"Even if you scream and shout all you want, it won't change reality."
"...Can't argue with that."
After a brief silence, Guinaifen acknowledged Liu Bai's point.
Indeed, screaming and shouting would not change anything.
And in this matter, she had no right to force Liu Bai to do anything in the first place—after all, Liu Bai was never supposed to be on her side.
"Now that things have come to this, is there really nothing we can do? Lord Liu Bai, could you play up your misery a little? Lady Jade wouldn't be heartless enough to watch you suffer, would she?"
"...Theoretically, that could work, but in practice..." Liu Bai stroked his chin. "There's the Serenitea Pot."
Although this was an enclosed room, Liu Bai's range of movement and reserves of food and water were practically limitless for two people.
So in a battle of rational minds, Jade had every confidence in keeping Liu Bai and Guinaifen locked up.
(...This is an open scheme.)
The Serenitea Pot might have robbed this room of its ability to "force" them, but the value of putting two people in the same space still remained.
A lone man and a lone woman, with the woman being the one who needed looking after...
(Just what I'd expect from Jade.)
What could they do even if they understood it?
The point of an open scheme was that there was no way to counter it. Was Liu Bai supposed to starve or dehydrate himself to death? Or starve and dehydrate Guinaifen to death?
If they resorted to self-harm as part of the game, then they had already lost.
(...But winning would be easy, too.)
As long as they could endure the loneliness and live in the Serenitea Pot, Jade would eventually have to release them because she