I AM OBSESSED WITH THE UNTAMED AND THE BEHIND THE SCENES PICTURES OF IT- DO YOU GET IT? AM I THE ONLY ONE? I CANNOT BE THE ONLY ONE RIGHT?! AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS ABOUT THESE PICTURES LATE AT NIGHT BEFORE SLEEPING?
Daily reminder that when the Cloud Recesses got attacked, and LXC went on the run and JGY saved him and helped him hide, the Wens were in full power. They were the undisputed ruling clan. So much so that they could demand the other sects to send their heirs to them as hostages, and nearly kill the said heirs, fearing no consequences. And no sect had decided to try anything against them yet. They didn't think that ALL THE OTHER SECTS TOGETHER could do anything against the Wens. (And they truly couldn't if it weren't for Meng Yao.)
A little insignificant outcast like Meng Yao was FUCKED if he was caught hiding away THE Zewu-Jun.
And yet he did it! He didn't like...drag LXC to a doctor and said "I found this mysterious wounded man with an unknown identity. He's your problem now. Ciao. :)" No! He fully took care of him and hid him away and helped him rebuild the Cloud Recesses! (And listen, the Xiyao agenda of the show when Meng Yao specifically thinks of "Zewu-Jun" when he hears about the fall of the cloud recesses while he himself is bleeding on the ground and goes to save LXC after his banishment is very beautiful, especially for LXC. Imagine seeing this cute guy that you developed a crush on with one look and a total of 5 minutes of interaction before the guy left. And then suddenly in your worst & most desperate situation, the guy suddenly appears like an angel like you've manifested him and saves you and nurses you back to health and takes your hand in rebuilding your sect every step of the way. BUT! Book!Meng Yao didn't even know LXC! There has never been a tender hand touch and LXC gracefully saving him from an awkward and cruel social situation! He just saw a man and saved him out of the kindness of his heart regardless of the risks for himself!)
And LXC wasn't even the only person he saved individually. He saved Qin Su, too. if he's saved these two individually who knows if he had saved more people. Daily reminder that JGY is the kind of person who will go out of his way to help people when he can.
"But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. [...] Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For @/omegawangji on X, who recently had a bit of a hard time, and who planted the idea of Lan Wangji with blue roses braided in his hair into my brain in the first place.