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Masterlist and Guide
This was great!!
This FuChai is bitter, commanding, and badass with a stubborn core of compassion which melts the lonely heart under Wu ZiXu's bitter, commanding, badass, callous exterior. It has a lot of fun with all the complex, sexy power relationships inherent to a romance between an older advisor and the ruler he's known since she was a child. It turns out he only really met her when she was 14, so it's not as quasi-cross-gen-incestuous as it could have been but it's still what it is.
She's very much in charge though. He kneels a lot. It's great.
The route is all about overcoming trauma and has some pretty dark moments.
Also, this isn't an objective flaw, but it messed me about a bit with how it handled gender: the happy ending is about both of them regaining the potential for happiness they had before being consumed with hatred and revenge, which for FuChai means regaining a connection with her younger, princess self. And Wu ZiXu is the most explicitly into her being a woman so far. On the other hand there were some moments that felt pretty gay, and it feels very much like Wu ZiXu would also be into her as a dude, she just happens not to be one.
These writers are GREAT at bittersweet yearning, I am definitely playing the game they wrote about Forbidden Love with a monastery full of celibate monks.
Content notes: suicide, violence, incest, rape (not from LI), violence between love interests
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This was great!!
This FuChai is bitter, commanding, and badass with a stubborn core of compassion which melts the lonely heart under Wu ZiXu's bitter, commanding, badass, callous exterior. It has a lot of fun with all the complex, sexy power relationships inherent to a romance between an older advisor and the ruler he's known since she was a child. It turns out he only really met her when she was 14, so it's not as quasi-cross-gen-incestuous as it could have been but it's still what it is.
She's very much in charge though. He kneels a lot. It's great.
The route is all about overcoming trauma and has some pretty dark moments.
Also, this isn't an objective flaw, but it messed me about a bit with how it handled gender: the happy ending is about both of them regaining the potential for happiness they had before being consumed with hatred and revenge, which for FuChai means regaining a connection with her younger, princess self. And Wu ZiXu is the most explicitly into her being a woman so far. On the other hand there were some moments that felt pretty gay, and it feels very much like Wu ZiXu would also be into her as a dude, she just happens not to be one.
These writers are GREAT at bittersweet yearning, I am definitely playing the game they wrote about Forbidden Love with a monastery full of celibate monks.
Content notes: suicide, violence, incest, rape (not from LI), violence between love interests
( Read more... )
