#like oh yeah wen zhuliu hasn't actually died yet has he. huh. maybe someone should do something about that

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hi cql only here how did wen chao die in the novel?? did jc participate?

jiang cheng sure does participate, and with great enthusiasm and gusto lol. it's a real brotherly bonding moment between him and wei wuxian, and the satisfaction they derive from it is a clear parallel with the satisfaction jgy derives from jgs's death. that said, the moment of wen chao's actual death isn't described in detail, but it really doesn't have to be given we see just how brutally wei wuxian has used his modao/guidao (choose whichever answer makes the wwx stans angriest) to torture him prior to lan wangji and jiang cheng's arrival.

if you want the details, i can include them in the comments here, but if you can get your hands on a copy of the EXR translation, wen chao's death happens in chapter 62. it's very grim.