[Shi Qingxuan considers the woman's words. She's... not wrong? His brother would definitely tell him to pick his battles right now (...and then pick less of them, and definitely stop picking battles with Shi Wudu's terrible tumors of friends...). It's not like he's never had to hang back during a bad situation before, and at least this one isn't life-threatening. Just humiliating.

He sighs, and takes a seat beside her. Congratulations, winged girl, Shi Qingxuan is your problem now.]

You're right. I need to go about it a different way. Hmmm, do you think if we started whispering about how the problem is with the summoner, we could turn the tide. No, wait, we'd probably need to toss some merits around first to grease the wheels....

[He hums unhappily and tries to think of another solution to this mess they're in.]