"A demon looking for Crowley." He makes a face. "I tried to fight him, and he turned into a cloud of maggots. And then regenerated as though I'd done nothing. Luckily, he left on his own—but you don't know what could happen here. I don't want to be vulnerable." He bites his lip. "The only thing that I don't like about having Xin Mo here... is that I want things between us to be for us. Not for my sword." He had no compunctions about using his wives to sate Xin Mo, as long as they were willing, which they always were. But Luo Binghe frequently slept with his wives for practical reasons–curse-breaking, politics, and so on—so appeasing Xin Mo was just one more. Even if Luo Binghe doesn't mind Xin Mo's bite, he doesn't want to feed it Shen Yuan's qi.