#reading TGCF

[living-realusion]

SCREAMING CRYING GIGGLING KICKING MY FEET BITING MY PILLOW

you can't possibly expect me to be NORMAL about this. if I were xie lian I would be asking hua cheng "wat are we".

[ruiniel]

GENERAL PEI

[flowersdiceandlove]

Last night I wasn’t feeling good, so my mom—my wonderful, amazing mom who I love and am so lucky to have—offered to read some of Heaven Official’s Blessing to me. I’d just finished book 6 and hadn’t started 7, so she read the first chapter of book 7 to me. She has fun doing it. She reread about the first half of book 1 and a chapter here and there in the others volumes in the past, so this wasn’t the first time she’s done this. She’s unused to the Chinese names, and so I have to remind her who the characters are. Here is an incomplete list of how I remind her of the characters.

Xie Lian = the main character (luckily she knows this one by now)

Hua Cheng = the love interest (she got him mixed up with mu qing last night for some reason. Normally I don’t have to remind her)

Mu Qing = the sarcastic/condescending one

Feng Xin = the angry one

Pei Ming = he’s flirtatious (and with only that two word explanation of him, she read his line perfectly. Exactly how I imagined it)

When Fu Yao and Nan Feng were in it, I used Mu Qing and Feng Xin’s explanations respectively.

She messes up the pronunciation, but has finally remembered (at least most of the time) that “x” makes a “sh” sound and “q” a “tch” sound. She also has endless trouble with the gege = guh guh wanting to pronounce it jee jee. She also often says Xian Lian instead of Xie Lian and just can’t quite get Hua Cheng right. She really is trying though.

Also, also when it was revealed what the “giant” in the Kiln was, she was so shocked and her expression alone caused me to laugh for several minutes.

And, before you ask, yes, she likes HuaLian.

Two more things. 1) she absolutely loves the tremendous masculinity/Ju Yang euphemism, and it has become something I bring up to make her laugh. 2) she always forgets the word “fuck” is used in the books. Every. Single. Time. No matter how many times she reads it.

This post has not been intended as a roast to my mom. She’s amazing , and I love it when she reads this to me. It’s a little way we can spend time together and she can enjoy my interests with me. If anything this is me bragging about her awesomeness, sprinkled with comedy. Anyway, wish my mom luck on learning those Chinese names. They really are hard for her to learn. 😬🫤

[frostwork]

Oh he’ll stuff you full of something alright

[teddytrash-101]

He sure is 🤣🤣🤣

[ruoyeming]

Ghost City stroll <3

[kikiswords]

forgot to update tumblr peeps but i. i just started tgcf vol 1 like three days back and im enjoying it so much

[thyla]

I’m loosing my fucking mind over this book.

[eyes-of-nine]

pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

[hxllo-hui]

Happy wedding Xie Lian! Ghost city’s here to celebrate

[qifreyplushie]

my favorite arc ever

[living-realusion]

you don't understand how much i love hualian. they have become my everything in such a short amount of time idk wat to do with myself anymore

[ruiniel]

For fun

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[dramatic-dolphin]

Yin Yu is one of the best characters for just being normal. In a book where people plan centuries-long insane revenges, the villain gives him the opportunity to utterly destroy the guy he hates and take all his power, and he goes "Why the fuck would I want to do that??? Sure I hate him and he's annoying but that's a me problem! I'm not going to kill him about it or destroy him in any way?! I ruined my own life, not him." Legends only.

[frostwork]

White mask in the show: ooo spooky backstory man

White mask in the book: oh so this is just nightmare world huh

[petricorah]

*pretending like i haven't been biting at the bars of my enclosure all week* so neat show, huh? [id in alt]