"Oh, very well," Jin Guangyao says, sipping his tea. It is still hot, so he doesn't offer any to his friend, who wouldn't enjoy that in cat shape. "We are hosting a discussion conference next months, and this time I am using a spreadsheet to keep the usual suspects away from each other. Luckily, Hanguang-jun never comes to these things. He has some very specific enmities that would poison interactions from here" -- he points -- "to here."