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Some time ago I’ve seen someone post something about hualian wondering how Hua Cheng managed to get spoiled prince Xie Lian (without his memories) to bed him but honestly? I’m sure it wasn’t even that hard for Hua Cheng

You know how on that one night, Xie Lian and San Lang got to talking and San Lang was like what if the real me is ugly tho, and Xie Lian was like no no that won’t matter to me because we friends now (earnest face).

And then San Lang was chuckling to himself and Xie Lian was feeling hurt and upset, which brings us to this exchange from the original work, which I ADORE so much:

你好没诚意。

我发誓，上天入地你再找不到一个比我更有诚意的。

While a word-for-word translation is often unhelpful, I think in this case it’s actually more fun to read this exchange a bit more literally:

you (are acting like) you so don’t have ______

I promise, search all heaven and earth and you won’t find one that has more ______ than I do.

What is this thing that Xie Lian accused San Lang of not having? It’s "诚意" (chéng yì), honest/sincere/earnest intentions.

Xie Lian was like ‘I was being super sincere and saying moving shit and I thought you were moved by it but it turns out you were laughing?? 😤 !!’ (He’s too cute for getting so upset when he’s all zen with everyone else. He already cares about San Lang. In the original work he also covered the both of them with Ruoye 🥹 despite being upset)

And San Lang was like na-ah trust me I have it 😏 I have sooo much of it you have no idea, Dianxia... 🥺 (erm..)

Now “having诚意 “ is commonly translated as "sincere" and therefore not having it “insincere” and that’s how the dub and the book handled it iirc. But the word takes on a deeper meaning when San Lang used it in his response. It’s less about sincerity (honesty, truthfulness), but “having earnest intentions” (conviction, determination, and devotion). He’s almost saying that “I promise, search all heaven and hell and you will not find one as devoted (to you) as I am.” “Pious” even, in his case.

The phrase "上天入地" (shàng tiān rù dì) in San Lang’s response, due to the setting of TGCF, could also be interpreted literally as "to go up to heaven or go down to the underworld," covering everything between the heavenly and the ghost realms. In MXTX’s synopsis for TGCF, she described Hua Cheng as a “C天R地小妖精” (“little demon seductress that beeps heaven and hell” i guess? too good)

So many of Hua Cheng’s lines are so well-crafted, seemingly lighthearted and playful, but the underlying layer of depth and significance can do so much damage to my kokoro.

It’s also interesting that San Lang’s response was directly communicated to Xie Lian in the original work, but got turned into his inner monologue in the anime adaptation.

This is the first HuaLian fic that I post on AO3!! 🥰

Summary:

(Spoilers for the Revised Chinese Version!)

In the original and revised version of the Novel, Hua Cheng ends up losing his memories while they are in Bai Jing's mind. This fanfic is my version of some things that could have happened and a little of Hua Cheng's p.o.v about the events.

Xie Lian other version of the weeding dress he wore in the first chapters

Trying out new sketching styles… weekend come fast, got some full pieces to finish 🙏

Why is Raskolnikov and Razumikhin so Beefleaf coded tho

Time has brought your heart to me 🦋

Hua Cheng clearly warned, “You’re always below my god, do you understand? So if you’re standing, kneel before him. But if he happens to be kneeling, then you should lie down.”

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Snippets from the drawing I'm working on at the moment inspired by Lacrima Notturna by Roberto Ferri… (I know the proportions are quite quite far from perfect but I’ll adjust as soon as I can)

I want to learn how to make edits because I have a list of Lana del Rey songs for every couple that I ship on the mxtx universe (and also for characters alone) but I don’t even know how to start… 🫠🫠

(I already edited before but only some silly things 😭😭)

List of the couples here if anyone is interested:

- HuaLian: Young and Beautiful (Classic, romantic, them)

-Wangxian: Summetime sadness (pls don’t kill me)

-Bingqiu: ArtDeco (like… the vibe?? Just-)

-Moshang: Playing Dangerous (For me, Sqh flirting is something like this -when he’s not afraid ofc)

-Beefleaf: Freak (trust meeee)

-YinZhen: Sad Girl (I’m not afraid to speak the word!!)

-XueXiao: Dark Paradise (Literally died for then, my Roman Empire)

-YueJiu: Cinnamon Girl (the definition of deserved better)

-FengQing: Diet Mountain Dew (THEM. JUST THEM.)

-Bingjiu: Ultraviolence (Got the hots for them but they also deserved better, to god -mxtx- they weren’t her favorite at all lol)

-JunMei: Fishtail (“this is an work of art” seriously, the “You’ll braid my hair” is literally how I envision them in the future, healing, together)

-Niecest: Lust for life (Like you heard that??? The “but my boyfriend’s back… and he’s cooler than ever…” - You cannot convince me otherwise it isn’t them!!!!)

