Sometimes Jiang Cheng missed the war.

Not the war part of the war (he wasn’t an idiot), but the simplicity of it – the Wen sect was the bad guy, and anyone opposing them wasn’t.

During the war, no one would tell him his brother was a villain for using an unorthodox cultivation style, and he wouldn’t have to think about the Jin sect’s thinly veiled power grabs while they funded Lotus Piers’ reconstruction, and gave his sister her happily ever after.