Sometimes it is simply like that. The people directly involved do not say much, yet onlookers fill in all the blanks with their own imaginations, and even manage to make it all logically consistent.
For instance, there was Shi Heng's fondness for the Willow Deity. Because his current state was so abnormal anyway, liking a deity from a novel actually seemed far less abnormal to the four of them.
"Put that way, his actions and habits really do look like they were formed over the course of long years. His habits from the first twenty-some years of his life have long since merged into them," Qin Jianye observed like that.
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