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web-novel-polls · 7 months

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Priest (Author) Character Tournament

⚠️ Submissions CLOSED ⚠️

Link to Masterpost

Rules

One character per submission. If you want to submit multiple characters, please do so in separate forms.

Only the character and the novel they’re from is required, but propaganda is highly encouraged

Please submit the English and/or most common way to refer to the novel. If you want to submit a novel without an English translation, please describe it AND the character. The description is not required but HIGHLY encouraged since this tournament is being run in English.

If you’re not sure which novels were written by Priest or are interested in her other novels, here’s a link to a helpful carrd.

Tag: #priest character tournament

Current Submissions below the cut

(CW: spoilers, misgendering as a joke, death/murder, cannibalism, swearing, suggestive language, physical abuse)

[Last Updated: Match 11th, 2024]

Submissions (15/15)

Chang An from Bestial Blade / Shou Cong Zhi Dao

Submission:

Just a little guy with a big fuck-off saber. Was sickly from childhood (later in the book it's discovered to be a heart condition), but did not let that stop him from studying the blade. Sleeps a lot when he is not fighting. Beat his boyfriend with a stick that one time (was absolutely in the right).

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Cheng Qian from Liu Yao

"Now, in Cheng Qian's eyes, there were only two kinds of people in this world: people who are no match for him now, and people who will be no match for him in the future." - Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 38

No propaganda submitted

Sassy child who cares about his found family/sect SO much

The “meanie” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

“No matter how many foes, they cannot bend my will.” - Cheng Qian, ch.29

"He believed that when he was alone, he could do anything all by himself. For a lone person, when he reaches the peak of his achievement, he's still alone; when he falls to the depths of the abyss, too, he's still alone. Even if his head were to fall from his shoulders, wouldn't that just be a scar on his body? What was there to fear?" - Ch. 36

Chu Huan from Of Mountains and Rivers / Shan He Biao Li

Submission:

His vibes are insane. A character pipi made by putting Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu in a jar and shaking, and then wrapping the result in the most unassuming shell possible. That one post that went like "perfectly normal man that has something seriously wrong with him" might as well have been made about him. Kills like 20 ppl in his introduction scene, falls off a cliff, gets on a bus, and agrees to become a teacher for those random guys he met because one of them is hot. Speaking of, his bi awakening and accepting it happens in a span of like, one second. *Sees a hot guy* welp, homosexual attraction is not a sin! Also, somehow has perfect tumblr shitposter vibes. Was asked what's a word for "good brother" in his language and after careful consideration said "bitch". Did I mention he's insane? "Play me a tune, and I'll go along with your BDSM play." Or that time he woke up after being clinically dead for a bit (saw his deceased loved ones asking him to go into the light and all) and to his bf's frantic questioning of "Does it hurt?" immediately went "Yes. It hurts a lot. You have to kiss it better." like bestie your priorities.... Anyway yeah what a guy.

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Feng Xiaoshu / Princess Jing’an from Lord Seventh

Submission:

Badass lady who leads troops and can split a person's head in half with her spear <3

Han Muchun from Liu Yao

"Only I, your master, would not detest you, my dirty girl. If it were your first senior brother here, he would have stewed you." - Han Muchun to Shuikeng, Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 29

[No propaganda submitted]

Took some disciples for his declining sect and unexpectedly became a father

Han Yuan from Liu Yao

“Unlike us that had a vagrant life, domesticated kids are shy; I have to look after him in future.” - Han Yuan about Cheng Qian

Submission:

Cringefail loser(most affectionate) dragon boi. Gone edgy but his family loves him anyway.

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“our fav -1 braincell kiddo”

The “idiot” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

Huang Jinchen from Itinerant Doctor / You Yi

Submission:

His style has captivated me... Emotionless sniper who is considered more weapon than person on the clock; busks on the subway in his free time. Part of a clown4clown couple. Killed a human being for the first time at the age of 8. Apparently gives mind-blowingly good massages. Also had 'The Little Match Girl' fairy tale metaphor in the book which uh hurted me.

