Adding Hua Cheng Admiring His Gege Eating Congee 🥣

And this is why everybody should love Xie Lian! And he deserves all good things in life!!✨

Obsessed with Xie Lan as a character. Like I know everyone reads these books for the romance but the individual character concepts are hilarious.

Xie Lan is a prince. He eats poison on the reg. He’s forever stuck looking like he’s nineteen. He’s the oldest guy in the communication array. He knows kung fu. He dressed in drag to catch a ghost on two separate unrelated occasions. He’s the world greatest detective. He’s kind. He was forced into a trolley problem and chose to pull the lever. His cooking is awful to the point it could kill a god. He’s kind. He tried to give CPR to a ghost. He’s the unluckiest man alive. He’s been kicked out of heaven multiple times. He’s kind. He caught a kid from certain death and everyone was pissed at him forever about it. He regrets nothing but coming back to heaven.

Xie lian: “There is nothing wrong with saving people. Why would the heavens condemn me for doing the right thing?”

State Preceptors: Uh…but what if the heavens do condemn you?

Xie lian: “Then it is the heavens who are wrong. Why would I apologize to those who are wrong?”

Oof 💯 truth right there..Initially it was hard to understand him being overprotective and over cautious over a very powerful martial God who is immune to many things. But then book 6 arc 4 happened. Hua Cheng is the normal one in this relationship!

At first, Hua Cheng mostly gives off the impression of a normal over-protective broody love interest in a romance novel, overly paranoid over anything that might potentially hurt Xie Lian, but then you get to the White Clothed Calamity arc and realize, oh god, oh fuck, that’s actually a completely reasonable response to having to watch someone go through that, he’s actually showing remarkable restraint by allowing Xie Lian to go off and do his own thing as much as he does

Xie Lian's inner monologue - Book 6, Arc 4, Chapter 104

"You want to see me feel sorry for myself and self-destruct?

Well, I won't!

I will never!"

I think about it often. He really had nothing to hold on to other than his God. And he never thought of himself as anything other than a devoted believer of his God. Whatever he did, he didn't, he achieved, he lost, everything was for his God. Hua Cheng was faithful beyond limits.✨❤️

! warning: tgcf spoiler !

tgcf quotes that make u inhale

“only after having met you did I rediscover that it’s such a simple thing to be happy.”

“to some, the mere existence of a certain person in this world is, in itself, hope.”

“there was a period of time in my life that wasn’t easy, and during that time, I’d constantly think that, should someone witness the me who rolled in the dirt, unable to get up, yet still love me for who I was, that’d be great.”

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you burn after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. but I know you wouldn’t allow it.”

“something like a genuine heart is made to be trampled.”

“to watch with your own eyes your beloved be trampled and ridiculed while unable to do anything - that’s the worst suffering in the world.”

“to me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. what matters is you, and not the state of you.”

“those who have known each other for decades can become strangers in a day. we met by chance and we may part by chance. if we like each other, then we shall continue to meet; if we don’t, then we shall part. there’s no banquet in the world that doesn’t come to an end, so I’ll say what I want to say.”

“I will fight for what I don’t have. I will change fates I don’t possess. my fate is up to me, not the heavens!”

“I might not be able to decide whether the road is easy or not, but whether I walk it is entirely up to me.”

“I do not worship gods - I am God!”

Bless whomever put this compilation together

Faith is like a flame. Sometimes it burns brightly, sometimes it's just a flicker. But, it's still there, always there, waiting to grow strong again....!✨

Habits of people living in blue zones:

-drinking tea

-eating till 80% full

-drinking alcohol in moderation

-social bonding

-no strenuous exercise but moving everyday

-low stress

-low meat consumption

Okinawan diet:

-rich in tofu, sweet potatoes, fish (3 times a week), vegetables (at least 11 ounces per day)

-served in 4 small plates and 1 slightly bigger plate