Really, Wei Wuxian is a model for these troubled, quarantine-filled times. Stuck indoors for three months? Read a book! Learn a new instrument! Teach yourself how to control the dead, and when you get out, hunt down your enemies and force them to watch each other die, one by one!
Actual Novel Lines If They Were Included in The Untamed
(Can you imagine if these got included in the script? 🤭)
Wei Wuxian, educating straight men on their egotistical assumptions about gay people.
(Lol, actually, Wei Wuxian was not resurrected with his old body in the novel, but instead he inhabited the body of Mo Xuanyu, who was known to be homosexual. He was trying to hit two birds with one stone and piss off both the proud Jiang Cheng and the prudish Lan Wangji.)
Wei Wuxian: Who taught you this? Who told you this sort of conversation ought to happen? It might sound fine coming from me, but can you imagine your Hanguang-jun saying something like this?
(For the longest time, the juniors thought that Mo Xuanyu and Lan Wangji were in a relationship, and insisted that the least Wei Wuxian—as Mo Xuanyu—could do was be faithful to Lan Wangji. Lan Jingyi reprimanded Wei Wuxian when he did not exchange a tearful goodbye with Lan Wangji when they were in danger and needed to split up.)
Precious Wei Ying remembered that as a child, his father would hold the reins while his mother rode with little Wei Wuxian in her arms. So he made Lan Wangji act as the father while Wei Wuxian sits like the mother, so now they are just missing the child.
(Lan Wangji has no idea what is happening, lol.)
Lan Xichen: Young Master Wei, I do not think this is the right time and place.
(It really wasn’t, but on the upside, the line was so unexpected that Jin Guangyao’s hold slackened and Wei Wuxian was able to escape in the novel, lmao)
When you see shitposts calling their escape post-Guanyin Temple “eloping"—they are not wrong, and thus those are not real shitposts.
