#because he grew up in the streets and was miserable and hasn't been treated well overall

[zykamiliah]

I mean...there IS character development and relationship development, even after the extras, and particularly in how they communicate abd how sqq is more accepting of his own gayness... sqq also learns about respecting lbh's agency as a person, stops seeing him as the lbh from the novel, he comes clear to himself in the fact that he doesn't want an easygoing life where he does nothing but idle his time away... and you could say that lbh learns that you can't take someone's love by force.

but yeah, even if some of their problems were IN their relationship, external factors like the system and the plot did caused most of them. that's why they can be happy post-canon :DDD

always a lil perplexed when I hear people say they wanted Luo Binghe to get more character development or smth before he's allowed to be with Shen Qingqiu. Have you... considered... that neither Luo Binghe OR Shen Qingqiu want that??? Luo Binghe had to spend 5 years alone and tending to his corpse, then there was the mess at the holy mausoleum, and the nightmare that was maigu ridge, how much more waiting and "character development" does he have to endure to deserve his happy ending? How long does Shen Qingqiu have to wait? The goddawful story and forced system plots are over, the facilitators of character development are laid to rest and now the power of the narrative is in bingqiu's hands. I thought the thesis of bingqiu is that people don't have to learn and be made from suffering to deserve nice things? let bingqiu be happy and rest please!!