Alright, so, that? Might have been a miscalculation. Incredible the things you find out when you fuck around. Telling a spooky story should not backfire on Li Lianhua like an unorthodox cultivation method, and for a moment he looks exactly as bewildered and offended as a cat that got dropped into the bath water. While the boy blanches and demands more information that it doesn't take a real physician to see would be the death of him, Li Lianhua grimaces, leans back, sticks a finger in his ear and tries to shake out the ringing in there.

He pretty pointedly ignores the boy for a bit while he recovers from that mishap, even going so far as to judgmentally resettle his long sleeves, but finally does glance at him again. "Ah, I don't think you're ready to hear about that. Or about the brave warrior who freed himself from the bug's control after all." He shakes his head regretfully. "Here, have a candy instead, eh?" With that he plucks a wrapped piece of candy from his sleeve and tosses it into the boy's lap like a consolation prize.