I’m going to say something a bit blasphemous in the MDZS fandom
Lan Wangji is just as culpable as Jiang Cheng in how things panned out in regards to the Wen Remnants and Wei Wuxian’s fate. The only real difference is how he actually acknowledges it while Jiang Cheng sinks into denial.
Hear me out. Lan Wangji is the only other person than Jiang Cheng who actually visits the Burial Mounds and sees for absolute certain that the people Wei Wuxian is looking after are just innocent civilians.
But nothing comes of that visit. Nothing at all. Like I mention in a previous post that he could have told Lan Xichen and that went nowhere because Jin Guangyao lies but actually…
It’s implied Lan Wangji shouldn’t have been in Yiling. That he sneaked away to be there. He didn’t tell anyone about his visit because he likely broke a few rules and was pretending otherwise.
The thing is, Lan Wangji absolutely does deserve in part the punishment that is those 13 years of quiet misery without Wei Wuxian. Because he’s in part responsible for that even happening.
There is a theme in the third flashback you have to search for. And that is that no one actually does anything except Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian is basically the only active person in that part of the story outside of the corrupt Jin Sect. In the face of everything, in the face of evil, people do nothing.
And by the end…people who do act do so too late to make a difference.
Jin Zixuan arrives too late in Qiongi Path to actually calm down the situation.
Wen Qing hands herself in alongside Wen Ning but it is too late as Jin Sect already decided to take everything from Wei Wuxian and just wanted a means to a) give justification so that Lan Sect would help with the attack on Wei Wuxian and b) hide the fact they don’t destroy Wen Ning and instead take him in to study.
Jiang Yanli comes to Nightless City to try to stop the violence but it’s too late because everyone has already pledged to attack and kill Wei Wuxian and the Wen Remnants.
Lan Wangji rescues Wei Wuxian in the aftermath of Nightless City but it is too late as he has been broken beyond salvation by the events of the past few weeks.
The only hope that is seeded is that Lan Wangji’s last minute action allows Wei Wuxian to survive and recover enough so he can destroy half the Yin Tiger Seal before his death. Considering Wei Wuxian remained out of it two days after Nightless City, he would have died otherwise and Jin Guangshan would have gotten his hands on the complete Yin Tiger Seal.
Instead he needed it fixed, which lead to a series of events that ultimately led to Wei Wuxian coming back…
But even so, in the past Lan Wangji did nothing. And he knows that. He did absolutely nothing to help Wei Wuxian before and that, more than anything, is why he refuses to be separated from Wei Wuxian and follows his lead 100% throughout the novel.
why are you such a coward deleting replies debunking your stupid takes lmao! is it that hard to swallow your pride and acknowledge that you are wrong hmm~
anyway, Wen Ning himself attests that LWJ helped Wen Qing and Wen Ning against other cultivator clans by defending them while they stood trial. This could’ve put his clan in jeopardy being that he is a person of authority in Gusu Lan but he still did it.
It seemed that Wen Ning let out a sigh of relief, even though dead people had no breath to sigh. He spoke earnestly, “Young Master Lan, thank you.”
Lan WangJi shook his head. Wen Ning, “Thank you for speaking up for me and my sister back then, on Koi Tower. I’ve always remembered it. For how I lost control afterwards, I… really am sorry.”
source: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/gdc-chapter-89/
LWJ leaving WWX and the Wen remnants in the Burial Mounds was him respecting WWX’s decision of wanting to protect the Wens IN the Burial Mounds. quoting what WWX said to LWJ when the latter visited the Burial Mounds..
A moment later, Wei WuXian spoke up, “Lan Zhan, you asked me if I intended on staying like this from now on. To be honest, I’d like to ask something as well. What can I do apart from this?”
He continued, “Give up the demonic path? Then what about the people on this mountain?
“Give them up? I won’t be able to do it. I believe that if you were I, you wouldn’t be able to do it either.”
He continued, “Nobody can give me a nice, broad road to walk on. A road where I could protect those I want to protect without having to cultivate the ghostly path.”
Lan WangJi gazed at him. He didn’t reply, but both of them knew the answer in their hearts.
There was no such road.
No solution existed.
source: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/gdc-chapter-75/
you also failed to take into account LWJ & WWX’s relationship in the past were just acquaintances at best that’s why it would be disrespectful for LWJ to impose his will on WWX just because he’s in love with the man, be his white knight and all to ~save~ WWX when it is in canon script that WWX was this determined to stand by his decision.
all of these facts are literally written in the novel, you know the canon source material, yet you still end up spouting this BS?! if you are this confident to have this published out in the open, one would expect that you’ve read the novel thoroughly.. or just admit you either didn't read the novel or lacks the reading comprehension to understand what was written in it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
