Xiang Liu and You (Yes, You)

 liddi:

Yay! Now you can start reading the novel, in time for when S2 finally airs!

Anyway, gotta turn in for now. May all things smile in your favour and wishing you a marvellous day!

Yeah hahaha

You too!! Good night! <3

 liddi:

I honestly don't understand the attacks that are hurled. Their ship is the one that gets to sail to a happily ever after, so why feel so threatened? Of course, if Xiang Liu had chosen not to wake Xiao Yao up at the end of the 37 years in time for her to go and save Jing; or if he had chosen not to save Jing after Hou's attack on him and waking him up in time, there would be no happily ever after to speak of. Instead it would be one very dead Jing, one very dead Xiang Liu and Xiao Yao living the rest of her life as the newly minted Royal Mother. Perhaps only then would the fanwars stop?

Exactly. They already get their happy ending. What more could they ask for? 

Some of them can't stand it when "green flag" Jing gets criticized so they go after us, not Xiang Liu since there's not much they can criticize him with except for some of the stuff he did in the beginning.

 MySiFeng:

I found an interesting comment from zhihu. Someone said this:

And I want each of our willows(XL name) stand up and not be rubbed on the ground. Tu Shanjing's role is tailored for Xiaoyao, not for readers, and he is funny to the end. You can like his gentleness and consideration, but don't ignore his fatal shortcomings. The bottomless kindness itself is the greatest evil.

That's so cute. Is willows the Xiang Liu fans' nickname?

That fox gave me red flag vibes ever since he ghosted XY.

 Elise:

That's so cute. Is willows the Xiang Liu fans' nickname?

That fox gave me red flag vibes ever since he ghosted XY.

When I saw this scene, I started to waver.

I was very on board at first, but this...hmmm

The weakness started to show so early in the story. Dude legit turned his fluffy tails and vanished. Not a good look.

This would be a recurrent theme throughout the drama. Imagine ending up with such a man.

NOPE. But when you have issues, I suppose anything is better than nothing.

Sorry to interrupt… but I thought I would never find this bear dance off video again and it popped up in my feed. 

https://youtu.be/hivjBhJAkiE?si=nPnJZh5qMxMunbUA

 MengXiang:

It's all about context.....

The stuff at the start.. if you break into someone's house now and you get catch it's reasonable to expect police to come and throw you in jail. In the book setting it's reasonable that if you break into military grounds and attack people you would be physically punished....

Agreed. I don't get how him doing what he's supposed to be doing in the middle of a war is somehow the equivalent of domestic abuse. Oh, but the lashes! There's context for that.

 MengXiang:

He threw here out of the tree but she did offer it as a choice for him which meant that really wasn't going to far. It's part of their engagement.

Only bad thing was at the start he did bite her against her will but that was really an empty threat in context...

Later bites he still bite her without asking but once again context and girl really really liked it. It was like their kink...

Dude is a literal demon that everyone fears and she kept provoking him. 

LOL that was totally a kink (๑乛 v 乛๑)

 MengXiang:

I keep reading how they want us to meet a XL in real life.

Not gonna lie. I want that too. It is what it is.

 MengXiang:

To be honest I do want to meet someone who loves me deeply and selflessly, asking for nothing in return, connects with me and makes my heart beat. Everyone has boundaries and as long as they don't overstep it's ok. IMO.

THIS.

 MengXiang:

I am very confused by the Jing thread and they combine comments about text and social comments... Half the things makes no sense to me...

It's migraine-inducing. The confusing grammar, the bad edits, those fugly gifs. Look at the quality of the gifs that Elise makes. Pure art. Theirs are always so strange. 

 MengXiang:

It's very ironic that we the red flag toxic abuser are so civilized and don't actually make call or wish them ill in our discussions. We're just confused... While the green flag does..

It's all so weird. This green flag talk is so hypocritical. Not to mention that he isn't and will never be a green flag. He's as flawed and questionable as any of the others, if not worse. At least the others don't hide behind the Good Guy™ facade.

 sjko01:

Sorry to interrupt… but I thought I would never find this bear dance off video again and it popped up in my feed. 

https://youtu.be/hivjBhJAkiE?si=nPnJZh5qMxMunbUA

Whenever I see videos like these, I once again, have to bow down to the person responsible for casting him. There's not even a glimmer of Xiang Liu in there 😄.