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heated rivalry just Gets It
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this person gets it.
Living with Toji sounds like a dream until you remember that hes still a man 🌚
Do with that what you will....(lmaoo)
I think one of the reasons why I find Li Lianhua so relatable is bc I was, too, a talented gifted kid praised by adults, who couldn't waste talent so I had piano lessons, singing lessons, two acting classes (one outside school, one with school), artistic gymnastic lessons, volleyball, dance, theater shows in the summer, and let's not forget studying bc you're so smart of course you'll be a good student (and you can't bear to disappoint the teachers and the parents). So I also participated in philosophy Olympics, Italian Olympics, maths Olympics and every science competition organised by my school, while also signing up for P.E. extra activities bc I was the only student my P.E. teacher (her words) said had some life and passion for gymnastic in all her classes.
Then uni times, went to live outside my childhood house for the first time, and also outside the town I grew up in where everyone knew me and automatically put expectations on me (and my siblings sadly)
And suddenly I just want to have long walks with my friends, spend my free days laying in bed, cook and eat my food, read books lazily, drink warm tea in late afternoons, and let time pass without feeling guilty. All the while learning to accept to live with the constant exhaustion (and finding out my constant headache and being almost always in some kind of constsnt pain of is, in fact, Not Normal) and slowly understanding myself and having epiphanies about my gender and sexuality.
Truly, Li Lianhua and his tired gifted kid burnt out chronically ill constantly exhausted self who just wants to water his plants, wander in the Jianghu, scam people and sleep conquered me in ways young heroes of the Jianghu of other c-dramas couldn't (no shade intended)
Or, citing my amazing roomate (who I dragged in the fandom) wise words: "He's so damn relatable it should be illegal"
more Cadmus gripe time because I just finished the last boy on earth arc and ughhhh SB was so devastated to return home and find everyone gone, and we saw that Roxy spent weeks trying so hard to find him when everyone else said he was gone and good riddance, she even found Robin's number and asked Batman for help, she even went to see if Knockout knew anything, and everyone at Cadmus knows this- and when SB comes back from spending months as an amnesiac captive and wants so badly to see his friends again, they don't use their incredible resources to track down Roxy and help reunite them, they take him to Paris and claim it's because giving him a new scenery and something to hit will do him good and get his mind off it, but then it turns out they just want to field test him and get him to work for them. SB going from being exploited by Leech to exploited by Cadmus is bridged by a story where he's literally stripped of all agency and the ability to speak for himself and I'm going to scream.