[he could laugh. he could cry. Wei Wuxian is such a helplessly righteous person that the moment he sees Lan Wangji as an object of pity, he's trying to help him. maybe if he were more vulnerable, more often, he'd have been less hated to begin with; but it's not that the knowledge does him any good. he's someone who doesn't usually show these things, and he's never been able to be less himself.

he does go even quieter in surprise, when Wei Wuxian takes them to an unfamiliar place and starts fumbling with the door. he didn't expect this, even in the context of Wei Wuxian's urge to be kind to the broken-winged.]