Xiang Liu and You (Yes, You)

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 nathsketch:

I'm in tears right now.

lol

 Elise:

bruh, he's still drinking.

"Wet the Bed" has entered the chat.

BONDING TIME

Xiao Yao: I don't hate you. I really don't hate you.

Even though you whipped me forty times, and always exploit me, I don't really care. Because... I'm lonely. I had a strange disease before, so I hid deep in the mountain. I didn't meet anyone for decades. Then I met a snake demon. I knew the snake demon wanted to eat me, but even knowing the danger, I still provoked it all the time.

Because only it could understand what I was saying.

It's said that Heaven favors deity but I think it's the mortal it favors. The mortal is no different from deity. The only difference is their short life. Look at the moon. A thousand years ago, it looked just like that. Even the most beautiful scenery becomes boring over time.

Xiang Liu: That snake later...

Xiao Yao: Died

Xiang Liu: You Killed it?

Xiao Yao: *shakes head* The nine-tailed fox demon. The fox demon wanted to catch me but the snake demon thought only it could eat me, sop it blocked the evil fox and died.

Xiang Liu: Interesting. What about the fox?

Xiao Yao: I killed it.

Xiang Liu: You're that capable?

XIao Yao: He should have killed me as soon as he caught me. But he locked me in a cage, and forced me to eat disgusting things because he wanted to fatten me up before eating me. But he forgot fattening prey too much will backfire.

Xiang Liu: *remembers his childhood being locked up in a cage*, eating raw meat, and getting whipped.

Xiao Yao: What's wrong with you?


Xiang Liu: Nothing.

Xiao Yao: But you looked...

Xiang Liu: You mean... I'm just like that snake. We're both a game for you to alleviate loneliness.

Xiao Yao: Who knows? Perhaps, to you, I'm the snake that amuses you :)

hmmm I don't see her having deep conversations like this with that other dude!

 nathsketch:

For real, if this is the version that passed the censorship, I cannot imagine what was not allowed to air.

Episodes 31-32 were so tame compared to the novel. Xiang Liu tightly embraced her for 37 years under the sea and I included a gif with a forehead kiss because we're never going to see that in the show.

Chapter 43 (the one that got cut due to censorship) is like this:

I wish I could find a less risky photo but this is the most tame one I could find 😭. The rest were people in swimwear smh.

*****warning very risque photo***** even though they both have clothes on. You see the guy have his mouth on the girl's neck? This photo is just like in the novel. They were on the beach. Xiao Yao was on top of Xiang Liu and told him he can eat her.

I'm not posting the image here. No way LOL. Just click the link instead: link

“Xiang Liu……Xiang Liu…..” Seeing him about to disappear, Xiao Yao was so anxious she threw herself at him, and Xiang Liu didn’t manage to avoid her and was instead hugged straight on by Xiao Yao. Plus he couldn’t even stand up still and fell down on the sand taking Xiao Yao with him.

Xiao Yao worriedly asked “The injuries are severe, for real?”

Xiang Liu tried hard to push Xiao Yao away to swim off with the receding tide.

Xiao Yao grabbed him and twined herself completely around him, using all her strength so that he couldn’t leave. “I was wrong! I promised to close my eyes and not look but I welshed on my promise and secretly opened my eyes! I just……..just…….I admit it was my pathetic curiosity! I wanted to know what you really looked like. I was wrong! I was wrong……..”

The waves crashed on the beach with a roar and retreated with a howl, the two of them were covered by the waves and emerged again and again so Xiao Yao’s voice was sometimes audible and other times muffled. It wasn’t clear how much Xiang Liu heard but it was clear he wasn’t going to accept her apology as he continued over and over to push her off him.

He managed to shove her off once more and Xiao Yao got so frantic she hooked her arms around his legs and jumped up to pounce on him, using her body to tightly grab him and pull him down again. Xiang Liu had no strength left to push Xiao Yao off but he was like a terribly stubborn child and continued to wriggle under her.

The water around them was seeped with red, clearly Xiang Liu’s injuries were bleeding and Xiao Yao begged “I’m wrong! I’m really wrong! If you want to hit me or punish me, whatever you want is fine! Just please stop moving around!”

Xiang Liu said “Let go!”

“No! Not until you first promise me not to leave!”

Xiang Liu was furious and his fangs bared “Don’t push me to eat you!”

“If you want to eat me then eat me!”

Xiang Liu jerked Xiao Yao into his arms and bit down on her neck in one move. Xiao Yao’s body shivered and then she fell slack, docilely nestled into Xiang Liu to accommodate him.

Injured Xiang Liu was like a dying of thirst traveler in the desert encountering an oasis, drinking up her blood in big gulps. Xiao Yao rested her head on his neck and closed her eyes, feeling only the rising and falling of the tides around her.

It wasn’t clear how much time passed when Xiang Liu stopped drinking her blood. Xiao Yao drowsily opened her eyes “You can drink more, I’m fine.”

I’m on my iPad so I can’t quote this properly, but just for reference, this is the same thing that some of the Jingers who have read the novel have access to, correct?

And they still insist on the “platonic, one-sided love, Jing is the only one XY loves” shenanigans? 

If TH was any more explicit, this would never have been published.

Good stuff. I may have to finally start reading it, specially because that other dude doesn’t show up as much, like you said. That’s all the incentive I need.

Love that excerpt, though. I’ll be reading it thousands of times.