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I imagine wangxians confession scene to be the most insane piece of lore to bestow the cultivation world because its such a "Oh... that makes much more sense" so they just decide to exaggerate it like they usually do cause THAT IS SOME GOOD LORE.
Fast forward a few months, the story of the yilling laozu (Credits to the cultivation world) is a tragic tale of love and healing where Lan wangji and Wei wuxian were both secretly in love but could not come out because of the fear of guaranteed backlash and so they'd become bitter exs yet, still madly in love that is until wei wuxian died. Coming back after 13 miserable years they'd decided love wins.
Wangxian are amused.
Jiang cheng is sure he's in hell.
The juniors (except jin ling and lan yuan) find it so romantic and cute.
Lan qiren qi deviates