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He sleeps fitfully, eyelids twitching, his head shaking from side to side. The tears he can't shed when he's awake trickle down his cheeks. More than once, he cries out his brother's name in his sleep all the while begging him not to leave him alone. Desperate apologies for being a bad brother and a bad heir spill from his lips as he sleeptalks in a way he never used to do when they were younger.

All through the night he clings helplessly to Jiang Cheng while sobbing in his sleep.

And then at one point, Huaisang's sleeptalking takes on a very intense tone, his body becoming unusually still as he finally seems to calm down a bit.

"I'll make it right, Da Ge," the distraught young man says in a voice so full of anger and hate that it hardly sounds human at all. "I promise I will."