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Oh, but Wu Xi is everything Helian Yi could not be to Jing Qi. 

He is the one who sees him. Who waits for him patiently for half a year to return, while Helian Yi first and foremost waits for results, not the person. 

It's not even subtext. That one is pretty much text. But it's more than that. 

Throughout the entire story, Helian Yi and Jing Qi are connected through their scheming of getting HY on the throne. From what we learn of Jing Qi's first lifetime, it seems to have been the same back then. 

Wu Xi is the only one not connected to that plot at all. He does not care about it much. He is around solely for Jing Qi, only interested in him as a person, does not actually need him to succeed on his own throne, he has that baby in the bag. 

During every lifetime, Helian Yi finds something more important than Jing Qi. Something to take his attention. To keep him from being with Jing Qi. 

Wu Xi, on the other hand? He chooses to place Jing Qi first. When Helian Yi marries an official consort, Wu Xi decides that he will only marry Jing Qi. Who cares about offspring, or the opinions of others? Who cares that he is state leader and has to protect his image? He marries for love, while Helian Yi eschews love to marry. 

Wu Xi chooses Jing Qi and does so aggressively. No subtext. Boy goes all out. After six (five) lifetimes of having to run after his fated love, Jing Qi now gets to be the one who is courted. He does not have to work for this love, does not have to sacrifice, never. He is allowed to take and indulge and let himself be loved, just like that. 

For five lifetimes, Helian Yi was the source of Jing Qi's death. Either he killed him outright, or he caused his death. But then, when Jing Qi is once again this close to dying for him, practically already given up on life, Wu Xi appears and saves him. Wu Xi does not demand that Jing Qi dies for him, he demands that Jing Qi lives for him. 

Helian Yi is Jing Qi's death. 

Wu Xi is his life.