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langtaoxuejin · 3 months

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Some sad moments in C-BL novels I've read

spoilers warning!!!

Qiang Jin Jiu : Li Jianheng's death - i didn't like him that much so i was surprised that i was sad... but he really was trying his best to be a good emperor. in his last moments he was worried about Xiao Chiye and Hai Liangyi... what really broke my heart was when he said 'don't make me the emperor in my next life... i want to be born as a swallow in dazhou' all he really wanted was to live his life happily and have fun... the author really wrote it so beautifully

TGCF : When HC disappeared - 'There is no banquet in the world that doesn't comes to an end' i can't explain the way this line tugs at my heart... like we all knew he's going to come back but i couldn't help being sad about it... Hua Cheng was literally always there, so it caught me completely off guard when he started fading

Qiang Jin Jiu : (again) Xiao Fangxu's death - i wasn't expecting it. i wasn't expecting it all. i know the the war was ongoing but i still wasn't expecting it... i wish i could transmigrate into the novel and hug the poor wolf pup (even though Lanzhou would probably hack my head off) and it being a trap made me feel worse about it for some reason

Lord Seventh : although it wasn't particularly a moment but He Lianyi pining for Beiyuan was kind of sad to me... for some reason... i didn't like He lianyi that much either but i'm sooo weak for the unrequited love trope... whether it was because of the circumstances or the people themselves that they couldn't be together but He Lianyi truly loved Beiyuan and no one can tell me otherwise. but that doesn't means i don't like the canon ship coz i love love looooove wuxi sm and Beiyuan deserved someone like wuxi.

Dinghai Fusheng Lu : Che Luofeng - let me tell you i'm still traumatized. i hated what he did, how he treated Zhou Zhen and poor Chen Xing also suffered but i still felt bad that he had to end that way... that's just what the beauty of writing is... these authors write so beautifully it can't be blamed on me... it's not like i wanted him to live but it's not like i wanted him to die either... thankfully in the next half he lived, but still... the unrequited love...

Fox Demon Cultivation Manual : the truth about Feng Zhoujun - firstly i liked this arc a lot... despite my emotions being played at every turn... after seeing how Jiang Liang was harassed, humiliated and beaten up before "Feng Zhoujun's" eyes i hated Feng Zhoujun(obviously) but when the truth was revealed which was that the real Feng Zhoujun loved Jiang Liang so much he would literally give him the world i was so heartbroken. how Feng Zhoujun tried so desperately to hang on but still died... how Jiang Liang saw Feng Zhoujun dying but he was still unable to do anything... it was all sad to me... (bless wen changchu for hanging madam bitch feng to death)

alright this post became way too long so i guess this is enough for one post... (i haven't finished QJJ yet so i have no idea what's in store for me up ahead)

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hamliet · 2 years

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What’s your take on the Xiao family’s dynamics and does the missing presence of a wife/mother figure have any meaningful impact on Xiao Fangxu or Xiao Chiye/Xiao Jiming? I love all your QJJ analyses so much!

Thank you! I'm not sure there's a lot to unpack in terms of their mother--we don't know very much about her, unfortunately, other than that she is still loved and missed. The conversation we have between Xiao Fangxu and Xiao Chiye as well was Xiao Chiye's comment about bring Shen Zechuan back to meet her indicate that they keep her memory alive.

That said, Xiao Fangxu is one of the few Very Good parents in fiction lol. I loved how he treated Xiao Chiye and Xiao Jiming individually. While it's easy to mistake this as favoritism, as people do in the novel, Xiao Fangxu actually just wanted to treat them like themselves, instead of like little clones. It seems to have worked, because neither brother really has any resentment, which is telling because everyone and their grandmother (Empress Dowager) keeps trying to count on the Xiao brothers rivaling each other, but the reality is that they complement each other.

Anyways, I love the Xiao family's dynamic, and the only thing I would change is that I wanted to see Xiao Jiming's direct reaction to learning Xiao Chiye is gay and seeing Shen Zechuan. However, Xiao Fangxu's tsundere reaction was so fantastic it made up for it.

#ask hamliet #qjj

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