"I don't know," he admits. "He has had affections for others -- there was a cultivator we knew when we were younger, Mianmian -- but that was years ago. It's possible he met someone in the time we were apart, before I died, but he did not mention it to me."

And, of course, there is Harrow. But if Lan Zhan still has affections for her, he must certainly know by now they will not be returned.