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Meanwhile, we have been debating many different topics for almost a year in our Harvard thread using ancient Chinese poems and dissecting pieces of literature. Suddenly all my time studying Mandarin seems irrelevant now.

If only I had studied the behavior of hoes.

Yeah I have multiple pics of that too, but the urban legend is about the supposed wedding.

Blabla my homie, you are barking up the wrong sotreeD 😄

Pure, unadulterated gems of Jingering in its rawest form 😌

OMG I googled coprolite while preparing lunch AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA serves me right.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm using that from now on. "Stop your verbal coprolite Jingering ya bunch of stinky parmesan noodles" 😹

The Real Jingers of Weibo are having some meltdowns because of fan wars and such, so they're not sure how to proceed. Which is weird because you either have your beliefs or you don't, but some fandoms like to brainwash their members into supporting the "official CP". So when something big happens, they are left without knowing who they own allegiance to.

That's why XL is more appealing in that aspect. We are mostly solo fans, and we need no CP to latch on to boost his popularity. He already owns this whole thing just by being himself 😌

Now in terms of the story, XY loved XL and that's a fact. So the pretzel-bending Olympics is a bit pointless. Amusing, but pointless.

Ah no, come on. It's upsetting when we get blocked because then we stop seeing the gems. Hope I don't get blocked tho. I need to read the gems.

Nah, you did not just bring Marvin Gaye into this conversation, did you?
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That’s more of an urban legend but we take whatever scrap we can get.

You forgot to ask them about the “getting drunk during their wedding night” part of the novel 😹

Watch them come with “but true love doesn’t require traditional marriage and ceremonial fornication. They can fornicate for all eternity” because yay true love amirite 🤣

Tan will be filming Hello Saturday on July 18/19. Not sure about the others.

I think most answers make us get Xiao Yao lolololol oh well, he’s our soulmate so that’s okay for me 😌

There is also the 15-year old promise as another cage. I intend to write some thoughts on it.

Winny, with each passing day, it’s getting more and more difficult to understand your points of view. But I like the madam part. Thanks.

Thanks beloved 😘

Damn. That’s a pretty one right there ☝🏻

Yes yes :)

Why do I get the distinct impression that you are deeply prejudiced about the Lovers' Bugs? They ain't no voodoo thing and even if they were, using voodoo with such a negative connotation has implicit racist bias. You may want to be careful with that.

Also, there's no "psychological bla bla things". I was only quoting what the author herself has said. Let me rephrase that for you: "In no way a normal person would go with a piece of nothingness like Jing, who has hurt her emotionally several times, unless she has psychological deficiencies." There, fixed it.

Thanks darling. Knowledge is a fascinating thing :)

Interesting that you should mention interviews. I'm sure you know that Tong Hua also "really said" that Lost You Forever was written in a period of her life where she was dealing with some injuries and was bedridden for two months after a surgery that required more resting time than she expected. But I digress. During this interview, she stated that "the heroine's choice has always been due to psychological deficiencies". The original quote in Mandarin is: "女主的选择一直都是出于心理的缺矢". This part here "出于心理的缺矢" is of vital importance because it translates to psychological shortcomings, flaws, deficiencies.

You can find the quote in its entirety here: https://kisskh.at/discussions/lost-you-forever/110123-xl-and-xy-story-and-romance-warning-spoilers?pid=2830659&page=249#p2830659

Ok, so what's my point? My point is that over the years, TH has made several remarks about how XY's trauma during her early years has informed her decisions throughout her whole life. And as much as this story has evolved during the 11 years since it was first published, its central theme has remained the same and it ain't primarily love, but loss. You were correct when you said that Cang Xuan and Xiao Yao are the leads of LYF. This is a story about their losses. The losses that these characters have suffered during the course of their lives. The first chapter of this novel begins with multiple losses, and the epilogue closes it with the biggest loss imaginable. The title itself, both in Mandarin and English, evokes a notion of longing, or yearning for something that can't ever be brought back. Make no mistake, this ain't a fairy tale with traditional notions of a happy ending.

It's the dichotomy of life and death. Of meetings and goodbyes. Her quest in life was to make sure she would never be abandoned ever again, to never be left alone, and that is what she got. That was the sum of her character and every decision she has made during the entirety of her journey has been, in one way or the other, informed by her lifelong trauma. Once again, and in Tong Hua's own words, XY's path was chosen due to her psychological deficiencies, or flaws, if you prefer.

These characters all seemingly found what they wanted in life, but whether what they found is really what they wished for or not, it's up to each reader's interpretation.

Sorry, got too much work to do lately but I will get to it. Dude needs a rap so he can nap.