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[images are a long, narrow watercolour painting; at the very bottom is xie lian, looking up, shocked and slightly awed. above and behind him, a multitude of golden floating lanterns fill the entire space.]

#tgcf #xie lian #fanart

yellow-faerie

Should a romance story (of any media) always have the main LI end up as the MC's main/top/first priority in order for it to count as part of the Romance genre?

Yes

Voting ended onJun 11

Without nuance, though if you want to elaborate in the tags, I'd like to hear your thoughts!

#was talking about this the other day #but only two things are required for it to be a romance #1. the narrative's Main Priority is the romantic relationship #2. they get together happily ever after #everything else is pure preference #a lot of romances have the plot be 'how do we balance our priorities while also being together?'#if you were reading a romance novel with a single parent struggling to date while balancing oarenthood #you'd be pretty startled if the resolution to that plotline was 'send the kid off to boarding school in order to prioritize the LI'#one of the most romantic things a person can do is make your priorities also their priorities #and vice versa #chengqing is what happens when you have the exact same priorities but are unfortunately on opposite sides and also arent the leads of this #but the tragic side characters in the romance

I'm too lazy right now to grab quotes, but I'm not really bothered by the additions to the Lan parents story, mostly because it was mostly already in line with my own interpretation, but I also think the conclusion that the Lan parents were in love is also...not explicitly in the text and kind of beside the point regardless. The point to me is that even if he didn't physically force himself on her, even if she possibly had some sort of pity or affection for him, the entire situation is deeply fucked regardless? The same way it would have been deeply fucked if Wangji had forcibly taken Wei Wuxian away and hidden him in the Cloud Recesses to save him in his first life even though Wei Wuxian 1) commited some real crimes including crimes against the Lan and 2) had some affection for Wangji. The same way it would be deeply fucked if Xichen managed to save Jin Guangyao's life at Guanyin temple and locked him up in the Cloud Recesses forever because he believes his crimes deserve punishment but isn't willing to see him die. JGY loves him and they have a mutually acknowledged relationship and have been sworn brothers for twenty years and that situation would still be very bad. Xichen's bringing this up when he does for a reason! He is contemplating his narrowing amount of choices and conflicting duties and desires and he is seeing his father looking back at him. Even if in a universe where Jin Guangyao survives the events of Guanyin temple and agreed to go with him after the temple as he is now badly injured and this is his only option if he wants to live, like...it's bad? It's bad. LXC should definitely not have sex with him under these circumstances even if he remains in his room and JGY is the one who comes to him.

#mdzs #mdzs meta #madam lan #qingheng-jun #i think some people are also reading the lines about the elders begging her to go talk to qhj as like explicirly for the purposes of heirs #and i read it as them begging her to get him to interact with the world at all #although i suppose these two things are related #like it seems to me like the elders would be delighted if he came out of seclusion and this is a self imposed punishment #that is just making things worse for everyone and not actually atoning for shit #i wonder if lqr was one of the ones begging his SIL to try to get his brother to open the door #or if he didnt think qhj would speak to anyone because he'd already tried and failed #only to discover that xiongzhang wont speak to him but will speak to the woman who murdered an important member of their sect #he wont run the sect or take care of his kids or even intervene on his wife's behalf so she can raise the kids #he's just putting them all in this situation and refusing to handle it further so he can go punch his dick in private #like i think the situation is still pretty vague and noxious #like it does rule out madam lan being chained up to produce heirs and being killed after she had served her purpose #and it sounds like she gets to see more sun than i had assumed #but it doesn't actually say anything about her feelings for him at all #i guess it was her decision when they saw each other because he never left seclusion #but i mean its still deeply rancid

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