#however. as someone who has even tried to write qiurong. there is no chemistry there

[taihua]

Now that I'm back from Korea, I got caught up on TGCF donghua and I have so many thoughts from the recent two episodes

First of all, Fengqing are so divorced. But not from each other! They're Xie Lian's bitter exes fighting to get him back. The donghua is playing this angle so hard that I'm back to feeling like ah, MXTX always intended for them to be read this way but avoided saying it outright because she didn't want the drama of pitting ships against each other. Or maybe it just conflicted too hard with the Hualian-are-each-other's-everything message, which is valid, but Fengqing exes is just so funny and the donghua team get it

Next, Xie Lian being happy--he's happy to see Mu Qing! And he's happy that his sacrifice for Lang Qianqiu worked, because Qianqiu didn't turn into a vengeful repeat of Xie Lian, which is exactly what he hoped would be the result and it worked, he was a good teacher in the end... there's pain there, but he helped his boy!

And speaking of Lang Qianqiu, I'm wondering if the assistant friend is supposed to be An Le? Fangxin Guoshi kills him before the birthday party iirc, but I could see the donghua team changing the side plot a little bit to add some filler for the end of season 2 rather than cutting to Book 2 material after this arc is over

But I hope it is An Le and they expand on that relationship more, because honestly that should have been the Lang Qianqiu ship of choice for fandom rather than Qi Rong?? Same vibes as Shuangxuan--I'm pretending to be your friend even though I'm going to betray you, oh no I caught feelings for real--and An Le was someone that LQQ obviously cared about and respected (neither of which applies to Qi Rong).