"Most likely. Whether you want to admit that it does or not." Doesn't matter which one she means when the result is the same for both. Pain is pain, whether emotional or physical.

Xue Yang has six months worth of watching people leave under his belt and very rarely does he even care who steps off the platform. But every once in awhile there is a vacancy that leaves him feeling frustrated. Not that he has any desires to leave. Nothing waits for him the minute he steps off that platform. And knowing what he does about Wen Qing's future, he doubts they have much choice when the decision has been made to leave because he doubts she would have done so of her own free will. Which is unsettling to him.