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I feel like this is something that gets overlooked so often is the fact that Wei Wuxiam wasn't the one who named Subian.
It was Jiang Fengman.
He just gave jfm a list of names but couldn't decide and saide whateva so jfm just named it Suibian.
Which means that Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling both got their naming sense from their father/grandfather. Like how jc named his dogs princess, jasmine, love and jl named his fairy.
And Wei wuxian in the end does name a spiritual weapon and it was chenqing (陈情) "setting forth one's thoughts and explaining one's actions." Further proving the fact that we are lucky Jin Ling's courtesy name was given by Wei Wuxian even tho its for pining which is an entire other post. And that Yunmeng Jiang has bad nameing sense.
hi, ive been reading your jc takes and i found i p much agree with everything, but i wanted to ask, how do you square the moment jc sacrifices himself for wwx by distracting the wen guards with... everything else he does
also the moment he brings wwx his flute, if he only feels hate for wwx why would he do that?
As I’ve said, Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian were friends, and I 100% believe that the fall of Lotus Pier and the emergence of the Sunshot Campaign is why they remained friends for so long, especially in the direct aftermath of the fall which saw Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian having to rely solely on each other for survival. So I believe without a doubt that Jiang Cheng distracted the Wen cultivators to protect Wei Wuxian… without considering the full consequences of getting caught. I believe that had Jiang Cheng considered losing his golden core a real possibility, he would not have used himself as a distraction. But he did use himself as a distraction, and he did lose his golden core, and despite the fact that Wei Wuxian rectified that with his “miracle connections,” he spends close to twenty years taking that out on Wei Wuxian, lest we forget that upon waking after being rescued, he tries to go for Wei Wuxian’s throat again.
As for Jiang Cheng returning Chenqing, it’s a symbol of the one moment of character growth he has in the entire novel: fully letting Wei Wuxian go. Jiang Cheng held onto that flute because he just “knew” that if Wei Wuxian came back to life, he would immediately search for his most fearsome weapon, because Wei Wuxian “must” be a showoff obsessed with power (because Jiang Cheng would be, in his position). He was keeping it in hopes of successfully luring Wei Wuxian in for a slaughter. But what he failed to realize before and finally understood at the end was that Wei Wuxian never was and never would be like Jiang Cheng. He did not seek power or fame or vengeance over perma-grudges; he didn’t need Chenqing. So Jiang Cheng gives it back, thereby thematically releasing his last standing preconceived notions on his former shixiong and his need to hunt him down in a one-sided competition. (Now if only he’d done the same for Wen Ning… 😒)
A very sexy Yiling Patriarch 😄💖😙
