#poor xie lian

[exeunt-fool]

Live footage of the “CPR” scene in TGCF:

#It’s true #I was there #tgcf #poor Xie Lian #tian guan ci fu #xie lain #hua cheng #san lang

[ryattcos]

i need to annotate the land of tender chapter… i don’t think i’m strong enough to read that again… holy fuck it’s so bad.

got the super fluffy fics on deck because i’m gonna need emotional support to make it through this. 🥲

#tgcf #mxtx tgcf #tgcf novel #i hate the land of tender more than i hate qi rong and that’s really saying something #i was dreading annotating because i knew i was gonna get here again #poor xie lian #poor hua cheng #painfully awkward #i need to go lie down #my bookmark is a mimikyu pokémon card #i thought about just skipping this chapter #probably should have

[athesisinbeauty]

Mxtx references as conversations between my friends and I : (part 3)

Bean- "I'd rather Die"

Me- " Thought Xie Lian as he got stabbed a hundred times "

#mxtx #tgcf #hualian #spoiler warning #poor xie lian #for context we were talking about riverdale #so yeah tracks

[vagabound-thoughts]

I know I'm brainrotting hard rn because I keep listening to songs and thinking about tgcf/mdzs.

Anyway, I'm losing my mind over "Debt collector" by Jhariah, it's giving me strong outlaw/exiled Xie Lian vibes and I can't take it:

It's all catching up to you now Hope you can run 'Cause soon your past will come and drag you Down, down

You scammed your way into heaven Till the angels realize you're not one of them

Here comes the debt collector Seems you owe him again Dollars and coins can't cut your check This time around Here comes the debt collector And you owe him again Kind words and lies won't save your head This time around-round-round

...

Cordial killer Your payment is due They're looking at you We've done what we can It's out of our hands Sooner or later it comes back again

...

Please don't think I have no empathy For you What you've been through, but There's nothing I can do now But stand here and watch It all catch up to you

^(I wonder who this sounds like hmmmm)

#tgcf #xie lian #heaven official's blessing #am i wrong? please it hurts #poor Xie Lian #but also this song is a bop #Jhariahs stuff is great

[eyes-of-nine]

minimum wage coded scrunkly and his very good pupper

#.... I am in denial over vol 7 don't mind me ywy #haven't had the chance to get to vol 8 yet so no spoilers pls not that I'm expecting much :') #anyways yin yu my poor scrunkly I'm sorry that the narration and xie lian keep judging your overworked ass #they're both very fun to draw tho #tgcf #tgcf fanart #mxtx #tian guan ci fu #quan yizhen #yin yu #quanyin #heaven official's blessing #my art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji might be an unstoppable force, but Xie Lian has 800+ years of practice of being an immovable object.

(poll results here for context)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #bonus comic #The most resounding conclusion the community came to agree on is thar Xie Lian is bad at cooking on purpose #and is stubborn to the point of refusing to let go of this feature (not a bug) of himself. #though if you practice being bad at something on purpose you do just…get bad. #Poor lan wangji probably had to watch him do horrendous food crimes in the kitchen. #crushing eggs in his fists and throwing it into the bowl or pan (shell and all). #Burning water. Throwing in ingredients based on the roll of a dice. Putting in leaves and cool rocks he found. #He is living his best life mind you. And I think as long as he is happy then let him make his potions. #This is *his* version of art therapy. It just shouldnt be fed to anyone. #lwj would probably try to make it more theraputic after realizing that the bad cooking skills were on purpose. But even then XL is a rock. #he will not do anything he does not want to. Including processing feelings. #Don't idealize that btw. You will do yourself no favours by ignoring hard emotions. Love and peace everypony; Its a hard world out there. #Hua Cheng and wwx hung out during all of this and have since become hunting buddies. #Sometimes its birds sometimes it's each other. For sport.

[shijiujun]

Why aren't they listening to me ๐·°(⋟﹏⋞)°·๐

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #tgcf donghua #天官赐福 #xie lian #feng xin #mu qing #xianle trio #tgcfedit #poor xl bb talking to himself

[komaneko-kun]

"dianxia it's my arm that's broken, my legs are fine!" happy fenglian friday! carry someone you love to show how attentive you are (and totally not to tease them)

(inspired by this super cute fic that u rly should read!!)

