Zizhen lets Jingyi cling to him, wrapping his arms around his friend and just holding him, waiting for the words to come. It takes him a little bit of time for understanding to dawn.
"It's not your fault, A-yi," he says, and he means it, but he can't help but wonder if they could have done more, if they could have found more ways to show Jin Ling he could trust them both. They were almost there, he thinks, at the wedding, but then they lost it, and it was too late anyway, and Jingyi and Yuan both got hurt.
"His uncle is with him, right? Wei-qianbei left to go after him, so he isn't alone. And- and when we've got Yuan settled in, I'll go visit him too, just to check up. We won't let anything like this happen again, I promise."
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2021-08-24 16:54 (UTC)Zizhen lets Jingyi cling to him, wrapping his arms around his friend and just holding him, waiting for the words to come. It takes him a little bit of time for understanding to dawn.
"It's not your fault, A-yi," he says, and he means it, but he can't help but wonder if they could have done more, if they could have found more ways to show Jin Ling he could trust them both. They were almost there, he thinks, at the wedding, but then they lost it, and it was too late anyway, and Jingyi and Yuan both got hurt.
"His uncle is with him, right? Wei-qianbei left to go after him, so he isn't alone. And- and when we've got Yuan settled in, I'll go visit him too, just to check up. We won't let anything like this happen again, I promise."