Even at this point - his emotions heightened to the point of breaking - he hadn't expected Jiang Cheng to actually hurt him.
Sure, he'd threatened it a million times. Every day. He's threatened abuse, abandonment, dishonour, all of it. It seemed no matter what Jin Ling did it was always wrong. But this was the love that Jin Ling knew, just the same way that he also knew that Jiang Cheng would never actually hurt him. Never actually abandon him. That all pain was delivered emotionally rather than physically, and never so much as when Jiang Cheng was worried about him.
So when his back hit the wall, his hand at his throat, Jin Ling just looked at him with absolute terror and despair, everything suddenly so much worse than it had been a moment ago.
The man he trusted most in the world - the man he looked up to almost more like a father than an uncle - was gone. This wasn't him. There was no love, here. He'd gone from promising to be family one second to threatening to kill him the next, and Jin Ling's world shattered.
Another thing that Wei Wuxian had ruined.
Another thing that Wei Wuxian had stolen from him.
He'd taken his parents, and now he'd taken his uncle from him, too.
He cried. Great, ugly, wracking sobs that scrunched his face up hard. ]
Get out! [ He yelled, the words as broken as his heart. ] You aren't my Uncle, get out!
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Even at this point - his emotions heightened to the point of breaking - he hadn't expected Jiang Cheng to actually hurt him.
Sure, he'd threatened it a million times. Every day. He's threatened abuse, abandonment, dishonour, all of it. It seemed no matter what Jin Ling did it was always wrong. But this was the love that Jin Ling knew, just the same way that he also knew that Jiang Cheng would never actually hurt him. Never actually abandon him. That all pain was delivered emotionally rather than physically, and never so much as when Jiang Cheng was worried about him.
So when his back hit the wall, his hand at his throat, Jin Ling just looked at him with absolute terror and despair, everything suddenly so much worse than it had been a moment ago.
The man he trusted most in the world - the man he looked up to almost more like a father than an uncle - was gone. This wasn't him. There was no love, here. He'd gone from promising to be family one second to threatening to kill him the next, and Jin Ling's world shattered.
Another thing that Wei Wuxian had ruined.
Another thing that Wei Wuxian had stolen from him.
He'd taken his parents, and now he'd taken his uncle from him, too.
He cried. Great, ugly, wracking sobs that scrunched his face up hard. ]
Get out! [ He yelled, the words as broken as his heart. ] You aren't my Uncle, get out!