#fenglian friday #fenglian #feng xin #xie lian #tgcf #my art #the poor thing ik he would not know what to do w himself #or just throw himself face down to the ground

[piosplayhouse]

Wwx is the only mxtx main protagonist who would not be a my little pony fan. But he does own a 20% cooler shirt

#Xie lian is an elder pegasister because he just likes shows about love and kindness #hes been in the collectors fandom for forever and runs an angelfire blog that barely works #whereas shen yuan is in the exact opposite camp as a brony who got into it via 4chan #he does serious lore analysis on the series in his free time and is constantly complaining about plot holes / poor #world building but he loves the brony pandering episodes #wwx doesnt fall into any of those camps so hes kind of just normie i fear. but Jiang cheng is a brony #so he bought the 20% cooler shirt to bond/make fun of him #i think he does like rainbow dash tho #oh favorite ponies #xie lians is fluttershy of course. sys is nightmare moon as we've established #but out of the main six his favorite/least favorite is twilight who he feels unfortunately drawn to bc he relates #to her. but he wont admit it. wwx only knows rainbow dashs name cause he sees her in memes #jiang cheng likes rarity. of course

[bombyixmori]

I’m sobbing did he just almost pass out from seeing Hua Cheng shirtless

#this poor guy is so starved #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #tgcf spoilers #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian

[one-flower-one-sword]

"Feng Xin, however, cut straight to the point. "You don't need to pretend anymore! We know this is your old lair. We've already seen what those divine statues are, and the murals too - we've seen everything!" Hua Cheng wasn't directly facing them; he stood at an angle. The hands tugged behind his back seemed to jerk at Feng Xin's words, and two of the fingers curled stiffly inward.

"His Highness... saw it too?" he asked softly, inclining his head. His voice was very, very quiet. While he still sounded unfazed, his voice was slightly cracked and obviously strange."

TGCF Volume 6, page 62

This, to me, is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the entire series, because of how violating it is what both Hua Cheng and Xie Lian go through. But there have already been many posts about how Mu Qing and Feng Xin take away Xie Lian's agency and autonomy and belittle his intelligence by kidnapping him away from Hua Cheng, trying to take the red string from him, and slapping the command talisman on him that rendered him mute and paralyzed. So what I want to focus on is Hua Cheng's side of it because what he goes through is also violating, just in different ways.

Given that this is Mount Tonglu, it makes absolute sense that Hua Cheng assumed that Xie Lian would never see any of the statues or murals, nor would anyone else connected to him, since gods and heavenly officials usually never go there. It also needs to be kept in mind that the statues were covered by veils and the murals covered by butterfly silk - whether this was done to hide them or to protect them from decay is beside the point, which is that they were covered and that Feng Xin and Mu Qing tear all of those covers down and then get offended by what they find under them - which are Hua Cheng's most private and intimate thoughts and feelings and memories. They might as well have torn open Hua Cheng's heart and soul and dissected the contents only to spit on them in disgust.

So now, not only have two of the people Hua Cheng hates the most uncovered Hua Cheng's most private feelings regarding Xie Lian, they also revealed them to Xie Lian without Hua Cheng's consent. And judging by the above description, Hua Cheng is terrified of Xie Lian's reaction. Usually, he has to be pushed pretty far to ever lose his composure - he evidently has very strong emotions, but most of the time he's suppressing them beneath his laid-back, unshakable attitude. Xie Lian himself remarks at some point on how Hua Cheng smiling doesn't necessarily relate to what he's actually feeling at all since it's just this condescending fake smile he aims at others (well, anyone other than Xie Lian). But here, now, Hua Cheng's hands jerk in shock. His usually confident voice is quiet and actually cracks with how afraid and distressed he is.

Also, though this is more in the realm of speculation because the text isn't clear on it - it's mentioned that he's not facing them directly but standing at an angle, and the look in his eye is actually not described at all - this could be taken to mean that he's deliberately standing in a way that has his blind side facing them more than his seeing side, since very often it's the look in his eye that's giving his emotions away the most. It would make sense that he's deliberately standing like this to try and conceal how hard he's struggling to keep it together.

