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/tgcf spoilers ~DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T REACHED BLACKWATER ARC~ /
Once again, I feel compelled to make this post not because I want to entertain trolls, but just sort of clearing things out to those who know me. I don't ship x/ue/xi/ao but I do ship beefleaf. I hate X/ue Ya/n.g in canon. I don't hate He Xuan. Why? ///
/// The former had choices he could actively make, and he is unaffected by things outside of his control. Sure society sucks and his childhood was shitty and I sincerely wish he had been treated kinder, but chances are, as a young adult, he definitely had more freedom ///
/// given that he isn't born into an official sect. Yes he was a guest disciple at a number of places but if he could make the time and effort to forge a stygian tiger amulet and plan out an intricate revenge plan just cos a certain rogue cultivator offended him ///
///and later, he was caught for mass murder and brought to justice, or at least, attempted to be brought to justice. Even in his three years at Yi City, he still had plenty of room to make a different choice in his life but decided not to. There was no one really ///
/// stopping him and if Xingchen was willing to listen to him in that moment in ep 39, chances are, he would have been willing to listen to him earlier and maybe he wouldn't have completely forgiven him for the shit he did but if Xue Yang was sincere, Xingchen would ///
/// have listened. And while I don't think it's likely that in canon, if this did happen that Xue Yang would idk stay with Song Lan and Xingchen, but at the same time, he would be going off back into the world with a changed perspective and this second chance but ///
/// guess what? He didn't. Now, to He Xuan. If you have accidentally wandered into this thread and haven't read blackwater arc of tgcf, please be wary of heavy spoilers.
So He Xuan [redacted] and deceived Shi Qingxuan into believing that, yes. ///
So He Xuan [redacted] and deceived Shi Qingxuan into believing that, yes. ///
/// and he k/i/lled [redacted] so that his plan can go through, yes. But look here. He Xuan did it because Shi Wudu practically swopped his ENTIRE amazingly good fortune where *he* (He Xuan) would have ascended as a god and had all the good stuff but instead, ///
/// because of that swopping done by Shi Wudu, he is condemned to having a shitty life that he literally HAS NO CONTROL over. Even if He Xuan wanted to do something right and make things better for himself, he... cannot because of the way things are with fate/fortune ///
/// so obviously, especially when he began to be aware of this, he was fucking pissed. Cos who wouldn't be? He did NOTHING wrong, he is NOT A BAD GUY, he did not WANT any of this, and he would have changed things but he simply cannot. To me, the reason I ship beefleaf ///
/// is quite simple. He Xuan went into this arrangement with one thing in mind: take his revenge on the person who now holds onto his good fortune, Qingxuan. He had an elaborate plan involving Shi Wudu, yes, but see, in all those years he spent with Qingxuan, he just ///
/// could not bring himself to hurt Qingxuan in any way because well, Qingxuan is... like that. Sweet, loving, affectionate... and He Xuan saw that and sort of felt bad for what he was doing and kept pushing his plan away and away until one day, because of ///
/// unprecedented circumstances, He Xuan just couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to get things over and done with. That standoff with Shi Wudu was harsh and cruel, to ALL THREE involved in it. I understand Shi Wudu, I understand He Xuan and poor Qingxuan is caught up in ///
/// this crazy mess and no one knows what to do about it. So think about it this way. Did He Xuan really truly have a choice? Probably not. He couldn't have done anything to change his own fate so he decided to play along with it due to very justifiable rage he felt. ///
/// So yeah, that's my take. I shall elaborate no further except to say that He Xuan he did eventually soften. He probably only k/i/lled [redacted] because Qingxuan's life was on the line. He could have hurt Qingxuan after that but decided not to. ///
/// I know that it is easy to compare this with the SL/XY showdown in Yi City, but again... choices. XY didn't *need* to k/i/ll SL. SL did literally NOTHING to XY compared to what [redacted] did to HX. And yet, XY not only massacred his entire temple but also ///
/// decided to wait and delay the fight until XXC delivered the killing blow. Did XY know all of this? Of course. It was his plan all along. Even until the last moment in ep 39, XY was cold and ruthless, whereas HX tried not to be so. Therein lies the major difference. (end)
