[Zhongli chuckles under his breath.]

So I've discovered. [He knows he isn't the easiest person to get along with.] Things would look very different had you not been sent here.

[Zhongli finds him to be perfectly reasonable, but they're cut from similar bolts of cloth, really.]

I'm not sure I could offer anything that would come close to paying such a debt.

[He hates open-ended contracts, but in this case...]