the road not taken looks real good now (смешанная)

“I don’t like talking about the past,” Pei Ming confesses.
“I know,” Rong Guang says. From Pei Ming’s other side, Yushi Huang nods in agreement.
“Then, what would you have us do?” Yushi Huang asks. “Erase both of those awful days—the siege, and the coup—from our minds?”
“Not erase,” Pei Ming says. “Just… pick up where we left off. Before.”