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I just really hate it when people keep on saying that Wei Wuxian lost control and killed Jiang Yanli. Especially when they make such horrible analogies like "Wei Wuxian doing drugs so much he killed his sister while doing so" or the "Wei Wuxian drove his car so wildly that he crashed into his sister." Were they just going to ignore real person, that random cultivator, who was really the one who drove the sword into her chest. Not only do they completely strip Jiang Yanli of her free will to do what she wants, but they're literally wiping out her sacrifice of love for Wei Wuxian. People acting like she didn't know what she was doing but she clearly did. She died to protect Wei Wuxian, it's just that simple. Fandom tries too hard to diminish her heroic sacrifice into some unfortunately pitiful accident that was never supposed to happen.

Of course they’ll ignore that someone else—someone on their side of “Wei Wuxian has gone too far and must be stopped!”—killed Jiang Yanli, because they believe just like the mob that if anything bad happens in the story, it has to be Wei Wuxian’s fault. Also, if Jiang Cheng didn’t defend and protect Wei Wuxian, then there couldn’t possibly be any other character (especially not a weaker character!) willing to put their life on the line to defend him, so Jiang Yanli “had” to be killed by his corpses and not a sneaky, underhanded cultivator who stabbed her in the neck while attempting to stab Wei Wuxian in the back as he calmed the corpses.

I've seen your posts, and I think you have discussed Wei Wuxian's death once and how you've said that Wei Wuxian wasn't expected to die in the First Siege? I vaguely remember you saying how Wei Wuxian was in his domain and that him dying was not supposed to happen? Could you elaborate more on that? Did he have a chance at survival during the First Siege?

I'm asking because I have seen some posts, saying how, although Wei Wuxian is powerful, he will always die because he lives in a society where other people will continually bring him down again and again. Some think his death was already fated to be the moment he became more righteous than the corrupted gentry.

Was Wei Wuxian fated to die? Or does he actually have a chance to survive the First Siege, despite the bleak circumstances?

It’s not “fate” if the entire world you’ve been a part of have turned to actively attempting to kill you, and you die cause someone happened to catch you slipping. That’s just a probability game. Speaking from a meta view, Wei Wuxian was fated by the narrative to die, but that’s not the same “fate” as in-world logic. All that said, what I mean by “Wei Wuxian wasn’t supposed to die” is that we have no indication whatsoever that Wei Wuxian would not have fought back to preserve the life of the Wen remnants, let alone his own life, let alone A-Yuan’s. Yet, not a single person on the invader’s side died. The siege interrupted Wei Wuxian’s attempt to destroy the second half of the yin tiger tally, and the backlash killed him before an actual battle broke out. On top of which, the only reason why the clans were able to get into the Burial Mounds to begin with is because Wei Wuxian essentially forgot to change the locks on Jiang Cheng between the trauma of Nightless City and his newfound resolve to immediately destroy the tally.

I promise you, the man who singlehandedly killed 5,000 cultivators from the biggest, most powerful, and longest lasting cultivation clan in their world at the height of its strength was not gonna be taken out by a ragtag group of maybe 3,000 cultivators who had only just managed to pull themselves together from a crushing defeat by this same man in the middle of a mental breakdown three months prior. And Wei Wuxian is on a corpse mountain that breeds fierce corpses? No way. Not a chance. Play in someone else’s face.