Liu Mingyan stares at him. "Alive?" she breathes. "You—you saw him? He is well?" She can hardly imagine it, what Liu Qingge could become, if he had not been betrayed and destroyed by Shen Qingqiu. She can hardly imagine herself in this other world, derailed so thoroughly from the course she has known before she and Luo Binghe had ever met. Are they friends in truth, there? Did she stay on Xian Shu with her martial sisters, untroubled by anything worse than a yao on a night hunt or a scolding from her shizun for being too profligate with her money?