I don't think Yanqing is supposed to be mature beyond his age. (We don't even know for sure what his actual age is, compared to the Xianzhou immortal average maturation rate, lol.) Just that the events of the previous Luofu arc have visibly impacted his ways of thinking and acting, thus giving him character development.
I don't think he's second-in-command of the Cloud Knights either, as an official position. Nothing about his normal duties and attitude gives the impression that he has that much power and responsibility in his normal duties. Rather, he's more like Jing Yuan's PA. His normal duties are usually the tasks that Jing Yuan assigns him, which is why he can speak with authority on issues he gets involved him (because he's there as Jing Yuan's mouthpiece, or at least assumed to be so by other involved parties). But for other stuff, he can rightly say it's not part of his normal duties.
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Date: 2024-08-08 18:09 (UTC)I don't think he's second-in-command of the Cloud Knights either, as an official position. Nothing about his normal duties and attitude gives the impression that he has that much power and responsibility in his normal duties. Rather, he's more like Jing Yuan's PA. His normal duties are usually the tasks that Jing Yuan assigns him, which is why he can speak with authority on issues he gets involved him (because he's there as Jing Yuan's mouthpiece, or at least assumed to be so by other involved parties). But for other stuff, he can rightly say it's not part of his normal duties.