my favorite thing about this shot beyond the immediate level of seeing two people i ship in physical contact is that in their last onscreen interaction meng yao was barely comfortable looking xichen in the eye let alone touching him... there& #39;s been a Change in the Dynamic

not only THAT but he& #39;s arguably telling lxc what to do without speaking to or even looking at him? the touch feels very "stay there, don& #39;t move, don& #39;t get involved, i& #39;ll handle it" and lxc visibly absorbs all of that before he even turns around. which has various Implications.

god what else. nmj waking up in lxc& #39;s arms and smiling. nmj admitting that he looked for jgy during the campaign. lxc& #39;s first onscreen deployment of "a-yao" being in a conversation with nmj. The Kneel. so many things happening in this five minutes, all of them gay

between this scene, the scene with j*n gu*ngsh*n and the wen remnants, the wedding, and the sun palace banquet, this whole episode is a 3zun buffet... not like a regular buffet but like the buffet in pan& #39;s labyrinth. i eat and then the host tries to fucking kill me