Why was he so cold toward me when I trie

The card reads that his coldness was more likely him carrying something than him turning away from you.

Position: 当前指引 — card drawn was Nine of Swords, Reversed.

Nine of Swords is the card of late-night worry and anguish carried alone. Upright, that anguish spills out. Reversed, it's being held inside — managed, contained, or pushed down. That fits a person who goes flat and short in the moment rather than visibly upset. The "cold" you met wasn't aimed at you; it was the surface of someone sitting with his own nine swords.

If what you saw looked like withdrawal — short answers, eyes elsewhere, a wall coming up — that fits the reversed Nine: he was loaded, and the load was leaking out as distance. If what you saw looked pointed at you — sharp words, contempt, deliberate dismissal — that's a different signal the card doesn't speak to, and it's worth taking at face value.

Cards don't read another person's mind; they read the energy around the situation.

One thing to check on your own before you decide what it meant, somewhere in the next week: the next time you're in a room with him, watch how he is with one other person. Warm there, cold only with you — that's pointed. Flat with everyone — that's a load, not a rejection. That difference is what the Nine is pointing at.

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