Gods, Magnus read Lan Wangji so wrong. But between the slow introduction of his surveillance of a rival like Luo Binghe -- which, Magnus supposes, makes sense, if Lan Wangji's own son has sworn fealty to the other god in some indescribable way -- and this sudden revelation, he's starting to realize that Hanguang-jun is... perhaps not as bad as Loki, but perhaps callous or even sinister? No, surely not, he doesn't seem like it -- but maybe; gods can be incredibly deceptive -- in a different way altogether.

"I won't let him exorcise you," Magnus says, stoutly. He may be just another demigod, like Shen Qingqiu, but maybe two dead demigods from different pantheons working together can withstand such an attack, or find a way to stop it before it has a chance to begin.