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Analysis on Feng Xin and Jian Lan

Feng Xin took an interest in Jian Lan when he saw her stand up against the rebels. After XianLe's downfall, he started paying for nights with her just to talk. (Feng Xin is a gentleman after all, and Jian Lan is said to have teased him about it.)

Mu Qing was gone, and even though they were rivals, he was still part of the trio. Xie Lian was once again haunted by Bai Wuxiang, when he returned home he was always in a bad mood, stressed and not talking to anyone. The only person Feng Xin talked to as an equal at that time was Jian Lan.

FX and JL were survivors of a war, they were living through a dark period, but they found each other and supported each other emotionally.

However, as XL himself realized, FX lived for XL, he grew up being brought up to obey him and put his life above his own, and Jian Lan noticed. FX needed to learn to let go of XL, but by then his relationship with JL had already become unsustainable, and in the end FX had neither the prince, nor the woman he fell in love with, nor his rival.

This phase of Feng Xin's life was extremely important for him to realize how much he placed Xie Lian's life at the center of his universe and to overcome this, it was important because he, after everything he had gone through, finally had moments of peace and happiness (the latter also applies to Jian Lan) and, in the current line of TGCF, it was important for him to realize the family he could have had, but lost due to his own immaturity.

At the end of TGCF, JL says to XL that his time with FX was great, but it's not time he would ever go back. They were both good for each other when they were together, but it didn't work out and it wouldn't work out in the current TGCF lineup.

Feng Xin is much more than an easily stressed character that only serves for headcanon and fanfics with Mu Qing, his life was not just the XianLe trio and his relationship with Jian Lan not only proved that, but served to develop it.

sokkalore

two cuntresses….

symphonyofsilence

Everyday she wakes up & creates characters that are divorced without ever being married.

ana-hyperfixates-on-tgcf

If/When Cuocuo grows up a bit and becomes more human-like, how do you think his first interaction with Mu Qing would go? I'm thinking little Cuocuo sees a person with long black hair, fair skin, and a thin frame and exclaims "MAMA," assuming this person who resembles his mama must be his mama. This startles both gods, but for wildly different reasons.

Mu Qing, being the overthinker that he is, immediately jumps to the conclusion that Feng Xin thinks he resembles Jian Lan and is only dating him because the latter rejected him.

Meanwhile, Feng Xin is sweating bullets because if Mu Qing realizes he does resemble Jian Lan, he might make the connection and uncover Feng Xin's biggest secret.

The first time Feng Xin bumped into Jian Lan in Yong'an, he was a little drunk. The fact that she looked familiar (because he actually did know her), combined with the dim lighting of the street, led Feng Xin to follow her, thinking she was Mu Qing. Eventually catching up with her inside the brothel, he realized she was not who he thought.

Part of why he kept returning to the brothel after that night was because he found comfort in Jian Lan being from Xianle. She was the only person he could talk to about the war and the royal family, a small piece of home he had left.

The other part was because seeing her with her beautiful long black hair, shiny black eyes, and pale complexion still reminded him of Mu Qing. With Mu Qing gone and presumed dead for a while, Feng Xin would take whatever he could to feel closer to him.

lettiegrief

It's so beautiful how TGCF approaches different types of love: a devotee's love; love of a god with humanity and with his most faithful devotee; love between friends; genuine love that had its end; love that wasn't enough. It's a shame that many people fail to appreciate this.

happypeachsludgeflower

The concept of Feng Xin being a sex god is hilarious. This man has slept with only one woman in 800 years and probably not even that often considering the circumstances of that particular disaster. But a random emperor dude made the equivalent of a xianxia typo and no one wanted to correct him, so now the entire world knows him as Tremendous Masculinity and prays to him for better sex.