[The worst part, in retrospect, will be that for a few brief seconds in the haze between sleeping and waking, Jing Yuan kisses back. What a nice dream, says a foggy thought in the back of his mind. A dream he's had for seven hundred years.

But then his body registers that the contact is real and he jerks away with a gasp, sitting up all at once with a bright red face. Too bad for Dan Heng, who most likely gets shoved off of the bed entirely. At least Jing Yuan can see now?]

Wh-- Dan Feng! What is the meaning of this!?