He is a character who clutches to any power he can achieve, power over YQY, power over his peak, power over Binghe. It’s something he feels he can never have enough of, and every-time he grasps some power it’s ripped away from him. It’s WHY he’s abusive, it’s Why he acts how he does.

SJ is such an interesting character on how much of him died in that house, how much of his joy and love in his heart was ripped away from him and even when he thought he “escaped” he was still being used!!! Like… man

NYY and MF becoming hall-masters and teachers Just to get closer to SQQ post-canon… I feel it in my heart how much they genuinely care and at least MF is a good student. I wish we got a bit more on the actual shit they did outside of sword work since it is the scholarly peak.

Bingqiu thoughts on how domestic they can be, and how Binghe’s favorite place is when he gets to rest his head in SQQ’s lap. Either that or nice wind-down time, combing each others hair and braiding it down for bed, simple things that feel so soft and nice and warm

It picks up a Lot more after the beginning, they get into some crazy political turmoil and scheming and just pure fucking war time rationing shit… it’s glorious

I think that’s why Meng Xi Shi novels entice me as much as they do, the romance isn’t overt but it’s definitely there to be a secondary idea.

T97 is the best in terms of plot and I’ve only read QJJ from her so far. I’ve never heard people complain about the plots in her books and the way she writes sex scenes in QJJ is So… flowery and nothing like MXTX or meatbun.

I did not want to assume but YEAH it is a very a-spec take on danmei to not care as much for the romance and focus on other aspects. That was my first thought as an aro person.

I feel with scum villain it’s more plot integral and the romance Is the plot verses mdzs or tgcf where the political and social intrigue is more of the baseline.

Most popular danmei has the hot / cold I love you but I hate you but you can’t be with anyone else bc I’ll get jealous shit. Especially MXTX and meatbun. Maybe… out of popular ones… legend of exorcism?? The main couple is just cute and it’s a good fantasy

A lot of people explode or just get blown up in SPL it’s like the transformers movie of steampunk danmei

Who in their right mind is recommending you danmei when you hate like 90% of danmei couple tropes

I will tell you now if you Hate that never read stars of chaos or ERHA because both of them have sopping wet puppy gongs who will threaten to end themselves when / if their shou dies.

It’s not that SQQ “smiles” at other people, it’s how self-hating that LBH is and how much he can’t stand who he is or what he is, also Xin Mo making him go crazy. He has severe abandonment issues and also childhood trauma and now people calling him a monster and an abomination for being half-demon

Qing Jing… shibari peak… it takes so long and a lot of effort and is so artistically beautiful…

The bestest the wonderfulest the babiest snake boy himself Zhuzhi-Lang

SVSSS: sometimes a little Oedipus complex is Good for the mentally unwell child