Jing Beiyuan from Lord Seventh

Submission:

Honestly what a guy. He was dealt such a bad hand and yet he stays Chillin’… by which I mean sacrificing both his own morals and his physical safety to put a guy that he’s fundamentally ‘meh’ about at this point on the throne because everyone else is so much worse. He wants to be a dad so so badly it’s heartbreaking (until it isn’t!). He has Old Man Vibes™️ because he remembers three centuries worth of past lives and it makes him deeply weird but he’s still the prettiest boy anyone has ever seen. He was a jasmine plant for a while. 10/10 best at taking naps and pretending to be a loser. Go king give us nothing <3

Li Yun from Liu Yao

[No propaganda submitted]

The “troublemaker” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

Made “water that bathed toads’ feet” (Golden Toad Liquid)

A weird animal/bug kid, which I respect SO much

“Resident mad scientist and frog enthusiast… an annoyance (affectionate)”

Mu Xiaoqiao from Bandits / You Fei / Legend of Fei

Submission:

"People tended to apply the highest of standards when judging the behavior of revered saints like the Sword of Mountains and Rivers: if they made even the smallest of missteps, they would be deemed unworthy of their sterling reputations, and be lambasted for hypocrisy. But people were much more magnanimous towards Mu Xiaoqiao and those of his vile ilk, for as long as these fiends didn’t go around killing everyone in sight…or as long as this violence was directed at others instead, they could sometimes even find something perversely charming about these villains." (Bandits, book 3, chapter 13) Callout for who? Callout for me. Pipi is very right about this but also she is the one writing her murderous gays so epic and sexy and fascinating and irresistible and…

Tong Ru / Lord Beiming from Liu Yao

“Beiming? Who deserves the title of Beiming? That’s merely an arrogant title given by some short-sighted people.” - Lord Beiming, Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 16

[No propaganda submitted]

“It’s just death, nothing serious.” - Lord Beiming, ch.30

***I, the poll runner, have not gotten to the Lord Beiming reveal, so I’m not 100% sure the quotes from where I’m at are correct/for the same person (since there’s another person trying to claim the title of Lord Beiming)

(Also, Tong Ru and Han Muchun are sharing a picture because it’s way too blurry with just one lol)

Wen Kexing from Faraway Wanderers

Submission:

Character of all time (to me). Cannibal. Malewife. Flaming homosexual. Strongest mfer in jianghu after literal immortal. Surprisingly realistic portrayal of c-ptsd and dissociative disorder considering all of the above. Half of the couple that rewired my brain chemistry and gave me unrealistic expectations for romance -_-

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Wu Xi from Lord Seventh / Qi Ye

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My beloved snake boy!! He goes as a hostage to a foreign land at eleven years old in order to maintain uneasy peace between his country and the empire that colonized them (and on that note, his initial language struggle was so good), then he manages to help keep his love interest safe from thousands of kilometers away via peerless potions skills, then he goes and *wins his nation's freedom* via martial might and court negotiations, and then he heals his man and gets him home. Like bulletpoint by bulletpoint I think he might have actually managed to accomplish the most out of the cast by the end. (Qi Ye is a palace intrigue novel btw, so it's amazing that the one character who had zero patience with palace intrigue was the one who accomplished so much lmao.) And all this while being a 20-something borderline-yandere ML obsessed with his first love. What a man. What a legend. Not to mention his epic healer skills were the reason Zhou Zishu survives Faraway Wanderers. Wenzhou get their happy ending because of him! Also, he hand-raised the most lovable animal sidekick of all time (sable!!!!!) before said sable defected to his husband. Vote for Wu Xi to make sable happy.

