It's stupid, but Shen Yuan thinks the haircut might make talking about this easier, too. "She used to play this album when she missed my dad. He was away a lot—traveling for work—and she'd play this in the kitchen when we were waiting for him to get home. I didn't know who it was by, I just knew all the songs, so then when I got really into Final Fantasy VIII—that's, um, a video game, this singer did a song for it—I went to her like hey, have you heard of Faye Wong, and she laughed so hard at me." He shakes his head at himself and leans out to serve himself some longevity noodles. "You know how kids are, always thinking they're the first person to ever—" he stops. One of the longevity noodles has slithered out of his grip onto the tabletop, and he stares at it. "What—"