Huaisang takes that in. He wants to get up and go find his brother right then and there but he resists the temptation. Xichen is important as well. He can't imagine how that could be, his brother from before Meng Yao's tricks had started? He feels an ache in his chest at it. But he studies Xichen as the other looks away.

"It's not your fault, he tricked us all," Huaisang said. There had been a time when he had been frustrated that Xichen had never been able to see through it, to see the truth, that Huaisang had been alone in his realizations.

"This feels like a dream," he says after his expression a bit pinched as he looks away from Xichen. How many times had he dreamed about seeing Mingjue again? Whole and as the brother he had known and not what Meng Yao had turned him into.