
Thuchen:
Or the 37 years under water all the scenes they showed always have XY spirit in the other side, so never gets a glance at XL face directly when he looks obviously in love (in my opinion still no excuse for XY behavior of dismissing his obvious feelings) or the fact that he never actually holds her hands only through the garment when she was lying there. How low self esteem in this case, now I am all sad again. Or maybe I am interpreting too much. Or you all probably gone through this already, I am just too late to this forum ?

MySiFeng:
i noticed he actually held her garment, not her hands too! I'm like WHY ARE YOU NOT HOLDING HER HANDS?! hahaha
The YaoLius were absolutely ROBBED. XL didn't have low self-esteem and he wasn't afraid to hold her hands in the novel. In fact, he did even more than that.
It wasn't like this:



This is what it looked like in the novel:
Xiang Liu actually hugged her so tightly after he was healing her that Xiao Yao could feel his whole body. He didn't pass out like he did in the drama.
"Not sure how much time passed but one day when the warmth was entering her body, Xiao Yao suddenly felt a sensation, she felt someone was embracing her."
"When he was healing her, they ought to be very intimate because Xiao Yao could feel he was tightly embracing her. She could feel him from top to bottom. "
"When Xiang Liu was embracing her, she could feel his body heat, and could also clearly feel what the warmth was that was flowing into her body."
Like this YaoLiu art:
Also,
to quote H19279 from the XL & XY thread: "During 37 years under the sea, there were 444 kisses (on mouth) and 444 times of neck sucking/kisses and hundreds time of cuddles. We have none on screen. Such a big loss."
XL cuddled XY and kissed her so many times. This is what it's supposed to look like but we got robbed due to censorship:


*sigh* This is why I'm always salty.
