#and even by THAT metric nieyao aren't scoring particularly well

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I think my favorite wwx misconception/unreliable narrator moment is when he's watching nieyao fall apart during the empathy sequence and the entire time he's like wow... jin guangyao is SO smooth. He's completely manipulated nie mingjue he's sososoooo good at dealing with him. And then you look at the actual situation and literally NOTHING is going like how jgy wants it to go.

Like. Even after the stairs. Wei Wuxian is like "wow jin guangyao knows exactly how to get nmj to do what he wants" and the jin guangyao in question. Is standing there. Literal days after getting kicked down a flight of stairs. By Nie Mingjue. Outwardly blank but inwardly ripping his own hair out like god FUCKING dammit i'm done. I can't do this anymore. Literally nothing else has worked the only solution left is murder. And wwx is like "he's totally in control of this situtation" it's so fucking funny he sees the most basic display of deescalation skills and his mind is fucking blown 🤯 he didn't know people could do that!