"I didn't know it looked like this," he says without realising it; something about the crash of waves seems to wash out the instincts that would've made him bite the words back or at least sand out their edges, so that he doesn't fully hear himself until Zhao Yunlan turns to him in shock.
"You– I thought you would've– you mean you've never been to the ocean before?"
"No, I…" Shen Wei starts to say except the words too crash to a stop, not out of any intention to obfuscate (no more dishonesty, that'd been part of the deal when they both finally got back – and not by omission either, Shen Wei, that definitely also counts –) but from the voice he can't find to explain how on no other occasion have the seas ever looked anything like they do now, seen with Zhao Yunlan by his side.
Guardian; Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
"I didn't know it looked like this," he says without realising it; something about the crash of waves seems to wash out the instincts that would've made him bite the words back or at least sand out their edges, so that he doesn't fully hear himself until Zhao Yunlan turns to him in shock.
"You– I thought you would've– you mean you've never been to the ocean before?"
"No, I…" Shen Wei starts to say except the words too crash to a stop, not out of any intention to obfuscate (no more dishonesty, that'd been part of the deal when they both finally got back – and not by omission either, Shen Wei, that definitely also counts –) but from the voice he can't find to explain how on no other occasion have the seas ever looked anything like they do now, seen with Zhao Yunlan by his side.