"Please do send something. She-- I don't believe she thinks I know what I'm doing." He paused, then decided to amend it, to sound at least slightly hopeful. "Where jewellery is concerned."

Honestly, sometimes he feared she considered him to be generally a bit of a write-off. Regardless, he bowed again to thank his brother for handling this and for giving him further anxieties. He swallowed and tried to move past it.

"I came here--" He looked around, staring at some piece of Jin Guangyao's costuming and wondering how it attached where. "There have been murmurs. Have you heard? About demonic cultivation. I worry about Yanli hearing of it, it might distress her."

She still missed her brother and insisted that he had been misunderstood. Jin Zixuan disagreed, though never out loud around her.