#And he's not wearing his guan

[random-mdzs-thoughts-dumpster]

[kirstenly]

Yin Yu Appreciation Week Day 1, In which Hua Cheng quietly delivers a threat expressing that Yin Yu is going on vacation, and he does not have a choice in the matter.

Day 1 Extra:

[lazycranberrydoodles]

english translation book 5 baby we are in the ‘people assuming kid form hua cheng is xie lian’s son’ era 🔥🔥🔥 / follow for more hualian silliness

[hualianschild]

xie lian : guys I'm innoce-

shi qingxuan : YEAH MY BRO IS B1TCHLESS

xie lian : that's righ-

xie lian's mind : *shalalala music* *gay thoughts abt a certain ghost king* *rose tinted bg*

xie lian : AHEM SO *nervous laughter*

[potatosaresweet]

im still thinking about how jun wu placed the cursed shackle around yin yu and mu qing's wrists but xie lian's was around his neck

he placed a literal collar on him

[opintheot]

It makes sense that little Mo wouldn't want to live with He Tian, he likes his space and independence

[menelaus-blue]

back on my usual mxtx bullshit ig but i always find it so funny when artists draw mu qing in heels but no feng xin bc…they’re the same height…if mu qing put on heels and he was taller than feng xin, i am 1100% sure that feng xin would just wear heels as well. i’m sorry but it needed to be said

[crimsonmonsoon]

My Qi Rong headcannon of the day (incorporating my design for him) is that like Hua Cheng, he can change his appearance so that even after he loses his mask in the second book/season, people can’t exactly say he looks like Xie Lian. My design for him really turns him into a goblin so if we pretend he looks like that then he’s intentionally becoming something as far from Xie Lian as he can, but his true form would be much more beautiful and their similarity much more prominent. But in canon he doesn’t actually have enough power to do that I don’t think? Hua Cheng is powerful enough to have multiple forms so maybe Qi Rong can get by with having only one.

And ignoring my design for him, I think this is also why he wears a mask. Pretty boy don’t like being reminded he’s related to Xie Lian.

I also have a headcannon that he was executed by decapitation with the royal xianle family so in the afterlife he has a huge scar around his neck. He’d get pissed off to find it mirrors Xie Lian’s cursed shackle.

In other words he’s trying to be something as far from Xie Lian as possible, even if he has to make himself as ugly as he can to do so.

He’s on my walls now…

[horsegirlwarcrimes]

I have been haunted by the Mud AU since you answered the ask about it? It's just so good in all the parts? Sad and muddy Xie Lian with a hole through his chest being mistaken for a ghost (and he doesn't care, he's So Tired) asking Hua Cheng to kill him? He doesn't recognize him because of the mud, and then when he loses you say he'll be hired by the Gambler's Den so he'll be wearing a uniform and a mask- The mention at the end of the summary of Hua Cheng and unintentionally disguised Xie Lian's contentious relationship, what's going on there... I'm so intrigued 👀👀👀

YESS omg. im so excited for mudlian au. he's suffering every day

my fav subgenre of tgcf fics is anything where either A) hc and xl dont recognize each other right away or B) xl ends up working in ghost city for some reason, so i want the best of both worlds (ᗒᗜᗕ)՛̵̖ i also think the idea of them initially disliking each other is soooooo funny just given how besotted they usually are with each other. the HC pipeline of 'who cares about this random asshole ghost' to 'hhhhnnnnggg id do anything for him and also i need to disperse myself for disloyalty to his highness by looking at this ghosts biceps to much' is a rich vein of untapped potential

[fluffypurpleglitterdemon]

Hua Cheng using his real appearance as his "Someone's about to get fucked up" look...

[dangerous-advantage]

headcanon that all of hua cheng's statues are taller than the actual xie lian bc before they reunited, xie lian was always taller than hua cheng

[spock-adoodledoo]

jinshi looks more handsome w his hair up sry

[lazycranberrydoodles]

woe mundane monopoly headcanons be upon ye

follow for more of modern au hua cheng’s outfits

[quietly-sleeping]

When he first started doing Liu Qingge's hair he didn't expect the other man to be so sensitive. Shen Yuan had carefully pulled out the dripping hair pins, the now stained ribbon, and a guan the man usually refused to wear. He thought at first the shivering was due to the sticky sap that still coated most of Liu Qingge's robes, of which he really needed to get out of.

But it continued after Liu Qingge's bath. His shoulders would tense, flinching slightly as Shen Yuan began to drag the comb through his hair. But as it continued, the shivers would return, his shoulders would drop and he began to sway slightly. Shen Yuan knew he shouldn't mess with his shidi like this, but he couldn't help himself sometimes.

It was fascinating to watch Liu Qingge begin to melt as Shen Yuan worked the hair oil in. As he carefully braided his shidi's hair and pulled him towards his awfully Spartan bed, Shen Yuan wondered when he would be able to do this again.

The answer was: less than a week. The Mud Slinging Toad followed through with its name, leaving Shen Yuan, Liu Qingge, and a less than pleased Mu Qingfang covered.