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Xi Ping from Tai Sui

Submission:

He is literally everything to me. Pure chaos condensed into a single person. Everyone loves him, everyone hates him. He does his best, he doesn't try at all, he beats up monsters with a qin, he brought about the destruction of the entire cultivation world…

Yan Zhengming from Liu Yao

"I've grown into this age, but other than this face that my parents had birthed me with, there is nothing on my person that holds any sort of value. What right do I have to change the thousand-year tradition of our sect? In any case, even if the sect tradition makes no sense whatsoever, it's still something left behind by our master." - Yan Zhengming, The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 38

[No propaganda submitted]

The “Narcissist” from the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

THE prettiest princess; he’s literally referred to as Niangniang (a term for an imperial concubine) at least once

He is such a materialist who is even described as caring more about money than life, but "When he thought of Cheng Qian, he suddenly felt like there was nothing else that he desired in this life" (Ch.56).

Dealers’s Choice

Han Tan/Shuikeng/Puddle from Liu Yao

"Puddle had one merit, and that was that she knew how to act when it came to her own benefit." - Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect, Chapter 31

Little birb shimei lol

Is literally the daughter of the Yao Queen and a mortal who the others just. adopted.

The “wimpy kid” of the description - “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.”

Sheng Lingyuan from Lie Huo Jiao Chou / Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire

[No propaganda prepared]

Xuan Ji from Lie Huo Jiao Chou / Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire

[No propaganda prepared]

#not a poll #submissions #priest character tournament #queue #my submissions

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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mavis-fairy · 3 years

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This was the scent wafting out of Da-shixiong’s sleeves whenever he applied medicine for him, the scent faintly lingering on the sheets whenever he lazed around in Shixiong’s room. Whenever this scent filled the air around him, he always felt drowsy, on the verge of falling asleep. ~ Liu Yao, pizZiCcato translation

#六爻 #Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect #Liu Yao #Liu Yao spoilers #MingQian #Cheng Qian #Yan Zhengming #my icons #my edits #liuyao edits #liuyao icons #~ free to use ~

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incorrect-web-novels · 4 years

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If you're not caught up on the whole Fuyao Sect lore, that's fine because frankly, I'm not either.

Yan Zhengming as Sect Leader

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beneaththebrim · 4 years

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How is the Priest fandom? Are you enjoying it? I’ve been wondering if I should pick up works beyond MXTX’s but it also seems daunting for some reason.

The eng-speaking Priest fandom is definitely smaller than the MXTX one, and it mainly exists on twitter. There’s a Priest discord server, but only mods can generate invites to it–they want to keep the server pretty close-knit.

That being said, since it is a smaller fandom, it is pretty friendly, if quiet at times.

I’ve definitely been enjoying Priest’s writing. She writes in more of a literary style than MXTX–although I would classify MXTX’s books as R18, they are written in more of a YA style, whereas Priest uses more poetic allusions, philosophy, and politics. Her writing, too, is very poetic in itself. I also feel like her characters *pop*: they don’t ever feel like archetypes; they feel like real people. And her plots, oh man her plots–they are so intricately woven.

And the knives man, the KNIVES

I should probably mention that Priest doesn’t write explicit sex scenes, but there are fade-to-blacks, so like, her characters fuck, just not on screen.

Anyway, I’ve been reading four of her books: Qi Ye (Lord Seventh), Tianya Ke (Faraway Wanderers), Liu Yao: the Revitalization of the Fuyao Sect, and Sha Po Lang.

(Note: I’m not planning on reading any of her modern setting books where one of the main characters is a cop, just fyi, so I can’t give any info on, like, Zhenhun (Guardian) or Mo Du)

But anyway, I can give an overview of the four books I’m reading, as well as links to the translations:

Qi Ye (jjwxc)

Court drama with supernatural elements. Lots of scheming. Main theme is fate/people’s ability to alter their fate.

(MC description courtesy of jimorlas): Main character is Jing Beiyuan, a genius and a good boy who is fucking tired as shit because he’s 7 incarnations deep and they all sucked and his 7th has taken him right back to the terrible 1st one. He’s here to protect his land and support the prince who screwed him over but who is good for the country, but also he just wants to nap ok. He’s sleepy after several centuries of this shit.

