[He wants to believe that, that things will return to something like normal, that there won't be this strange year of missing memories between them. Hearing Hua Cheng say it though, makes it that much easier to think it might truly happen, and knowing there was some future Xie Lian, still friends with him, it's reassuring too.

The memory of their 'fight' at Qiandeng Temple though, brings Xie Lian's thoughts back to a crashing, grinding halt. For him it was less than a day ago, the memory of Hua Cheng's hands moving over him, his hungry mouth as their lips met, and the press of their bodies against the altar, and he struggles to find words for a moment.]

Oh- that's ah- we hadn't- um. Y-y-yes. That's just it, the fight, the fight, that's the last I remember.

[He coughs.]

How, ah- how did things go? Were we able to get it under control?