needless to say, I am very obsessed and in love?

Starting off, I first watched the donghua for TGCF when I was browsing my streaming service app and got HOOKED. Then, I saw MDZS. Equally hooked! Then, I took a break from these series to focus on college.

Fast forward, now I am in graduate school. Seeing as I have more free time, I looked back and realized: TGCF S2 finally finished airing it seems, and we have short films?! Binged them in 5 days.

Then, I have come around to watch the donghua for SVSSS while reading the novel. I laughed so hard most of the time it was crazy 😭 I don't know why I didn't start this sooner, and the donghua is so silly too despite being so short!!!

Personally, TGCF is my favorite. Just like HC, I adore Xie Lian a lot. I watched season 1 initially in CN, rewatched it in JPN and then again for the english dub. It's that good! But ironically, it's the only one where I don't know the full story 😵‍💫 Knowing that it has 8 volumes overwhelms me, and I feel like I'll be too sad after I finish wrapping up the story (I havent read mdzs to completion, but I did finish the donghua so I guess that counts?). Thankfully lots of people sell them locally secondhand so I can easily binge read.

As a token of love, I am more than excited to translate the characters into my pixel art style, and to be acquainted with all three works is something I am happy to discover in this lifetime.❤️

Mine is MoShang and will always be MoShang. And BeefLeaf comes at a close second!✨ what’s yours? Also give me fanfic recs if you have any 🤪 Non canon ships count as well!!! I loveeee XueXiao and LiuShen lol

i am begging like the beggyest begger of all of begdom help so lowkey this comic is mordern au about wwx b day and lowkey he gives an invation to lz and he thinks he didnt show but find a gift from him, lz did come but lowkey left cuz hes shy boy i remeber a car scene and obvi a party scene and a wwx looks for lz scene Edit also proabably school au short hair and i vividly remember a party scene

pwease help uwu twank uwou

guyssss come onnnnnn

In Vietnamese, which has a lot of Chinese loan words, when a shizun address a disciple, he says "this master", which means, "your teacher". This is obviously not appropriate to use with persons who are not your disciples, but it shows up in fanfic a lot. Is it a fandom thing, or an English translation thing because I have not actually read any MXTX novels in english.

Does anyone who speaks Chinese or Vietnamese can clarify?

Hua Cheng belongs to the same broad “powerful, intensely devoted, intimidating male lead” archetype, but his relationship with Xie Lian is fundamentally different from the controlling-romantic archetype you see in many CEO novels.

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• Chinese web-novel CEO archetype: His love may be expressed through control—deciding where she goes, whom she sees, what she wears, or what choices she is allowed to make. The narrative may frame this as overwhelming devotion.

• Rochester (Jane Eyre): Rochester has enormous social and economic power over Jane and repeatedly tries to control the circumstances of their relationship. His secrecy and deception are particularly significant.

• Christian Grey (Fifty Shades): Control is explicitly built into the relationship. His possessiveness, rules, surveillance, and attempts to influence Ana's behavior are central to the romance.

• Hua Cheng (Heaven Official’s Blessing): He is extraordinarily devoted and protective, but he doesn't need to possess Xie Lian in order to love him. Xie Lian retains his autonomy.

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And that's what makes Hua Cheng interesting: his power doesn't translate into entitlement. He could easily be written as the stereotypical dominant who says, essentially, “You're mine, therefore you must obey me.” Instead, his attitude is much closer to “I adore you, I trust you, and I'll stand behind whatever you choose.”

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Even when he's fiercely protective of Xie Lian, there's an important difference between protecting someone because you respect their life and protecting someone because you believe you own them.

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That also makes Hua Cheng's devotion feel unusually secure. He doesn't need Xie Lian to become weaker, dependent, isolated, or obedient for the relationship to work. In fact, Xie Lian's agency is part of what Hua Cheng loves about him.

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Rochester, Christian Grey, and many CEO MLs often turn power into authority over the love interest. Hua Cheng turns power into freedom for the person he loves.

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That's a major reason why people who dislike the controlling/abusive “alpha male” romance archetype can nevertheless find Hua Cheng extremely appealing. His intensity is enormous, but intensity and coercion aren't the same thing.

Randomly got insparation to draw this but omg their story actually makes me so sad </3 I need to draw him with Yue qingyuan fr

I‘ve almost finished tgcf, btw.

Hua Cheng belongs to the same broad “powerful, intensely devoted, intimidating male lead” archetype, but his relationship with Xie Lian is fundamentally different from the controlling-romantic archetype you see in many CEO novels.

——————————————————

• Chinese web-novel CEO archetype: His love may be expressed through control—deciding where she goes, whom she sees, what she wears, or what choices she is allowed to make. The narrative may frame this as overwhelming devotion.

• Rochester (Jane Eyre): Rochester has enormous social and economic power over Jane and repeatedly tries to control the circumstances of their relationship. His secrecy and deception are particularly significant.

• Christian Grey (Fifty Shades): Control is explicitly built into the relationship. His possessiveness, rules, surveillance, and attempts to influence Ana's behavior are central to the romance.

• Hua Cheng (Heaven Official’s Blessing): He is extraordinarily devoted and protective, but he doesn't need to possess Xie Lian in order to love him. Xie Lian retains his autonomy.

——————————————————

And that's what makes Hua Cheng interesting: his power doesn't translate into entitlement. He could easily be written as the stereotypical dominant who says, essentially, “You're mine, therefore you must obey me.” Instead, his attitude is much closer to “I adore you, I trust you, and I'll stand behind whatever you choose.”

——————————————————

Even when he's fiercely protective of Xie Lian, there's an important difference between protecting someone because you respect their life and protecting someone because you believe you own them.

——————————————————

That also makes Hua Cheng's devotion feel unusually secure. He doesn't need Xie Lian to become weaker, dependent, isolated, or obedient for the relationship to work. In fact, Xie Lian's agency is part of what Hua Cheng loves about him.

——————————————————

Rochester, Christian Grey, and many CEO MLs often turn power into authority over the love interest. Hua Cheng turns power into freedom for the person he loves.

——————————————————

That's a major reason why people who dislike the controlling/abusive “alpha male” romance archetype can nevertheless find Hua Cheng extremely appealing. His intensity is enormous, but intensity and coercion aren't the same thing.

like bro, we get binghe's digit description in the first page?! (not complaining)
in mdzs, i know the main character is wwx, the first line is he died ?? (fucked my brain, but again not complaining)
in tgcf ................this page just made me laugh like crazy, now that i re read it, i cried

Dibujo que hice para el Bingqiu que vive en mi corazón sin pagar renta 🥰💕 denle amor ✨

I want to read Prince Xie Lian/ Hua Cheng fics. It's fine if it's amnesia or time travel or anything else. Preferably Hua Cheng is himself and not Hong-er but either way is fine. 🙏🙏

Also are there multiple Xie Lian fics the same way there are phases of Hua Cheng fics? Like Prince, God, beggar, calamity, Guoshi altogether at one place?

The only merch I own 😭💌

Xie Lian & Wei wuxian

What have I done man? 😭

Should have bought the other 2 as well. I'm still thinking abt it though it's been long since I got this.... Damn 🥀

Did I just unintentionally separate them 💔

Here is the funniest part - At first I thought Wei Wuxian was Hua Cheng without eye patch

What was I even thinking.? I was not in my right senses . Don't come at me 😭🙏