And, as for the romantic lead, who doesn’t get revealed until Ch.6, so slight spoiler: Wu Xi, the soon-to-be Great Sorcerer of Nanjiang, a melancholic OP warrior-shaman who’s far from home and more likely to make friends with animals than people, but warms up to our sanguine protag. Meanwhile JBY is constantly terrorizing all WX’s many, many pets which could very easily kill him instantly, and repays WX the favor of ensuring that he doesn’t die an early death by nicknaming him “Little Venom.” Their ship name is xiyuan.

Translations (78 chapters total): Ch. 1-5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch.8-31

The wattpad tl updates about once every couple weeks.

Tianya Ke (jjwxc)

Sequel to Qi Ye, typical wuxia setting. There’s trouble in the jianghu, and various powerful characters from around the realm are drawn into a treasure hunt, the object of which is rooted in an old conflict. Main themes are freedom, greed, and making amends for what’s happened in the past.

Tianya Ke’s a lot of fun–the main couple, wenzhou, are constantly bickering and bantering. Main character is sarcastic and scarred ex-spy Zhou Zishu who doesn’t have long to live. Somehow he’s dragged into a situation where he has to protect a helpless, wooden-headed kid (Zhang Chengling) from multiple assassination attempts, all while the jianghu is imploding around them, everyone searching for the mysterious ‘lapis armor’ that can supposedly grant anyone’s deepest wish. He didn’t sign up for this!! He just wanted to go sightsee for his last three years!!! He’s not your shifu, goddammit!

Romantic lead is Wen Kexing, a slut (well, until he meets ZZS) and a clown (especially after meeting ZZS 😏 ) who’s definitely very shady behind his 🤡 persona. I feel like their dynamic can be summed up in this twitter post I made (based on an actual scene from the novel):

WKX: Kill? :) What are you talking about?:) I wouldn’t kill a chicken :))))

~Five seconds later~

WKX, investigating a corpse: lmao these bones look like chicken bones when I’m done with em amirite AYYY

ZZS: *looks into camera like he’s on the office*

Translations (78 chapters total): Ch.1-30, Ch.31-53 by Liyou (see pinned thread for drive folder)

The Liyou translation updates about once every week or two.

Liu Yao: the Revitalization of the Fuyao Sect (jjwxc)

Wuxia/xianxia, found family. A man who appears to be a half-dead weasel spirit takes in five unruly kids and teaches them cultivation on the run-down Fuyao mountain. But, before they can grow up, they are wrenched from their home and are forced to scatter over the next century, gathering power and teasing out the causes of Fuyao’s decline. Upon reuniting, an imminent question looms over their heads: What are they willing to sacrifice in order to return home?

Main themes: Sacrifice, the isolation that comes with power, whether cultivating to immortality is worth it. Lots of Daoist philosophy in this one (it’s probably my favorite c-novel so far). Here’s a line that murdered me: Perhaps the epitome of ascension is when one can pass without regrets. 🙃🙃🙃

The main ship, mingqian, is between the narcissistic, wealthy dashixiong, Yan Zhengming, and his cold, chuuni & judgmental sanshidi, Cheng Qian (the MC). They’re very protective of each other and their sect siblings.

There’s also a tragic side-ship (ruchun) involving their shifu, but I won’t say much about that, as it involves some big spoilers.

The other disciples are:

CQ’s ershixiong, Li Yun, ie MY BOY MY GEEKY TOAD BOY/the voice of reason,

CQ’s sishidi, Han Yuan, ie oh boy we got a lot to unpack here but basically he’s… complicated, and

CQ’s wushimei, Han Tan, the half-yao baby of the bunch who has EXCELLENT FASHION SENSE SHUT UP DASHIXIONG

Translations (109 chapters total): Ch.1-33, Ch.34-56, Ch.35-81, extra 3 (ruchun-centric, can be read after Ch.77)

The rustycol tl updates about once a month.

