Xiang Liu and You (Yes, You)

 Elise:

I can't believe those comments were made. I'm dying of cringe!!! Thank goodness there were some YaoLius that disagreed with those Jingers :)

LMAO Dylan's face is literally me reading all that gibberish hahahahahahaha

nathsketch had already said everything that I could think of.

Lol. I take what I said back, Elise. I don't think you can live this down. You'll need to give penance for months to come. Those comments were something else :-)

 HeadInTheClouds:

nathsketch had already said everything that I could think of.

Lol. I take what I said back, Elise. I don't think you can live this down. You'll need to give penance for months to come. Those comments were something else :-)

Super cringey. So regretful.

 Kokuto:

This has been the source of so much screaming at my TV. How can XY think Jing fufills her criteria? He's been unreliable since what, episode 4? when he ghosted her after saying he'd back her up against CX and A'Nian.

It's her "psychological deficiencies" which makes her desperate and blinded her.

You know that Maya Angelou's quote: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." ? Yeah, XY needs to read some Maya or get some good girlfriends to knock some sense into her. And it wasn't just once, it was a few times. He may have good intentions, but his will and ability just doesn't match up. If XY relies on Jing, she'll end up dead. Jing is no different from her human's family, he needs her and relies on her. And that's how XY likes it, it's part of her "psychological deficiencies". So healthy, this relationship!!

 Kokuto:

Heh. I wonder about Tong Hua's affection for YaoJing too. There's the whole mirroring of XY being trapped, tortured and depowered by the 9 / 8 Tailed Fox as a child, and then her relationship with Jing, a 9 Tailed Fox. All the "XL is an abuser and Stockholm Syndrome" posters, completely ignore this blatant parallel between the 2 foxes.

I haven't forgot about this post of yours, btw. I'm working on a response to it right now. Needless to say, I agree with the parallel that you pick up.

 Kokuto:

NGL, when I first read that quoted material, I thought XL was the source of the 'devasted power' also. But I can live with it being Jing. Like you said, Jing needs something to do. But XL got there first with aid, even if he wasn't there physically.

Whoever this power belongs to is not the hill that I'm willing to die on. Xiang Liu has enough going for him that he doesn't really need this. Jing can have it. Considering his overall performance when it comes to competence and following through, he needs all the help that he can get :-). I will maintain though, that XY loves XL and only ever likes Jing and that's why the Lovers Bugs never turned. This is probably one of the biggest changes for me on re-reading the novel.

 nathsketch:

Yeah it’s about time this novel got translated in English. It’s becoming very famous now. I want to read it but I don’t really trust the translations online. 

Sometimes the official translation fail too.. that's why I prefer it from someone I have seen. Like someone here and willing to pay for it and organize a kick starter for it 

 nathsketch:

The "they have chemistry" got me in an apoplectic state.

Girl, that's not chemistry.

Hmm, what would you call it???

We'll forgive her. She was taken over by her short-sighted, zero-taste twin sister ;-)

 Elise:

My evil twin Elena is so silly and blind. Their chemistry is non-existent :D

LMAO why are you putting such accurate gifs? I'm in tears here