But also not seeming to belong to that existence, as you said before.

[That...really isn't much to go on, nor is it really any evidence of a curse at play.

Xingchen falls quiet, trying to think of anything, trying to visualize any thread to catch.]

Could he have built up so much resentful energy around himself that it would cause even you and me to feel hatred toward him, despite us not being involved beyond meeting him? Or perhaps not even resentful energy as you and I know it, but something similar in this world. Something that has trapped him in that in-between.