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muninnhuginn · 30 days

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Gah, the way the characters in white cat legend think that pushing those they love away will protect them. Qiu Qingzhi with Li Bing. Li Bing with Chen Shi and the rest. Alibaba with Vice President Shangguan. "It's for your own good" they say and they truly believe it. Even Chen Jiu with Chen Shi ("don't come to Shendu").

The way that the only way to break this cycle was for those being pushed away to push back. How, when even Chen Shi (the most openly caring of all the characters) had given up, his previous actions meant that Wang Qi and co. were still willing to keep trying. They were the four who had been deliberately coasting along prior to the start of the series, doing only enough in their jobs to not entirely lose their paychecks (and not even doing a particularly good job at that). And yet, because of the impact Li Bing and Chen Shi had had on them, *they're* the ones to say "stop pushing us away" and go out of their way to bridge the gap to Li Bing. Li Bing, who time and again, pushed others away, certain he had to keep others out of danger, and yet also terrified of what letting people close would do to *him* if they discovered him as he "truly" was.

It wasn't too late for Li Bing. He had people in his corner willing to push past his attempts to keep them out and he was (eventually) able to accept them. Accept that they accepted him.

Not everyone is so lucky.

#lowkey salty about how shangguan qin was shunted off but at least they didn't entirely forget her #(keeping this in drafts until cdrama finished and I can see how badly it goes for qqz)#edit: okay I finished and that's about what I expected. post still holds. lezgo.#white cat legend #white cat legend spoilers #(also now I also have thoughts on how the cdrama approaches class. qqz's status as a slave and lai zhongshu being born in a prison.#ik the donghua/manhua/cdrama ofc have lb's upper class roots showing. but the cdrama adds more of the hopelessness of the lower class.#and how they're so often used and thrown away. how even the so-called success stories of qqz and lzs can never escape in the end.#the shot of the memorial tablets for lzs showing just how many came before him. how his only use was as fuel same as the rest of them.#how qqz saw time and again how disposable slaves were in the army. how only luck saved him from the same fate. and even then. well.)#(and to be clear the donghua/manhua do have adjacent stuff with civilian massacre + lang bailing's backstory +#the corruption->famine pipeline in lb's backstory. but they're overall tackling differing themes imo?)

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