( He pauses yet again... smiles for his own sake, and for what it does to his voice. )
You're still my mother's shidi, aren't you? I... can understand not wanting to think on those ties, but distant or not, martial family still matters. ( To him, lingers that thought. The way he'd spared Yunmeng Jiang at the battle Jiang Cheng had as willingly jumped into as the rest. The day Wei Wuxian had decided to die, and take the stygian tiger seal with him, away from this greedy, farcical righteous world. ) I'd only met you once before the way, but we'd all known of your achievements, along with Song Lan's. What you did for him... was inspiring, though not by intention. Thank you for that, years later.
( An exchange of eyes; an exchange of golden cores. It'd been the framing of it that had inspired him with how to approach Jiang Cheng's unsolicited assisting; the one Jiang Cheng still had no idea had occurred, apparently, given the means of their present friction in relationship here.
Time discrepancies. Wen Qing, Xiao Xingchen, alive. Jiang Cheng, knowing too little. Only Lan Zhan and Lan Sizhui seeming to remember what he does. )
when u suddenly learn: u don't share a timeline
You're still my mother's shidi, aren't you? I... can understand not wanting to think on those ties, but distant or not, martial family still matters. ( To him, lingers that thought. The way he'd spared Yunmeng Jiang at the battle Jiang Cheng had as willingly jumped into as the rest. The day Wei Wuxian had decided to die, and take the stygian tiger seal with him, away from this greedy, farcical righteous world. ) I'd only met you once before the way, but we'd all known of your achievements, along with Song Lan's. What you did for him... was inspiring, though not by intention. Thank you for that, years later.
( An exchange of eyes; an exchange of golden cores. It'd been the framing of it that had inspired him with how to approach Jiang Cheng's unsolicited assisting; the one Jiang Cheng still had no idea had occurred, apparently, given the means of their present friction in relationship here.
Time discrepancies. Wen Qing, Xiao Xingchen, alive. Jiang Cheng, knowing too little. Only Lan Zhan and Lan Sizhui seeming to remember what he does. )