#theyre such a top tier tragedy holy fuck

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Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng are an absolute banging tragic duo because they have the exact opposite take on their relationship with each other. Where WWX is like "I 'hate' you but I will still defend your happiness", JC is like "I wish I hate you but I don't." WWX tries to hang onto what shred remains of his relationship with JC and continues to apologise on JC's behalf, never unwavering with his support for JC's leadership, meanwhile JC is haunted by the love they have always had and has been trying for 13 years to be free of it, thinking his trust was misplaced.

Yet if a bit ironically, the reason they got to that stage in the first place is because they acted in the same manner towards each other, in that they both sacrificed so much in their attempts to protect and save each other in the name of love that, in the end, they end up tarnishing that love they were trying to protect to begin with. By the end of the series, whether or not their relationship is salvageable is never truly addressed, but it is undeniable that their attempts at loving each other has irrevocably changed them for the worse, and somehow estrangement from that deep love is the thing that will give both of them the peace in mind which they wanted for each other.