"What's wrong, Jiang Cheng?" he asks suddenly, looking up from his bowl.
Jiang Cheng just meets his gaze, not even lifting an arm to convey, Where do you want me to start?
"You've been... staring at me, this whole evening, shidi," Wei Wuxian adds, more slowly. The colour in his cheeks didn't fade after the bath, and now, with the food and candles, the room's got stuffy and he's even pinker than before. It should look healthy but it only highlights the shadows under his eyes, so deep they look like grooves in the skin.
"No, I haven't," he says automatically, and shoves a meatball in his mouth.
Jiang Cheng meets up with Wei Wuxian after Baoshan Sanren restores his golden core, just as they planned. After this, surely things are going to go right, right?