Aside from losing Xie Lian again or not being able to protect him from harm, this has to be one of Hua Cheng's worst fears - for Xie Lian to be scared of and disgusted by him, to reject Hua Cheng's devotion. Back when Guoshi divined his fate and called him toxic and dangerous and demanded Xie Lian to send him away and not even touch him at all, when everyone was treating him like "poisonous vermin" (volume 2, page 380) and trying to separate him from Xie Lian by force, Xie Lian was the only one to not be scared of and disgusted by him, the one who instead held him and soothed him, who kept insisting that it wasn't his fault, that he wasn't misfortune and disaster. But now with the command talisman making it look like Xie Lian "was afraid to face Hua Cheng and refused to speak to him", this one of Hua Cheng's worst fears seems to have become reality, and it's breaking him apart to a point where he seems to actually be close to tears.

#tgcf #rereading tgcf #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #actually teared up reading this scene again because my god the poor guy he really goes through the wringer here

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Fellas is it gay to ask your traveling companion to palm read your future romance while staring deeply into his eyes?? Asking for a friend.

#it’s Hua Cheng he’s the friend #Xie Lian’s definitely the friend that needs the answer tho #he’s just oblivious #Hua Cheng is over there shooting his best shot flirting his best flirt #and Xie Lian is like ‘you’re so pretty you’ll have no problem getting a girlfriend’ #poor Hua Cheng strikes out again #heaven official's blessing #mxtx tgcf #tgcf donghua #tgcf #tgcf spoilers #tgcf xie lian #tgcf hua cheng #tgcf novel #mxtx novels #mxtx #mxtx fandom #mxtx characters #mxtx hell #hua cheng #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng x xie lian #mo xiang tong xiu

[crazydaymycrazyway]

Coming to Ghost city after a meeting in heaven

Xie Lian: Is something burning?

Hua Cheng, leaning on a pillar seductively: Yes, my passion for you

Some random ghost in the background: THE CITY IS BURNING!!!!!

Hua Cheng: *glares at the ghost*

The random ghost, in a lower voice: the city is burning

Hua Cheng, turning back: Now back to what we were saying-

#heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #ghost city #poor ghosts #xie lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry #the city was saved due to xie lian's generosity #but he had to promise his san lag that he could have him for himself for the rest of the day #incorrect quotes

[pandoramarsh]

one of my favorite xie lian moments is undoubtedly when he was manipulated by the brocade immortal to attack hua cheng and he was like "oh NO i used a SEVENTH of my POWER to PUNCH san lang!!! any regular mortal would DIE from that is he going to be OKAY!!!?"

#mxtx took every possible opportunity to remind us that xl is strong as fck and yet SOME PARTS OF THE FANDOM STILL REDUCED HIM TO #uwu🥺🥺🥺🥺poor bby little meowmeow san lang oh san lang im smollll #i kid u not #he's so funny #xie lian #hua lian #hua cheng #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #san lang #general hua #flower crowned martial god #the crown prince who pleased the gods #the sole god to ascend three times #fangxin guoshi #scrap collecting immortal #the strongest martial god in heaven #the strongest god period

[rainysorarts]

hong'er had a plan this year. It didn't work out as intended.

#poor baby #he didn't have a costume this year #please don't kill me #yet #wink wink nudge nudge #soritarts #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #hong hong er #hua cheng #xie lian #feng xin #mu qing #heaven official's blessing #mxtx #halloween #fanart #doodle

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I love how you draw Xie Lian fucking jacked lmao

He's built like a trucker. To Me.

#poorly drawn mdzs #poorly drawn tgcf #tgcf #xie lian #ask #Okay more accurately he's built like someone who works with heavy things and isn't actively looking to body build. #He's softer than your poor dehydrated hot muscle boy #People get uhhhh real mad when XL isn't drawn as a waifish twink but I am hitting them with 'Where Is Your Whimsy' #You will have so much more fun when you stop needing everything to be 'proven' or 'canon'. #Anyways. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to draw Bufflian again <3 I will keep being a menace about it.