Hi! Since I've been reading all your posts lately, I stumbled with a bunch of JYL killing WWX and it got me thinking... What if JYL was cursed to do so? What if JGY has been playing to her one of his dark songs (because of course he memorized all of them even if he just destroyed the one he was gonna use with NMJ), to "help her" with her baby popping recovery but it's just a suggestive song that makes the listener do what the musician is playing them to do.
So her "mission" was to kill wwx when she was close enough to him (just as a precaution because Jin Zixun was an idiot and very well could fail on his mission) since JGY thought that, if someone was able to be close enough to him to do so, that must be JYL (and maybe JC but he was more difficult to approach than his sister-in-law)
So maybe she goes to him, grieving, in the middle of the siege maybe, carrying his sword in a way to make him understand that he should go back to "the right path" or maybe just grabbing one random knife over there, but she's just trying to save her baby brother, to make him come back to her, to JC, except that as soon as she's close enough to him, this urge to just STAB HIM IN THE HEART overwhelms her and, without even knowing why nor being able to stop/control herself, she does as much.
And so WWX dies in front of her, betrayed expression the last emotion his face shows, and JYL is left there, hands still making sure the knife stays deep in WWX's chest, making sure he's truly, completely DEAD, until JC manages to get her apart from their brother's body and she slowly recovers sanity. And the weight of what she just did almost crush her.
All the cultivation world of course celebrate, congratulate her, admire her! The one who managed to kill the Yiling Patriarch!! But JC just can't see her in the eye anymore, can't trust her anymore, can't forgive what she did.
He believes he knows why she did it (WWX was the cause JZX was dead after all) so he didn't ask her. He didn't let her explain herself. They never spoke about that day again, actually. If he had asked tho, she could have only said "I don't know" because she truly doesn't know why she did what she did.
So one ficlet made from this (I think it was mondengel's?) talks about JC fidgeting when he captures WWX in MXY's body and how he got in front of her when she approached his brother and took her with him when he had to leave the room before JL helps WWX escape. She just wanted to apologize. She just wanted to hug her baby brother and ask for forgiveness. She just wanted to cry and cry and rejoice in the fact that he was back! But JC didn't give her enough time for her to get a hold of her feelings to start expressing any of that and then WWX was gone again.
Then more prompts talk about how LWJ keep the Jiang Siblings and WWX apart because he doesn't trust JYL (burning JYL's letters and stuff, leaving WWX thinking his sister still hates him and JYL thinking his brother does so as well) until one day, probably via JL/LJY, they plan a reunion; since JL has seen his mother crying and regretting her actions and just wanted to /talk/ with her brother, and LJY, bless his soul, probably just wants to see LSZ/WWX smile again and he knows the Jiang Siblings Issue TM is pretty much the cause they are so down lately.
SO! THEY MEET! Except LWJ and JC are there because I want them to be there but they could very much not be (in such case maybe WWX discovers LWJ lied to him about the letters and they have the biggest fight ever and WWX just runs away to her sister's side).
So WWX goes to his sister, knowing now that she just wants to talk and that she doesn't hate him at all (or so the letter says) and so when JYL sees his little brother she starts crying because she thought she would NEVER be able to be with him again and WWX goes to her immediately because his sister crying because of him is a huge NOPE!
And so he gets close enough to her to hug her. Close enough for her to kill him. So she grabs the closer weapon she has (probably Sandu if JC is near, most likely JL's if LWJ/JC are not) and STRIKES! because she's cursed. Because the song still has an effect on her. Because it will forever be.
And this time WWX doesn't look shocked or betrayed. He just smiles. Because he knew. Deep down, he knew that his sister hated him and couldn't stand the thought of him being alive while her husband was dead. Who could live with the knowledge that their loved one's killer is still around there being happy and safe when they can't enjoy their own happiness anymore? His last words are probably something like "I'm sorry"
If LWJ is there, he would probably try to kill JYL not gonna lie. I mean, he indeed /knew/ this could happen. He should have insisted more, tried more, being more firm on them not meeting again, ever! If he's not there, the same happens lol (But if he was there he would probably had been able to stop her so now I'm reconsidering and saying he ain't there)
If no one but JL is there, can you imagine how he would feel? That he was pretty much the cause his uncle (who he has learn to love now, even if he wouldn't admit it) was killed once more. That his mother just manipulate him into thinking she just wanted his brother back just to set him straight into a deadly trap?
Can you imagine how JYL would feel when she recovers sanity again and sees what she did, AGAIN?! My bets are she can't handle the guilt and try to kill herself. She doesn't understand a thing, why she did what she did again, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't change anything. It doesn't erase her actions. What is done is done and she just killed her brother! AGAIN!!!!
So yeah, rest in peace WWX, JYL, I guess. What else can be done besides that anyway?