Xianxia characters: the questions readers actually search

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• 01Chinese canonWhy was Wei Wuxian killed?The story says Jiang Cheng did it. The truth is messier: a siege, a defence of the Wen remnants, and a backlash that tore him apart.
• 02Chinese canonDoes Wei Wuxian get his golden core back?No. Not in the novel, not in the donghua, not in the drama. He spends the rest of his story without one, and that is the point.
• 03Chinese canonDid Jiang Cheng ever forgive Wei Wuxian?There is no forgiveness scene. There is a conversation that stops before it reaches one, and the novel leaves it there on purpose.
• 04Power systemHow strong is a golden core cultivator?Third rung out of nine, and the end of anyone the mortal world can argue with. A city, a court, an army: none of them are the right unit of measure any more.
• 05DefinitionWho is Xu Yang's wife?Jiang Lan, in One Hundred Thousand Years of Qi Refining. Not the Jiang Lan from Qi Refining for 3000 Years. Two women, two books, one confusing name.
• 06How toDid Wei Wuxian give up his golden core?Yes, and not in the vague way fans sometimes repeat. He had a surgeon cut it out of his living body and put it into Jiang Cheng's.
• 07Chinese canonWho is the real mastermind in The Untamed?Not Jin Guangyao, who did the killing, and not Wei Wuxian, who took the blame. The architect is the man in the corner of the temple fanning himself.
• 08Chinese canonWho is the real villain in The Untamed?Jin Guangyao is the one you can name. The thing that actually killed Wei Wuxian has no face, no sword and no fan, and it is still in the room.
• 09DefinitionWhat is Wei Wuxian's most famous line?是非在己，毁誉由人，得失不论 — three clauses about who gets to judge him, and the reason this is the one readers quote.
• 10DefinitionWho is Xu Yang's master?Jue Tiantong, founder of the Tianlan Sect's core lineage, who ascended long before the story starts. He left Xu Yang two things: a doctrine and a sword.
• 11Chinese canonHow many wifes does Shi Hao have?Three. Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi and Qing Yi. Only one of them gave him a child, and the woman he married first is not the one most readers guess.
• 12Chinese canonHow many years was Wei Wuxian dead?Thirteen. Not a decade, not a century, and the number is load-bearing — it is why the world still remembers him, and why it remembers him wrong.
• 13Chinese canonHow old is Wei Wuxian when he dies?Around thirty. The novel never prints a number, so this is arithmetic from its own dates — and the arithmetic stops being exact in the last few years.
• 14Chinese canonHow many wives does Xiao Yan have in The Great Ruler?He isn't in The Great Ruler. Xiao Yan belongs to a different novel, and in the book he is actually in he ends up with two wives, not three.