[How was that possible? He hadn't been asleep here for that long, or surely the residents of the cottage he'd arrived in wouldn't be so surprised to see him there. And Hua Cheng last remembered them sleeping in the same bed, which meant it was probably the meager accomodations of Puqi shrine, but-
His mouth is left slightly ajar, as he tries to resolve the impossibility of what's happened.]
You said this place draws people from different places and times, but- even us? No wonder...
[Oh, he doesn't like that at all. He doesn't miss the concern in Hua Cheng's expression either, brief as it may have been, and he can only hope that things will go back to the way they ought to be, once they return. He's already rubbing anxiously at his forehead.
Xie Lian knows well that nothing lasts and appreciates things while he has them, but to have the world upturned like this is still jarring.]
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A year?
[How was that possible? He hadn't been asleep here for that long, or surely the residents of the cottage he'd arrived in wouldn't be so surprised to see him there. And Hua Cheng last remembered them sleeping in the same bed, which meant it was probably the meager accomodations of Puqi shrine, but-
His mouth is left slightly ajar, as he tries to resolve the impossibility of what's happened.]
You said this place draws people from different places and times, but- even us? No wonder...
[Oh, he doesn't like that at all. He doesn't miss the concern in Hua Cheng's expression either, brief as it may have been, and he can only hope that things will go back to the way they ought to be, once they return. He's already rubbing anxiously at his forehead.
Xie Lian knows well that nothing lasts and appreciates things while he has them, but to have the world upturned like this is still jarring.]