[ He'd managed to hold back for a whole day. Or a week, on another count, but for this? Being torn up over it? A whole day.
For him, that was a remarkably short time to bottle something negative away. He knows how much of his heart he shows, but he also knows what he hides away, and that this is the first time he hasn't when it comes to his lonely, darker thoughts... that's not lost on him. He cleaves to Shi Qingxuan, humming a note of acknowledgement in his throat. ]
I love you.
[ He says, because it's the biggest emotion right now, and the rest, the rest he can address after that important point. ]
I don't cry half as much as you think I do.
[ With anyone other than... Shi Qingxuan, in all truth. ]
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For him, that was a remarkably short time to bottle something negative away. He knows how much of his heart he shows, but he also knows what he hides away, and that this is the first time he hasn't when it comes to his lonely, darker thoughts... that's not lost on him. He cleaves to Shi Qingxuan, humming a note of acknowledgement in his throat. ]
I love you.
[ He says, because it's the biggest emotion right now, and the rest, the rest he can address after that important point. ]
I don't cry half as much as you think I do.
[ With anyone other than... Shi Qingxuan, in all truth. ]