#and heaven official's blessing

[dyinggirldied]

Read the Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish/Beloved Pet Fish for these reasons below:

+ it's chinese danmei that vaguely has the prince x mermaid vibe

+ MC has brain and is not overly naive/edgy like most danmei MC shou/bottom/uke. He can be so unintentionally funny sometimes. He is also a koi/carp fish for quite some times in the story 🐟

+Despite the title, ML isn't a tyrant and is a decent human being who sincerely loves and treats MC with love and respect. He is not abusive like those ML you see in korean/chinese novels though he IS a bit possessive. He is also done well in this story, having his own personal thoughts, fears, insecurities that refreshingly humanize him.

+best character development, esp for both MC and ML. The romance is sweet and tender, not too slow or fast.

+Mpreg. MC gives birth to children. It's not explicit so no worries but MC does overthink and worry about the mechanics.

+The babies are so CUTE! I want to pinch their squishy cheeks. So cute.

+Plot is well done as well. It's not overwhelming with the politics but it is interwoven enough to be interesting and serve as challenges/obstacles for both MC and ML to grow and become close.

+HAPPY Ending.

+If you need soft, fluffy story where both leads are reasonable human beings who eventually achieve their happy end and make you feel like the lone dog being forced dog food (seeing them so lovey dovey) then this is for you.

Cons:

+Disabillity is treated a bit...well. As you can see from the title and SPOILER: the ML is mute throughout the story but roughly at the 3rd act he is cured by MC. It was a side effect from being poisoned in his youth but no one ever found out. There is discussion however, about how MC loves ML, with or without the mutism. ML also says, in the beginning, how he worries his children would inherite his mutism since it's ancient china and the attitude by people towards those with disability is not good and he doesn't want his children to be discriminated for something they cannot control. It's a scene that made me cry.

[tyeth]

Day 22: Wedding

Hualian invented love, after all-

This is also my apology for having Hua Cheng kiss a statue a few days ago. He gets a live and well Xie Lian today. Unseen behind the scenes: Tyeth crying for 30 minutes trying to figure out how and where to crop the pose. Hua Cheng got severely cropped hahaha...

[solastalgiart]

📸 | snapshot

xie lian soft-launches his bf hua cheng and the internet loses it

[seagreenlaurin]

🤍❤️

[tempo-takoyaki]

Listen, I love the "XL helps HC to see how beautiful he is" scenario as much as the next person... But I also see it like this.

[letmiin]

a supportive husband right here🦋✨

(Spent way too much time on the first one…)

[double-m-b]

MXTX protags my beloved. Prettyboy table for the win

Bonus page:

[kelchenarts]

with you, always.

[pocketmilo]

the crown prince who pleased the gods 🗡️🪷✨

[psyche-reads]

At first, Hua Cheng mostly gives off the impression of a normal over-protective broody love interest in a romance novel, overly paranoid over anything that might potentially hurt Xie Lian, but then you get to the White Clothed Calamity arc and realize, oh god, oh fuck, that’s actually a completely reasonable response to having to watch someone go through that, he’s actually showing remarkable restraint by allowing Xie Lian to go off and do his own thing as much as he does

[illuminatedferret]

post-canon fics where hua cheng gets amnesia'd back into wuming, who inevitably finds out His Beloved Is Married always read like the meme "I'll be his second husband." (what happened to the first?) "Nothing you can prove."

jump to xie lian, who knows exactly what mental contortions the love of his life would go to rather than recognize that xie lian loves him, deciding to humor wuming's murder fantasy for shits and giggles. 'you want to murder my husband, wuming? hm, i dont know... he is nice. except for the time he proposed to me and then immediately walked it back as a joke- oh, you'd treat me better than that? you'd never do something so cruel? well... im listening.'

cue hua cheng getting his memories back like "gege i thought we were over this. gege. gege stop laughing. gege please. i said sorry!"

[swagvo1d]

i want to share an orange with you, lovingly, tenderly

[annemariearcher]

"HuA ChEnG StAlkEd XiE LiAn fOr 800 YeArS—"

Hate to burst your bubble, but in order to stalk somebody, you actually have to know where they are.

[frisdiaryy]

Calligraphy lessons

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]