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bingqiuhateabortion · 4 days

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Tgcf fans take a joke challenge: impossible

“Tgcf is like the trolley problem except it’s Xie Lian’s fault that everyone dies because he wants to stop the trolley.” No, Tgcf is “like” the trolley problem if the problem was that every time Xie Lian attempted to stop a trolley, the trolley owner builds another trolley and sends it hurtling down another track to mass murder another set of people to prove to Xie Lian that the only “reasonable” response to witnessing mass death occurring is to stand to the side to watch the trolley kill the people you think least deserving of life, maybe while asking the trolley driver—who wants to kill—to slow down a little (but only maybe). In that regard, the op of that wretched take and the trolley owner seem to be on the same wavelength.

#pretty sure op of that line didn't finish reading tgcf and that just were their thoughts #either way that's a lot of mean words over a very unserious line #yk you don't have to explain every detail of circumstances for a punchline right. right?

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bingqiuhateabortion · 4 days

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bingqiuhateabortion · 8 days

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I never shared here! I got TGCF Hua Cheng Stiletto nails by yeelin.nails

The reason why my right thumbnail is shorter than the left is intentional so that I can still use my MMO mouse to raid in FFXIV. A red gem for eming, a butterfly, and red and black polish with silver flakes to represent swarms of butterflies.

#aaah these are amazing!!#mwah

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bingqiuhateabortion · 11 days

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I assumed he'd have her work under him for the duration. In the revised ver while they were on paradise manor-boat (i got it from audio drama ep 13 23:40 or so) XL saw many flames of restless souls illuminating the river and asked if he or HC could free them and HC said no bc it's far too many but if some light his city streets and river and work really hard he lets them go. That + soon after that XL asks why he doesn't answer most prayers and HC answers that people should learn that nobody is going help them and everything they want to achieve or if they are in a dire situation they'll have to crawl their way themselves. I don't think that it needs mentioning that this part of his ideology ties really well to his own life etc. So it's not like he lets anything go to waste and he's not that virtuous if it's not for his gege AND it depends on his mood. But that said maybe he might actually take pity on some and free them lol idk

My friend was watching the show for the first time and they brought up a misconception that I think we see a lot in fandom. So I want to talk about The Gamblers Den and specifically this scene in particular:

My friend genuinely wondered what Hua Cheng would do and then when they heard his explanation they were even more confused:

They basically messaged me saying, wait Hua Cheng would have made the bet. He bets people’s lives and some how Xie Lian is okay with that. How???

And to anyone else who’s thinking the same thing or falling for the Demon King vibe Hua Cheng is trying to sell here I am here to tell you, you have all been duped.

What’s import to understand is that Ghost City actually came from making one of Xie Lian’s ideas work:

Xie Lian is talking about a specialised market here, a place where the common people couldn’t just stumble into without reason and that’s what Ghost City is and The Gambers Den is the foundation of it. While Xie Lian didn’t say hey go gamble, Hua Cheng is taking a risk and playing into his greatest strength and then showing of for his crush is the most dramatic way possible when talking about it.

For Hua Cheng the house always wins! Literally. Or at least what he wants the bet to be will always happen. His luck is just that good. If the gambler wins it’s genuinely because Hua Cheng let him.

In the Den he is acting as Judge and Jury with Xie Lian as his moral code but he can’t just turn down the deals. If he does then these people could go to less safe options (looking at you Qi Rong) to get what they desire which negates the reason he built Ghost City in the first place.

Hua Cheng has to let these people play by his rules if he wants to follow his Gods wishes. So he has to be creative and look at loop holes, phrasing and Xie Lians most important teaching finding the third path.

For this moment specifically giving the options I think Hua Cheng would have taken the ten years of his daughter’s life. Why you may ask? Well the phrasing is easier to manipulate. While the eradication of his competitors is pretty well laid 20 years of his daughters life is pretty vague.

Option 1) Hua Cheng could take her away from her shit father and put her in an apprenticeship and marry a man of her choosing since her hand is now her own to decide since Hua Cheng doesn’t want it.

Option 2) She has to work in Ghost City for 20 years and is married to Yin Yu in name only (because Hua Cheng can’t have a wife at all or he won’t win Gege) then gets pleasantly divorced and giving a severance payment after 20 years.

Option 3) He could decide life is a vague term and after she dies she has to spend 20 years in Ghost City and matchmake a future marriage between her and another ghost.

Option 4) He could decide what she has to do with the next twenty years of her life which could include an actual good marriage and education. Where she has to worship his shrine and be only his devotee for 20 years.

Option 5) He can literally say I’ll collect when I decide and never cash in.

He can do anything because the wording is so fluent and for Hua Cheng debater and Civil God Killer it’s probably easy. He’s not a demon king, he’s a crafty trickster spirit basically a fae lord.

He’s playing the system and he’s winning that’s what Xie Lian figured out and why he supports it. He knows Hua Cheng well enough even back then to trust that he would make the right decision because he believes in Hua Cheng and he’s right too.

#my headcanon is that his gambler den's dealers and some others are someone who's indebted to him #tgcf

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bingqiuhateabortion · 12 days

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