He had saved this question for last, partly because it ranked lower in priority than the other information. His most pressing concern was figuring out his current situation.
The second reason was that, over the course of their conversation, he had more or less arrived at an answer himself.
Li Xian could sense that Ji Xie bore him no ill will whatsoever-clearly, they had been fairly close before he lost his memory. In that case, they were most likely "teammates" or "friends"...
He only asked the question for final confirmation and did not attach much importance to it.
"I'm your boyfriend."
Li Xian nodded. A friend, just as he had thought...
Wait.
He jerked his head up to look at Ji Xie, his eyes going round. For a moment, he could not believe what he had heard.
"Boyfriend...?"
Li Xian repeated the word in a trembling voice, only to receive a confident nod from Ji Xie.
"That's right."
Li Xian gave a couple of dry laughs. This answer hit him even harder than the whole "Instance where people could die" business, leaving him unable to accept it for a moment. After carefully looking Ji Xie up and down, he asked:
"How old are you?"
Ji Xie had not expected that to be his first reaction to the answer. At a loss for words for a moment, he made up a number at random:
"...Twenty-five."
Li Xian immediately caught the hesitation in his voice, then declared with certainty:
"You're lying."
Ji Xie quickly regained his composure and said with a smile:
"You caught me? I'm actually twenty-seven."
Li Xian said, "You're lying about being my boyfriend, too."
Faced with such certainty, Ji Xie simply stopped denying it. Instead, he grew curious about how Li Xian had reached that conclusion so quickly: