Like listen. The whole gist of MXTX characters is that they are ALL flawed and do things realistic humans would do. It just pisses me off that the characters do things that make sense with their flaws and struggles but people always justify XLs pain and mistakes while absolutely hating on the rest.

Hellou!

So she has been reading pretty much alone since I was in final exams, but lately we’ve been able to get back to reading together.

TW: my mom sucks at names (and I do too with MDZS leave me alone)

She really likes Jin Ling and thinks he’s cute HOWEVER she did laugh at him for not having friends for a whole minute LMAOOO

WWX is still Huevi-Chan or Egg-Chan in English.

She now really loves Lan Zhan especially when he got drunk for the second time, she would not stop laughing and kept saying “I caught you!”

I also showed her that scene in the manga and she broke again, she couldn’t stop laughing

She said “hm this is really slow isn’t it? We don’t know anything about their backstory yet.” And I’m like yeah mom this one feels like a slow burn bc TGCF was speed running a courting pFT those two didn’t lose any time.

With the whole (forgive me for not knowing the names) A-Ying (the blind girl) really Evil Guy and Blind Guy, she did not know the Evil Guy was the Evil Guy and thought it was Blind Guys friend for a bit and was flabbergasted when I told her.

She felt super sad when Blind Guy cried and killed his friend

However it doesn’t seem she hates Evil Guy? She said she felt a bit bad for him but still didn’t like him.

When WWX was making the paper person she said “WAIT IS HE MAKING FRIENDS FOR JIN LING SINCE HE DOESNT HAVE ANY?!” MOM LEAVE HIM ALONE AHSHSHS

ALSO ITS SO FUNNY SHE KEEPS CALLING LAN ZHAN A SILLY BOY OR A DUMMIE LMAOOO

Like when the whole headband scene happened and I showed it to her in the anime (after we found out in the book what it meant) she was having second hand embarrassment and saying “oh no this dumbass”

She REALLY likes WWX and his little bastard chaotic energy she found the whole garden flower lady thing really funny

Also LXC (is that the abbreviation? LWJ’s brother lol) is now referred to as “El Cuñis” or the in law.

Also was flabbergasted at Mo XuanYu being in love with JGY and she was like oh I understand why you keep making La Rosa del Guadalupe jokes (it’s a Mexican soap opera with different themes each episodes and SO MANY of them involve siblings or half siblings being in love which iykyk and those two are NOT the reason I keep mentioning it lmao she’s gonna be shocked when she finds out)

But then immediately she forgot and was like WAIT WERE JGY AND MO XUANYU TOGETHER!? And I had to remind her they were half siblings.

ALSO ONCE AGAIN MY MOTHER SURPRISES ME WITH HER PREDICTIONS! First Jun Wu now this?! See, I asked her before the JGY reveal who she thought was the one behind all this and she says “oh the fan guy” (NIE HUAISANG) HOW DID SHE FIGURE THAT OUT MOM WHAT THE HELL

When we were reading the whole Nie Mingjue bit and stuff at one point one of the characters says something mean and she says “wait who’s that again whats he saying? Oh that BASTARD!!!” Which was funny

At JGYs ‘betrayal’ where he killed a higher up guy she was also flabbergasted like OH HES PURE EVIL

And now every action the Wen’s or JGY take she’s like that one Arthur fist meme like “those meanies”

Apart from that she doesn’t have any characters she really hates lol, but it’s fun seeing her shocked reaction every time a small plot twist happens.

But for now I think that’s all? She’s getting now the hang of the names thankfully, and since now we’re reading together I’m able to correct her easily! She seems to be enjoying it a lot, in fact she said after we finish the TGCF donghua we should start with MDZS buuut I don’t know if we should go for the donghua or live action, I’ve heard it’s pretty good!

Anyway that’s all folks see ya next time ✌️

Also here are the character nicknames or what she refers to them as:

WWX: Huevi Chan

LWJ: Lan Zhan, the boyfriend, the lover, the Juan (bc of Hua Cheng)

Jin Ling: the child

Lan Sizhui: the obedient child

Lan JingYi: extroverted/emotional child

Jiang Cheng: the angry uncle

Jin GuangYao: the ✨evil ✨uncle

Nie MingYue: the corpse, the head, the Nie Huaisang’s dead brother

Nie Huaisang: fan guy

Guys. It’s happening.

