That is more of a shock to him than actual slaps in the face he's received have been, and now he does pin Li Lianhua in place with a searching look, glacial horror dawning from painfully drawn out incomprehension. It's so incongruous it drags him out of his foundering, wounds momentarily forgotten as he struggles to understand and reorient, put words to memory.

Or maybe...this is exactly what Li Lianhua wants. He certainly looks ill enough to be sincere, but would he even know what sincerity looks like on Li Lianhua? Suspicion comes to his expression much easier than fear, but unlike all the nonsense Li Lianhua had tried to feed him as a-Fei, this would be all too fearfully plausible. Is he lying or is his mind slipping? Would he lie to escape an accusation of bad faith, broken trust? In that light it seems hateful to even wonder.

"You really don't even remember?"