#yzy

[doomedmuse]

static in my mind, turn the tv off

[pubescentdramaqueenn]

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[theflytrap]

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yzy x mowalola

[helpmeimblorboing]

I wonder if there’s a universe out there where Yu Ziyuan and Jiang Fengmian ended up more like Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan.

Where instead of both families pushing for the marriage alliance to go through, one of them recognised the strain it was having on the actual relationship at its core, and broke it off.

Where, instead of marrying with the full knowledge that it was all just politics and strategy and unwilling obedience, they had the chance to properly court each other, to maybe even fall in love.

After all, we get several hints that the two DO love one another, deep down, whatever they show on the surface - Zidian unfurls for Jiang Fengmian, recognising him as a safe place for Ziyuan’s children, Fengmian goes all the way to Qishan to repair one of Madam Yu’s bracelets. Like a lotus, their relationship seems shallow and barely afloat, but the tangled roots extend way, way, down.

Maybe that’s why Jiang Fengmian chose to break off the engagement between Yanli and Zixuan in the first place. Maybe he was trying to be for them the person who never was for him.

And, you know what, I think Madam Yu recognises that. It’s just that, flavoured with decades of accumulated resentment, she sees it as a slight against her, as opposed to the one thing that might have helped their relationship in the early years.