#oooh I bet the moment when he finds out Wei Wuxian did go to her first hits in the bad way in all universes but especially cql

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Honestly I think a lot of why Jiang Cheng was so fucked up later was because he grew up with unconditional love from both his siblings and to suddenly lose that was devastating. Also I think part of why he was so angry at WWX about JYL's death is because WWX had always been the one to fix things and make things better and this was the one thing he couldn't fix.

I also think there's a also a thing with all three of them where all yunmeng sibling dyads agree that it is their job to look after the third one, and feeling like Wei Wuxian had betrayed that trust basically broke Jiang Cheng's brain. Even if they couldn't agree on anything else, they could agree that Yanli is the best and deserves everything and it's their job to give that to her, and if that's the case then why is Wei Wuxian (from Jiang Cheng's perspective) treating her beloved husband like acceptable collateral damage? Why is he not stopping his attack on the cultivators or at least directing it away from Yanli once he knows she's there? Why would he even show up at the "fuck the Wen P.S. what are we going to do about a problem like Wei Wuxian" bash her father-in-law who functionally owns her son is throwing? How could that help anything? How, when her husband is dead and her son is fatherless because Wei Wuxian put a zombie fist through him, could his first thought be of anything but her well being? It's a combination of feeling like Wei Wuxian should be able to protect and safeguard her and that his first priority and duty should be to safeguarding and protecting her; he'd never do otherwise and he can't figure out why that's not true of Wei Wuxian anymore.