[ A reaction there is. Xue Yang's pupils immediately dilate at the name as he looks the face over a second time.
Jin Guangyao, rather intentionally (though much to Xue Yang's dismay), had kept Xue Yang solidly separated from actually meeting Wei Wuxian. He'd sneaked a few glimpses of him from across courtyards or adjacent buildings those few times they'd both been at Jinlintai, but it was never long enough to study him, and certainly never close enough to hold a conversation. He knew all about him; of course he did; he'd deeply studied his techniques in life and his notes in death. Jin Guangyao delivered any scrap of information that might have proved useful for whatever Xue Yang was tinkering with at the time.
But he couldn't claim he'd ever be able to recognize Wei Wuxian's face. ]
Prove it.
[ Despite the bite in the words there's excitement in his voice; a hint of something that he can't suppress betraying that he wants it to be true. How would Wei Wuxian prove it? That's not Xue Yang's problem. Wei Wuxian is clever, clever enough that if this is truly him he'd surely be able to come up with something. This is definitely not at all an unreasonable expectation on Xue Yang's part. ]
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Jin Guangyao, rather intentionally (though much to Xue Yang's dismay), had kept Xue Yang solidly separated from actually meeting Wei Wuxian. He'd sneaked a few glimpses of him from across courtyards or adjacent buildings those few times they'd both been at Jinlintai, but it was never long enough to study him, and certainly never close enough to hold a conversation. He knew all about him; of course he did; he'd deeply studied his techniques in life and his notes in death. Jin Guangyao delivered any scrap of information that might have proved useful for whatever Xue Yang was tinkering with at the time.
But he couldn't claim he'd ever be able to recognize Wei Wuxian's face. ]
Prove it.
[ Despite the bite in the words there's excitement in his voice; a hint of something that he can't suppress betraying that he wants it to be true. How would Wei Wuxian prove it? That's not Xue Yang's problem. Wei Wuxian is clever, clever enough that if this is truly him he'd surely be able to come up with something. This is definitely not at all an unreasonable expectation on Xue Yang's part. ]