There's the tiniest wince when Wangji says he'll try to speak to him.
"I've already agreed to his plan. It's a good idea, and it seemed unlikely I could talk him out of it."
His fingers curl up, burying themselves in Xuehua's fur.
"It's not the risk of this plan specifically that concerns me. We all must take actions that come with risk, both to ourselves and to others, and ultimately we have to be the judge of whether that risk is acceptable."
It's not the first time that someone he cares about has made a plan with considerable risk to themselves, weighed it against the possible outcomes, and found it to be acceptable. It won't be the last. It's only that Lan Xichen fears that for Wuxian, the answer to the question is this worth the potential harm it could cause me will almost always be yes.
"Is there a way that I can help, to convince him his life, his needs, his wants, are not less than anyone else's? That there is more than one person who cares about what happens to him?"
He had tried unsuccessfully, once, in Yiling, to ask Wuxian to come to Gusu, to tell him that there were people who cared about him and were hurt when he acted recklessly. He knows more now than he did then, but there will never be anyone who knows Wei Wuxian better than Wangji.
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"I've already agreed to his plan. It's a good idea, and it seemed unlikely I could talk him out of it."
His fingers curl up, burying themselves in Xuehua's fur.
"It's not the risk of this plan specifically that concerns me. We all must take actions that come with risk, both to ourselves and to others, and ultimately we have to be the judge of whether that risk is acceptable."
It's not the first time that someone he cares about has made a plan with considerable risk to themselves, weighed it against the possible outcomes, and found it to be acceptable. It won't be the last. It's only that Lan Xichen fears that for Wuxian, the answer to the question is this worth the potential harm it could cause me will almost always be yes.
"Is there a way that I can help, to convince him his life, his needs, his wants, are not less than anyone else's? That there is more than one person who cares about what happens to him?"
He had tried unsuccessfully, once, in Yiling, to ask Wuxian to come to Gusu, to tell him that there were people who cared about him and were hurt when he acted recklessly. He knows more now than he did then, but there will never be anyone who knows Wei Wuxian better than Wangji.