You might think that txj is distressed because, in the midst of despair, he realised that everything he has ever cherished has been burned down to ashes by a mind that doesn’t belong to his body and he doesn’t quite understand why…
In reality he just broke his favourite mug (he and cwn had matching ones)
wow. rereading svsss after reading 2ha gave such a whiplash bc it made me realize that some of the events that happen in svsss only seem funny bc it’s told from shen yuan’s pov who uses humor as coping mechanism, but there are actually so many things that went down that are actually so heavy, angsty, and melodramatic.
like, man, a lot of the stuff bingqiu have been through are actually as severe as the things ranwan had gone through, and yet the tones of the two novels are incomparable. svsss has the tone of a romcom while 2ha is straight up a soap opera
