At any other moment, it would've been a wild speculation, but that wild speculation had, unfortunately, been exactly right. There was definitely an upside to keeping his identity concealed if he had continued to look like Mo Xuanyu, but he can't say he wouldn't miss seeing his own face in the mirror every once in a while.

And if the claim itself wasn't wild enough, he knew about the golden core as well. A secret that should only belong to him and the Wen siblings. He crawled halfway across the cave toward the other, waving and making shushing noises.

"Okay! Alright! Shush- that's-!" he sputters, shaking his head. "How can we both be Wei Wuxian?! A-and why would you bully yourself?!"

Okay, so if the situations were reversed, he absolutely would have done the same thing... but even so!