a reminder jiang cheng knows why wei wuxian lost his core, but no one, not a single person, knows why jiang cheng lost his.

another reminder that despite his pride and need to be respected as the best, something wwx assumed was essential to him. jc lets him and everyone else think he was overpowered or not good enough against wens because he doesn’t wanna hurt wwx by admitting he sacrificed himself.

can’t believe despite everything jc said in anger to wwx and lwj- he never threw that in wwx’s face. he genuinely was angry for what he saw as betrayal of yanli and their parents and lotus pier but not himself.