[Perhaps Xiao Xingchen should feel alarmed by such a statement. Perhaps he should reprimand his friend for suggesting such a thing so off-handedly, or he should at least feel more wary if their hosts would really encourage such. Yet his immediate feeling is not that of anger or revulsion, but even more curiosity.

If he felt any upset in his heart about those words, they don't come through in his voice, voice soft and pleasant as it usually is.]

Let's go to the end. You can only tease this good thing at the end for so long before I have to know what it is.

[He wouldn't mind taking even longer personally, but it must be something quite nice for them to share.]

And finding all these boxes along the way for ourselves might not be fair to the others.