I think so.

[ He smiles a bit, tentatively. ]

I’d been invited to the one-month celebration of my nephew, and was about to set out to attend it when I was pulled here. I think that event would have been the start of integrating myself back into the cultivation world.

[ But… that shot has been missed now that he’s here.

(and he dies several days after that so it doesn’t matter anyway oops) ]