[ He listens to everything that gege has to say, but he is supremely confused. Why would he need to recover the city? He'd just gotten back after all, from a one-year hiatus. Gege knows, there had been lanterns, and an oxcart, and running towards him and--
--What? ]
Gege...
[ He thinks back to what he said and then thinks all the way back to the setting. The timelines are different. He shakes his head. ]
It's this place.
[ He looks concerned for only a moment, but clears his throat and clarifies: ]
It's already been a year since Tong'lu.
[ Which, if he thinks about it, means that they made it out okay, right? He doesn't have to explain the whole part about him overexerting his power to defeat Jun Wu. But that also explains a lot about how gege is acting right now, that he doesn't think that the heavens could have ganged up against them.
Suddenly, he's very glad that he's found this out now, and they're still talking shop. It would have been supremely embarrassing for Hua Cheng to offer him a kiss as he was finally getting used to being able to do without excuse or circumstance. ]
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--What? ]
Gege...
[ He thinks back to what he said and then thinks all the way back to the setting. The timelines are different. He shakes his head. ]
It's this place.
[ He looks concerned for only a moment, but clears his throat and clarifies: ]
It's already been a year since Tong'lu.
[ Which, if he thinks about it, means that they made it out okay, right? He doesn't have to explain the whole part about him overexerting his power to defeat Jun Wu. But that also explains a lot about how gege is acting right now, that he doesn't think that the heavens could have ganged up against them.
Suddenly, he's very glad that he's found this out now, and they're still talking shop. It would have been supremely embarrassing for Hua Cheng to offer him a kiss as he was finally getting used to being able to do without excuse or circumstance. ]