While there is truth in that statement, Meng Yao doesn't like his friend feeling so...left out. To say he understands is an understatement. Meng Yao has been pushed out (and left out) of the Cultivator circle since he was born. Men like them need to be stubborn.

When a door closes, break a window.

"So you're just giving up? I didn't know you were so grim!" he lays a hand on Xue Yang's chest, "Do you think so little of me?"