We made it to the 100 swords scene. At first I could tell she really thought they wouldn’t stab XL. Oh mom :(

She still kept making a sad noise every time Juan appeared.

At one point the book goes “if they stabbed him 100 times what would be left of him?” And my mom through her worriedness goes “ground beef” MOM NO

During the stabs she was in absolute shock. Like she had to stop knitting and kept saying “oh my god this can’t be happening” and “oh poor Xie Lian oh no”

She also began sniffling a bit :( mom was going through it

She was just feeling SO bad for our poor little XieXie like she couldn’t believe it. Through the aftermath she kept repeating “no how could this happen, poor thing”

Then was shocked at Feng Xin leaving. We haven’t had a full talk about him yet but I’m curious to know what she thinks.

She was also mad when FX punched him (bc he didn’t know what XL went though obviously but mom was on full XieXie protector mode she was traumatized 😭).

She was also like “please tell me they later realize what happened”. I had to tell her no and explained some fanfictions write it and she immediately went “we’re reading fanfictions when we’re finished” lmao. Maybe I’ll write one for her it was moms first hurt no comfort experience pftttt SHE NEEDS THE COMFORT

Then the parents part. She felt so much for the mom, and was like “oh that’s why he names the food 🥹”

She thought they had left. When I read they hung themselves mom once again had to stop knitting to look at me in shock and kept sniffling. She sniffled for a while. She kept saying how bad she felt for XL.

Was S H O C K E D when he finally became the white clothed calamity but she thought it was justified.

She was like “oh he’s sending them all to hell huh”

Still felt super bad tho. And was like AAAAA at Juan being Wuming. Plus once again cried at the flower being stomped (and went oh my god! When I told her XieXie chocked Wuming in the revised edition)

Every time BWX appeared now she went “oh this asshole again go to hell fuck you” she was so mad and angry for XieXie :(

When he mentioned stabbing him again she also went “NO STOP HES TRAUMATIZED” and made a little sad noise

Was really mad at the water sellers wife lmao

She was really happy when Xie Lian came back to himself but before that kept doing the shocked mother gasp when he cursed (as if she hadn’t fully cursed Bai Wuxian the same way before and used the creative Spanish curses which are relatively worse than what XL was saying? 😭)

Then when Wuming sacrificed himself she was NOT ok 😭

Like poor mom was going THROUGH IT we read the saddest chapters today

We left it at that cuz I was falling asleep and couldn’t read anymore pFT but when we took a break to get some food and drink tea she was anxious as heeeeell, she kept grabbing my dog and going “oh no Isha what’s going to happen” or “nooo poor XieXie” and my favorite (all said in a cute pet voice btw) “oh he’s going to kill them all! He’s gone fully mad! Screw the white guy!”

SVSS:

“…I was dependent on none a related to none”

“…When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”

“Increase of knowledge only only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.”

This reminds me so much of Binghe- especially with the new extras where they explain that Bingge was in a world where everyone else was like a dumb NPC- he can’t relate to anyone bc they’ve practically been dumbed down. He has no one to be on his level, to be able to even converse with bc they all flock around him and will agree with whatever he says. PLUS I’m sure when Bingge came back from Bingmei’s world he saw just how much of a difference there was with NPCs ans SQQ, that filled him with even more hatred and sadness. Also with the fact he’s half-demon (iirc he’s the only half demon isn’t he?) and how in his childhood- bc he was different he was excluded and separated- how in general before he was shunned.

“There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared ever-lasting war against the species…”

“…I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, ad finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.”

Binghe, especially with the last part of wanting to spread havoc- reminds me of how in the OG novel he had been excluded and how he wanted revenge, how he can only cause chaos because he has nothing else practically- the only thing that he feels in that world is hatred because that’s practically his only reason for being, his only purpose. In SVSSS he later finds purpose in SQQ- he finds love and so the hatred he felt before diminishes because it isn’t his only purpose. However in PIDW he has no one- the only thing that’s fueling him on and practically makes him wake up every day is hatred- is the only thing that can make him feel something.

