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  1. CitrusShower on Chapter 9 Wed 20 Mar 2024 02:14PM UTC

    Liyue people, crying: nooo, she's gentle and loving goddess! Devoted to her husband! Our 2000+ years beliefs about marriage and romance! The picture of feminine grace!

    Said Goddess' Twin, who's been tackled and tumbled down hills by her sister, has been bitten several times for stealing her mooncakes, and grew up with all the wrestling and fighting as all close in age siblings do: Ya'll are delusional of you think my sister has never tried to bite Rex Lapis' finger off if she could. She'd stab him with a chopstick if that was the only thing in hand no hesitation: she's done it enough times to our brothers.

    (Her twin would probably present MC's story as someone being pressed into an awful arranged marriage, but perpetually working to secure her autonomy from a controlling husband, and denying him always of the complete dependence and submission he craves; a quiet kind of courage and dignity.

    It would probably appeal to the young ladies like Ayaka where power, connections, thw whims of men and politics might dictate the course of a girl's life and that even when put in a suffocating situation where they're forced to comply, a young woman doesn't need to meekly submit.)

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    1. Fancy_feathers on Chapter 9 Wed 20 Mar 2024 02:37PM UTC

      I feel like the only person in Liyue who may actually like her books in Xingqiu, mostly because of her writing style and how old the author must be, she has to to be over a hundred now and still publishes!

      It would probably be some sort of retelling of their “love story”, but written as you mentioned with the forced marriage. But I definitely do think in the summary she would be confident enough to say that it is a retelling of those stories, the true stories that have been forgotten, or something along those lines.

      I actually did have an idea of a scene with the sister and Ayaka, sort one of those times where you get to meet the author and she asks where she got this story and what not. This scene will actually be in the story, just something else with it.

      (Now I am imagining Zhongli seeing the book being sold at the bookstore and he sees the summary and is just like… who knows? And you know how Zhongli roamed the harbor and then would endorse businesses as Rex Lapis (or so I believe that is what was mentioned in the archon quest), he would definitely be like “this book is horrible and nothing but lies.” Meanwhile his wife snuck a copy and is reading it and getting ideas)

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