The hat might be just a hat, but as A-Yao covered his hand, Mingjue was more focused on the few slender details that A-Yao'd dropped about the future he'd come from. His expression acknowledged the humor only as a softening. He remained serious, but willing to let A-Yao have his deflection...for a moment, before he pursued.

"The future I have yet to live is terrible for you." Because it sounded like A-Yao was saying that Fuck Island was an improvement in the happiness area, though there was something in his words Mingjue wasn't quite catching. With a little more determination: "I wouldn't have imagined that for you."