#there was a lot of extremely invested courtyard pining

[winepresswrath]

okay but what jiang cheng is attempting the impossible by trying to get some goddamned peace and quiet for once in his life. and everybody calls it “seclusion” because they’re too embarrassed to say they can’t actually run anything without him. and jin ling finally admits that he got thirty-seven letters from his uncle. uh. this week. thirty-seven this week. look. all I’m saying is we are fandom. we can make even the most bizarre narrative choices do our bidding.

I definitely think we can make it work if we want to, and I'm sure I'll really enjoy a lot of fan works that engage with the premise, but I also think we can just ignore it? I'm sure there are donghua mains who have stronger feelings about it, but for me it's an adaptation of the thing that inspired the story I'm actually most fanish about, so what I really want is still fic about Jiang Cheng regularly and canonically getting loud in the cloud recesses.

#single perfect tear! #also like... ok controversial opinion but I think Wangxian are fine? #my Wei Wuxian would never! my Wei Wuxian goes home to lotus pier even in his dreams but like #mumbles about it under his breath so Jiang Cheng can't quite hear it! #there was a lot of extremely invested courtyard pining #but if he's not feeling it in the Donghua he's not feeling it! #he doesn't have to! #somewhere in between WWX hitting Yanli with a zombie and Jiang Cheng leading a siege against Wei Wuxian #the fucks they give about each other's feelings became a thing they can expend but are not required to! #don't get me wrong it's a dumb shitty ending but I am not vibing with the Wangxian sucks takes #it's definitely not worse than ditching Xichen to fuck in a ditch