SPOILER!!! Am I the only one that didn’t expect they were both living in the sam...

I thought that too!!!
Mainly because he was looking all interested at the street lamps, phones and didn’t seem to know western clothes existed. So I thought the guy was from another world.
And then it would end like for years he would try to put the mirror back together and when he finally does you see our boy in his little flower room, now head of the clan making flowers