Sha Po Lang (jjwxc)

Steampunk, sort of a ‘what if the Industrial Revolution happened during the Song or Ming Dynasty?’ setting. Politics & war; main plot is resisting European attempts at colonization, as well as fortifying Da Liang (the name of the ruling dynasty) to adjust to the changing times (a shift from agrarian to factory labor, the development of fiat currency, breaking up the power of prominent aristocratic families). SPL gave me a more charitable view of Legalist philosophy, as well :P There’s a wee bit of fantasy, but the exact amount is up to reader interpretation.

Main themes:

Change–what is lost with the past, and how can a nation adapt to the inevitable flow of time and technology without becoming like an automaton that keeps moving despite holding only a corpse inside?

Loyalty–the various relationships and conflicts between personal attachments and commitment to one’s country.

Legacy–imagine seeing a train for the first time, and wondering how history will remember you.

The main character is Chang Geng, the son of the emperor and a barbarian consort ‘goddess’ who was sent as tribute to Da Liang. For the first fourteen years of his life, however, he’s made to believe he’s a simple country boy. Not only that, but his aunt tortures him and places a curse on him, which gives him terrible nightmares and will eventually cause him to go insane. Chang Geng’s coming-of-age happens along with Da Liang’s, and his changing identities, tempered by trauma, mirror the changes Da Liang must undergo in order to survive.

The romantic interest is the commander of Da Liang’s army, Gu Yun, who starts out as Chang Geng’s adoptive father (there’s a 7-8 year age difference, but nothing happens until CG is 20, and CG is the pursuer–for sure avoid SPL if this squicks you out, but I’ll just say that the parts of their relationship that have issues are addressed and resolved with care; that being said, CG has an undeniable daddy kink).

Gu Yun was poisoned as a child and is mostly blind and deaf as a result, but drinks medicine that allows him to temporarily regain his senses. Initially, Gu Yun is pretty much forced to lay down his life for his country at every juncture, but Chang Geng’s entrance into his life gives him new purpose.

Translations (128 chapters total): Ch.1, Ch.2-128 & 10/15 extras (that’s right, the main story is done being translated!)

I also HIGHLY recommend the audio drama: S1, S2, S3, which can be bought for about $15. There are English translations up to S2E5, but it follows the book closely enough that after jumping off from the English subbed versions, you can follow along pretty closely with the wattpad translation/mtling (ie, ‘Translate this page’) the audio drama page, which has subtitles if you keep the barrage on.

Also, if you like to read essays for fun as much as I like to write them, I wrote a meta about the theme of loyalty in Sha Po Lang here.

#priest #qi ye #tianya ke #liu yao #sha po lang #lord seventh #faraway wanderers #ask brim #anon #long post

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ultimateshixiongfuckertournament · 12 days

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Round 3, Match 2: Cheng Qian vs Jiang Cheng

Match 2 is between Cheng Qian (shixiong: Yan Zhengming) from Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect vs Jiang Cheng (shixiong: Wei Wuxian) from Mo Dao Zu Shi

Propaganda under the cut

Cheng Qian:

Cheng Qian and Yan Zhengming end up together. Most of it is spoilers, but they're very cute! Yan Zhengming nicknamed him Tong Qian / Copper Coin

#some of yall didnt read 6yao and yall are missing out#bby cheng qian puppy crushing on his shixiong and beating up anyone who mockingly calls his shixiong princesse#cause thats his high maintenance princess thank you

#I NEED cheng qian to win#he went through so much to get that pillow princess shixiong dick

Jiang Cheng:

Clinged to WWX constantly for 7+ years, wanted to have WWX as his right hand man forever after becoming sect leader, cried after WWX left, cried when he discovered what WWX sacrificed for him, was TORN APART when it got explained to him that if they were more outwardly close knit, WWX might not have died

