[he wants to comfort him somehow, and he can't even say "it wasn't your fault"; it was as much Wei Wuxian's fault as it wasn't. the things that were out of his control won't help to hear about. what he's grieving is his inability to control all of it; that he made an impossible bid to put everything he could see in front of him under his protection, and failed it.

Lan Wangji can relate.




starts humming to him, after a while]