#'He can laugh?' Ling Wen thinks hysterically 'With true amusement and not evil intent?'

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look, I'm all here for the 'Hua Cheng Looks Exactly As Monstrous As Everyone Says And Xie Lian Is Just So Used To The Horror That He Only Sees A Hot Man' idea. It's cool, it's deep, and it's fun.

But! Xie Lian is also the 'oh wow character x looks so ordinary' guy who thinks hua cheng is so pretty even his 800 years of abstinence are surely expected to crumble at the sight of him, so consider this one: hua cheng is actually one Damn Fine of a specimen, drop-dead gorgeous, era-defining beauty, but it's hard to notice with all the Glaring™ and Snarling™ and Evil Laughter™ going on, because let's be real the man is terrifying, so imagine the surprise of the heavens when, on one fine day, the ensemble cast go after xie lian to ask for his help or assistance or guidance or whatever, and they walk in on hua cheng – scourge of the heavens hua cheng, crimson rain sought flower hua cheng, supreme ghost king hua cheng – laughing sweetly with his highness trying to smother him with kisses all over his face, and at the sight of his joy and adoration they have one split second of going "Wow Crimson Rain is so fucking hot" before hua cheng notices them and starts hissing like a cat.