I firmly believe that Jin Guangyao and Jiang Cheng have no beef with each other for the majority of the timeskip. They both have traits that the other values in allies, if not necessarily in friends:
Jin Guangyao is extremely appropriate, considerate, hardworking, and never makes social situations worse than they have to be. I don’t think Jiang Cheng would care that he has schemes or a fake smile because that’s just everyone in the political world; it’s not as if he has any delusions that the other high-ranking gentry are being fully honest and sincere with him either. On the contrary, he would pretty much respect the work ethic and understand that sometimes you have to do shit to get your dad to like you even when you know it won’t work. In short, Jin Guangyao is unlikely to do anything to piss Jiang Cheng off, and at least is very kind to Jin Ling.
On the other side, Jiang Cheng is a man who is just not very dangerous if you understand him. You can say he’s a man with a predictable temper, or you can call him easy to manipulate; either way, this works in Jin Guangyao’s favour. Jiang Cheng is aware of Jin Guangyao’s various social disadvantages, but is too pragmatic to try and exploit them, and is too single-issue to be a significant political opponent. While he does come from privilege, his personal life is so tragic that I don’t think Jin Guangyao would feel moved to envy or resent him for his social standing, and at the same time he’s a sect leader who actually does work instead of foisting it off on his servants or onto Jin Guangyao himself. In short, Jiang Cheng does not pose a threat to Jin Guangyao, and at least is very kind to Jin Ling.
Does this make them besties? That depends on how deep I am in the Chengyao sauce on any given day, but for sure they are not enemies up until the shit has hit the fan post-timeskip. They are essentially each other’s least hated coworker
Brand Ambassador Wang Yibo attended the Chanel 2026 Métiers d'Art collection New York launch wearing a black-trimmed white knit cardigan (style 34) from the Chanel 2026 Spring/Summer collection, paired with a camellia brooch and sunglasses.
thinking about the daddy issues tournament that jiggy was in and how people who were for the person he was put against reblogged it like “but did this jin guangyao whoever KILL his dad???” and all the mdzs fans got to gleefully swarm in like You Are Not Ready To Hear What Jin Guangyao Did To His Fucking Dad. and when they said it the person running the poll was like jesus what the fuck i didn’t know that
Inside you are two wolves. One wants to follow more MDZS blogs for more MDZS stuff and the other is preemptively exhausted with the necessary task of first finding out how each blog feels about Jiang Cheng
still cannot get over the audacity it takes to adapt a book series about gay people and necromancy fully knowing youre gonna have to censor both the gay people and the necromancy. thats a wild call
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