Shen Qingqiu subsides. "Well, good," he says. "Not that I want him—I told you, I'm straight—but I'm glad you've learned your lesson." Privately he thinks Claudius is a bit of a wimp, if a few blood parasites were enough to turn him away from Luo Binghe's company and bed. Obviously Luo Binghe wasn't actually going to kill him with them.¹ There were demoness wives who would laugh him out of town for such cowardice.

¹ Let's ignore that a day ago Shen Qingqiu was entirely convinced he was, and in fact surprised he hadn't done so yet. He's a master of revisionist history.