[ These words don't make sense to Jiang Cheng, not in the least. He's hated Wei Wuxian before. He's furious with him at least once a day. But at the end of it all, they're brothers. Jiang Cheng has always imagined that to be an unshakable bond, let Wei Wuxian get him comfortable with the idea that they will remain brothers in this life and the next.

The idea that it could even be over, and while the boy in front him was still small? If Wei Wuxian caused the death of his parents, then died at Jiang Cheng's hand... Untold years alone, hating Wei Wuxian, unable to move on or let go.

The boy is right. He doesn't know. He has no idea how to even imagine how this could come to pass. All the while his nephew is sobbing like his very life is coming apart, and Jiang Cheng is at a loss for what to do.

Perhaps it's his own clumsiness that takes his family apart. ]

Look, I don't know what happens! I don't! I just turned twenty, I just took over my sect— The things I don't know could fill a library, okay?! I don't know!

Maybe things change, maybe I change, or— Or he changes— [ But Wei Wuxian is the single most constant force he knows. ] But whatever happens, it hasn't happened yet.

We're family. You don't stop being family just because you're mad! And that means you too— You can't just say I'm not your uncle!