In specificity? What do you mean, Master Lan? Do you want a list?
( Would Lan Wangji find the original Valley Master's crimes appalling? Certainly. But Wen Kexing wonders briefly, terribly, if he'd think they were something deserved. ) Is killing my parents not good enough? No? What about the years of torture after? Perhaps that is something that was rightfully given. You've seen me, I'm wilful, I'm wicked, certainly someone else must have seen that darkness in me even then.
( The corner turns, Wen Kexing stalks it, the length of his body a caged animal. )
I could have been something else. Maybe not quite like you, but something better. I would have had a clan myself, I would have been taught how to do right, I would have been someone's shidi. ( He laughs, hollow, an ache in his throat. Could he have saved Zhou Zishu from himself if he had remained in Four Seasons? Maybe. Probably not. The world was turning even then. ) I wasn't the only one he hurt, but I am the worst of them. If you want a crime to pin then it is my creation. Is that not enough?
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( Would Lan Wangji find the original Valley Master's crimes appalling? Certainly. But Wen Kexing wonders briefly, terribly, if he'd think they were something deserved. ) Is killing my parents not good enough? No? What about the years of torture after? Perhaps that is something that was rightfully given. You've seen me, I'm wilful, I'm wicked, certainly someone else must have seen that darkness in me even then.
( The corner turns, Wen Kexing stalks it, the length of his body a caged animal. )
I could have been something else. Maybe not quite like you, but something better. I would have had a clan myself, I would have been taught how to do right, I would have been someone's shidi. ( He laughs, hollow, an ache in his throat. Could he have saved Zhou Zishu from himself if he had remained in Four Seasons? Maybe. Probably not. The world was turning even then. ) I wasn't the only one he hurt, but I am the worst of them. If you want a crime to pin then it is my creation. Is that not enough?