"I didn't think you liked me much before that either. You really surprised me back then."

Intervening with Jiang Cheng, offering him a sanctuary on campus where he could breathe without his brother suffocating him, and then in the end physically protecting Wei Ying.

"I think I felt something for you, too, in those days. You were always so nice to me. You helped me."

He'd been in way over his head with Jiang Cheng and hadn't know how to handle the situation at all.