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Wei Wuxian. I obviously cannot put myself in her place, but when I try...

It must be her rebelling. She's taking after you.

But she's older than I am! Aren't I supposed to take after her??

And also, I wouldn't touch him if he were a bucket of water and I had run flaming from here to Carp Tower.

Except with my fist. I can touch him with that.

How stupid you can still be.

But... you can't be blamed. I still don't understand it. She must want someone cruel and uncaring, pointedly. Unlike us.

Can't we find a way to convince her into being sensible?

Mmmmmmmmm have we tried bribery?? I don't think I've tried bribery. What could we bribe her with? Someone better for her?

Oh, but then we'd have to know what she likes about the stupid peacock so we could find someone who happens to be more that than he is.

Think.

She isn't so shallow, so cheap. It could be a good match... politically, but has she said anything to you about these things? She hasn't said anything to me at all. But there's no one worthy of her, either.

She has said that he's not the person we think we know him to be. What's that even supposed to mean? Who else could he be but the person he is?? It's not as if he's a man of depth. The guy has one layer and that layer is awful.

[ after a moment of Actual Thought: ]

I want to trust her judgement in character. Is she not the best of us? But when it concerns her directly... I really can't tell if we're protecting her in the right way.

But he's really... Wei Wuxian. What should we do? He's not half the man she deserves.

( Actual Thought? that's dangerous, how does jiang cheng even know he has custody of the brain cells right now?? )

I think

( oh, he must have custody of the brain cells, since wei ying is having trouble figuring out how to properly express the generalized feelings in his head. give him time for a generous swig of wine, and - )

I think we forget that she shared your same parents, the good and the bad. That she grew up learning to take care of people but then got snapped at for doing that very thing.

I figure that hearing you've grown up a failure at the one thing you've grown up to do might make it more difficult for a person to see their own worth.

( he's definitely not talking about all three of them here, certainly not, no way do they share this neurosis by any means. )

I guess what I'm saying is that maybe it's less about whether he's good enough and more about whether she thinks that she is. You've heard her, we're too biased to be trusted on such things.

And now her heart is set on this stupid peacocking idiot and

( and what? that's the question. )

Jiang Cheng. You can be intimidating, right?

We could always speak with him. Men to man.

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