lee Chang.

"We sat in those same cells you freed those monsters from. How could you have known what they were? Perhaps if we had not all been drugged and jailed alike, none of this would have happened. Very little fault lies in you," he went on, reaching out with one hand to cup Lee Chang's cheek.

"Don't let your feelings of inadequacy from home follow you here."