[ hua cheng blinks, then smiles softly. even if he were angry at he xuan, it would be almost impossible to continue being upset in the face of such earnest words from xie lian. ]

I'm not angry with him, either. It wasn't your fault and it wasn't his. [ it was the house's fault, naturally, and hua cheng has already added a few new forms of torture to the list of things he'd like to do to j once he can get his hands on him, but that's beside the point. ] Ah, gege... what am I to do with you? Every time I think I love you as much as it's possible to love another person, I fall in love with you a little more.

[ he pets his hand softly along the back of xie lian's hair, soft and adoring. ]

I'll speak to him. I mean in the friendly way, not the scary way. [ not "speak to him" like beat him up a little, speak to him like really see if he xuan is all right. maybe later, though, when the hurt isn't so fresh; at any rate, right now hua cheng's priority is his husband. ]