#hua cheng mention

[mornwrites]

tw for suicide mentions + spoilers for TGCF's novels, mainly 6.

thinking about how mu qing and feng xin have NO clue that xie lian tried to kill himself and it had me thinking about what IF they eventually found out. probably after the novels have officially ended and they're all together as friends again.

XL still wears his bandages around his throat even though he doesn't have his cursed shackle anymore and they find it a bit odd. they ask once or twice and he's quick to change the subject so they don't push any further. this goes on for MONTHS until they go out on an adventure / mission together.

the xianle trio were off to solve some sort of mystery and XL gets in a fight. it results in the trio's win, of course, but the bandage around XL's throat comes undone. the white cloth unravels in front of their eyes and what they see immediately is setting alarms off in their head. a dark purple bruise is embedded into his skin and the trio immediately are jumping to conclusion, assuming hua cheng had done something.

XL is quick to deny those accusations while still trying to avoid the subject entirely, but it doesn't work well. eventually, he breaks.

"Ah- it's nothing to worry about, really! After mother and father died I foolishly tried to join them in the afterlife. It's stupid, I know- gods can't die, after all. Haha! It's nothing to worry about, though."

and the thick silence that ensues is SUFFOCATING for XL. he's concerned he'll be judged and perhaps lose his two friends once again. that doesn't happen, however, and instead there's this look of guilt on their expression that cannot be matched by anyone else. it was clear that they were blaming themselves for leaving XL even though it obviously wasn't their fault.

and then they go home and have tea together and cuddle and everything is fine. (it isn't.)

[potatosaresweet]

i love seeing discourse surroundning mei nianqing cause i have literally no idea how to feel about him. he's so girlfailiure coded. he runs away from his crazy ex but doen't even try to win custody of their shared pseudo son and just fucks off drawing pictures in some ruins about said ex. he looks down on mu qing for the crime of being poor.he tells little baby hong-er that he's a cursed monster and is going to die. he's all love is love being gay is okay with xie lian but severely judges his taste in men. he literally had the heavenly emperor torment him for centuries and yet his biggest headache in life was his 17 year old lousy disciple. he helps his disciples defeat his evil ex and then returns to him and spends the rest of his life chilling with him under a mountain. he's cool with all sorts of war crimes but draws the line at being poor and dating ghost kings. what even is this man on.

[hualianschild]

falling for all the loser in love characters in a show/book that try to come off as cool and indifferent is so fun cuz their future partner be doing weird shit and embarrassing themselves and you'll be silently screaming and hiding your face cuz of the second hand embarrassment but then you realize this fool with heart eyes is definitely squealing like they got a high school crush and hypothetically kicking their legs and punching the air over that and that helps you calm down

[soupysundae]

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

another reason i think that xie lian felt an instant connection on the ox cart is because he and hua cheng both grew up in xianle.

there are maybe 4 people still alive that grew up in that culture. based on my own experience, you can pick up on things like accent, cadence, references, and humor that suggest a person is from the same place as you without consciously noticing it. that sense of comfort and similarity probably played into their instant chemistry.

[muzsmocsing]

Some underrated moments in book 2

🤍 When Xie Lian admitted if it weren't for his cultivation method, he 100% would've read the smut mortals write about Pei Ming already.

🤍 When Xie Lian described Mu Qing as a ✨Standard Pretty Boy™✨

🤍 The way Fangxin MOANED when Xie Lian took it in his hand after hundreds of years of separation.

🤍 Mu qing's worst fear being muddy scalies.

🤍 Qi Rong's poetic soliloquy about STDs.

🤍 When Shi Qingxuan disarmed Feng Xin, a powerful martial god with centuries worth of experience, just by running into him tits first.

(Book 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

[xieliansbignaturals]

I do think Hua Cheng would have a fully accurate radar for "Xie Lian needs or wants something." His own needs, less so. But, Xie Lian's nose is a little bit itchy? Hua Cheng reaches over to scratch it before Xie Lian himself notices that it's bothering him. (Meanwhile, Hua Cheng has been sitting in the MOST uncomfortable position for two whole hours and has no idea.) Xie Lian will be getting three square meals every day RIGHT on time if Hua Cheng is within a hundred miles of him.

[lavender-phoenix-flames]

Hua cheng was born in the wrong generation, if my guy was born in the current world, kids would look at his red eye and say, "damn bro got the sharingan"

[yaopi]

I WOKE UP AT 3AM TO GET A HEART ATTACK??????

[luminacerin]

How many times do we think Hua Cheng stared at a mirror during those 800 years like he was on an episode of Say Yes To The Dress deciding what form and what clothes he would wear when he would inevitably meet his Gege? So carefully circulating his wardrobe only to change it in the last five minutes.

[epherema]

Okay but like are none of us gonna talk about how insane tgcf vol 5 was??? like xie lian defeating a band of monks by catapulting cement meatballs into their mouths then running across mountains?? Him pretending to be a woman in the changing room? Not to mention baby cheng was in the changing room with him? what was the view like??? And also him running around dressed as a woman for like the 3rd time in a row?

[potatosaresweet]

how the fuck did feng xin finish the story single when he literally had his gorgeous bad bitch charismatic ex girlfriend AND his stunning and insanely poweful rival of 800+ years around ??? like i would not have fumbled either of those bags personally

[squaloropera]

look idk about y’all, but I think more people should focus on the nonsexual intimacy that makes up a lot of HuaLian’s relationship. Yeah they fuck and that’s cool, but I think we need more light on the fact that for most of their relationship, xl wasn’t comfortable with that. For a very long time, they existed in a nonsexual relationship (and while they weren’t an item for a lot of that, they were so fuckin domestic and unsubtly down bad that honestly I don’t think it makes a difference) and they were fully comfortable with that. I feel like so many people see even their earliest interactions and go ‘Haha these two wanted to fuck sooooooooo bad’ and that saddens me a little, because it almost 𝙙𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 the emotional closeness of the moments being focused on (especially since real emotional closeness during sex isn’t seen very often in a lot of fandom content). Draw them fucking all you want, but do your local asexual (me) a favour and please pay attention to how their relationship goes way deeper than that, and how relationships without sex hold just as much worth as ones with it. Thank you for your time.

[bingqiuhateabortion]

I love Xie Lian in his flower crowned prince parade outfit post canon as much as the next guy until i remember that it's supposed to be Jun Wu cosplay. Anyways i think it represents very different things to Hua Cheng and Xie Lian bc i bet hc dgaf who the fuck jw was at 9 but he did fall from that wall right

[tox-tea]

The Flower Crown Martial God : His Highness Xie Lian (click for higher res)