I pray to never rest in peace

request from ig: interaction between yin yu and he xuan!

First Kiss Wulian 🥀... It's been a while, but I'm finally posting an update here 😭 thanks for watching me upload terrible sketches :3

there is something utterly haunting about hua cheng's perspective in the dissipation/third "death" scene. you feel the frantic weight of xie lian's desperation and helplessness as he is reduced to a raw, trembling mess trying to hold onto him. but...what about hua cheng? it beckons you to confront that surge of bittersweet validation through his fading senses, the culmination of eight centuries of unspoken devotion. to feel his beloved break before him, sobbing and yearning for him. here is the man who walked through hell and outlasted time itself for a single prayer, and here is the god who believed happiness and unconditional love were never meant for him, both finally grasping the one thing they had long denied themselves.

I think for the first 20 years of their relationship, He Xuan and Hua Cheng were genuinely at odds with each other. As two brilliant men capable of great violence, who had both gone through the same trials, it's no surprise that they would basically employ Cold War tactics. There’s information gathering. There are spy wars. They see each other and try to size each other up, and conflict between them always seems to be looming in the background.

Every fifth TGCF textpost: people are wrong about the Character