"I could tell it was you. Especially while intimate. Your expressions, your voice, the sounds you make—they are all familiar and beloved to me." He kisses Shen Yuan's other cheek. "It was perhaps more jarring to you when I appeared to you as Aleksander, because you expect me to look like myself. But I am accustomed to looking past your form—or rather, noticing how your presence transforms it. I liked it," he confirms. "And I could tell how much you did."