#xie lian is so precious

[meawqing]

the baby general appears again

[hualianschild]

[zanksmxtxthings]

Day #29: Darkness for MXTXTOBER23

This part broke me very much while reading

[wasty28]

I just know. This cute face is gonna attract so many more people to the fandom.

[symphonyofsilence]

Do you ever think about Immortal ghosts and gods, being traumatized sons of long-gone fathers still?

Do you ever think about Qi Rong, the son of an abusive man seeing a child mistreated by his father and deciding to adopt the child? Qi Rong who was born and for some time raised in a Doghouse-like Shack and his life was turned around when his mother ran away from his father and took him to the palace promising his son that he was going to take him to live in big, beautiful mansions? Qi Rong who was looked down upon by everyone, even by the person he considered a god in the heavens before he even ascended, who was the only one who was kind to him and stood up for him when everyone else was bullying him and his mother in his first exposure to the outside world, Qi Rong who got little respect even as a ghost king, Qi Rong who was insecure as someone who was looked down upon by upper-class children because of his commoner Yan'An-born father, who called Feng Xin & Mu Qing shitty low-lives, who had no regards for commoners and abused the poor lower-class child that was Honhong-er, THAT Qi Rong adopting a commoner child and doing his best to look the best and the mightiest and the most respected in the eyes of his son, not caring if everyone else didn't respect him? And succeeding (in something that the King of Xianle didn't succeed in) as one of the last things we hear of Gu Zi is that he says that his dad can't die because he's told him that he has cultivated to be the king of the three realms or something. Because even if Gu Zi didn't know what the king of the three realms was, it was something that his father was. So it must have been quite a powerful, mighty thing to be? Do you ever think about Qi Rong whose last words, when being asked "What do you have to be held in high regard?" was "SO WHAT IF YOU ALL LOOK DOWN ON ME? THIS ANCESTOR...THIS ANCESTOR...THIS ANCESTOR HAS A SON!"

Do you ever think about Mu Qing, whose earliest experience of law and Justice was his father being beheaded, and then his teacher who wouldn't even accept him as his disciple due to Mu Qing being poor and the son of an executed man, never lifting a finger to stop the relentless bullying he got by rich kids but being more than willing to kick him out if he stood up for himself, and in one memorable occasion accused Mu Qing of "intentionally withholding communication" without even hearing him out first while "his [Mei Nianqing's] words and expression showed he already firmly believed Mu Qing to be sabotaging the affair purposely", (And then didn't apologize to him when his accusations turned out to be false. And while MNQ was so quick to accuse him, apparently hours of nimbly & skillfully carrying a 9 ft Zhanmaodo that a group of people together couldn't pull out of a wall wasn't impressive enough for him to give Mu Qing so much as a nod of approval. He couldn't even just not disagree when the queen praised Mu Qing and compared him to Feng Xin who at 14 was already good enough at martial art to be selected as the bodyguard of the crown prince while MQ only started cultivating at 14 but caught up to FX in 3 years.) still, even as the Martial God of the Southwest with seven thousand temples dedicated to him fully believing that unless he takes matters into his own hands he won't receive any justice? (And note how he thinks if he stays and waits for trial he will face "death" even though as far as we know there's no mention of any god being sentenced to death, at worst even with a kill count as impressive as Pei Su they get sentenced to banishment)? And of how his story constantly revolves around him being accused of crimes he didn't commit from start to finish? As he's introduced to the audience as someone who left Xie Lian behind as soon as Xie Lian got banished and treats Xie Lian with contempt even though he owed everything to him, as he's accused of intentionally withholding communication to sabotage the Shangyuan festival as a 17-year-old, as he's thought to have left Xie Lian & Feng Xin behind and teamed up with the other junior officials against Xie Lian, as Xie Lian second-guesses his intentions when Mu Qing brings him medicine, as he's first suspected of being the father of Cuo Cuo and then the culprit behind Jian Lan's forced abortion, as he's accused of trying to murder Feng Xin when everyone was evacuating the Heavenly Capital, as he's accused of conspiring with Jun Wu against Xie Lian. Despite how he was the only Heavenly official with a totally clean record with nothing to be used against him by Jun Wu and every time anyone suspects him of anything he has actually been doing good because he's a good, kind-hearted person. Do you ever think about how in the end he did end up with cursed shackles but got them voluntarily? Of how Mu Qing who was so sensitive to being accused that he would break a broom and run away when hearing Feng Xin's comment on how they couldn't invite too many people to search for the coral earring, and valued his hard-earned cultivation and statues so much, and his good deeds would always backfire in his face so bad that he believed "truly, there is no point in being a good person" but would still continue to try to do good without expecting anything in return, knowing that Jun Wu would try to frame him and paint him as a traitor every step of the way, and believing what Jun Wu had said about his friends being unwilling to believe him because they hated him, still decided to go to Mt. Tonglu to search for Feng Xin and stayed true to himself and his friends and did the right thing? and in the end, a hand reached out to him just before his fall. Because Xie Lian believed in him all along and sometimes just one person believing in you is enough. because as Xie Lian once said "I don't believe that good will brings bad returns." in the end the cursed shackles broke once and for all.

DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IMMORTAL GHOSTS AND GODS BEING THE TRAUMATISED SONS OF LONG-GONE FATHERS STILL?!

[skyeskywalkerart]

[qourmet]

just so you all know i've started tgcf and have successfully zeroed in on the noncanon (to my knowledge) beefleaf and a love for the wind bitch

[emotionaldisaster909]

Also LOOK AT MY BABYGIRL SHE’S SO PRECIOUS AND TRAUMATISED

I’ve even made a little comic/animatic draft about their and Bruno’s first encounter

Yes she nocked him with wooden beams on his bucked head

Than dropped the beams on her leg

Yes I think i have a thing for unlucky characters

ALSO YES BRUNO SUPERMACY

THE BEST THE BESTEST MY LOVE

when will men ever

live in walls with rats and be adorable

[revel-inbluehues]

Also, HUA CHANG DON'T HIT E-MING!

P.s. XL looks so badass when he's fighting. I genuinely thought that for second that he was going to fight LQQ, he looked so angry and cool.

[dreamingsilverbutterflies]

Look at his little face he’s so cute!!!!!!

[threeheartts]

so hua cheng made a swing only one could sit so he could be the one doing the pushing for xie lian. he chose to make a swing instead of anything else bc he remembers from hundreds of years ago that younger xie lian used to like playing on a swing...tears in my eyes

[aglioeoliocat]

so i reread All These Renewals For a Moment With You by riverdanceeee and i CANNOT get them out of my head.

[faneliacosplay]

He’s waiting on his husband!!

[missveryvery]

Some foreshadowing of FQ's precious friendship I missed before.

This means them working together looks exactly like them about to strangle each other.

It also means it's indistinguishable to Xie Lian, who both knows them best but also doesn't know them at all. Which is a reoccurring theme in the book, someone who is the most intimate with someone still not really knowing them.

Anyway, this literally means every time they've been seen arguing by third parties, they could have not been arguing at all. Can you fucking imagine. Seeing them at a table looking like they're hissing and barking and the end product is "...okay so we're getting the chicken and the eggplant." "And the salad." "Right, the salad, too."

Fucking maniacs.

[animebltches]

the fact that xie lian says “thank you for all your hard work” to hua cheng’s silver butterflies and they IMMEDIATELY flutter around him like they want to lift him up and carry him away to their haven for safe keeping because he is the Most Precious Being in Every Realm Ever Now. they’re so irming coded. they’re so hua cheng coded.

i don’t know what’s funnier. the implication that hua cheng’s familiars are independently just as in love with xie lian as hua cheng is. or that hua cheng’s love for xie lian is literally so encompassing that his familiars are also in love with xie lian by some default setting.

[purplebunnydraws]

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng from Heaven Official’s Blessing. I drew this back when volume 8 came out and finally got around to posting it!

They’re my precious little BEANS and I love them so much🥰