#Jiang xi

[owlmaya]

my first @2haaction prompt!

xue zhengyong one chance please, just one orz

[thegreymoon]

Mo Ran is so gay it isn't even funny.

Now, this is just my opinion and I realise other people have their own interpretations, but this whole episode is super telling to me of just how unreliable his narration is about having tons and tons of sex with people of both genders in his previous lifetime. He's just so... oblivious. None of this reads as a man with a lot of previous experience with many different people. He did not pick up on her flirting with him at all. Sure, he did have a lot of insane sex in his past life, but as the book unfolds, it becomes very clear that most of that sex was with Chu Wanning. At best, there were only a handful of other people he was involved with, and one was a prostitute he was paying, while the other was his wife whose relationship with him was also transactional.

I know people argue that he is bisexual because he married Song Qiutong, but when we actually get her POV on their marriage, it turns out that they had unenjoyable sex only a handful of times, at least one of which was him taking her from behind and very much imagining that it was Chu Wanning in her place. There are plenty of gay men who end up married to straight women (and vice versa) for whatever reasons and none of this makes them any less gay. He also identifies as a 'cut-sleeve' himself at one point, so he doesn't seem at all confused about his sexual attraction to men. Later on, when we finally get his unaltered POV on his life in the brothel, it comes out that he considered the girls there as sisters at best, never as sexual partners. The only other named sexual partner is Rong Jiu, who is male, and I can buy that there were possibly other people who looked like Shi Mei that he was with under the influence of the cursed love spell, but there was never any real attraction there, which is why some argue that he is attracted only to Chu Wanning and would still be attracted to him regardless of gender.

But I think that this is also not true. He definitely was obsessed with Chu Wanning from an early age, which makes it hard to see what his preferences would have been if Chu Wanning wasn't in the picture, but that chapter when he finally realises his feelings also reveals that he does have a type, which he never dared to think about before because he thought he was unworthy of having a choice. However, Chu Wanning fits this type to a tee, so it's easy to run away with the idea that he is shizunsexual and that Mo Ran's attraction begins and ends with him.

With that said, we do get confirmation later on that he does find other men attractive, in particular, Jiang Xi. It's just that he never has the space or the inclination to do anything about it because of his preoccupation with Chu Wanning. In the extras, when Mo Ran misunderstands Xue Men's relationship with Jiang Xi and thinks they are having a love affair, in his unfiltered Taxian-jun state, he is full of approval because he personally finds these powerful, beautiful, prickly, emotionally unavailable older men to be the height of attractiveness. If Chu Wanning hadn't been in the picture, Mo Ran would have definitely been attracted to Jiang Xi or someone similar. Even Ye Wangxi, whom he also fixates on, fits this type (except for the older man bit because I understood her to be only a few years older than Mo Ran). The fact that she turns out to be a woman also cannot be used as an argument for Mo Ran's bisexuality because she very much presents as a man throughout the book (but whether or not she actually identifies as one is debatable).

In short, Mo Ran does have a type of man he is attracted to and it is definitely men that he likes, regardless of his few dubious and very unsatisfying dalliances with women. While Chu Wanning definitely fits this type of ideal man, there are other men out there whom Mo Ran finds attractive too, it's just that he is too unhinged about Chu Wanning to actually do anything about it. Also, I very much doubt that Mo Ran was nearly as promiscuous as he makes himself out to be because he reads as very oblivious when it comes to sexual relationships in general. Even with Chu Wanning, who was right there and about to pass away from sheer horniness that he couldn't even begin to disguise, Mo Ran was still going, "Shizun is so pure and virtuous!" 🙄

(I'm not going to get into the whole Shi Mei situation and how badly he misread him every step of the way too, but that is because his brain was so badly mangled by him that he really stood no chance on that front until it was entirely too late.)

[princessofxianle]

2ha spoilers without context pt.2

pt.1 | pt.3

[redzzz05]

[atarinke]

My favorite peacocks, Jiang Xi & Xue Meng from Erha

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

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Source: AO3

[amethystroselily]

2ha memes part 3

(Contains spoilers)

Part 1 part 2

[stariwei]

[xmitchxx]

First time drawing Jiang Xi (milf🦚)

[catznetsov]

Jiang Xi for piranhahahahaha’s prompt for @2haaction! Thank you for donating.

I wanted to try his outfit in his first appearance—with the concession that I’ve developed a real love-hate relationship with this plant, so I rendered the duruo/pollia flower patterns to show the whole plant including the medicinal root, rather than the vine-like flower designs I’ve seen in embroidery.

