For younger him being called a "debby downer" was quite the shock since he thought he was hiding it well. Since young they were both trained on how to hide their emotions and went through a lot of brutal training to get this far in life. Yet within a couple of glances his best friend had managed to see that was something wrong. Either he felt too comfortable and let down his defences or Xi Long was better at reading him than he thought. It didn't help that he continued speaking and said "what happened tell me, don't act like I haven't noticed your sneak glances or the way you've been stressed about something for a while now. Your face looks like a raccoon are you waiting to look like a panda before speaking. Tell me what is it." Hearing those words sent him into a spiral. At the time he had just dropped his jaw in response and stared at him with bewilderment.