"A-Yao!" It's a startled response, the name slipping from his lips as he watches Jin Guangyao close the cafe down, everything else forgotten with how Jin Guangyao is acting, Xichen trying to make it correlate to the man he remembers.

But it's different. Not bad, necessarily, but it's definitely a new side that has him shifting in his seat before he moves to stand.

"...I..." But what does he say to something like that, anyway.