It shouldn't have been just them! You should have had a family! All of us, even- even Jin Zixuan, awful as he is, you deserved to have all of it. A mother and a father who would've shown you how much they loved you.

You lost that. You told me yourself, your father died. And everyone's insinuated it too, that you've lost them both...

[ wei wuxian grips jin ling the the shoulders, his eyes wet and his heart breaking as he struggles with the whole truth of it. ]

Why didn't you tell me? Everyone else must've known, but not me - why didn't you tell me you were my nephew? Where was I when you were growing up, Jin Ling?