“My protectors had departed, and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom….I bent my mind towards injury and death.”

“When I thought of my friends…these thoughts vanished and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again when I reflected that they had spured and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger…”

Like?! LIKE?! THATS LBH right there, thats their whole dynamic 😭 before they finally communicated, LBH thought SQQ hated him and he loved him, yet at the same time wanted to have revenge and idk it just reminds me of them pre confession, he just struggles between feeling both love and resentment for someone they see as their protector, as the one good thing they cherish that later abandoned them (or in SVSS they think they abandoned but in the novel the creature is indeed left alone 😔)

“all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.”

“Shall I respect man when he condemns me?”

“I am malicious because I am miserable.”

(God this whole monologue is just so SAD AAAA), again, Binghe, just in general, I feel like before SQQ (and ESPECIALLY in Bingge’s world) he just feels no joy or pleasure- he tries to get it by fighting and taking over places, he tries to get it by having an endless harem- but he never feels happy or fulfilled by those acts- it’s only when he’s with SQQ that he can finally change that hatred to love. He is only evil or destructive because he, deep inside is sad and miserable.

“The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness ; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures.”

“If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them an hundred and an hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!”

“If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes.”

“Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness; and, instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.”

Again, this is just to me the relationship of LBH with SQQ, especially because SQQ was the only person after LBHs mother who showed him kindness- which is why later he is so devoted to SQQ, even if he resents him a little bit- because in a world where he was shunned and hated, SQQ was the only person to show him tenderness and love.

(ALSO ERHA!!! This is so Mo Ran coded as well!!!!)

TGCF:

“This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness, which I had entertained but a few moments before, gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.”

“My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction. My daily vows rose for revenge - a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.”

This one just reminds me of XL over all, of how the tried his best to help his people and Yong’an, only to later be scorned and made fun of by them. Especially after his parents kill themselves, he starts feeling hatred and bows to make the people of Yong’an pay- he tries to be good to his people, he tries his best to help them- only to be scorned and mocked in return. Later, in Yong’an, XL thinks to himself that because of how he showed kindness but was given none in return, only pain and suffering, he vows to destroy Yong’an

“…I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, ad finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.”

“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?…tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?”

“Shall I respect man when he condemns me?”

“There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared ever-lasting war against the species…”

Same as LBH but with both XL and HC. XL bc again of Yong’an, they don’t see him as a human, only as a failure of a god and so he wishes to end them, and HC bc of being excluded and hated by people bc of his eye and luck, ans saying to XL “I wish to kill all people and then kill myself”. They both, after receiving pain vow to destroy those who inflicted it upon them. They think to themselves- why should I keep being nice to them when all I have received is pain and hurt? Why should HC care about humans when all they have done is beat him up? Why should XL not inflict human face disease, when after literally exhausting himself to bring water to Yong’an and help his people in Xianle- all he receives in return is a stab of 100 swords and kneeling statues?

“If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them an hundred and an hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!”

This not only reminds me of HC and his devotion towards XL 100%, but also XL with the bamboo hat man- especially “for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind” for XL, that one person, that one act of kindness was enough to make him stop his revenge on Yong’an and see that people could be good. The creature has tried multiple times to find a reason to not hate humans- he tries to be kind, but all he receives is hate in return. This reminds me how XL even when he was mad and depressed and just ready to inflict human face disease, was still looking for that one reason to not unleash it. He just doesn’t want to pull the trigger- he’s crying, begging for someone to stop him and remind him that yes! Human beings can be kind- he shouldn’t lose his faith. He literally stops his act of revenge on Yong’an because of one person- just one person is enough.

