Things I either forgot or didn't notice on my first readthrough of TGCF volume 7 that I noticed on the re-read:
I love White No-Face's aversion to being called “Your Highness”.
Xie Lian coming up with the theory behind the massive spiritual array by himself, just in case Human Face Disease ever broke out again, despite White No-Face (as far as Xie Lian was aware) being dispersed.
It's explicitly confirmed that He Xuan did not change Shi Qingxuan’s fate. Meaning he still has He Xuan's fate. I figured that was the case, but it's nice to double-check these things.
Mei Nianqing knows the whole business with the fate swap, hence his comment to Shi Qingxuan about his name being “terrible”.
“Shi Qingxuan finally noticed that something sounded weird, but he still didn't get it.” Is it that he doesn't get it, or is it that he's fucking with them both? Because he manages to guess pretty closely what's going on (and this is not the first time he says something like this), but then he proceeds to utterly fail at reading the room and tries to bust in on their farewell smooch, and I don't know how to interpret that. Is Shi Qingxuan that oblivious, or is he a fudanshi trying to get a peek at his favourite ship? Vote now on your phones.
‘“If I had strangled you, would you have died?” Mei Nianqing asked back. “Would the one beside you have let me succeed?”’ Considering Mei Nianqing has his own cursed shackle, that carries implications.
I forgot Bath Scene 2: Soul-Shift Boogaloo. And we get another comment from Shi Qingxuan that certainly reads ambiguous. Yeah, I guess I can see why he'd think Xie Lian must have “seen Hua-chengzhu like that before”, given that he was just casually shirtless in Puqi Shrine that one time.
Feeling very normal about the fact that the first person Yin Yu went to find after Xie Lian was Quan Yizhen.
When talking with Mei Nianqing about his second banishment: ‘A pale, smiling mask appeared in Xie Lian's mind. After a pause, he said quietly, “That was actually my own request.”’ Hi, yes, the WuLian derangement will continue until morale improves indefinitely.
“Well, this part of you certainly isn't like him…” Why do I get the impression you wish they were alike in that respect, Mei Nianqing? 🤭
“This child mustn't witness such things.” Xie Lian, buddy, I'm sure Lang Qianqiu has seen much worse than two men snogging. That man is at least 300 years old! You killed his dad in front of him.
With how much spiritual energy Hua Cheng is burning here, it's no wonder he disperses when he breaks Xie Lian's shackles later. Like, was it a guarantee that breaking the shackles would disperse him, or is it just because of the day he's having?
Hua Cheng's “You never know,” to Xie Lian when Qi Rong is bragging about how he has a son and they don't. Man's at least considered the possibility of MPreg. Those fucking child-bearing pills…. Pour one out for our boy Wei Wuxian, he's in the wrong fucking book!
