#shi mei

[siredcrab]

Shi mei + Hua binan

[cenpede]

Stock disciples

[claumschiff]

hello 2ha brainrot my old friend

[vivernt]

[thegreymoon]

Mo Ran is so gay it isn't even funny.

Now, this is just my opinion and I realise other people have their own interpretations, but this whole episode is super telling to me of just how unreliable his narration is about having tons and tons of sex with people of both genders in his previous lifetime. He's just so... oblivious. None of this reads as a man with a lot of previous experience with many different people. He did not pick up on her flirting with him at all. Sure, he did have a lot of insane sex in his past life, but as the book unfolds, it becomes very clear that most of that sex was with Chu Wanning. At best, there were only a handful of other people he was involved with, and one was a prostitute he was paying, while the other was his wife whose relationship with him was also transactional.

I know people argue that he is bisexual because he married Song Qiutong, but when we actually get her POV on their marriage, it turns out that they had unenjoyable sex only a handful of times, at least one of which was him taking her from behind and very much imagining that it was Chu Wanning in her place. There are plenty of gay men who end up married to straight women (and vice versa) for whatever reasons and none of this makes them any less gay. He also identifies as a 'cut-sleeve' himself at one point, so he doesn't seem at all confused about his sexual attraction to men. Later on, when we finally get his unaltered POV on his life in the brothel, it comes out that he considered the girls there as sisters at best, never as sexual partners. The only other named sexual partner is Rong Jiu, who is male, and I can buy that there were possibly other people who looked like Shi Mei that he was with under the influence of the cursed love spell, but there was never any real attraction there, which is why some argue that he is attracted only to Chu Wanning and would still be attracted to him regardless of gender.

But I think that this is also not true. He definitely was obsessed with Chu Wanning from an early age, which makes it hard to see what his preferences would have been if Chu Wanning wasn't in the picture, but that chapter when he finally realises his feelings also reveals that he does have a type, which he never dared to think about before because he thought he was unworthy of having a choice. However, Chu Wanning fits this type to a tee, so it's easy to run away with the idea that he is shizunsexual and that Mo Ran's attraction begins and ends with him.

With that said, we do get confirmation later on that he does find other men attractive, in particular, Jiang Xi. It's just that he never has the space or the inclination to do anything about it because of his preoccupation with Chu Wanning. In the extras, when Mo Ran misunderstands Xue Men's relationship with Jiang Xi and thinks they are having a love affair, in his unfiltered Taxian-jun state, he is full of approval because he personally finds these powerful, beautiful, prickly, emotionally unavailable older men to be the height of attractiveness. If Chu Wanning hadn't been in the picture, Mo Ran would have definitely been attracted to Jiang Xi or someone similar. Even Ye Wangxi, whom he also fixates on, fits this type (except for the older man bit because I understood her to be only a few years older than Mo Ran). The fact that she turns out to be a woman also cannot be used as an argument for Mo Ran's bisexuality because she very much presents as a man throughout the book (but whether or not she actually identifies as one is debatable).

In short, Mo Ran does have a type of man he is attracted to and it is definitely men that he likes, regardless of his few dubious and very unsatisfying dalliances with women. While Chu Wanning definitely fits this type of ideal man, there are other men out there whom Mo Ran finds attractive too, it's just that he is too unhinged about Chu Wanning to actually do anything about it. Also, I very much doubt that Mo Ran was nearly as promiscuous as he makes himself out to be because he reads as very oblivious when it comes to sexual relationships in general. Even with Chu Wanning, who was right there and about to pass away from sheer horniness that he couldn't even begin to disguise, Mo Ran was still going, "Shizun is so pure and virtuous!" 🙄

(I'm not going to get into the whole Shi Mei situation and how badly he misread him every step of the way too, but that is because his brain was so badly mangled by him that he really stood no chance on that front until it was entirely too late.)

[jumpropequeennn]

the dwarves gathered in the tavern over a cup of ale to think about a plan to eliminate the knight (cwn)

[nat-draws]

Mo Ran in ch 35

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

hua binan + text posts

[kibervetka]

[fukurodowlni]

erha as shitposts vol. 1

[karminaugen]

"I need a miracle and not someone's charity One drop of love from him and my heart's in ecstasy"

[siredcrab]

Shi mingjing

[fiorrie]

[you'll be my pawn and sword]

[jeusus]

Shizun 👀

MO WEIYU!

Young Master…

-- Here they come, Shizun and his ducklings.

[t-taxiansgf]

The full clean art of 2ha volume 8 English cover

[theredcuyo]

College au where for reasons, Chu Wanning and Shen Qinqiu have to impart classes to each others' class

It was a subject in particular, very especific, they were Friends and decided this was the best course of action, it won't take more than a month

Except that they can't deal with 3 of the other's students in particular

This is all caused by the shared misunderstanding between both groups that their teachers are dating because they wouldn't trust anyone else that much (Except, that they have done this before, just that not to an "outsider")

Mo Ran and Shi Mei seem to have a silent agreement that their teacher can't date this one guy, and Xue Meng believes his Shizun deserves better

Yingying has been supporting Luo Binghe's quest for their teacher's heart for too long to let him fail like this, Binghe is full on plotting posible murderer and Ming Fan has been to Chu Wanning's office, such a mess of a man is not deserving of their Shizun

Worst part?

Neither Sqq not Cwn will believe each other about it

"Binghe being dificult? Class rep and model student Binghe?"

"Mo Ran... Well, yes, he's himself, but Xue Meng? He could never do such a thing"

Then, the shizunfuckers Mo Ran and Binghe go both to visit their teacher for particular reasons (bs they came up with because they missed them), learn about the problem they're having and switch to try and destroy each others' group because no one is allowed to bully their Shizun

Mo Ran learns that trying to roast Binghe is usless because the guy somehow makes that be witnessed by both teachers and is a master of crocodile tears, Shizun please don't be mad, he didn't start this!

Binghe barely comes out alive of all the rumours that surround him nowadays, since when was he heterosexual?! Much less have 300 girlfriends! Shizun please don't look at him like that or he will cry for real!