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Op I tried... hope you like them

The third card in the series <3 Yue Qingyuan this time!

I'm sure after the cheek-pinching extra, Mobei really thinks that Shang Qinghua is now the boss (in China it's accepted that the wife is grumpy, right?)

You know that scene... SQH protecting MBJ during his ascension... I thought it would be interesting for cat SQH, hehe (*/ω＼*)

i dropped a pot today...

nobody tell sqq that he's still clinging to lqg's phone

pudu ver

Environmental storytelling or something like that

And then sv hits you with the second aspect of Maigu ridge that it's been slowly getting you to dread: the story always ends in sex. That's how things are fixed. Whether the characters want it or not, the genre formula says sex crowns all. That's just how both PIDW and romance works. So there's this horrific reversal of expectations as you're watching all of these things go to shit, and a sense of futility connecting you to sqq as you both know there's only one way the story's going to be able to end, no matter how much else has been changed throughout the narrative. And then rather than granting you any kind of reprieve with the scene itself, that maybe somehow it'll all be fixed easily in the last minute, the climax is viscerally horrific and messy and wildly uncomfortable to sit though. It's like it's sitting you down to say here, this is the type of story you buckled in to read, here's how it will happen. You're rewarded this farce of a conclusion that by all accounts should have been satisfying, but all of the illusion has been stripped out of it until there's just a deep unease left.

#that is sort of the redeeming power of shen qingqiu#he knows that xin mo can only be cleansed through sex or violence#but he offered himself up willingly for that#shen qingqiu of all characters understands when he's being coerced and stripped of his agency#he's spent the entirety of svsss resisting that#every time a wifeplot happens to him he slips sideways and manages to escape#that is inherent to the genreplay that is in svsss. sqq is a shizun he is not a wife#he has been adamant about being treated like a shizun instead of a wife to be conquered#but on this occasion he goes into it willingly. he walks across the ridge to go find the wifeplot and make it happen#horrific as that wife plot is#shen qingqiu's self sacrifice in that scene wasn't just physical and bodily it was also the agency that he prized and protected so adamantl#and he did it because he wanted to save luo binghe#the interesting irony of choosing to have your agency stripped but you chose it. knowing it all. choosing it anyway - via @silversquare

Rotten to the core

♥️

VI VII

merry christmas, jim.

YIPPEEEE. I have not drawn these bitches in like- well ever 😭