Mu Qingfang left them quickly, citing a lecture he needed to prepare for while Shen Yuan herded his uncooperative shidi towards the Beast Peak. Shen Yuan was delighted to discover that it took less time to make Liu Qingge melt this time around. The man blinking like a content cat while Shen Yuan worked clumps of mud out of his long hair.

His shidi's sudden infliction of loose limbs lasted until Shen Yuan was clean as well. The other Peak Lord gathering his senses enough to stumble over to the bed and promptly pass out. Which Shen Yuan wouldn't have minded, however, Liu Qingge had laid across most of the bed. Leaving Shen Yuan with the choice of either waking his shidi, not going to happen, or adjusting the man enough for Shen Yuan to fit as well.

Shen Yuan certainly wasn't going to be sleeping else where. He liked his bed far too much for that.

That decision caused an unfortunate amount of activity that morning. With his very pretty shidi, clad in his inner robes and flushed down his neck, storming out of Shen Yuan's modest house with Shen Yuan's outerrobe in hand. If he were more awake Shen Yuan was certain he would have called out for his shidi and taken his outerrobe back. However, he was tired, and his bed was so warm, and it smelled sweet like the soap he'd given his shidi to use last night.

He'd simply get his robe back later, Shen Yuan assured himself, he'd have to return Liu Qingge's anyway.

It was nearly two weeks until Shen Yuan got to put his hands on Liu Qingge's hair again. This time they weren't covered in suspicious substances, and Shen Yuan had taken the chance to return Liu Qingge's outerrobe. Despite his shidi attempting to run out the door again, as he had most of the last two weeks, Shen Yuan had managed to coax the man into a cup of tea.

Shen Yuan had found himself staring at a strand of his shidi's hair for most of their talk, it had escaped the braid that lead most of Liu Qingge's hair back to his ponytail. In fact, his shidi's hair seemed softer today, and Shen Yuan could feel his hand twitching slightly. It was a little amusing to watch the tint of red blossom down Liu Qingge's neck when Shen Yuan asked if he could tidy his hair.

However, it was so much more, in multiple ways to have Liu Qingge loose limbed and blinking slowly while resting his head on Shen Yuan's lap. He wasn't entirely sure how they ended up this way, but he certainly wasn't opposed to it. He followed the curve of Liu Qingge's cheek as it pressed against his leg, tracing a line with his eyes down his relaxed shidi's back.

It was a lovely line, and for a moment Shen Yuan longed for the skill to paint or draw the human form. How pretty a painting it would be, his stiff and tense shidi, pliant and soft, permanently recorded for Shen Yuan to study.

He had long finished combing his shidi's hair, simply stroking down his back and shoulders, the man burrowing closer to Shen Yuan the longer it lasted. It left his pretty shidi so relaxed that only Shen Yuan jumped when the door to his home snapped open.

Fighting the heat in his own cheeks now, Shen Yuan tried to smile at his shixiong in a manner that told him I have an explanation for this. Shen Yuan wasn't sure he succeeded when Shen Qingqiu smiled back at him.

"Well," The smile, paired with sharp brown eyes made a shiver of something Shen Yuan assumed to be fear run down his spine. "This is certainly a sight."

[opintheot]

I'm so in love with Guan Shan's grip of the neck chains He Tian is wearing. Hes giving this confidence that He Tian is his, and only his, his boyfriend is completely indulging and OBSESSED and Guan Shan knows lol

[sonchop]

uuuhh, I dunno if somebody has already talked about this, but whatever, I just need to discuss it, so

ONE IMPORTANT QUESTION

on which hand does lu guang wear his watch in donghua?

um, okay, I guess it's pretty easy, look

it's right hand, isn't it?

but

what about cheng xiaoshi death flashback?

left

why?

it's just does not seem like it can be such a big mistake 'cause they are too in love with small details to forget about the right(lol) hand. I mean, they stick to this hand throughout the season, even in those moments when we hardly see this watch

oh, and

at the dive moment it's again right (I mean, it has to be the same day, why)

what is it about?

sooooooooo

my fav thought is the mirror. I mean, in the mirror, your left hand becomes your right hand, right?

the mirror seems to be a reference to a parallel universe or another timeline. what if in the original timeline, lu guang wore his watch on his left hand, but after the first dive it moved to his right hand because it is no longer the original timeline, but one of its reflections. So this change shows us that it's a different timeline, I mean if it's the 5th dive including the donghua timeline (and 4 deaths :'), so maybe we're being given the opportunity to distinguish the first timeline from the others? or maybe it was lu guang's choice, like that very cute and positive password-reminder with the date of his bf death.

there may be different variations, for example, if the theory that lu guang was possessed (and killed xiaoshi) is true, then, for example, imagine that someone took over his body in the morning and, while getting dressed, unconsciously puts a watch on his left hand because he is right-handed, (unlike lu guan)????

or I'm overthinking, and this boy just likes to change the position of his watch, or whatever

🎶 you should really stop thinkin bout it stop thinkin bout stop stop thinkin bout it why your mind overclouded 🎶