once again the award for “technically not in my ranked list of favorite characters but by god do i think abt u a lot” goes to nie mingjue like. his grief. his rage. his resentment. him noticing meng yao in the sunshot campaign not bc of his fighting prowess but bc he is the only one who stays back to tend to the common people. the dichotomy of his black/white sense of righteousness vs the fact that he can be reasonable- and reasoned with. his death and the tragedy that he probably would have qi deviated anyway, but not that soon. speaking of his qi deviation, the way that completely accelerated his anger and the question of, if he wasn’t careening towards qi deviation, would things have gone differently. do u ever think abt how at some point he accepted that he was going to die and stopped caring abt saving himself and instead shifted gears to prepare nie huaisang for his death. bc i do!