Angel○Eyed

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

lost in those eyes! ❤️👁️

They crawled to each other half-corpses matted with blood. They changed the course of fate for each other. They fought with fate, teeth clinking and bones torn, until their hearts could be made one. They sewed their own red string of fate if the earth refused to do so

When Xie lian saved Hong-er, he didn’t do it because of fate. When Hua Cheng spent 800 years searching for a scorned god, it wasn’t fate that made him do it. When Xie lian held onto san lang’s name like an unspoken prayer to satan. When Hua cheng rebelled against measly laws of nature and dispersion because even though every banquet comes to an end, this one won’t, he won’t let it— they didn’t do it because of something so simplistic as “fate”

Fate is inconsequential in the face of their love; it’s ignorant of their sacrifices; it is lofty and vicious and cruel beyond belief but it’s nothing against the claws of a love which even the blind could see

So no, Xie lian and Hua cheng arent “soulmates”. It’s insulting to limit their love at just soulmates. They did something much more faithful, much more devoted, much more lovely— they chose each other. They chose each other at every turn. They chose each other in a world where no one else would— no one else every did