( Slap to his face, the truth stinging: he does not.
To bow himself so utterly, so completely, before another or their truths. To recuse himself from ownership of his own person. Under the white, spumed roil of his doubts and another's truths, to drown.
Once, a creature of Gusu Lan, he stood, spine steel and rigid. Did not bend before a discipline whip, did not break under the rod. Grief failed to dismantle him.
But men are not all cut, skittish and tender, to the same scale by equally kind fists. There was no Wei Ying to teach Wen Kexing the pillars of fortitude. And so — )
What did he do? ( And so, treating him as no better than one of the spirits to appease, Lan Wangji must do it for him. )
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To bow himself so utterly, so completely, before another or their truths. To recuse himself from ownership of his own person. Under the white, spumed roil of his doubts and another's truths, to drown.
Once, a creature of Gusu Lan, he stood, spine steel and rigid. Did not bend before a discipline whip, did not break under the rod. Grief failed to dismantle him.
But men are not all cut, skittish and tender, to the same scale by equally kind fists. There was no Wei Ying to teach Wen Kexing the pillars of fortitude. And so — )
What did he do? ( And so, treating him as no better than one of the spirits to appease, Lan Wangji must do it for him. )