In another cavern abode, Lan stared at the person before him.
He had black hair and amber eyes, wore Xianzhou clothing, and sported a dragon-shaped ear cuff.
From his outfit down to the mole at the corner of his eye, he looked exactly like Xianyu.
He flashed Lan a grin, and his already approachable face inexplicably took on a boyish air.
Lan: "..."
It was the face he knew best, yet it felt utterly unfamiliar.
Akivili, playing Xianyu, spread his hands and said rather smugly:
"Well? Pretty convincing, right?"
Aha's two clones gave him thumbs-ups and spoke in unison:
"Too sunny. Nothing like our best friend."
"Too cheerful. Nothing like our best friend."
Akivili instinctively raised a hand to touch his cheek.
"Do I really look that different?"
Aha stared at him in fascination.
Lan closed his eyes expressionlessly, seemingly unwilling to witness this.
Akivili's mouth twitched.
"Lan, is it really that bad?"
After struggling to contain himself, Lan said, "...Don't make that face."
Having said that, he lowered his standards of his own accord.
"Never mind. Just don't smile."
Bacchus, whom Aha had played before, was a beautiful, androgynous young man whose actual gender was often mistaken. Playing a woman now looked perfectly natural, too.
His two clones approached Akivili. One stood shoulder to shoulder with him, while the other reached up and switched off the voice button on the Aeon's ear cuff, lest their best friend on the other end hear the following conversation.
Aha shot Lan a sidelong glance.
"Lan, you really are a bore."
"Do you ever get to see any other expressions on this face?"
Lan: "..."
He didn't.
But seeing Akivili wear that face while letting the two women played by Aha get close to him...
Even if it wasn't real, even if the