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ber-go 11 months
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Dance with the devil <3聽
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cinammonelles 2 months
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Love how the heavenly officials went, "Ling wen, your war crimes were no good very bad. As punishment we're employing you again, congrats. Go finish these reports by tomorrow."
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bi-turtle-enthusiast 3 months
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mu qing calling xie lian "xie lian" instead of "your highness" is everything to me btw.
he finally feels confident enough in his own worth and position to refer to xie lian like an equal because he sees how xie lian treats HIM like an equal.
he's finally not afraid. he can finally just be himself. he can rag on xie lian, he can speak his mind, and he knows that xie lian won't leave or hate him because of it.
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sokkalore 7 months
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some new art from the russian edition of TGCF
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drag0nalias0 11 months
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Sometimes a household is just a scrap collector god, a ghost king, a living bandage, a scimitar made from a gourged out eyeball, the gods evil ghost cousin tied outside the front door like a dog and said ghost cousins adopted human child he stole.
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alexbutrandomthoughts 4 months
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Dang, Guoshi really gave Xie Lian the supportive and progressive parent talk huh. "It doesn't matter who you love as long as you're happy". I thought Jun Wu was the daddy, but Guoshi was the real father all along.
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jiang-yanli-s-soup 1 month
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Fare thee well, my own true love
Farewell for a while, I'm going away
But I'll be back
Though I go 10, 000 miles...
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princessofxianle 4 months
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Headcanon:
Feng Xin taught himself to draw his bow with his teeth after he broke his own arm in book 2 so he wasn't a totally worthless bodyguard...
...the skill goes mostly unused until the final battle in book 5 when he saves Mu Qing
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icequeenlila 4 months
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DYING Part 2
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I swear I've never laughed so hard at anything written on paper馃槀 That poor boy. He did his best, worked his ass off to safe everyone and Xie Lian just ROASTS him. I can't!馃槀馃槀馃槀
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average-hua-cheng-fan 11 months
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Xie Lian: I'll die before letting you touch Hua Cheng!
Hua Cheng: No! Gege, I'LL die before letting him touch YOU!
Jun Wu: (staring into the camera like he's on the office)
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jayktoralldaylong 1 year
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Hua Cheng is not the reward for Xie Lian's suffering. Hua Cheng suffered because Xie Lian suffered after all. Xie Lian was just lucky that someone....loved him that much.
There is no grand amazing world altering moral lesson at the end of TGCF, though some may say staying on the path of good and righteousness no matter what evil comes your way. However, in truth, Xie Lian stayed good because he couldn't bear to be evil. Hurting people has only ever hurt him. The way he so deeply regrets what he did in the past, it shames him because seeing his enemies suffer would have never brought him satisfaction. The same way Bai Wuxiang had to keep finding new enemies to fight because revenge doesn't make the pain go away and won't bring back what was lost. It's not a revelation that revenge is bad or a waste of time, but that it won't change how broken you are inside.
Xie Lian stayed true to himself but the reason he's so happy at the end of TGCF is not because of that. Hua Cheng would love him no matter what he did after all, and Hua Cheng knew Xie Lian so well, right down to the worst he was capable of, he knew Xie Lian would never hurt people, but it ended up boiling down to Hua Cheng choosing Xie Lian over and over again. Through the pain and suffering and sorrow. After everything, Xie Lian was just lucky.
It's painful, knowing that that's exactly how life works. Xie Lian was lucky that there was someone willing to fight for him and by his side for 800 years. Xie Lian was loved and adored the way everyone deserves to be loved and adored. A home was created for him and his pain did not feel meaningless at the end.
But what about Qi Rong? The neglected child who didn't get his happily ever after, except in headcanons? He didn't ask to have bad adults that never corrected him. He didn't ask to.crave attention so much that he'd rather be tortured than ignored.
What about He Xuan who lost everything for something that was never his fault? Getting revenge didn't get that back, it just made him lose more. Where is the home and happiness that He Xuan deserves once and for all?
What about Bai Wuxiang..... The version of Xie Lian that never got a Hua Cheng. That just kept suffering till he went mad.
What about Shi Qingxuan who had luck for majority of his life but will now live and die in insignificance, once again through no fault of his own. Or is he at fault for never asking his brother how he took care of the problem?
What about Ling Wen who loved and killed but never stopped loving. Who went to great lengths to revive her lover just to lose it all. What about Ling Wen who achieved so much but has lost one of her best friends and won't get the one she loves?
Unlucky. That's just it. Things didn't work out for them.
In the grand scheme of things, whether you're evil or good, sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. Not all bad guys 'reap the consequences of their actions'. Not all good guys get a happy ending. Xie Lian was lucky, and I'm so happy for him. But every time I remember the others....it brings me to tears.
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ber-go 2 years
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rainyatw 3 months
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I'm only on book 4, but something that's really interesting to me is the origins of the four calamities.
We know of the four Hua Cheng, He Xuan, White Clothed No Face (that's his name right?) and Qi Rong (to have a good number).
All of them, the reason they appeared and their whole existence can be traced back to heavenly officials messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
Hua Chengs becoming a ghost king is definitely related to Xie Lian and his devotion to him.
He Xuan would have never existed as a Ghost king without Shi Wudu.
White Clothed No Face only appeared because Xie Lian meddled in the fate of Xianle. At least that's what we were told so far.
Qi Rong relationship to Xie Lian is definitely something that fuels him even today.
That isn't to say that it's necessarily bad, but especially with Mount Tonglu reopening and the possibility of a new ghost kind emerging my first thought was which heavenly official would be responsible. And I also wondered if the officials are aware of that.
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xielianlover2 7 days
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I laughed so hard when I read these parts haha
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cloudfishh 4 months
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Pt. 2 of my self- indulgent doodles i did while reading tgcf except i spoiled myself all the major plot details
Send help
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ilovereadingandstuff 2 months
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beefleaf is truly squeezing my soul everytime my eyes get the smallest of glances of the two of them.
I though that after lawlight and kudoichi, i wasn't going to encounter another angst-but-lovable ship....but here we are. suffering.
(hualian is my band-aid while reading. I getting closer and closer to book 6, so I'm preparing myself...)
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