For once, Wei Wuxian has no clever response to that. Did he deserve all that had happened to him? Perhaps not, but he deserved enough of it that he can't feel truly cheated. Besides, he got a second life after the first - what kind of man would he be to complain about a chance no one else gets?

"Master Ye also died?" he asks, trying to understand that. Perhaps it was like poor Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen, the former doomed to carry the fragments of his soulmate's soul for the rest of his days. "When I returned to life, I still had my demonic powers, but the source of them was long gone. So perhaps I did escape after all."