#i'd say i should go look for a revival fic where lxc can ask questions again and jgy can answer them

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wailing, etc, because the pieces of information wgxn choose to withhold from lxc -- how jgy and his mother were treated in the brothel, that both the sex workers and the clients were amused by meng shi’s ambition at best and disgusted by her Gall at worst; that (as opposed to what the fandom likes to think) there was no big solidarity with other sex workers, they weren’t a family of girlies who supported each other but rather a workplace that didn’t care about your personhood; that sisi was the only person who was kind to meng shi and little meng yao, and this is why he chose to spare her, and she didn’t even know why; and many more, including all the moments that nmj has shown wwx in empathy that might be influenced by nmj’s hatred -- are things that lxc just... won’t have a chance of finding out, ever. because who’d tell him? sisi is a victim, she’s not going to comfort a friend of the man who imprisoned her for a decade with sad tales from his childhood. she probably noped the fuck out as soon as she could. he’ll just never know. because wwx was sooo tired of all this bullshit, you tell him, lz, i f he asks. have i mentioned how i think zewu-jun should start biting