That comment earned him a wry smile. "But Da-ge I can't help myself. Even if I don't work for you will you deny me to fret over you?" he really couldn't help himself. His love language was always going to be acts of service. He did it for Huaisang and Xichen, and as loathe as he was to admit, even if their relationship had turned contentious in their later years, he still cared for the man.

He moved his hands slowly, showing where the hot water was and how to stop the tub.

"I probably said more than I had meant to.

By the time I am from, I was the sect leader of the Jin clan and have been for nearly a decade, at least until Jin Zixuan's son Jin Ling comes of age and is ready. Jin Zixuan as well as our cousin Jin Zixun passed after the war in an event that causes another one. My father... well, he dies as he lived I suppose." he won't mention his own hand in these events. Zixuan and Zixun were an accident, his father was most decidedly not. His climb to the throne was a gambit for safety.

"That is what I had meant. But none of that really matters anymore. I have to trust that A-Ling can run the sect now that I am no longer there." He doesn't mention that Jin Ling has no choice since he had died and left a mess.

"It is just a new dynamic, and we will have to adjust I suppose. In the meantime, let's focus on getting you settled."