Jiang Wanyin's fist flexes. Quite frankly, everything sucks. "His nephew," he says, gritting out the word, "says he better not show up on his doorstep half-dead out of nowhere!"

Jin Ling hasn't said that, of course. Jin Ling has only stared into the middle distance while asking Jiang Wanyin if he's heard about anyone being worried that Wei Wuxian and Hanguang-jun disappeared, and then glaring at Jiang Wanyin when Jiang Wanyin said 'Why would anyone be worried?' and yelling 'Jiujiu, you know they can take care of themselves!' Jin Ling is a great kid. It's nice to know people -- besides Jiang Wanyin himself, of course -- who actually know how to communicate.