Heavens help him. How is he supposed to resist that? If it were anything, anything other than Jin Ling in trouble he'd say to hell with the rest of the world and do exactly what Jian Cheng wanted - but he can't. He knows the other man would never forgive himself, or Huaisang, if he allowed it.

"You have no idea how much I would like to," he murmurs, his own arms settling automatically around Jiang Cheng's shoulders as he leans up for a quick kiss "but Jin Ling is in trouble, we have to go."

Honestly, he'd rather let Jiang Cheng go off on his own so that he doesn't have to see his face once he sobers up and realises what he did, but he's going to need as much spiritual energy as possible to deal with whatever's waiting for them and Huaisang wants to help, however painful it's going to end up being for himself.