Apricot-shark - 100% Alive. Toattly Normal.

I don’t think that Luo Binghe just hates himself enough that he’s willing to overlook Shen Qingqiu’s early abuse of him in svsss. On the contrary, I think that lbh’s willingness to see good in Shen Yuan’s sqq despite that early childhood abuse done by Shen Jiu (who we are never told he knows is separate from Shen Yuan’s sqq) is because 1) Shen Yuan transmigrated when lbh was juuuuuust young enough to still (at least partially) believe that it was his own actions that made people like or dislike him, so sqq’s sudden flip to treating him well validated his idea that doing well = being treated well, and 2) he, like everyone else, assumed it was sqq’s qi deviation that changed sqq’s personality, so why should he hold a grudge against someone who may not even remember their previous actions and shows no signs of returning to them, especially when he had not gone through the event that cemented his pidw version’s commitment to repaying harm with 100x worse harm?

But on that note, sqq then throwing him into the abyss in Shen Yuan’s timeline both 1) breaks lbh of his belief that doing well = being treated well by forcing him to contend with the idea that someone may hate him for who he is, regardless of his actions and 2) leads him to believe that he is the cause of sqq’s abuse of him, because why else would his otherwise loving shizun who used to abuse him but then suddenly stopped try to murder him out of nowhere after discovering that he is a demon but after telling him that demons are not inherently evil? Must be a him problem, right? (On the other hand, the abyss scene in pidw is what showed bingge the truth that sqq’s abuse of him was never justified or about anything lbh ever did/didn’t do).

Wangxian is such a pervasive otp because it fits literally every trope at once. It's both slowburn because they have 20+ years worth of miscommunication foreplay and fastburn because they get married and start fucking literally the second they're alone after affirming that they're dating. It's a high school romance and a romance between 40+ year old coworkers. It's enemies to friends to enemies to lovers. They're both "I could fix him" AND "I could make him worse". Obsessed.

I think one of the biggest sells for mdzs is the fact that one of the characters is really mad about being gay but not because of internalized homophobia it's just because hes a hall monitor and his crush is the class clown

At one point, SVSSS is just basically this

adding some beta couples to my bookmark lineup :3

[image is a composition of three illustrations. The first depicts a flustered Shang Qinghua stumbling into a stony-faced Mobei Jun. The second depicts Wen Qing poised over Jiang Cheng, a golden orb of light held in her hand. The third depicts Shi Qingxuan beaming as she totes her fan and whisk, while He Xuan stands behind her in an ominously dark dip of water, a ghostly fish skeleton visible behind her.]