Xiao Xingchen is too pure, too lovely. It's driving Mingjue up the wall as he tries to tell him about the last world he was in and how they were housemates with benefits(Thread tracking!)
Hakkai < curiously asks Zoey what it was like growing up in America. The only other Americans he met before her were Hazel and Gato, and Hazel was one of those southern Baptist hospitality types, so they never got along enough in their mutual passive-aggressiveness to one another for him to ever ask