Xue Yang, resident fanboy
How lucky is it (for Jin Guangyao) that Xue Yang was never sent to the Burial Mounds as a spy?
Xue Yang, the original Yiling Patriarch fanboy, who looks at all the cosplayers hawking around town and decides they're all pathetic amateurs.
Xue Yang, who marches straight to the Burial Mounds, crashes face first at the wards, and keeps trying until someone lets him in.
Imagine him doing the equivalent of a cat bringing its owner dead birds by trying to raise corpses to impress Wei Wuxian.
Imagine also the bone deep terror Wen Qing inspires to demonic cultivators.
Xue yang: I'm not afraid of anything
Imagine Xue Yang, who was sent there to spy (and maybe murder, he hasn't made up his mind) on Wei Wuxian and the Wen but, who, with all the loose screws he has rattling in his head, gets attached to people who treat him nice. And then he gets protective. In a deeply fucked up way but still! Can you imagine him meeting Jin Zixun under these circumstances?
He tags along to the one month celebration for Jin Ling and when they get ambushed and Wei Wuxian is doing his usual 'shit memory who dis' thing, you have the smaller gremlin in the background taking turns frothing at the mouth at the audacity and providing commentary at every chance he gets until Jin Zixun has an aneurysm through sheer frustration.
Jin Guangyao would like to spin it into a "demonic cultivation induced qi deviation" but he's met Xue Yang. That's just the Xue Yang effect.
@sswangxian this is how I'm coping with work raising my blood pressure from now on. Every time they do it, I will cleaning up one more nugget.