[ Oh, what a gentleman!! Somewhere beyond the veil, Yingying's moms approve. She sits down gracefully, glad for a reprieve from walking... so much moving around for these dates, she's not used to it. ]

From where you live now, you mean.

[ Her head tilts. ]

What is your home like these days? If it's okay for me to ask. [ He did say he was exiled, but people can make a home anywhere, if they're with the right people. She learned that right from birth. ] It's not very often I meet men like you —

[ He has a sunny disposition that most lose after a few years of hardship; it's almost boyish, in a way. ]

So I have to admit I've been very curious.