He isn't looking, but he hears the other moving so he's at least not totally surprised by the hug. He lets out a breath and leans into Shang Qinghua's embrace, just enough so that he's in there solidly but not so much that he's going to knock the guy over. "I'm... I'm glad I met you, too. I'm... I guess I'm just scared that you'll hate me like everyone else does."

Everyone not on the ship, at least.

"I'm just used to getting kicked when I'm down. Sometimes literally. Like I was never popular in school because I always smelled weird from the embalming fluid and flowers we had around and I would rather read than like... do homework or I was always staring off into space when I was actually looking at ghosts or... a lot of different things..."