when you're calmly walking down the hallway and suddenly you're pinned against the wall
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rambling about fengqing
something about mu qing and feng xin seeing hua cheng and xie lian happy together and feeling as if they’re seeing their failure personified because they were never devoted enough in the end
something about mu qing’s lasting regret being not so much about the wrongs he’s done to xie lian (leaving him, not standing up for him, etc) so much as about the way he’s spent his whole life pushing everyone away
something about mu qing realizing that he has spent 800 years with so little to show for it beyond his achievements as a god…but personally, all was lost with the death of his mother…until xie lian ascends again, but well, though they can be friends now, xie lian has a life separate from him now
and then something about how feng xin begins to give mu qing the benefit of the doubt. at first for xie lian’s sake, he’ll try to be his friend. but this person actually isn’t so bad. in fact, isn’t this the person that can understand him best in this world.
feng xin showing mu qing kindness, allowing mq to realize that maybe he hasn’t ruined everything for himself. realizing that feng xin isn’t actually so much of an idiot. letting his defenses fall away bit by bit.
the realization that even after 800 years, people are capable of change. feng xin is capable of considering mu qing in a totally different light. mu qing is capable of forgiving himself and letting himself be vulnerable.
mu qing finding one day that he’s in love and it’s terrifying because feng xin hates him still, right? he’s just being nice for xie lian’s sake.
feng xin not having any qualms about loving mu qing. at first, he’s surprised himself, but he considers how happy he is these days with him.
feng xin and mu qing understanding each other better than anyone else and falling in love because of it!! growing independently and together at the same time!!
not instant love, not 800 years of pining, but slow, patient changes that lead to a deep trust and affection and understanding between the two that they both thought was impossible just a few years ago.
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Feng "I can recognise my rival just by looking at his shadow and not the woman I loved and had a kid with" Xin and Mu "I know he hates me and vice versa but I'm greatly obsessed with speaking poetry about my rival's dick" Qing.
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I think in large part the root of Jiang Cheng/Mu Qing/ Lan Xichen hate is not understanding that when the writing is of high quality, side characters, much like people, have lives outside of the main character. Even if the main character is an important part of their lives, they have their own concerns, experiences, feelings, traumas, limited points of view, fragments of information, impossible situations, and hard choices to make. Much like the main characters. They can't always be serviceable to the main character. And they aren't supposed to be.
If the story was written from the POV of any of these side characters, due to a tragic lack of effort in seeing things through others' perspectives, the haters would have been writing essays about how WWX or XL are selfish, toxic trash.
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Quan Yizhen is the epitome of head empty, no thoughts. Hualian kissing? Yeah, that was definitely the necessary way to transfer spiritual powers. See, the divine statue became stronger! Buried in a wall? OMG SHIXIONG! Told to turn into a martial god sword? Sure, don’t know what’s going on but might as well. Jun Wu assigns the western domain to the martial god of the west? No idea why.
As always, MXTX said it best:
“There was not a single point where he’d figured out what was happening.” tgcf ch. 203
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Matching armors because they are ✨ rivals ✨
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omg i could not stand a month-long situationship imagine a 800-years-old situatioship
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HELP the way nan feng and fu yao first introduce themselves. “my general doesn’t know about this.” “…mine neither”
you’re both such terrible actors, darlings
and xie lian spitting out his tea fbhshfjef this is just such a good scene
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stanning fengqing is so useless bc 100% of their interactions are them canonically trying to off one another, but the way i need to interpret them are borderline delusional. like yes, look, they briefly glanced at each other in absolute loathing and abhorrence of each other's existence, and they do indeed strike at each other's most mortifying moments with the intention to hurt deeply. BUT if you look CLOSELY at how their gazes LINGER then you can tell that they actually very slightly in a very teeny tiny way yearn for each other in a way that transcends distance and time...no no wait come back i swear it's true—
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