"Is blood often transferred medically where you're from...?"

Would that not present a myriad of problems? (Oh Xichen, you have no idea.)

"Normally is it not qi?"

He counts off the number of questions forming at the back of his mind, but he doesn't want to overwhelm Shen Yuan. Many seem like the sort he could research for himself, but the idea of transferring one's blood to another is all too alarming not to ask at least a few perfunctory questions about.