#cyjm

What's more fitting for Valentine's day than a fox demon who lost her love threads and a young general who's new to feelings?

Till the End of the Moon Ep.23 (2023)

One thing a lot of people don't understand about tteotm's "miscommunication trope" is that it's very much based in the reality and experiences of the characters.

Susu and Tantai Jin do NOT trust each other and that's a direct consequence of what happened in the Sheng/Boat arc.

Li Susu

In Sheng, Susu genuinely believed that Tantai Jin was changing and becoming a better person only to learn that he had been practicing demonic cultivation and was kidnapped by him immediately afterwards.

After having experienced Tantai Jin's heavy backtrack and her experiences with the devil god, her trust in him is precarious. She'd looked past her prejudices and trusted him once only to be kidnapped, learned she'd been manipulated into marriage by a man who drove his nanny mad, killed a man and then told by that she would suffer the same fate. Why should she rely on this man when he'd already tricked her multiple times?

Not to mention she had in fact had pleaded for mercy on Xiao Lin once already and been denied before the words manged to come out of her mouth. Of course she assumed the worst of Tantai Jin when he killed the king and the later went on to go behind his back to save Xiao Lin.

Tantai Jin

Tantai Jin also began to believe that Susu cared about him but then heard her tell Xiao Lin how badly she wanted to kill him. Then, when he managed to trust her again after he'd been poisoned and she'd refused to abandon him, she then she disappeared on him showing up 4 months later with Xiao Lin at her back whom she then left with again.

In his point of view Susu has repeated chosen Xiao Lin over him, a man he believes she once loved. Something that is proved to him by her trying to save him because the definition of love he knows is wanting to see someone and wanting to protect them.

He has seen her go back to him time and time again. Protect him in the Mohe River, go to his camp when she'd thought he was launching a surprise attack, even trying to protect Xiao Lin when he'd just tried to ASSASSINATE him.

(Side note: a lot of people a quite frustrated with Susu trying to protect Xiao Lin asking what her skin in the game is but she even tried to protect Bingchang like hello?? Also that man has all but been her BROTHER twice not to mention protected and cared for even in this life, ofc she doesn't want to see him die again)

Miscommunication and Mistrust

Their "miscommunication" is deeply rooted in, if not is entirely mistrust and i feel like once you understand that and why it like that the "trope" becomes not only a lot more understandable but also adds to the story. Susu very reasonably does not trust Tantai Jin, and he the same, and that's the true tragedy, how can you devote yourself or the WORLD to a person you don't trust with your heart or well being?

lying down and dying side by side

getting married for nefarious reasons