T97, The Author Of Nan Chan And Invitation To Wine, Has A New Novel!!! Its Called Guo Tian Men (rough

The idea of Xie Lian, in his new life with Hua Cheng, carrying mini-trauma over things he'd gotten a little too used to over the centuries.

Xie Lian doing a combat move training with Hua Cheng and sticking the landing without tripping or falling or getting injured, only to stand there blinking as Hua Cheng stopped in his attempted riposte, watching with mild horror as Xie Lian looked around as if searching for something to go wrong

Xie Lian waking up in the middle of the night with a start, not because of a nightmare but because he heard the slightest creaking of the roof and thought it was going to fall down on his head

Xie Lian walking down the street laughing with Hua Cheng, only to stop mid-sentence and grab his money pouch, eyes wide because it was still there

Xie Lian grabbing Hua Cheng randomly, and at Hua Cheng's worried gaze trying to laugh off the fact that he'd thought that, if he hadn't yet been injured, it was because his bad luck had led to San Lang getting injured instead

Xie Lian randomly wondering out loud how this place he'd stayed in for ten years hadn't yet come down with a plague or become a battlefield

Xie Lian buying a treat and stopping after the first bite because there hadn't been a single insect or piece of dirt on it; it was actually fresh

Xie Lian reaching up and grabbing the necklace around his neck with wide eyes because the earrings Hua Cheng had given him hadn't broken yet and that meant the necklace must have

Xie Lian waking up rested and relaxed and desperately checking his hair and clothes for blood stains

Xie Lian nearly falling into a bath because he'd prepared his body for the usual cold and he'd only felt nice and warm

Just. Xie Lian preparing for the usual minor aches and pains that accompanied living forever with bad luck and just getting shocked over and over again when things continued to be normal and pleasant. While Hua Cheng watches with growing horror and fury over these tiny, simple things that had been stripped from his god.

i was bored, also psa: read MISVIL if you haven’t, it’s criminally underrated.

Chrysanthemum Garden

Mistakenly Saving the Villain - Chrysanthemum Garden

A.K.A and also more accurately titled: The Conclusion to when I Mistakenly Saved the Villain Professor System has issued a mission: to rescu

cloud recesses arc

A story like Thousand Autumns is very subtle in its romance.

Shen Qiao has only ever known his sect. He knows it very well, because of this fact. He knows the people, he knows the rules, he knows the daily doings and who is doing them. He knows every blade of grass and every stone. He’s like a lonely mountain flower, on the highest peak, unseen by any but a few birds and unknowing that there’s more it might never know.

When he finds himself away from his sect for the first time, he’s confused. At most, he’s gone to the base of the mountain, maybe the fields surrounding that, but no further. The flower was plucked and tossed aside.

For a man stumbling blindly in the world, literally and figuratively, there really isn’t a better guide than one that knows just about everything. And that’s, without a doubt, Yan Wushi.

Yan Wushi has lived longer than Shen Qiao, has been more places than Shen Qiao, and has fought more battles than Shen Qiao. Yan Wushi is the perfect example of something out of reach even for someone out of reach. He’s the only one who could answer any questions asked of him, but especially the questions that Shen Qiao would want to ask him.

And there’s no question in my mind that Yan Wushi doesn’t fall for Shen Qiao at first sight, but he’s certainly attracted to him. Not in an overtly sexual or emotional way, but Yan Wushi, the way his character is set up? It’s impossible for him not to be fascinated by Shen Qiao.

He knows Shen Qiao is the very picture of a peerless immortal. He’s well aware that Shen Qiao is considered untouchable by even the people closest to Shen Qiao. He’s most aware that Shen Qiao is Qi Fengge’s (coughhndisputedcough) favourite disciple, and honestly that’s enough for him to overwhemingly want to mess with Shen Qiao.

There are a lot of reasons for Yan Wushi to fall for Shen Qiao. Most of the people in the novel fall for Shen Qiao, after all, there is a precedent.

But the one I’ve seen questioned is Shen Qiao’s affection for Yan Wushi. Where does it come from? When did it start? Does Shen Qiao even fucking like that asshole?

The easy answer is: yes, he does. The novel tells us that. Shen Qiao, despite everything, does fall for Yan Wushi’s, um, “charms” in the end. This is made clear.

But why? A thousand voices cry out. Why the fuck would any reasonable person like Yan goddamn Wushi in any capacity?

Well, there’s your first mistake. Shen Qiao is not a reasonable person.

Shen Qiao as a character is absolutely terrifying. He could absolutely destroy the world given half the inclination, but he just doesn’t want to. He’s already considered unmatched before he’s pushed unceremoniously off of a mountain, and his journey only increases his strength. He isn’t quite equal to Yan Wushi, but he’s the only person Yan Wushi ever sees as equal to himself.

Shen Qiao’s best and worst trait is his patience. He’s unwavering. He really just embodies taoism, especially as it’s presented in the novels. He is the picture of a river that doesn’t stray from its path.

Which is why it’s hard for him to reconcile his own attraction to Yan Wushi, but let’s all be clear here. Yan Wushi absolutely starts seducing Shen Qiao on day fucking one. If he could’ve (if Qi Fengge hadn’t been there) he would’ve tried to eat that cabbage when it was just a little sprout. Shen Qiao is unpracticed in most social interactions, to be frank, but he’s especially unused to romance and Yan Wushi really is his first introduction to being hit on.

Yan Wushi is far from good, at really any point, to anybody but especially to Shen Qiao. But that doesn’t particularly matter because Shen Qiao chooses to forgive him, again and again. And I really think, after giving Shen Qiao to a confirmed terrible, awful person who has already promised to do terrible thing to Shen Qiao, that Shen Qiao himself wouldn’t forgive literally anyone else for doing that. And he shouldn’t, because it was really fucked up, but that still doesn’t matter because Shen Qiao ultimately DOES forgive Yan Wushi.

What am I saying? I’m saying that Shen Qiao fell for Yan Wushi first. It is the only way the story makes any sense. Shen Qiao is annoyed at him, he’s furious at him, he’s so fucking pissed he could kill that man, but he likes him. He likes Yan Wushi’s company. He likes that Yan Wushi gives him a challenge. He’s exasperated, but he likes it.

Shen Qiao forgives Yan Wushi SO MANY TIMES. Yan Wushi humiliates him and mocks him and is the absolute worst, but Shen Qiao forgives him and more than that, Shen Qiao always is waiting for Yan Wushi to come back to bother him more.

Is there more to Shen Qiao’s attraction? Probably. Is it a daddy kink? It could be. But I honestly can’t help but read it as Shen Qiao falling for the absolute pits of a man that is Yan Wushi. Shen Qiao likes that old bastard and decides to spend the rest of his life with the fucker and he is just too much of a block of ice to show it.

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Peaklord Shen (svsss) as Lord Shen (Kung fu Panda)

Don't let anyone make you feel bad for being a virgin in your 20s, Hua Cheng was a proud virgin for 800+ years and feared among gods

sorry since realizing my gender i have zero tolerance for the whole “man hating” angle of being queer i hate i hate it i hate you. stop. you are hurting people.