I was today years old when I realised a stark difference between cql and mdzs (besides the whole censorship shebang)
While WWX in cql was happy to see LWJ (even pining for him to a certain degree) when he showed up at Mo Manor.
In MDZS, he wasn't quite so thrilled. He just frowned and yeeted away once everything was basically under control.
No pining reed flute solo (that Jingyi found terrible and Sizhui familiar), no starry-eyed "Lan Zhan" whisper when ma boi wangji made his appearance.
So BASICALLY, the cql writers' solution to making the story no homo was to make the entire dynamic even MORE homo, but so soooooooo subtly that it could be passed off as "LOOK AT THEM. THEY'RE BEST BROS. ISN'T THAT AMAZING?"
cql writers already had my respect for that one rarepair (chengqing) stan in the writing team, but now they own my whole ass.