not in the ways that mattered (this is the only thing that matters), by ThirtySixSaveFiles – 魔道祖师 – 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī – Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

“Wei Ying.” No response. Not even the twitch of an eyelid. Just the same dull, vacant stare he’s been wearing since Lan Wangji pulled him away from the carnage at the Nightless City.

Source: not in the ways that mattered (this is the only thing that matters), by ThirtySixSaveFiles – 魔道祖师 – 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī – Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

This hurts. I always wondered how this scene from the novel might have gone and have now accepted this as canon.