‘love-hate relationship with this plant’ is 2ha’s subtitle

[reileinaxiu]

Okay. I just finished all the way up to volume 5 of 2ha!

Warning ⚠️ Spoilers ahead darlings! You've been warned ☺️

I just discovered something really obvious about myself. I am a very shallow person.

I personally knew I was a sucker for pretty (2D) faces. But it never hit me as hard as when I read volume 5 and saw the illustration of Jiang Xi.

I've been absorbing tidbits of spoilers about 2ha and found out he was Xue Meng's biological father. And my initial impression, even if I didn't know the guy, was "so what?" Madam Wang has a very doting husband and XM is treated like a prince in his sect.

Then 😅... Well after I saw his illustration I was like 🫣😳 wow XM has some pretty good genes running down his veins. My second impression was how much of an ***hole is he that he couldn't make Madam Wang stay even with the pretty face that she ended up with XZY (no offense to him he is a great sect leader and a real advocate for civilian welfare that even CWN admires).

Okay I might not be that much of a sucker for good looking people than I thought I was(if I'm still this critical), but really the face behind the name almost changes things, almost. I'm just super duper curious about their history. I'm dying to wait for the next novel release.

Also I'm dying to know the aftermath of RanWan confession 😆😆😆. I can't believe it ended at such a good part 😖. It will probably be a while before next volume is in stock in my country 😭.

RanWan is getting better progressively as the story goes on. It's probably about time the author threw a curveball at us readers 😂

Till then dearies. I'll keep sharing my thoughts sporadically.

[thegreymoon]

Hello! I've recently finished reading 2ha (RIP my heart) and i'm now making my way through the ranwan tag and the metas. I've stumbled upon your metas which i find so good (sorry for the spam liking). Among them, i've read the discussion about 2ha and asexuality, and i have a question. Despite having finished the MTL i've got no idea of how the aroace character you mentionned might be. Would mind sharing their name? Also I absolutely agree with you, Xue Meng 100% read as ace to me!

Hello!

LOL, so happy to have more souls trapped in the 2ha hell (RIP all our hearts) 🤣🤣 Please don't apologise for liking posts! That's what Tumblr is for and I always love it when more people come to talk to me about the things I love! 🧡🧡

If you meant that one post about asexuality where I did not name the character because I did not want to spoil the OP, I meant Jiang Xi! He very much reads as aroace to me. He was never interested in sex and romance and held it in so much contempt. He was coerced into having sex with Madam Wang at the time when Xue Meng was conceived and performed only because he felt he was obligated to, not because he wanted any of that to happen. He has lots of these little thoughts and commentaries that read as very aroace to me, the funniest one being in the extras when he offers Mo Ran a ton of money to come work for him as a chef. Of course, Mo Ran says no because he is too busy being a househusband to Chu Wanning and Jiang Xi sighs wistfully and says something along the lines of, "Another potentially brilliant career ruined by romance!" 🤣🤣

Now, I have no idea if asexuality is something that can be inherited genetically, but if it is, then Xue Meng definitely got it from him! The two of them make such a hilarious pair 🤣🤣

[monroeknoxwrites]

Tagged by @jaggededges123

Gimme a line from your latest WIP or project that involves hands. (Search-find hand, hands, fingers, fingerpad, nails, wrist, palm, thumb, heel, lifelines etc)

Jiang Xi crumpled a letter in his hand. What great sin had he committed in a previous life to inflict Xue Zhengyong on him in this one? What misfortune did he commit against others to bring himself so low in front of such a man, coughing into a faint in his presence? Xue Zhengyong was the very last person he wished to know of his affliction. No, that was decidedly untrue—the absolute last person he wished to know was Xue Meng. As part of his punishment for a life that must have been drenched in the most depraved and despicable of sins, Xue Meng returned home while he was unconscious. A secret he held close to his ever-tightening chest slipped through his fingers in a mundane and humiliating way.

I added the whole paragraph as it has hand and fingers in it

Tagging @tehri, @livingmeatloaf, @corduroyserpent, @beesinspades, and whoever else wants to

[natsugami-mari]

✨️🎊Happy Birthday Jiang Xi! 🎊✨️

[ladysakura26]

I found a watercolor pencil in ibispaint and I ended up drawing Jiang Xi.

[blu-oo]

Forever and always bullying Mengmeng hours