[ unfortunately for rinne, it's a tactic that's not especially likely to work on hua cheng... mostly because he doesn't actually feel down about feng xin being gone. so while he allows rinne to pet his hair, his brows draw together skeptically at the grin rinne affixes to his expression. ]

I don't know what that means. [ please rinne he's from like 400 ce what does he know about wonderland! ] You were close with him, no?

[ hua cheng pinches rinne's side lightly, not enough to hurt. he sees far too much of this in xie lian to allow rinne to get away with it too. ]

You don't have to pretend to be fine with it. It honors him to let yourself grieve his absence.

[ just because hua cheng doesn't, doesn't mean rinne isn't allowed to feel some kind of way. ]