The question made him pause, a slight twitch in his brow.

“Restraint trained,” he agreed, though there was a ‘but’ hanging in his tone as he paused again. “Emotion not forbidden.” He paused again, struggling to articulate this, because he didn’t want to give the wrong impression of cultivators in general.

“Most more emotive.” There. That would suffice. No, it wasn’t the world at large. It was a him thing. Even his brother was far more expressive than he was.

“Why assumption of boredom?” He wanted an answer to that question before even touching the ‘fun’ one.