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khattikeri · 4 months ago

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i think the whole "jin guangyao cares more for his male best friend's life than for those of his own wife and son" thing, beyond being fun xiyao fuel, has a lot of interesting implications in the way jin guangyao latches onto lan xichen as an ideal to aspire to.

ultimately jin guangyao liked lan xichen's status and power more than he cared for qin su, a woman who sincerely loved him and fought her parents to be with him even when he had no real status or backing, and jin rusong*, who couldn't have been more than four when he was murdered for politics' sake.

#keri chats #jin guangyao #lan xichen #qin su #jin rulan #xiyao #mdzs #mdzs spoilers #mo dao zu shi #yeah jin guangyao's an equally complex and shitty person but consider this: i think he's neat #you can tell that even though he genuinely does care abt lxc there's a layer of pity enclosing their relationship...#lxc pities how jgy is treated + jgy basks in it. for all the crimes jgy commits he wants to be pitied and loved HE CANONICALLY SAYS THIS #once lxc's doubt compounds n his suspicions grow strong enough for him to openly question jgy and shut him out of the cloud recesses #they argue and fall apart. which is 1) hilarious 2) sad #i don't doubt they really did care about each other. but lxc is unwilling to act in a way that doesn't benefit his class/family #and jgy is unwilling to act in a way that doesn't seek more power for himself... until the final moment where he pushes lan xichen away.

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