#we shall never forget how much MXTX loves unreliable narrators

[jonathankai]

Okay, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but details of Wei Wuxian's death are ambiguous. Was it Jiang Cheng, was it a loss of control, was it an act of self-destruction? And yet, readers who are 100% sure that JC killed WWX make me laugh and cry at the same time, and here’s why.

PEOPLE SAY that Yiling Laozu was killed by his shidi. PEOPLE ALSO SAY that Yiling Laozu kidnapped 1000 women to build a harem.

Okay, we all had a good laugh about sleepovers in harem, but speaking of the first statement - it's said once in chapter one by unknown person and is never mentioned again.

And this is Mo Dao Zu Shi – the book about Public Opinion and how it means jack shit. About people loving hot topics for the sake of hot topics. Noble cultivators, the most educated and experienced men of their land, wanted to kill Wei Wuxian.

Several hours later they wanted to kill Jin Guangyao.

AND WWX WAS THERE, SAW TIDE TURN AND MUSED OVER THIS FLEETING NATURE OF PUBLIC OPINION. One of the men who earlier today shouted death threats at him, now addressed him politely and asked if he's going to stay for banquet! WWX WENT FROM “ENEMY OF THE STATE” TO “ONE OF US” IN MATTER OF HOURS.

Because that’s how people are and it’s all over the book! They gossip, they believe what they are told in an instance, they change their opinion at the sound of twig snapping. It started in chapter one, it’s carried on in extras. Main character remarks on it repeatedly. And still...

TL;DR: JC killing WWX was a gossip spread by people, it may be true, it may be not. But if you DO believe it just because it’s stated by unknown someone, then how about Yiling Laozu’s harem?