#*mxtx

mdzs/cql: courtesy names + meanings

“What had Deidameia thought would happen, I wondered, when she had her women dance for me? Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

mdzs/cql: titles/art names (号) + meanings

in “Incense Burner,” wwx easily defeats 15yo and 18yo lwj. In this short, wwx tells a 15yo lwj that he is “7 years from the future” and later again states that he’s 20-something, so we see this takes place just after the story ends. however, we also read in the short regarding wwx vs. 18-yo lwj:

“Right now, in spite of his level of cultivation being much higher than Lan WangJi’s he was still unable to resist.”

So, seeing as wwx and lwj were both ~18yo in the Xuanwu cave and wwx loses his core soon thereafter, assuming that wwx and lwj were equals before wwx lost his core, we determine that wwx in “Incense Burner” already has cultivation level much higher than when he was 18 in his old body (right before he lost the ability to cultivate spiritual energy)

In conclusion: wwx is a badass who gets his golden core back and surpasses his previous level of cultivation before he originally lost his core in <1 year after resurrection.