revenge gays do it best

Like, no wonder people are still talking about him thirteen years later. No wonder people still sell talismans to ward off his ghost. No wonder he’s a bogeyman story. Because he should have been. He absolutely should have been causing malicious havoc somewhere. And then I think about Lan Wangji during that time, and I just…. that’s what he expected, isn’t it? He expected to find Wei Wuxian among the restless, angry dead, and he expected to be the one to try to pacify him. But it’s never Wei Wuxian. For thirteen years he investigates rumors of chaos and destruction and it’s never Wei Wuxian.

And then it turns out Wei Wuxian wasn’t a vengeful spirit at all. He’s not even possessing Mo Xuanyu. He was invited, and his spirit is whole, and not corrupted, so long as he can fulfill this binding wish of destroying an enemy he can’t readily identify.

How much relief must he have felt, at that chance? At knowing that this fear he’s carried with him for over a decade is something he can set down, and maybe even something he never needed to worry about at all? How much of his faith in Wei Wuxian’s spirit and intentions must have been restored.

The Lan cultivators are said (early in the Gusu arc) to be the only sect that emphasizes liberation of the spirit over suppression and elimination, because they still care for the welfare of the spirit after death where other sects are more interested in dealing with the trouble the spirit is causing to the living.

Wei Wuxian is so infamous, Lan Wangji knows full well that if any other cultivator encounters his spirit – even another Lan cultivator, most likely – they won’t hesitate to destroy it utterly. The only  cultivator still alive in the world that cares enough about Wei Wuxian to bring peace to his spirit and ease him on to the next life is Lan Wangji.

First, he had never thought that someone so close would just up and leave. Second, Xie Lian had always believed in “forever”. For example, friends would always be friends forever; no betrayal, no deception, no breaking up. Perhaps there’d be times when they’d part, but it for sure wouldn’t be over reasons like “life is too horrible”.

It was like how in stories, the hero and the beauty were a match made in heaven, and so they should never part, remaining true to each other forever and ever. If they couldn’t, it must be because they were forced apart by a tragic death, not because the hero preferred to eat meat while the beauty preferred to eat fish, or because the hero scorned the beauty for spending too lavishly and the beauty scorned the hero for his bad habits.”

wei wuxian: wtf why??????