#love qi rong

[crimsonmonsoon]

If you can’t tell I am entirely obsessed with this guy

[popqorn]

I’M THE NIGHT-TOURING GREEN LANTERN! HOW COME NONE OF YOU RECOGNIZED ME WHEN BEATING ME, BUT KNEW IT WAS HIM WITH JUST ONE LOOK?!

[lazycranberrydoodles]

they are so in love and disgusting and also sarcastic bitches. follow for more / prev comic / next comic

[cabbage-shack]

I am LIVING for the head cannon going around that Xie Lian has actually lost it centuries ago and his beautiful husband, Hua Cheng the Crimson Rain Sought Flower Ghost King himself, is actually a putrefied abomination/horrific creature of the night and he just doesn't see it.

BUT! Why leave the other calamity ghosts out of this fun filled horror fest??

🤩

[matoirsblog]

[hualian]

Hualian in Qi Rong's (low taste) style 🦋 | Heaven Official’s Blessing S2 Ep7

[muzsmocsing]

I love that Qi Rong calls Guzi his cheap son. His discount descendant. His affordable toddler. His low-end laddie. His bargain bin baby.

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Qi Rong saying 'Was he blinded by your holy light, or was it some other holy part of you?' will never not be iconic.

[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.

[jungle-fae]

Tgcf book 5 is so funny to me because everyone is like “we have to keep this on the down low, we can’t let the ghosts know there’s a heavenly official infiltrating Mount Tonglu” and then everyone and their mother shows up for one reason or another and everyone is just like “yeah, this is fine”

[jayktoralldaylong]

I love the TGCF approach to religion because it shows that you don't need to make your charcaters atheist to make them 'cool'.

Take He Xuan for instance. He Xuan spent day and night praying to god to solve his problems. Just to end up finding out that 'god' was causing ALL of his problems. 💀💀💀💀 What did He Xuan do? Defiantly stop believing in god? Don't be ridiculous. He Xuan's new goal became climbing into the heavenly realm to kill 'god' with own two hands. 😂😂🤣🤣😭😭

Now if anyone had the right to become athiest in TGCF, it was Qi Rong, the boy abandoned by god.

And I do love the parallels between Qi Rong and Hua Cheng because they essentially worshipped the same god. But Qi Rong is a representation of a fanatic. He beat children and slaughtered people 'in the name of the Lord' then did not understand why he was shunned by the god he loved. From his perspective, all he ever did was love god. But his god would not love him back.

Meanwhile, the reason Xie Lian responded to tiny Hua Cheng in the first place was because Hua Cheng was one of the only few believers to follow his instructions when it came to prayer.

Xie Lian wanted all of his believers to pray standing up with their heads bowed. He did not want monetary offerings but they were allowed to give him gifts. So tiny Hua Cheng did not kneel while he prayed and he brought Xie Lian a flower. It pleased the young prince greatly. He could not leave Hua Cheng's prayer unanswered.

Then Bai Wuxiang (I love all the four calamities so much).

Interestingly, the most atheist character in TGCF was a god himself. A god who'd grown quite tired of getting all the blame every time something bad happened. He'd slaved away thanklessly for the people he loved, but as soon as things went wrong, they turned on him. Hated him, cursed him, even beat him.💔 A god that grew to loathe his believers and caused them endless suffering.... Because they were always praying to god, but none of them would stay with him when things got hard.

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

"Did you blind him with your holy light or was it some other holy part of you?!"

Xie Lian scoffs, looking down at Qi Rong with an air of placid arrogance. "I'm working on that."

And with that, the place falls uncharacteristically quiet.

Hua Cheng's eye widens, even Qi Rong stares incredulously, too shocked to even be amused, or disgusted or anything - he just gapes at his long lost cousin and the debauched words he just said.

And it is only then that Xie Lian realizes what slipped out of his mouth.

He looks at Hua Cheng for a moment, pure panic in his features, flushed as red as the other's robes.

"San Lang, I...uh... didn't mean that?"

Hua Cheng's stunned expression turns to disappointment before he can mask it. "...you didn't?"

"Uh...w-well...i..."

(He did.)

"Can we just get back to talking about how my parents died please?" Lang Qinqiu intervenes, rolling his eyes. "I do not want to know what my teacher's inclinations are!"

Qi Rong bursts into laughter so loud he almost pops a vein.

Xie Lian wishes he did.

Then canon proceeds as usual.

[emotionaldisaster909]

CAN WE TALK QI RONG?

And the fact that

Donghua team performed an OUTSTANDING JOB of a character study through animation

Like I’m watching him insult Lang QiangQui

And it suddenly hits me that I kinda understand and feel him???

Like Ke Mo

Even though he is wrong

He has a right to hate Yong An

Xie Lian has much more of it, but-

Have you ever thought that

We never get to know

How Qi Rong died?

Even though he didn’t care for XianLe, it was his only home

So when you see him talk about this-

You can see that underneath his arrogant hateful craziness

There is genuine pain

Which he HIDES BEHIND SMILES

HIS EXPRESSIONS KEEP SWITCHING

AND I APPLAUD THE DONGHUA TEAM FOR THIS DECISION

He laughs in one second

AND IN THE NEXT YOU SEE THIS

This GENUINE ANGER

and a RIGHTFULL ONE AT THAT??

No matter how deeply twisted everything about his mindset is

At its core it’s a lack of any established moral guidelines in his upbringing

And the worst coping mechanism of fighting pain, insecurities and fear of abandonment

By going batshit crazy in defense and grabbing onto everything that makes him seem “important”

Yet by doing so he succeeded in becoming so unimportant

That even his remaining family thought about him so little

That we never got an explanation of how he died

He definitely died alone

And at least for this

He has a right to feel angry

Because anger is just helpless pain

[crimsonmonsoon]

The God Pleasing Prince, Xie Lian (with acrylic markers)

I hope I wrote that Chinese right, it is not even close to a language I have ever studied and I just have to believe I did it right.

[gloriousmonsters]

Going through TGCF for the third time and I'm a little bit obsessed with Qi Rong's insect/insect hive energy. His lair is an underground series of tunnels and caves, his subordinates - drones, soldiers, if you will - all have to appear exactly the same and a significant portion of their time is spent in gathering 'food' and bringing it back to store in the nest for their king, who sits at the center protected where he can strategize and command. The hivemind vibes even bleed into how Qi Rong sees the Xianle rebels and his relationship to them - he sees it as a given that any 'true' citizen of Xianle would hold the same beliefs and serve the royal line, and therefore can (mostly) be treated as an amorphous power to which he plays the (again, protected and hidden) activating intelligence. Because he is the king, he is Xianle, he has the right and need to be served and is only obligated to direct the servants that become faceless and interchangeable in his presence.

Also he's as hard to kill as a cockroach, so there's that.

[iceywrites]

Hua Cheng when he saw Xie Lian slap Qi Rong: I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me