#like cql wx has the obvious censorship limitation but they don

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man that trope of ‘all it took/would have ever taken was a two-second conversation to clear up the misunderstandings and get together and then everything bad could have been avoided’ is SO annoying

I would even go so far as to say that there wasn’t really any miscommunication in the cql flashback arc. maybe wwx didn’t know the depths of lwj’s feelings, and lwj didn’t know why wwx was turning to DC, but they clearly had A Dynamic and there was obviously something heavy in their hearts each time they parted from each other. and so what if wwx thought that lwj was prioritizing his sect over the right thing to do? he was right! lwj did choose his sect instead of wwx!

in the novel, wwx doesn’t want to be taken away and scolded and imprisoned, and lwj never really makes it clear that his impulse to interfere comes from love. but...he still would have been scolded and imprisoned anyway if they realized the truth. in cql, lwj says over and over that he wants to help, that he has these ideas about musical cultivation, and wwx is more frustrated because he knows it won’t do any good even though he rly cares about and trusts lwj, and it hurts to be offered useless help from someone he loves who he feels like he can’t really be close with or on an even footing with ever again, and who he feels judged by. I don’t think he really wanted to go with lwj to gusu, but it’s not like he was paranoid about being a prisoner there any moreso than he was paranoid of the other sects. that why the fan obsession with the phrase ‘come back to gusu’ falls a little flat for me. the parting at the end was sad, but I thought it was kind of obvious that wwx didn’t really feel like he belonged in CR, and there was no established expectation for him to return THERE, just to return to lwj. also lwj says the gusu thing like once in the whole show so its not rly as relevant of a romantic theme in the way that the song is

equally as annoying as that is the implication that their entire lives up until then were a waste because they weren’t together. like, no! it wasn’t wasted it was spent with their families and growing into the people they would become and grappling with their place in the world and learning about each other and surviving war and recovering from trauma. their years of friendship weren’t a waste, and neither was them living their lives until they could be the kind of people to actually make a relationship work