PROPAGANDA!! to start, i'm still very bitter about how fairy lost the sentient animal poll and i want to win this badly. very very badly. current stats are 50.6 in favour of jc but that's too less of a gap for me. jc should be winning this by a landslide, y'all hear me? anyways. starting with a class act, like the clown i am->

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a few links ( because i'm chengxian trash, as always and i'd love if poll-guy could copy paste them on the og post): one, two, three, four (gif), five, six, seven (gif), eight (thoughts on different wavelengths), the absolute circles of them saving each other, the fucking golden core reveal scene. golden scene reveal part 2, jiang cheng will always forgive wei wuxian

to start with. jiang cheng is literally the picture of "i knew from the moment i met you that i'd spend a lifetime forgiving you".

the earliest dynamic of jiang cheng and wei wuxian is jiang cheng giving away his dogs (the only gift his father has ever given him, btw) because wei wuxian is scared of the dogs. tis only the start of it.

his father very obviously prefers his shixiong over him, his mother berates him for not being as good as wei wuxian and tells him his inheritance is in danger, and his sister (in my opinion) has more care for him (visibly. maybe jiang yanli doesn't show it because jc is an emotionally complicated purple grape, maybe because jc doesn't need it, or wei wuxian is traumatised but that's my opinion). but still. still. Jiang Cheng loves Wei Wuxian. so much. jealousy is like. the most tame response i can think of. and jiang cheng is proud of wei wuxian, okay? he'd believe his big brother if he'd said anything. want proof? well, here you go-> link

to paraphrase the link:

Jiang Cheng had just lost his family, his home, and his very golden core, and his older brother - his brilliant older brother who could fix anything, who could sneak wine into Cloud Recesses and defeat an ancient turtle nearly-god and make Jiang Cheng share a smile when Jiang Cheng’s mother was disappointed and furious at both of them - His big brother smiled and said, “I can fix this.”And Jiang Cheng believed him then, and believed him three months later when Wei Wuxian crawled out of the Burial Mounds (just the second miracle in three months), and believed him every day of the next seventeen(?) years until the pieces were shoved into place for him to see.

also. the circle these two go in protecting each other. (gif set by @sandushengshou), the 'if one of us is to die, then, i beg, let it be me' that they both do for one another in a seemingly neverending loop of sacrifice. via this post a la my lovely @backtoyunmeng

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jiang cheng is a cannonically ruined woman archetype, justified via the countless posts you'll get in the top posts of jiang cheng tag. he keeps chenqing, wwx's flute in perfect condition even when he hates wei wuxian, even when wwx, if only indirectly, has a part in jiang yanli's murder and oof okay someone pointed out to him that he's known to have killed wei wuxian and he almost cries. he absolutely believes, with his whole heart, that wei wuxian lives even when the world is sure he doesnt. and it always read to me like, i'd know if he was dead. he's a part of my soul, so i'd know if he was dead. he can't be dead.

this is getting too long, so, to sum up, some absolute poetry by @jiangchengsjawline

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#JC On The Other Hand Has His Entire Life Shaped By His Shixiong And Ended Up Cast As The Ruined Woman By The End

#jiang cheng though. wasn't able to fuck his shixiong but his shixiong definitely fucked with him

#hello?? the answer is Jiang cheng pls#he's the shixiongfucker or all shixiong fucker you wish you could be as pathetically in love with your shixiong as he is#chengxian

#i do not go here (chengxian) but the propaganda is incredibly correct they are insane abt each other#also sorry jiang cheng ik you're suffering but they are so funny to me#neway VOTE JIANG CHENG FOR CLEAR SKIN

#look I rarely go here#(here being chengxian)#but by GOD their lvoe compels me#they’re tragic and doomed and they love each other without knowing how to say it in words the other would understand#or in words at all because communication??? we don’t know her???

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he didn't even think about sacrificing himself, and consequently his entire bloodline, his sect, pretty much everything that depends on him for his shixiong??????????

is this not convincing->