Oh my stars!

They get points for helping him with his jobs, going to town and drinking with him, doing well on night-hunts, basically any time one of them does something with him the others talk to wei wuxian about it and take his answers to determine if that junior gets to move up or down in the rankings.

Lan Wangji pretends to not know about it.

2) There are actually other characters described as "domestic slaves" or the daughters of one in the story, too: Mo Xuanyu's mother (daughter) and Wang Lingjiao. Wang Lingjiao also calls Madam Yu's two servants "slaves" when admonishing them, to which Madam Yu corrects that they are servants and Wei Wuxian muses snarkily that a domestic slave is using the term to insult others like she isn't one, herself.

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The way she translated all the scenes of drunken 3 has me convinced that she actually doesn’t like Wangxian. And using ‘sinister’ and ‘evil’ to falsely describe some of WWX’s actions and smiles, constantly having characters call him annoying and making LWJ ‘chide’ WWX as if he doesn’t like him being playful, or making LWJ seem overly strict and even hypocritical in his words and actions makes me feel like she doesn’t like WWX or LWJ either.

Like this is so blatant

However, I’d argue that his reaction was justified and defensible. People like to act like wwx just showed up and started killing people, “massacre” this, “mass murder” that, yet Nightless City did not end up like the first siege of the Burial Mounds, the fall of Lotus Pier, the massacre of either the Chang or the He clans, or the complete destruction of the Wen clan. Everyone who died directly lifted a weapon to kill wwx, but a substantially large portion of that group lived to see the siege followed through. But I’m expected to believe that people who gathered together to plan how to kill you and the ones under your protection should be given the benefit of the doubt and be treated with hospitality? No, you are completely justified in fighting them. It is completely defensible that you would fight someone plotting to kill you after they had just unsuccessfully plotted to ambush you to kill you. Is it moral or immoral to do so? Idk, but I do know it’s immoral to go back on your word and murder someone for power.

He’s clingy, teasing, praises them often, generally thinks the world of them and constantly says as much, always keeps their comfort in mind, and whines to them constantly about things that don’t really bother him because he knows they will indulge him.

-And yet they somehow fail to notice, even while including all these things into their relationship in their story, how Wei Wuxian fails to demonstrate any of these same actions with Jiang Cheng in the novel.

I wouldn’t say Wei Wuxian doesn’t care about Jiang Cheng at all but how he treats Jiang Cheng can really not be compared to the way he treats Jiang Yanli or Lan Wangji.

That play whining he does with Jiang Yanli and Lan Wangji? He does that because he trusts them to indulge him and receive the comfort and affection he’s asking for. Wei Wuxian complains to Jiang Cheng plenty but I can’t recall a single moment in which Wei Wuxian went to Jiang Cheng for comfort, support, or displayed any kind of vulnerability to him on purpose.

There’s isn’t even really any friendly bickering or teasing between them in the novel. There’s Jiang Cheng criticizing Wei Wuxian and complaining and Wei Wuxian waving off his comments.

Even Wei Wuxian’s biggest show of care to Jiang Cheng, giving up his golden core, feels to me like it never would have happened if Wei Wuxian hadn’t been raised to feel indebted to the Jiang’s and like it was his responsibility to keep the sect going.