#*puts on tinfoil hat* wuyan doesn't have a surname. what if it was once di and he dropped it

[difeisheng]

the thing that fascinates me most about di feisheng and wuyan is that di feisheng doesn't need a bodyguard. not at present. wuyan's not around him most of the time (he's doing a lot more than a bodyguard does) and di feisheng as we know very well can take care of himself just fine. he also prefers to do as much as he can on his own. given that someone with the rank of bodyguard isn't necessary, he could have given wuyan a different title instead, elevated him to being one of jinyuanmeng's kings alongside the other three. i know di feisheng sees wuyan as equal to the kings' status anyway, but still. the name would carry power.

given how much unspoken trust lies in their dynamic, i cannot imagine di feisheng purposefully left wuyan with his current position out of spite, or a withholding of power. maybe he offered it, and wuyan didn't take it. either way, they seem to stand on equal ground enough in their interactions that wuyan probably willingly chose to stay where he is now, at di feisheng's side.

but where did that position of bodyguard come from? the fact that it exists means that at one point, di feisheng felt he was vulnerable enough to need one, which has me very curious about his past with wuyan. did wuyan protect him when he first escaped the di mansion, and di feisheng later gave him that position as an honorary acknowledgment that he kept? how much of di feisheng's past does wuyan know? (i headcanon that if there's anyone in jianyuanmeng who knows about the di mansion, it's wuyan.) he's also the only person in the alliance who can understand that di feisheng's dream of being 天下第一 is divorced from seeking ruling power over the jianghu, or that wanting to best li xiangyi didn't mean wanting to kill him. where did these two once from and why does di feisheng trust him so unwaveringly. i will be asking this forever