Yuan didn't tell Jian about the jade.
He told himself it was because there was nothing to tell yet — a broken token, a cryptic message, a promise he couldn't explain because he genuinely didn't understand it himself. Telling Jian would only raise questions Yuan had no answers for, and after finally, painfully learning to stop hiding things about the grain theft, the idea of immediately opening a new door he couldn't see the bottom of felt like more than he could manage in the same week.
