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On of the best moments in TGCF is when Xian Lian is lying stabbed in the road in Lang-Er Bay, seriously thinking about committing genocide, and the merchant bumps into him, drops his rice, cusses and yells at him, and then a bit later comes back and apologizes for being angry and gives Xian Lian his bamboo hat. The reason it is the best is that we expect one moment of kindness. This is what happens in a book like this. We know that Xie Lian has to have an epiphany about humanity to draw him back from the brink of utter and complete darkness. We know he has to have a catalyst that makes it so he does not commit genocide and decides to save everyone instead. This is how these stories go. But in these stories, that moment is usually given to us by an innocent child. Or it's given to us by someone who is just a purer soul than all the rest. In the set-up for this scene, you fully expect the one who will give Xie Lian the will to save humanity will be the water merchant who has been wanting to help Xie Lian the whole time he was lying in the road with a sword through him. That water merchant has been shown to be more compassionate than the rest and has been held back by his wife, who fears the God of Misfortune.

And yet, in TGCF, that moment is not given to us by a pure, innocent child. It is not given to us by one person who just happens to be kinder than most. It's not. It's not. It's given to us by just your every day guy having a shitty day who is just as cruel and nasty to Xian Lian as everyone else, but who takes a moment to calm down and sees this pathetic loser in the rain and is like "hey, I lost my temper, sorry, don't be a pathetic loser, here's my hat, stopped getting rained on and looking so sad, go home."

It's not this pure shining moment about the inherent goodness of humanity. It's this pure shining moment about people doing shitty things and people doing kind things and how that's all mixed up within us and we're always both. It's that that gives Xie Lian the will to survive and sacrifice everything to save all humanity. It's not because there is good alongside the bad but because we're always both, and Xie Lian knows that he is both, and he thinks that's worth saving. He thinks it's worth being obliterated for.

When he's not obliterated for it, he lives for it instead.

#tgcf

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Reddit user duan_meiqi made a post about this exact scenario, I took it upon myself to draw it.

#fengqing

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Похвалите меня, я закончила !

#hua cheng

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#hashimada

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I flipped it bcs I wanted to show hc's tattoo jajsjw

#hualian

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The Husband 🖤

Redrawing one of my old tattoo designs

#hua cheng

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body paintings by Karen Turner

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🌟🌟🌟

#hashimada

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my madara nendoroid has been stuck in los angeles for a week so i like to think hes just vacationing there at this point

image is based off this fun shirt i found

#madara

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五代目火影

#tsunade

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❤🦋!!

— (hua cheng & xie lian)

i was struck with sudden divine inspiration. ft the original sketch

#hualian

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Hua Cheng (And Hualian) but as Textposts I’ve found.

#hua cheng

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How i sleep knowing I’ll never bring a child into this world

#real

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The tgcf characters are good-looking, BUT THE MANHWA MAKES THEM GORGEOUS

Xia Lian

Hua Cheng

Feng Xin

Mu Qing

Pei Ming

#tgcf

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#madara

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Guoshi: "Xie Lian, you must never ever allow a woman to seduce you! Stay pure!"

Xie Lian: *sees Hua Cheng "Instructions unclear, he's not a woman so I can marry him, right? :D"

#hualian

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Sketch practice! 😌 Might do more with these someday but I just really wanted an excuse to draw a bunch of soft hualians 😚

#hualian