“If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes”

this also reminds me of HC, because I 100% like the hc that he would have become a calamity that wreaks chaos, and it’s only bc of meeting XL that his hatred melted into love and thus gave his life (and death) a new meaning

Like I can see why you would think MDZS but honestly, the only similarity I can see is from WWX being villainized when he tries to do good deeds. The rest tbh I don’t think it matches (which is fine lol they’re different stories) with the overall theme of Frankenstein. (Also I would like to warn that I read all the MXTX series in two weeks and MDZS was my last one and I was VERY sleep deprived and emotionally wrecked bc of TGCF by then lol, and while I like it a lot the hyper fixation phase was shorter- also I have re read the other two lots of times but MDZS I have not finished my rereading and for some reason it’s the one my brain just doesn’t remember some things 100% lmao so if I am wrong on this pls correct me pFT.

WWX, in the end, when he fights the cultivators sure, (iirc) he wants to avenge the Wens, and is being also influenced by the Yin Tiger Tally, but the difference between his (and XLs I believe) ‘fall?’ (guys why did I just have a fckn brain fart in the middle of writing this) like when turn ‘bad’ or yknow WWX decided to fight the cultivation sects and XL to get his revenge in Yong’an, is that WWX is more of a straight forward guy- he goes fuck it we ball and I think he is immediately more taken in by revenge and action, and he doesn’t question it as much since he is just so hurt.

Meanwhile XL I think, the entire time he’s enacting his revenge, is still on the back of his mind trying to find a reason to stop, someone to stop him and remind him that there is a reason to be kind- that he shouldn’t let his grief and revenge consume him.

They both have different reactions and I think WWX is the more impulsive of the two and while obviously he doesn’t want to be evil, I think he isn’t actively trying to find a reason to stop bc he goes all in into his fight, his fall- different to XL who is still holding a bit back and going ‘hey someone stop me!’

I think it’s as if they were going downhill on a bike- WWX has cut off his breaks as he goes down, uncaring of the outcome- while XL keeps the brake in the hopes he will find a reason to pull them.

As for SVSS I think it’s clear in the fact that the creature and LBG share a lot of similarities in being an outcast.

In the end though I think it’s more similar to TGCF bc of the overall theme of the Creature just looking for one reason to be kind- because I think his spiral and hatred is similar to XLs, so I think regarding the theme it’s more similar to it- because LBG I don’t think wants to be kind- he wants to be loved and be with Shizun- but he harbors no love towards humanity as a whole. Like if he had to chose between letting the world burn ans Shizun he’d choose Shizun 100% with no regrets.

Meanwhile with TGCF I think XL goes more through thinking about humans and wanting to find a reason to have faith in them, because he wants to find a reason to follow his morals. He wants to be kind and help people- and the arc of him realizing it reminds me of the Creature (even if they both arrive at different conclusions and XL finds the reason to be kind again and love humans) the way they question themselves and try to find one person to stop their hatred, just makes me think it fits more. LBG I think just doesn’t care tbh lmao, like I don’t think later hes actively trying to destroy the world like in PIDW but I don’t think he’d go out of his way to save it if his Shizun didn’t ask him to or gave him a reason.

She kept making the Lenny face every time XieXie made and excuse to be near HC she is literally Pei Ming’s hoho personified

Pei Xiu x Banyue ship is approved by her she loves them

Couldn’t stop laughing at the fact Banyue and XieXie practically poisoned poor Pei Xiu

SHE LOVES QYZ (or curly head boy) SO MUCH HES OUR BABY (and was so sad with his story :()

She also began to suspect Wuwu and I was like 😀 it’s so funny cuz it’s bc she found it sus that he figured out the brocade immortal thing so quickly so while her suspicions are based on a wrong assumption it’s right LMAOOO

Also suspects our King SQX??? MOM WHY apparently she’s sus bc he’s disappeared lmao

Also also thinks Lang Ying could be Sr. Lang Yings son.

She thinks XieXie is a reincarnation of the prince of Wuyong

She made wiggly eyebrows at the “sharing a tomb” comment and was like XIEXIE YOU WHORE (he is. For Juan at least lmao)

Doesn’t think MNQ is evil.

Has turned to be a Pei Ming fan girl she loves him. Pei Ming has stolen another one.

