ripped to shreds. It looked as if someone had gone mad and thrown a fit. The deeper they went into the cave, the messier it became. Jiang Cheng felt like he was suffocating.
Is Brutus sick?
And is it physical
To walk unbraced and suck up the humors
Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
To dare the vile contagion of the night
And tempt the rheumy and unpurgèd air
To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus,
"They were forced into a corner? I'm being forced into a corner by you! A few days ago at Golden Carp Tower, I was singled out and
lambasted by all the clans both big and small. They demanded I give them an explanation! Well, here I am to get one!"
You have some sick offense within your mind, Which by the right and virtue of my place I ought to know of. [She kneels]. And upon my
After a few moments, Jiang Cheng tried again. "Wei Wuxian, do you still not understand the situation we're in? Do I have to spell it out for you? If you're determined to protect them, then I won't be able to protect you."
"No need to protect me. Just drop me," Wei Wuxian said.
And when I asked you what the matter was,
You stared upon me with ungentle looks.
I urged you further; then you scratched your head
And too impatiently stamped with your foot.
Yet I insisted; yet you answered not, But with an angry wafture of your hand
Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did,
Fearing to strengthen that impatience
hesitation! What did you take my family for?! You did every good deed known to man, but when it came to doing bad deeds, it was always out of your hands! You had no choice! You had some difficulties you just couldn't mention! Difficulties, my ass! You never tell me anything. You treat me like a fool!
I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
Is it excepted I should know no secrets
That appertain to you?
Am I your self
But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
And talk to you sometimes?
Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure?
If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.
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I was waiting for 'I have made strong proof of my constancy/giving myself a voluntary wound'
bc that's BOTH of them! they are BOTH wounding themselves unasked to prove their devotion!
but unlike Portia they don't ever TELL the other person about it
So he treated it as a repayment of his debt, or an atonement for his sins. Treated it as if he had never obtained that golden core to begin with.
After bringing himself around so many times this way, he was almost able to actually feel as wild and carefree as he acted on the surface. He could even half-jokingly praise himself for the state of acceptance he had reached, while he was at it.
I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here, in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience, And not my husband's secrets?
"I didn't get caught by the Wen Clan because I insisted on returning to Lotus Pier to retrieve my parents' bodies.
"When you went to buy rations in that small town during our escape, a group of Wen cultivators caught up to us.
"I noticed them early and left the spot where I'd been sitting to hide in a corner of the street. I didn't get caught, but they were patrolling, and they would have surely bumped into you while you were getting us food.
"So I ran out and lured them away."
But just as the Wei Wuxian of the past who'd extracted his golden core for Jiang Cheng had been unable to tell him the truth, the Jiang Cheng of the present could no longer bring himself to speak up.
BRUTUS
O you gods,
Render me worthy of this noble wife! End ID]
