Shen Wei hasn't heard these words in this context before, but their meaning is obvious. He wonders how large a factor Malcolm would find Ye Zun's 'benefactor', a merciless man with the ability to alter minds, forever plunging Ye Zun into a life of never knowing which thoughts truly belonged to him.

He chooses to speak on something else. "You study people." It's obvious in the way Malcolm speaks of them.