[ He doesn't expect Xue Yang to get it. The Yin Tiger Tally was too dangerous for anyone else, no one had the good sense to use it without harming others, which is his fault. Why craft a sword if it isn't to kill? The same logic is there for the Yin Tiger Tally.

So, he destroyed it. Broke it into pieces, made people fight for it, knew they would never be able to truly harness its powers again. What he didn't expect was for Xue Yang and Jin Guangyao to find pieces of it, put it back together. Still not as strong as the original but still very dangerous. ]

I shouldn't have made it. It was too powerful, and too many people wanted it. I knew they'd fight for it, but I underestimated how greedy people would get.

[ A shrug. On one hand, he probably couldn't have survived the Burial Mounds without making the Yin Tiger Tally. On the other hand, was that worth the cost? Should he just have died in the Burial Mounds instead, like he was supposed to?

Wei Wuxian goes quiet again, lost in thought. ]