[ It's difficult to reconcile himself with the man he had been and the man he has become because of Wei Wuxian's core. It doesn't help, of course, that it was revealed to him in the most violent and painful way possible. He can't blame Wen Ning for wanting to reveal it and shame Jiang Cheng, not after everything, but he still feels the bitterness and the hurt. Wen Ning murdered his brother-in-law, the father of his nephew, led to his sister dying.

Some things are harder to forgive.

The relationship between himself and Wei Wuxian might be improving now, but it doesn't ease Jiang Cheng's nightmares nor his heavy heart. It doesn't make all of this easier to bear no more than it makes his ability to overcome it any better.

It makes him feel pathetic, nothing more, nothing less.

Forced to look up at his husband, Jiang Cheng breathes out a sharp little noise. ] It wouldn't be half as strong if Wei Wuxian hadn't cultivated it first. We all know that is the truth - we all saw him when he was younger. I don't need your pity tonight, a-Huan.