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Oh no, they shoulda let that boy kill that man.

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And here I was thinking Feng Xiao ran over to save the day smh

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This man really abandoned his whole family!?!?

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Every arc so far:

Person A fighting Person B: You have killed my loved ones in a most disgraceful and dishonorable way, so I’m here to repay the debt!

Person B—who is losing—to Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu—who are mostly dicking around: Spare my life and I’ll tell you everything I know!

Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu to Person A after a “sudden” change of heart: Sorry, my guy, guess your vengeance will have to wait for another day.

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I change my mind about that ghost story.

Alright, I’m interested in seeing where this ghost story goes. Also think that either that prince’s right hand man has gone rogue or—once again—has long been replaced with someone else.

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Damn, this the second daughter killed for no reason

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Alright, I’m interested in seeing where this ghost story goes. Also think that either that prince’s right hand man has gone rogue or—once again—has long been replaced with someone else.

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Poor Qiao Xian 😭😭😭

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Of course the squirrelly tour guide is the one who died. How convenient.

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Cui Buqu and Feng Xiao have the type of relationship that people think pre-resurrection wangxian have in mdzs.

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“In front would be Qiemo?” Cui Buqu coughed twice and swept the curtains of the carriage apart. What entered his nose was a strong sense of heat.

—Chapt. 41: Cui Buqu Wants to Kick That Person Down the Horse Carriage, fan translation

Y'all will never know how viscerally I feel this description and how much I hate heat that you can smell.

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The gender commentary in this novel is lowkey hilarious:

For the first time, Zhangsun Bodhi’s gaze lingered on Qiao Xian for a long while, confusion showing in his eyes. “You — are you a male or a female?” Qiao Xian replied plainly, “After reading Buddhist scripts for so long, don’t you understand that ‘looks are only the mind’s perception’, and are meaningless’?”

—Chapt. 19: You Whose Surname is Feng, You Motherfucking Bastard!, fan translation

Presently, people of literature would reprimand others with words like ‘traitor, how dare you scheme behind my back! Lecherous!’, but another type of people would often use the female gender as a metaphor such as ‘you cry like a woman’ as if they were laughing because the other made themselves resemble little timid ladies. One could say that it was degrading to be treated like a helpless woman. Feng Xiao despised these sort of discriminations. When one has reached to positions such as Cui Buqu or himself, they know the world and its people. They wouldn’t care whether the other is a man or a woman. To them, there were only two types of people: friends and enemies, and or useful and useless people.

—Chapt. 41: Cui Buqu Wants to Kick That Person Down the Horse Carriage, fan translation

It's essentially that only weak, powerless, small-minded people are concerned with gender and enforcing gender roles. Actual enlightened people, those with the strength and determination to forge their own life paths, judge others based on their skills and attributes rather than their genitalia and assigned sex. Which should be the case! Just did not expect this politic to crop up in a discussion of cross-dressing 😭

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Didn’t realize this novel had arcs, so I guess the goal is to get through arc 2 today

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She even remembered that Cui Buqu once told her: If even you feel that your existence does not matter, then no one would take you seriously. I am different from you. I am me, even if I met with a serious illness and passed away just like that, all my limbs are paralyzed, no one can ever replace me as Cui Buqu.

—Chapt. 37: No One Can Ever Replace Me As Cui Buqu, fan translation

I know that's right!

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Qin Miaoyu’s backstory needed what Qiao Xian’s has: morals and a bottom line

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Dude sold you to be someone else’s concubine for a mission, and you talking about freeing him? Girl stand up!

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ngl your “human reads peerless posts” are convincing me to read it now 👀

You should! I’m enjoying it so far lol