Maybe I misread the novel or read a slightly off translation, but I wasn't sure it was specified how mxy had the red eye makeup when wwx woke up so I guess I just assumed like it was the people being mean to him? Who gave him bad makeup as a way to bully him? It never occurred to me that it could have been mxy himself applying the bad makeup tbh
Well, tbh that could be true. The wiki states that: “He often painted his face white and rouged his cheeks, giving him the appearance of a ‘hanged ghost.’” but the source for that is based on Chapter 2 of the novel, and the most that’s written in chapter 2 is:
“Fortunately, the body wasn’t born this way—it was only one of the owner’s penchants. He was no-doubt a man, yet he was covered with makeup (not to mention, badly applied makeup). Ugh, how unbearable!”
Since that’s wwx’s account (an assumption -- it’s not like he rly knows mxy), there’s nothing rly in the novel or donghua that hints that mxy actually owns makeup. You could be right.
But also in Chapter 3 of the manhua, the makeup is clearly shown to be part of mxy’s belongings. Mxy kept it in his personal little lock box, plus, the makeup looks way too nice for it to be something people wanted to gift him as trash, so in the manhua I think you can conclude that mxy owns the makeup.
Because of wwx’s claims of mxy being a cutsleeve who wears makeup badly or whatever, and because of the manhua, i guess most people have concluded that mxy owns the makeup in all adaptations as a generalization.
That’s not to say that because something is true in the manhua, it’s true for the other sources as well. For example, in the live drama wwx actually keeps his original body and wears a mask which is completely different from the other adaptations. Each adaptation has its own canon and each adaptation is equally valid as a ‘canon’ since mxtx gets the $$ for each adaptation
So I guess what I’m trying to say after all of that, is if you think that mxy was being bullied and thats why he had that makeup, then that could be true! i actually never considered that perhaps people bullied him into bad makeup, and i think that’s an interesting approach. i hope me presenting you with all those sources helps you a little with what you think happened with mxy’s makeup and i hope i didnt bore you lmao