She went “STOP TRYING TO POISON THE POOR MAN” at Banyue with Pei Xiu

Actually thought Qi Rong with Guzi was kinda cute she was like “HA HES GOTTEN ATTACHED”

Thought scrap gege was funny as well and she called him Chatarrero 😭💀

Also thought Pei Ming being thrown by the bull was hilarious. She was also happy when I told her she reminded me so much of Yushi Huang not only physically but also bc my mom plants things! While it’s more flowers than vegetables she has planted tomatoes and other stuff in our garden!

She likes Juan doesn’t do shit except for when it involves XieXie

We’re at the 10k Gods scene part. She did NOT expect for Fu Yao and Nan Feng to be MQ and Feng Shui and was also flabbergasted.

She suspected the cave had one statue of XieXie but gasped so much when it was revealed it was all him!

Literally when they mention Juan’s mural she just started going NOOOOO HE THINKS HES UGLY and AAHHHH ITS THE LITTLE SOLDIER she feels so much for him lmaooo

Anyway she went for a small nap rn cuz she has to go to work later but we’re reading like an hour ish more so we’ll probably get to the confession scene soon

If you ask me Mei Nianqing is a character who, like many elders, won’t easily listen to the younger generation because he sees them as naive. It was also Xie Lian who vouched for Mu Qing. The thing is, MNQ is a Guoshi, and even as a prince, Xie Lian’s role was technically beneath that. In many Asian cultures, your teacher or guru holds the highest status. You can challenge their ideas, but you can’t use your authority against them.In some ways, I do think Xie Lian could’ve done more. But from his position, he saw the problems as linear. He believed that if he, as a prince, took people under him and used his status or eventually became a god things would be resolved. I give him credit for standing up to his father, the king, and questioning him. But in reality, issues like these are much deeper and more complex. One person alone can’t bring about change. These kinds of problems require society as a whole to come forward and address them together.

He learned the true meaning of his stance on “one cup and two people” by distributing his own luck to those less fortunate after his second banishment, and he refused to take off the two shackles that brought him misfortune because they reminded him of Wu Ming—a ghost with no name, his last believer—who destroyed his own soul for Xie Lian as a result of Xie Lian having once thought of taking it out on innocent people for things orchestrated by White No-Face.

BTW, it was nice talking to you, and I really like your posts about your mom reacting to TGCF , they are my favorite. I wish I could also share this type of stuff with my family, especially my mom, but it’s just hard for me. People here still aren't very open about these things. Have a good day!

Oh yes! There’s also the fact Mu Qing is also in his way classist- everyone in the book, in Xianle, seems to place importance on class, like XLs father, they seemed to grow in that environment.

Like I said, I think XL is a case of both- he sometimes does things he doesn’t realize arent helping the cause but that’s mostly bc of ignorance- while I do think he has a really optimistic look to change the way people view the whole class situation, it’s a bit wonky since he hasn’t experienced being of a lower class or station, so maybe what he thinks could help could actually cause more harm.

I really wish we could have learned more about Jun Wu! If he was a lot like XL when he was a prince, but got to live a bit longer (I think? I think JW ascended younger but he spent longer as a god didnt he? Correct me if I’m wrong) I wonder how he had matured as a god, and what his choices then would have been.

I think his story is really tragic- obviously it doesn’t justify what he did to XL, but imo the heavens back then totally deserved to be turned into sidewalks pFT. I think it’s so sad how someone who clearly cared so much for his people was practically driven crazy by not only heaves, but because of the betrayal of his people themselves.

I know some people don’t like that Jun Wu didn’t get killed (I’ve seen some) but I think (not to justify his actions btw) that eventually the prince he was got buried behind the hurt and evil exterior. I think the Jun Wu that wanted to save the common people is still there, just like when XL was white no face, but buried underneath the hate, and sadly, unlike XL he wasn’t able to have someone place a bamboo hat on his head, or a Hua Cheng to show him otherwise.

