Why not use your courtesy name, huh? He doesn't go around calling either Sizhui by their surname and Yuan!

He wipes the back of one wrist against his forehead, humming a positive note of acknowledgement, even while he holds out his hand again for the next person. A young man with his infant child clutched close step forward, and Jingyi firmly anchors his arm around the man's waist, sandwiching the child between them. His tail gives an agitated twitch, and he smiles. "I'll get you both home."

A turn of his head to Jin Ling. "Where? I'll be back soon, tell me then!"