#arguably it should be sitting at the doomed subplot table with Beefleaf and Qijiu

[winepresswrath]

MXTX MC conflicts go:

Yi City: my boyfriend thinks I am a prolific murderer and specifically murdered a bunch of people his bff loves to get back at him. also that I tricked him into doing murders with me, for enrichment. I did all those things but did not anticipate having a feeling about his feelings.

Scum Villain: my boyfriend thinks I want to kill him but I don't.

MDZS: my boyfriend thinks I hate him but I don't.

TGCF: my boyfriend doesn't know I exist but I'm worried that once he finds out he's going to find my eyepatch ugly and my cavern of effigies offputting.

#it may be unfair to pull yi city #out of its published context #arguably it should be sitting at the doomed subplot table with Beefleaf and Qijiu #but I think it's more fun to treat it like juvenalia and this is my shitpost #and anyway it basically depends whether you decide Song Lan or Xue Yang is love interest coded #Xue Yang is absolutely living the full MXTX love interest experience except the author somehow didn't notice it's a romcom? #where is his third act where the mc realizes that all that lies between them is a big pile of misunderstandings and totally irrelevant #murders. he can make a zombie a-qing if he feels like it #sometimes I yearn to express my feelings about this body of work in graph form #love interest's ability to care about things that are not mc: down up down #love interest's ability to tolerate estranged bff #up up up #mxtx love interests wear grey and pink factoid is false #Lan Wangji who lives on a mountain and wears nothing but white #is an outlier and should not be counted