Wei Wuxian may not have the best memory, but he nods all the same. He remembers, more so, he knows from past experience just what a battle can cost. It's naive to think there wouldn't be casualties, and really it is lucky that these deaths, however it may work, aren't permanent. But it doesn't make the pain of the loss any less.

"Why, because I'm so polite too?" he does smile at that, even if it's all in hypotheticals.

"If you're not an asshole at least some of the time, you're probably up to something," he trails off for a moment, taking a quiet breath, "how do you... handle it? Feeling like this, after he's gone?"