>b-but hong lu got
And he's still less developed than almost all of the sinners who had their cantos. Xichun stole the spotlight in both of the intervallos related to his canto, he got outshined by multiple people in his own canto and his personal problems literally got solved by flashback beams because he was too much of a non character to actually talk things out to solve his own problems. His situation is not a desirable one, Hong Lufags are still in denial about his treatment but you'll see more and more people waking up to it as more time passes.