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There are equal amounts of works for the two main ships on AO3, so I'm curious (alas, Xu Yu and Huna have received the usual F/F treatment 😔✌️)

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it's jinming jwednesday

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There are equal amounts of works for the two main ships on AO3, so I'm curious (alas, Xu Yu and Huna have received the usual F/F treatment 😔✌️)

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it's jinming jwednesday

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Link!

Saved my favourite fic for last, this one is a lot of fun!!

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Tips to figure out which one is the Queen and Emperor when they swapped bodies in Liang Bu Yi.

I only noticed it after I’m done reading the manhua. Yes, I’m that slow.

Queen Xu Yu has golden eyes.

While our Emperor has blue eyes.

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matching set. xiao jinyun's hater ass spirit shines on even in his wife's body <3

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it's jinming jwednesday

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it's jinming jwednesday

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shoutout to no doubt in us for making me neutral about body swaps again rather than incredibly afraid

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Episode 3!

Lady Pei is still the Emperor's cousin after all 😔✌️

Most of the comment section believes Xu Yu is OOC compared to the source material, and I can kind of see it? Not to the extent that they're complaining of, though

They're a lot more explicit about the Xu family slander, which is interesting. Accusing General Xu of skimming the soldiers' wages is new! And Xu Yu's reaction to it is fun, she gets actively angry at the idea

Wudu has my absolute heart, he's rapidly becoming my favourite <3 He'd BETTER not be a traitor like there's a suggestion of, it will upset me sm 😭

I think there's some nuance I'm not quite able to get with the tortoise scene? It just looks like writing, I'm not sure where the shapes come from. The whole extended conspiracy against Xu Ding is... confusing so far

CANNOT BELIEVE XU YU FUMBLES THE ENTIRE HAREM. GIRL YOU'RE LETTING THE BISEXUALS DOWN. GIRL,,,,

AND STEALS EMPRESS DOWAGER'S BEDDING???? G I R L.

The childhood flashbacks are different too! They took out the gender fuckery, but kept the general sentiment of them, which is understandable given the censors but still a common enough trope that I'm surprised it didn't pass

And the ending theme! I like the ending theme a lot too, the sound and music is definitely my favourite part of The Trust as opposed to the donghua

Divergences in The Trust so far:

The first episode (past the modern-day segment, which I'll tackle in another post) starts with Xu Yu and her servant disguising as men and sneaking into court, because Xu Yu wants to see her father for the first time in three years. It's a fun change, and it establishes that Xu Yu is on very thin ice. It's a strange bit of characterisation, though- in the manhua and donghua she doesn't deliberately break the rules as she does here, and she isn't so assertive or argumentative in the aftermath as she is here.

The servants get a lot more personality. Xiao Jinyun's personal servant, Wudu, and Xu Yu's servant are both entirely new characters.

They've gotten rid of Consort Zhao? She's been replaced with Lady Pei, who... seems to be exactly the same so far. Maybe this one isn't the Emperor's cousin!

The harem seems about the same, but more fleshed out. Tao, Li, and Qin are all there. (Qin has a role in the manhua, but in the donghua she's just a name and a face.)

THEY'VE REPLACED HUNA????? MY WIFE??????? 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

I love their clothes!! In the manhua and donghua you only get about three outfits between everyone, but here everyone has different outfits! And Xiao Jinyun isn't stuck in fucking. Butter colours any more XD

This time, what swaps their body is a protective bracelet General Xu (whose name we get! Xu Ding!) gives to Xu Yu, that he got from the northern border.

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posting niche fic on ao3 is like releasing a small creature into the wild and hoping it survives and finds sustenance

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it's my birthday 🎂

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trying to figure out the naming system is a little bit strange. like what do you mean consort zhao has a courtesy name but neither xu yu or the empress dowager do. what is going on here