Jin Ling's brow furrows as his uncle assures him that he's done nothing wrong. He hadn't offered apology. He doesn't like the unsought reassurance.

"Don't," Jin Ling says, his voice hard with warning even as he hugs an arm around his uncle's waist and reaches for the remote with his other hand to turn on the television. "Don't ever speak to me of them again."

Jin Ling's love is unconditional, but his presence here is not. He comes with terms, and he intends to enforce them. His uncle no longer has the right to determine the shape of their relationship.