A personal pet peeve…

Unless you’re arguing with people who firmly believes that JC went back to Lotus Pier with the express purpose of having his golden core melted and that the novel backs that up via external dialogue or internal narration, there is little to no reason to constantly minimize JC distracting the Wens and therefore being willing to die for WWX. Yes, he’s grieving. Yes, he’s probably not acting one hundred percent rationally. No, that doesn’t somehow mean he never thought he’d get caught. No, that doesn’t mean he never expected torture or death. He knew WZL was there—it’s possible he may have accepted the possibility of losing his golden core, but I can and do agree that he certainly didn’t think he’d have to live with the consequences (or indeed, live at all). JC’s sacrifice isn’t lesser than WWX’s; WWX’s sacrifice isn’t lesser than JC’s.

They both made sacrifices for each other and we could theoretically argue as to their reasonings until the cows come home (duty, guilt, obligation, love, irrational behavior born from trauma and what they’d both just witnessed), but I’m really not interested in doing that.

If I’m wrong about any of this, I will gracefully accept polite corrections and refutations via sourced text from the novel—I don’t enjoy spreading misinformation (even when done accidentally) unless it’s for meme-ing purposes. If this turns into a “harassing Stonerbutchblues and JC fans overall who aren’t even misbehaving” fest, I’ll block all of the worst offenders. Please be civil. I’m aware I may have a certain caustic reputation (or perhaps more so on my main account due to my irreverent custom flair), but I do love WWX. I do love JC. I don’t enjoy seeing their fans at each other’s throats all the time for trivial reasons and I’m not trying to start any knockdown drag-out fights, lol. I mostly just post memes.

ETA: Because I apparently didn’t elucidate my meaning plainly enough: I am not interested in debating what I stated in my post in any way, shape, or form unless I am provably wrong and you can back that up with text sourced from the novel. Not CQL, not the donghua, not the manhua, not the audio drama, not the manga, not the stage play. The novel.