all respect to XiCheng shippers, u are valid, but I think the reason that *I* personally don't ship it is that I don't see Jiang Cheng as being enough of a Local Gremlin to turn a Good Lan Boy's head, because Good Lan Boys are exclusively gremlinsexual

*gestures at the pile of evidence*
LWJ's dad -> LWJ's stabby mom
Lan Qiren -> WWX's stabby mom
LWJ -> WWX
LXC -> JGY *AND* NMJ

Jin Ling gets drunk, walks face-first into a tree, yells at the tree, attempts to fight the tree, falls over, attempts to fight the ground

Lan Sizhui standing in the background, starry eyed, whispering, "papá always told me I would find my destined gremlin one day"

i'm not saying that if LWJ and LXC had had a third brother, he would have gathered Xue Yang up like a toddler with their arms full of Angry Long Cat and gone "this is my Gremlin, i found him all on my own, he's little and broken but still good" but i'm not NOT saying that either

this tweet really was too funny not to be part of the main thread https://twitter.com/_alexrowland/status/1247239095920844805