[ He doesn't even register that Koro may be somewhat uncomfortable. His chin just digs into the other's shoulder all the more.]

Most of them were idiots who had no idea what they were doing. They...weren't even true demonic cultivators. I had been hoping....

[ Cheng chided himself with a click of his tongue. ]

He had died, but no one could find his body, not even me. I thought that one of the charlatan could possibly be housing him. Perhaps he...Wuxian is smart. He could have figured it out. I just wanted him back. And all those years...I thought he was mocking me.