[He can only imagine. Even during the Sunshot campaign and with the Wen soldiers trying to bring down The Unclean Realm, they hadn't managed the devastation that had been wrought upon Lotus Pier.

Even from when he'd been taken from home, Jiang Cheng had still been working to right everything. There was so much to rebuild. His people had suffered so much, as well as his family. Then losing with Wei Wuxian defecting from their sect...]

No no, please don't apologize. In this place we have to make whatever peace and happiness we can. A little bit of home in any way is better than nothing at all.

[That's why he'd wanted to catch a bird, just to have something like back home.]