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grassbreads · 2 months

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God I'm so glad I decided to read No Pollution, No Public Harm. Gan Qing is a fucking gift. I'm genuinely thrilled that for once I've found an interesting m/f dynamic where the woman gets the be the tortured, edgy, mysterious one.

I'm in mid to late book three, and man, the other women in the novel are a mixed bag, but Gan Qing is just so good. She's a shameless brash menace of a person on the surface and an obviously traumatized hardass underneath. If she's not already a murderer, then she's constantly teetering on the edge of becoming one. She's got layers. She dropped out of high school but she corrects the mistakes on Liu Zhongqi's english homework. She hangs out around her apartment in oversized basketball shorts and gets sick from running after eating too many chicken wings and she could slit somebody's throat with her house key. She's cool as hell and legit terrifying and she's gross and messy and weird. 10/10 the love interest of all time genuinely.

#maybe I just read/watch the wrong things but it's genuinely so refreshing to see a series w a male protagonist and a female love interest #where the woman is such like. a well rounded and cool and un-sexualized character #she's violent she's tortured she self-sabotages she's a sillygoofy little menace that eats junk food and sells astrology charms #I picked this novel to read in large part bc I wanted to see how priest would handle a female love interest #since the two danmei I've read by her are such absolute boys' clubs but the women in TS are so good #and the answer so far as of midway through the series. is that she does it *really* well #there hasn't actually been much in the way of romance yet #but the confrontation in the cemetery. man #I can see the echos of mo du just a bit in their dynamic #the relatively straight-laced main character desperately trying to keep a person he cares about from taking a step down a dark path #that they can't come back from #andie reads npnph #no pollution no public harm

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