#to exonerate WWX while shifting he blame onto JGY!

[winepresswrath]

ZZJ did have a point that JGY got a bit of a villain edit in the drama. Not that he's not villainous in the book, but I did think it was kind of unnecessary to have him knowingly knock up his sister wife rather than for him to have to decide its better to have an incest baby born in wedlock.

ZZJ made many good points! Though personally I thought having him arrange for the second flautist is the real villain edit and evils up his character a lot more than it keeps Wei Wuxian on the side of the angels. In the drama Mingjue is pretty unambiguously in the right wrt his suspicions about Jin Guangyao's character, because that dude is already arranging for things like Zixuan's death and the massacre at Nightless City, whereas in the book you can sort of frame killing Mingjue as the actual moment Jin Guangyao decides lines in the sand are for people standing on firmer ground.

#I mean you can argue that he's right in the book too #but drama mingjue suspects that jgy would do terrible things he could never condone for power/security/survival #and is just right about that? like he didn't just send his brother into a volatile situation he arranged for him to be murdered #& then ensured a massacre would take place at nightless city #this isn't jgy hate just like. mingjue suspects things which are already true #and the stairs incident is post murder music so it's like #just as a purely strategic note it is maybe a bad idea to swap out his meds with pcp and then stand by the stairs #idk I feel like we've all made the correct decision to ignore the flute stuff but at the same time it does have important knock on effects #for pretty much everyone #anyway it is not that jgy cannot murder his brother to cope #it's just that i feel like it makes him a different character than someone #who sent him into a potentially dangerous situation #and did not necessarily intend for him to die about it #ooooh ok someone write novel fic where JGY arranged for a second flautist #is a rumour someone spreads post canon #to exonerate WWX while shifting he blame onto JGY!