yiling laozu in every adaptation is so sexc but also imagine how terrifying it was for everyone who knew wwx before to see such a genuinely happy, carefree, and childish young man go missing for three months and come back like THAT

what genuinely scares me tho is the fact no matter how drastically he changed & how jarring that prospect was for everyone who knew him, nobody actually tried to know why he was acting so differently?? they just kinda made assumptions & pretty much condemned him bc of it