He shakes his head. "It was against the rules," he says, "Wei Ying always broke the rules." And then, as the exemplary member of the Lan Sect, he'd had to exact punishment on him for breaking said rules. But...

"I never hated Wei Ying."

He shakes his head and pouts as he thinks about it, as he thinks about Wei Ying thinking he'd hated him this whole time. "Loved Wei Ying... from the start."

He casts his gaze away, unable to meet his eyes, but getting to that slightly sad, confession-y drunk state that he gets in whenever he drinks.