It had been two thousand years full of longing, guilt and grief for Zhongli. You had been gone for so long, had been reincarnated so many times due to the emperor's curse, you can't even see Zhongli because he's only now an immortal ghost. The grieving man would search beyond the seas, above the stars, in the depths of the earth's layer, he'd search the nebula just to find you, or at least the reincarnations of you.

"No.. That can't be my love, right..?" he saw you again. His late lover.