Jiang Cheng does take note of the distinct lack of backing down or cowering, something he would have expected from his Nie Huaisang at this age, and it only leaves him more inclined to break that stupid fan over his stupid head.

"Well I'm not, use your eyes! And use your brain while you are at it! Do you think anything about being abducted to another world is going to be normal!"

As if he didn't spend months clinging to the theory that Wei Wuxian is a talking bug because he didn't want to deal with alternate realities.