"Perhaps, perhaps," Consort Shen agrees, blissfully oblivious of any discomfort he might've caused his tablemate. "I'll have to leave my other self a note, so he'll recognize him and treat him kindly. Zuzhi-lang is a gentle soul, for all that he can appear quite fearsome if he wishes. He served my father-in-law to the end, you know, even though it brought him considerable hardship."

The whole family suffered to a frankly unreasonable degree, and Airplane hadn't actually used any of it in his novel! What was the point of coming up with all that if you were just going to ignore it? As usual it fell to an ignorant but hard-working transmigrator to come in afterwards and pick up the pieces!