Waaaiiittt the way Jun Wu thinks he’s the Hua Cheng in Xie Lian’s life (a comforting, loving and protective figure) and Hua Cheng thinks he’s the Jun Wu in his life (a creepy obsessive stalker) and the way they both act accordingly

One of my favourite qualities about Hua Cheng is that he is extremely shameless and will flirt and tease and pose pretty and make big do me eyes at his Gege and cause Xie Lians inner monologue to produce a 404 code but it’s so clear that if Xie Lian turned around to him and showed him a flash of ankle he’d explode with the force of ten thousand suns.

Unpopular opinion, but it's criminal to me how the fandom often reduces Hua Cheng to his drawings by making him an art major or a painter or yada yada... When this man's only interest beside Xie Lian has been canonically archeology.

Like his art is an extension of his interest on Xie Lian. But archeology? "Yeah I got bored so I excavated an entire city smothered in ashes, studied their culture and learned to read their language even though I couldn't hear anyone speak it." You're gonna tell me he doesn't like doing anything else beside art with this? Heck, I'd even argue that the fact he mostly does religious imagery of Xie Lian is part of his true calling which is archeology.

Also please how funny would it be in modern AUs when he has to go on trips for his job and he's just sad because he wants to bring Xie Lian with him, but Xie Lian has a fencing competition to come and his association voluntary work. Or if he tries to complain about work and Xie Lian is like "Oh it's that antique thing right?" and Hua Cheng has tears in his eyes trying to stay sane like "It's actually early Han dynasty which is..." and then monologue for an hour.

Also it explains why he survives Xie Lian's food. "You're an archeologist? Ha! I bet you've eaten a mummy once." "I haven't but I did eat a piece of cheese and some preserved pastries from the Qin dynasty once." "What." "What?"

Like you're really telling me this man right here would draw anything else beside Xie Lian? And make money out of only drawing Xie Lian that he would sell?? I mean maybe he could but he wouldn't. Meanwhile archeology is just as unstable of a job and a lot more funnier.

"hua cheng is so jealous and possessive -" WRONG. that guy would watch xie lian date someone else and ask xie lian every day what his day was like and how the date was and it would literally kill him (for 19th time) to hear about it but he'd still ask because he likes seeing xie lian be happy.

if hua cheng ever dated anyone else (not that he would) xie lian would 100% arrange for a mysterious accident to happen. xie lian got jealous over ghost fire's beloved and wu ming's beloved and san lang's beloved and hua cheng's beloved despite the fact that it's literally. i have no words. you know what i mean.

imagine you're 16 years old and you have a huge crush on this celebrity that you use as a coping mechanism to get through high school and your shitty home life. then your celebrity crush openly protests against the corrupt government which causes him to get canceled on Twitter and his old boy band kicks him out and his parents get assassinated. then one day you go to the bar and he's there getting blackout drunk and starting fights with people so you follow him around to make sure he doesn't die but then he almost gets hit by a bus so you push him out of the way and get hit by the bus instead. when you wake up in the hospital no one knows where he is but you miraculously have a full scholarship to law school. 30 years pass and you become very successful lawyer. you get a case representing a garbage man who uncovered key evidence in an unsolved murder from 30 years ago. you go to meet with your new client for the first time. it's your old celebrity crush.

that's what happened to hua cheng

lost in those eyes! ❤️👁️

you can always tell when hua cheng sees his precious beloved.. i love drawing his gaze at xie lian so much i do it all the time lmao

MXTX mains by ascending order of how much fun they'd have if their love interest shrank to pocket size:

6 Lan Wangji -- this poses a significant impediment to his sex life and also is nearly as stressful as wei ying running around in paper man form, but much less easily reversed.

5 Luo Binghe -- look, tiny shizun is cute, but the novelty is going to wear off quick and then what? this shizun has to fly up on a tiny sword to even pat Luo Binghe's head, his lap is not big enough for Binghe to lie on, it's just not sustainable.

4 Hua Cheng -- theoretically he's not against this it's just that xie lian would manage to be the most stressful unholy terror if he was mouse-sized, I think.

3 Shen Qingqiu -- actually he loves this, look at the itty-bitty binghe! but his ability to enjoy it is dampened by luo binghe's genuine and obvious misery with the situation. binghe worked so hard to get taller than shizun and now it's all ruined! again!

2 Xie Lian -- same as shen qingqiu actually he thinks smol san lang is very cute, and hua cheng is better at handling this development than luo binghe. unfortunately it does kind of remind them of when hua cheng was a helpless ghost light and xie lian was being tortured.

1 Wei Wuxian -- he's making lan zhan a tiny guqin.

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

by far the funniest explanation for Xie Lian not realizing all those boys/men in his life with dark hair and an eyepatch have been the same guy is that repeated exposure to Hua Cheng has caused him to believe that eyepatches on men are way more common than they actually are. "average person is highly likely to wear an eyepatch" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person wears 0 eyepatches. Eyepatches Georg, who sculpts in a cave & wears an eyepatch for 800 years, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Merry Christmas ('s eve) everyone! After finishing most of my work for this month, I wanted to make something fun, so here it is!

(Reminder that the version of the characters here are from my comic "summarizing tgcf without having read any of it" and so are inherently ooc)

Jun Wu has been left out...