#no one haunts the narrative like yueyao!!! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

winepresswrath · 2 years ago

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consort jing putting on her very best 🥺 face as she tries to assure the emperor that both she and jingyan love him very much and totally appreciate how difficult it's been for him to kill their loved ones and leave them unmourned is so sad but then it's extra sad when you remember that the kids who do canonically really love the emperor are the one he had killed and the one who cleverly evaded being killed by his dad by killing himself.

#suddenly casting the emperor as the dad from Philadelphia Story. Jingyan doesn't admire him enough #and it drives him into the arms of lesser sycophants #where is the consort jing/yueyao fic #featuring yueyao's complicated jealously feelings re: consort jing's crush on her brother #and guilt. it's a very complicated love quandrangle when you like a girl who likes your brother and your husband also likes that girl and #you'd never ever clip her wings and bind her where she wouldn't choose to stay but your husband will do it for nothing #without a second thought #when she only came here to help you in the first place. possibly at your brother's request #and now you're raising your children together #no one haunts the narrative like yueyao!!!#not even princess jinyang #tho I do think jinyang-liyang are really interesting as a study in contrasts #and it's extra tragic because she's the one woman of that generation #aside from madam zhou #who manages to basically escape the worst parts of being a woman by dint of being married to a decent dude she likes and respects #she's living a pretty ideal life and she's set up a good life for her kid #but that's also why yueyao gets to me more #did she want to marry Marquis Yan? how did she feel about the emperor?#she has to have either been an excellent consort jing style actress #or genuinely cared about him bcs that is not a dude who extends affection where he feels anything less than adored #what was her relationship with the empress like?#did they know each other growing up?#I have so many questions! :(#meanwhile on the liyang front she got the absolute worst deal out of everyone but 2/3 of her kids survived.#and so did she! and she's not trapped in anyone's harem #on the other hand she had to get divorced like four separate times #ooooh Ooooh I just thought of another one yueyao and liyang both improve their marriages by wifing up #and it does not make madam zhou or consort jing's life better #because now they are also trapped with their shitty husbands #cw: suicide

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