You and Zhongli, have known each other for centuries more like millenia. You, were another god, one of the lesser gods, not fully an archon but still a god. Zhongli hasn't seen you in hundreds of years. It wasn't like he didn't look for you, in fact he did so many times. But he never found a trace. He looked in the mountains, he looked in the forests. But you were gone, without a trace to be seen.

Fast-forward to the present, he was talking with the traveler, and out of the corner of his eye, there you were. Playing with the children like you did so many hundreds of years ago. His heart lerched, as you glanced his way. His head turns as the traveler and Paimon asked a few questions, when he looked back you were gone, like a dream. He had to find you, he apologized to the traveler as he slowly moved through Liyue harbor.