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Look, sometimes you have to take a break from monitoring your could-be crush to learn some important swordplay! Right? RIGHT?!

Shen Qiao and Yan Wushi are slowly making their way back to Chang'an, but Yan Wushi's personalities are in disarray and Shen Qiao reaches a breaking point when Yan Wushi "returns" to be his usual smarmy self!

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Romania Black - Thousand Autumns: Chapters 70-72 Reaction! YAN WUSHI RETURNS?!

**TRANSITIONAL HEADPHONE WARNINGS** Look, sometimes you have to take a break from monitoring your could-be crush to learn some important swordplay! Right? RIGHT?! Shen Qiao and Yan Wushi are slowly making their way back to Chang'an, but Yan Wushi's personalities are in disarray and Shen Qiao reaches a breaking point when Yan Wushi "returns" to be his usual smarmy self! Thank you for watching with me and for all the support! #romaniablack #thousandautumns #ta #novelreaction Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RomaniaBlack My Anime: https://myanimelist.net/profile/RomaniaBlack Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RomaniaBlack You can mail me a letter or anything (except food, please) at this address: Romania Black PO Box 768 Harrisburg, IL 62946 USA

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chui

I will always cry about never getting a season 2 for the donghua. How dare they bait me into watching season 1 with old man chesticles, only to rip season 2's multiple-personality and crossdressing chesticles from me!!! 😭💔 I think Shen Qiao grew attached to Xie Ling mostly because Shen Qiao loves children. He's a bit weirded out by Xie Ling because Xie Ling is a facet of a grown man, and it's jarring to see him act like a child. But, he inevitably grows to like Xie Ling because of the purity he sees in his eyes that is specific to that of children. What's interesting to me is how strong Xie Ling is compared to the other personalities. In these chapter sets, Xie Ling has almost complete control of Yan Wushi's body. In one of the previous chapter sets, Xie Ling said, "I wanted to come out, so I did"— which implies that he overpowered the other personalities to maintain his presence in this chapter set. He was Xie Ling for several days, while Ah-Yan can barely stay conscious for about a day at most. My delulu thought (delulu because my SOUL needs it to be true 😂) is that subconsciously, Yan Wushi misses how warmly Shen Qiao treated him before he betrayed him to Sang Jingxing, especially now that Shen Qiao is the only person he trusts. Knowing Shen Qiao's fondness for children and seeing how soft he can be towards Xie Ling, Yan Wushi subconsciously allowed Xie Ling to take over to experience that same gentleness by proxy. Funnily enough, when Yan Wushi regains control, Xie Ling is also the personality he's most jealous of for having received such kindness with zero effort, even though (in my delulu thoughts) YAN WUSHI is the one who used Xie Ling to steal affection not meant for him! When Shen Qiao first met Xie Ling, he said that it was strange that Xie Ling could come from such a cunning person like Yan Wushi, and Xie Ling replied, "Not necessarily." So, the funny thing about Yan Wushi being jealous of Xie Ling is that he knows that Xie Ling is acting cute and innocent to appeal to Shen Qiao— as exemplified by Xie Ling being able to crush a cup to powder and stabbing a chopstick through a wooden table, but being meek and fragile in Shen Qiao's presence— and it's working wonders! Meanwhile, Yan Wushi is left to hem and haw about the difference in treatment. You are your own worst enemy, and Yan Wushi has found that in Xie Ling in this game of love. 🤭🤭 Delulu aside, I'm going to try to make sense of my rambling thoughts below, but there are a lot of "maybes" incoming. I think Yan Wushi is absorbing the personalities chronologically backwards, like so: the violent personality, Ah-Yan, and lastly, Xie Ling. Not in the chronological order they appeared after the ambush, but more like backwards in the order of existence? Because the violent personality and Ah-Yan are tied closer to the real Yan Wushi's personality, they were probably easier to absorb. Meanwhile, Xie Ling might be taking more time to be absorbed, because of the amount of memories being put back together. But, it could be interesting that, logically, the violent personality and Ah-Yan should co-exist, sort of like two sides of a coin that manifested simultaneously in Yan Wushi as a representation of sheer violence and reason. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but maybe it means something that Yan Wushi absorbed the violent personality first, and then Ah-Yan second (I'm only assuming Ah-Yan's been absorbed because of how front and center Xie Ling has been without Ah-Yan interrupting). Absorbing Ah-Yan second could be a representation of Yan Wushi's reason restraining his indiscriminate violent nature— or it could be a representation of his current thoughts being influenced by Ah-Yan's feelings for Shen Qiao, in which he is now choosing not to be so cold towards Shen Qiao, and instead starting to treat him as someone with the potential to be precious to him (whether as an equal rival or romantic partner).

romaniablack

Seriously, a season 2 of this would be INSANELY GOOD! We have been ROBBED! And yes, I’m going to talk about that with this next week’s chapter set but I agree with why SQ is more attached to Xie Ling; you’ll probably enjoy the discussion based on this comment haha!! That is a good point about Xie Ling and (again next week’s discusssssion) I think that YWS is jealous of the way XL is treated by SQ. I totally agree with your headcanon here!! But yessss, YWS is his own worst enemy!! *plays Lit song* I don’t think you’re delulu at all! That’s interesting about the absorption rate; I’m not sure but hopefully we find out from the show as we keep reading! 🙂 Thanks for the comment!

Rhast

Romania: "JUST KISS!" I agree, but I never blamed SQ, Yan Wushi is gonna have to work for it now. He was too mean for too long.

romaniablack

RIGHT?! I don't blame SQ for not, but when we see where this is going -- ugh, the angst and YEARNING -- it's so good! But I agree, Yan Wushi has a LOT of work to do to prove he deserves Shen Qiao! Thank you for the comment!