[Distinguished is certainly a new persona than the crying screaming drunk he pretended to be for the last ten years. At least it felt truer to himself than the Headshaker was. He was glad for that.]
He can be.
[As for the other question he was going to have to think about it. How would he explain to someone what he and Huaisang were? As close as a victim and a murderer can be he supposed. But it was deeper than that. Yizhi was right to ascertain that they were cut from the same cloth. At the end of it, Nie Huaisang was the only one who saw him for what he was. And he knows the lonely path that he must have taken to actually take him down as he did. The path of a spy.]
We have known one another for a very long time.
[Not a direct answer, but it was hard to give a direct answer for what they are.]
no subject
[Distinguished is certainly a new persona than the crying screaming drunk he pretended to be for the last ten years. At least it felt truer to himself than the Headshaker was. He was glad for that.]
He can be.
[As for the other question he was going to have to think about it. How would he explain to someone what he and Huaisang were? As close as a victim and a murderer can be he supposed. But it was deeper than that. Yizhi was right to ascertain that they were cut from the same cloth. At the end of it, Nie Huaisang was the only one who saw him for what he was. And he knows the lonely path that he must have taken to actually take him down as he did. The path of a spy.]
We have known one another for a very long time.
[Not a direct answer, but it was hard to give a direct answer for what they are.]