frost-flower-fractured-ice:

Forever convinced that no matter what, Jin Zixuan is in fact, the BEST man of all the mdzs men. This man started off being described as rich, spoilt, and uptight, as opposed to the Yunmeng boys and also possibly the Lans, and yet he is first punched for being a teenager and not wanting an arranged marriage with a girl he was pretty sure liked Wei Wuxian anyway, and then for standing up for a servant girl whose credit he (wrongly) believed was being stolen by a highborn woman, and he still manages to listen to his wife so much he is a) kept out of his father’s murder plans despite being the principle son and heir, b) invites the boy who punched him multiple times to his son’s celebration and delivers said invitation, and c) actually dies de-escalating something he needn’t even have bothered to involve himself in. For a story which appears to put selfless service to others above all, the spoilt rich boy sure does die doing so, because he had the good sense to appreciate a virtuous woman and it worked spectacularly for him. Jin Ling’s inherent goodness has very little to do with Wei Wuxian, and everything to do with the type of people his parents had been.