Which thinking of it like that- because we saw it with XL, which was kind of what Jun Wu went through, I think it’s tragic because Jun Wu clearly just goes fuck it we ball, and buries it all out of anger. So I hope, even if it was late, that after being sealed in mount tonglu, being with MNQ slowly unburied the starry eyed prince from before- or rekindles the flame. Once again, not justifying his actions and I don’t think I’d like him to reconcile with XL, far too much trauma there, but I hope he personally gets to grow and become at peace. While he can’t undo the insane damage he did, he at least won’t do anymore? Lmao. I just hope he regains his love for humanity, no matter how long it takes. After all, even he was shaped by the terrible heavily officials before him (again not justifying mass genocide -the old heavens deserved it tho- or traumatizing XL) but he was kind of driven to that madness also by being around terrible, greedy people, and facing betrayal by the people he’d worked so hard to protect :(

Maybe it’s because I’m someone that can’t forgive easily (cough Hua Cheng cough) but I give SO many props for XL for not destroying Yong’an. Obviously it’s easy for me to say “oh I would have ended it all!” But yknow just like XL with the lower class when he’s a prince, I can’t 100% say I know what it would feel like ahshs

But seriously I remember admiring XL so much- I was angry for him and at that moment when I first read I was still angry (since I read everything in one go the 100 swords and everything else’s feelings hadn’t had time to fester lol) so I was like “crap no! Destroy them! Get your revenge they deserve it!” But then XL did it- and most would see it in like…such a Mary Sue way? Like in movies where the hero can kill the villain but doesn’t because “oh the goodness of my heart I would never go to your level because I’m so kind and righteous” and it’s kind of annoying bc you KNOW a normal person wouldn’t do that and that it’s because the author doesn’t want the audience to think the MC is evil! Or has any flaws!

But with XL it feels natural. I didn’t think oh the author did this because XL is such a Mary Sue and is ALWAYS so kind like a Disney Princess (I do think he’s a Disney Princess lmao) but you actually see him crash out before- you see him get mad and that’s what makes the forgiveness more bittersweet because you might be mad- but you see why XL at the end doesn’t destroy Yong’an- it’s not because the author was afraid to show XLs bad side- in fact MXTX shows us all of humanities flaws with her chats characters in a realistic way that I love because I feel like media nowadays is afraid to have characters that have flaws, that have ugly sides, just like we normal people do.

I love seeing XL at his kindest moments because they mean more after seeing his angriest ones. The kindness he shows is ten times more meaningful and significant because you have seen him be angry- you have seen him make mistakes and let his feelings consume him. But that’s what makes him so lovely- because you see it all and what shapes him, and you understand he’s just someone who had to grow up too quickly and was set up to fail, but is still kind.

And I love that’s what HC loves about him because people see flaws as something ugly- when they’re what makes us humans. Obviously we can work on ourselves, but we will have flaws no matter what, no one can be perfect. And the fact MXTX makes them gods, when usually religions make their deities be such perfect beings (except the Greeks I believe which is why I loveeed reading about them when I was wrong, the gods seemed like what I would think actual gods would act like- prideful, overconfident, etc etc) and MXTX shows even they have flaws which aaaaa I looooove

I actually did not know in Asia teachers or guoshis were held to such a high status actually! I thought even if he was the teacher, since XL was a prince he would have more power but it doesn’t seem like it, that’s so interesting! Then it makes more sense as to why maybe XL couldn’t directly speak to him, or change his mind so easily, I understand! My apologies for not knowing before! I still think since like you said, he stood up to the king he wouldn’t be afraid to step up to MNQ, but maybe there’s the fact XL was in a bad place with his father and Guoshi at the time took a more parental figure whom he respected.

And of course, I loved talking to you too! Feel free to message me or drop an ask about whatever you want to talk about! I love needing out over books and media, even if sometimes views don’t align I love reading and even arguing (respectfully) the points of view! I hope I was able to correctly articulate my thoughts haha, sometimes words be hard 😭

It really sucks you aren’t able to share something you like, I hope you’re able to someday :( if you want, you can talk to me, I’d love to hear you out 🥰

I’m happy you enjoyed my mom’s silly reactions, they made me laugh and I’m glad it made others as well!