[Huaisang knows him too well. It brings him joy to know it. It feels like a stab in the kidney.]

Finished with your research, you mean...?

[He knows that's not the case. Nie Huaisang has never done today what could be put off tomorrow, especially when there was a free lunch in it for him.]

I will just return these. Will Huaisang be ready when I return or shall I pick something out to pass the time?