I dragged them into it! [ He snapped, his eyes welling with tears again. ] My uncle -- I told him almost the moment he got here, that he hated Wei Wuxian! That he killed him! I told him!

I told him, and it was based on a - on a lie, and I ruined everything, and I--

[ His face was screwing up, eyes brimming, and he forced himself to look away so that the sect leader couldn't see his face. ]

He doesn't - he told me in the same breath that he loved my cousin and that he killed him. For nothing. For rumours. That he killed my father over jealousy. If it took so little for him to kill them in the first place, then what would love ever change about it anyway!