Xichen sees the rush, and while he knows that will be dangerous, takes it on, mobilizing his body to meet the rush, if only for a moment to slip on a few talismans, before he leaps off and takes Liebing to his lips again. Restraint, this time.

"If you saw him, then you saw his body disappear. The nanites in us make the bodies disintegrate on death... and then reassemble a little later, alive. It happened to Lan Jingyi. You could talk with him, if you wish to know for yourself.

"Young master Wei will come back, and he will not wast you to regret your actions on his account. He carries a heavy enough burden already, does he not?"