Min felt a little more comfortable being truthful when he knew the room at large could not understand him. Though if his mother caught wind, he would surely get an earful. "Near the end of the season is when things get monotonous, so I'm told it's good timing." Min didn't particularly pay much attention to these sorts of things, his mother did that for him, but it was hard to miss the chatter amongst his sisters when everything had been announced.

He had to hide the threatening smirk at the comment of the affair. Min always found these sorts of events a little draining. He was somewhat outgoing naturally, but not very good at small talk on unimportant things. He would much rather be embroiled in a stimulating conversation on an interest that trying to fumble his way through pleasantries and the like. Fortunately, his current company was intriguing enough that perhaps the typical fist-conversation sort of awkwardness would be less. Given he was part of the equation though, nothing was off the table.

"I find the whole thing tedious myself," Including his fellow bachelors, unless they were in an academic field akin to his. .Fortunately this was not an all-year thing and he was mostly saved from having to participate outside of the summer months. Min used to escape the winters to somewhere warm where he could study whatever it was that held his interest at the time, but as he got older and closer to the age where he should settle down, he'd promised his mother he wouldn't travel quite so extensively; he already missed it. Fortunately his mother's disaster of an outbuilding kept him busy enough these days. "But there is no escaping the claws of the older generation with their expectations, sometimes." He added, almost ruefully.