List for the characters:

Binghe: Jealous girl (he was the easiest one for me and I don’t have to explain myself… BE AGGRESSIVE BE- )

Hua Cheng: Cherry (It just reminds me of him!! He really does fall to pieces many times on the story, literally, psychologically and emotionally, in good and bad ways…)

Lan Wangji: Serial killer/Happiness is a butterfly (Suprised for the first one?? Well, for me it’s about the intensity in his love, the type of doing anything and everything for the one he loves… I swear he’s just so dramatic and its just captures his teen phase of ‘first love and I don’t know what to do about it so I’ll just fantasy’ About the second… His time with his love in the first live was short and not completely well lived with so much problems and yet, and yet… he found happiness, also the “if he’s a serial killer than what’s the worst” just fits with the fact that he did in fact tried to save Wwx even against all the things others talked about him, regardless of the truth, he does what he needs to for who he needs… “Looking into his eyes I think he’s already hurt” IM SO SORRY I CANT LIE)

Shen Jiu: Born to die (like I’m not even trying to hurt anyone here but I know it hurts…)

Shen Qingqiu: Doin Time (Why?? Like, “the living is ease” vibe and the sudden “I’ve come to tell you that she’s evil” just reminds me to much of the fact that he’s the “villain”!! And I just imagined the “Louie” in the song as Sqh so much anyway)

Xie Lian: Brooklyn Baby (I don’t think I have to explain this one also right… the fans go “Yeah my boyfriend’s pretty cool… but he’s not as cool as me…” and also, “Baby I’m a gangsta too and takes two the tango” gets me thinking of two different sceneries, a dance with Hua Cheng as his flower and a dance with words representing his martial god nature)

Wei Wuxian: Salvatore (Salvatore is just him, really, the vibe of, like, even if you’re being murdered, you’re smiling and you’re smiling cause you know that, some way, you’ve just fucking won, of being on a serious situation and taking it lightly because is just his way to do things but at same time not as a mockery or a joke to all the suffering, the pain, but rather, an acceptance with a smile… oh gosh what a ride)

Mobei Jun: Black Beauty (like referring to a cold, untouchable beauty like himself, because honestly, life is beautiful but it took a while for him to see the colors but he managed to find his light, or, his “sparrow blue”…)

Shan Qinghua: Meet me at the pale moonlight (I swear, even if doesn’t make sense, for me, his “pale moonlight” is Mobei Jun… but seriously?? The “I’m the sweetest girl in town so why are you so mean?” part FR FR WTH that’s his life you’re singing about Lana)

Xue Yang: Blue Jeans (“Love’s mean… and love hurts” to “I’ll love till the end of times… I’ll wait a million years” is honestly just what he did and also that slightly possessive part “promise you’ll remember that you’re mine” inspired by his insecurities and regrets, only because he was afraid to lose him… couldn’t get any sadder)

Xiao Xingchen: Margaret (In another word yes, yes it could get sadder… He’s just so good… “It kind makes me laugh”, Ah I just keep reminding that scene where he’s with XY, laughing because he’s the easy laugh type of person… And also the “the soul that you bring to the table” I just like to interpret that in a way that he made a family out a villain and homeless distrusting girl and that the “soul” spoken off on the song it’s theirs, how they find “soul” in there, in themselves, in each other…)

Anyway

…Any tips on video edition…? 👀👀

I'm watching Dr. house now and there's a scene where the patient is having a fucking hemorrhage and when the doctors notice he just says "It wasn't on purpose, sorry..." before passing out and I just wanted to say how this Shen Yuan behavior

From now on I’ll be putting my name and number on a adhesive and sticking it inside my clothes

It’s so silly but I’m actually so sad I lost one of the sweatshirts that I liked the most

The only sun Hua Cheng doesn’t hate when it burns his heart…

sunshine

After burning the Paradise Manor

Xie Lian got so deeply sad

He believes that he just ruined another relationship with someone who’s dear to him

Someone who treated him so well

Probably the first person to show him such sincere fondness

And he’s already accepted that it can’t be mended

His another failure

All of his own making

In less than a week someone managed to become important to him

And he already managed to betray and hurt them

To spit on everything they’ve so selflessly given him

He didn’t mean to

Didn’t want things to end this way

But of course they did

Again

Something about the whole "Eming is born of Hua Cheng's desire to live and Rouye is born of Xie Lian's desire to die," and then how Xie Lian wears funeral colours and Hua Cheng wears wedding colours. God oriented towards death and stillness and self-denial. Ghost oriented towards life and hope and happiness.

You know when we're telling someone about something and to exaggerate some information we use some big number like, "This is taking a million years", "It took her 2 years to respond to me", or something like that?

I think the number Xie Lian would use most would be "800". I'm thinking about putting something like this in a fanfic later... After all, all the time spending away from Hua Cheng is “too long”.

something about vita sackville-west writing "how pleased i shall be to sit on your floor again" to virginia woolf is the most simple yet devastating line about intimacy and longing i have ever read

Seriously, how do I write???

better than drugs

Courtesan from Hell, from the series Sketches by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1882)