As Jiang Cheng answered his question, Huaisang poured the tea, serving the other man first and then himself. For a man to whom family was everything, Huaisang couldn't imagine the transition to this realm was an easy one to make. Especially directly after the events at the temple. Just one more challenge from the heavens after all the countless ones that came before.

"Finding yourself here must have been quite the shock," Huaisang said with a kind tone without condescension. "What happened after your arrival? How long have you been here?"

Whatever they had become in their world, even if only distant colleagues, he still considered the man who sat across from him a friend. And it was not difficult to be sympathetic to the difficulties he'd had to cope with.