Deserving isn't the issue. Neither of them deserve love. But that won't stop them from trying to achieve it. Like Meng Yao Xue Yang is surely hungry for more; hungry for what life has denied him.

"If they see me with you they will have questions. Questions I am happy to answer." he glances around the room as if expecting to find eyes on them, "As you said, we are a pretty pair. They might be jealous!"