MC gets harassed in the forest and gets his first kiss stolen

lwj had the hots for wwx his whole life, but come on, he was fantasizing about raping of all things...

It's so frustrating, because one of the points I get hung up on the most is WWX's (wei wuxian) relationship with JC (jiang cheng). (Note: I'm not a JC apologist, he really is an ass, but this is about WWX character and their relationship.)

• • golden core - JC never asked for it? JC isn't a monster, if he knew that it would come from WWX and WWX would suffer, he wouldn't have taken the offer. This is the situation of someone forcing something they deem "good" on you in their best intentions, and because it was in their best intentions the person it was forced on is forced to be appreciative for it.

• • WWX is framed as the good person, the good soul, a fun and goofy personality but when it came to defending his brother he never did, but then there's the WWX apologists that insist he was wronged the entire time.

• • JC actually went out of his way to defend WWX several times... especially during that meeting/dinner (I forget) and that's just casually brushed aside, completely thrown out the window when people are deadset on saying JC didn't care about WWX

• • WWX always does thing for "fun" that leads to consequences and... guess who cleans them up? Not him. It's his bro. And then the one time he does need to clean up his mess (even if it couldn't be controlled) he came this person that was so damaged, thinking he has it the worst.

WWX character writing

• • He is written as the golden child, this person that can do no wrong and this is further enforced in that his boyfriend is a yes man (further explored later)

• • So he dies in agony and grief his past life, then he wakes up with all his memories and he's a happy go lucky man? It's like he has no emotions. This could've supported if the beginning was altered to be that he forget he forgot who he was, and then there was a moment his conscious mind comes back to him. And there's no confusion of identity, when he's in a new body? It's common that there isn't any identity crisis, but with such a popular novel I thought it would be a little deeper in exploring this

• • There's no character development from the beginning of the novel to the end. Only younger self and older self.

• • he himself has done a lot of wrong, but he makes no apologies. only the people around him to, apologizing to him, but conflicts are instigated from both sides. It's not who started what, or who did worse, both sides need to apologize, and WWX didn't.

Lack of women

• • must I say more

Lan Zhan

• • classic romantic loyal lover

• • yes man

• • his character is essentially devotion to this one boy from his youth and he yearned and didn't give up for 13 years. seems a little exaggerated that he doesn't have his own life

• • nothing changed about him. not even off-screen character development. not more talkative, not different speech patterns, still just the same, stoic, cold, but oh so handsome cool man

• • he has... no thoughts on WWX's new body? Like no positive, no negative, no hesitant thoughts, not even during s*x. interesting.

Wen Ning character writing

• • I liked him at first, he was cute and stuff, but then it changed after more of the story is revealed

• • his reaction to being resurrected from the dead was not written - was he surprised? in denial? identity crisis? there was no coping.

• • Him revealing the golden core further enforcing that WWX can do no wrong, enforcing that JC should (keyword: should) be grateful for WWX's sacrifice even though JC probably wouldn't have wanted it

I used to think their relationship was cute, in how they helped each other, but their relationship seems shallow

• • LZ yes man

• • Miscommunication to bring them together

• • LZ r*pe fantasies (not to be r*ped, but to r*pe)

• • incense burner extras holy god

• • there's no realistic consequences to their relationship, everyone is so accepting because wangxian are heros, but there's no difficulty???

• • good relationships are based on how the other brings out the good quality in the other, and how they bring out the best of themselves for the other, but their character developments and relationship development has been so flat, their only hurdle (in the nearly romantic relationship) was dubious consent and miscommunication

• • A lot arcs that aren't in the past seem irrelevant, stories of other people, and don't relate to the ending. There's no factors that threaten WWX identity enough, or anything that really brings a thrill.

• • Honestly what I can sum it up best (tho kind of inaccurate) : crack treated seriously

I kind of felt s*upid at the end for not realizing that Nie Huaisang was the mastermind behind it all. I mean, it was his brother that was mu*dered and no matter how incompetent and kind he may be, who wouldn't want revenge? Also, the thing with the dead cat and acting like he didn't know Mo Xuanyu even though he should have and so on was clearly there in the novel; I feel like I could have connected the dots on my own. Regardless, it kind of gave me shivers how the author planned for this so well.

Although he did have a somewhat tragic childhood and this did contribute to him become what he did, it was his time with Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing that really got me emotional. He is undeniably a horrible character who mu*dered hundreds at a mere grievance, and him forcing Xiao Xingchen to kill the villagers is absolutely unforgivable. But I think, despite his aggressive intentions at first, Xue Yang really did come to value his experience with the two. Above all, he seemed like someone who was intensely lonely and used evil to fill that hole inside him, and being with Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing did that better than any killing could ever do. However, I think he realized it was probably too late to have a change in heart and that's why he continued doing what he did - it was just in the end he still couldn't let Xiao Xingchen leave him. The black candy in his fist made me cry. : (

Chapter 89. Wei Wuxian's sacrifice towards Jiang Cheng— I won't elaborate anymore because it's a major spoiler and it's better for you to find out yourself to for the sake of the shock value, but I happened to read this chapter in the middle of the night and literally cried myself to sleep.

When other people were praising the MC due to their fear of offending him, the ML was the only one who boldly criticised the MC. When others left the MC to defend for himself and even led a siege against him, the ML was the only one who stayed and defended him. He’s the only one who stuck with the MC through thick and thin, and the only one who tried his best to understand why the MC did what he did— even if the MC wasn't aware of his love, or if it was morally wrong to side with the MC. Because love knows no bounds, and Lan Wangji is but a man in love.

The author mentioned that it's love at first sight for ML. MC is endlessly oblivious, but since the novel is in the MC's POV you can see that he's often talks about how handsome the ML is, lol.

During MC and ML's first meeting, MC's first words to ML was, "Can you pretend you never saw me?" because the ML caught him sneaking alcohol into ML's sect, which banned alcohol. In the final main chapter of the novel, MC's last words to ML was, "Lan Zhan! Look at me! Look at me now!" and the last narration of the novel is "From then on, he [ML] could never move his eyes away again."

r*pey, as usual for MXTX. They're unreadable. How did someone think incense burner was a good idea? It's so problematic. I hate all the mxtx extras, (except tgcf)