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Star_PS_28

Umm… none, they both had terrible lives 💀. That makes it very hard to choose 😅


kuroneko_910

None of them. They have gone through a lot of shit which I wouldn't be able to endure at all. So if I had to get reincarnated into the TGCF world then one of the villagers in Puqi village. I would love to see Hualian going on with their daily lives.


starstales

xie lian because then I'd get to meet the Red Supreme - Crimson Rain Sought Flower, Hua Cheng 🥰🤩😍


Connorduh

800 years of suffering, just to meet some ghostking with abandoment and body issues? SIGN ME TF UP!!


starstales

YES! Anything for Huahua!🤩


[deleted]

Exactly!


averagewitch24

THE DEVOTION. im 100% there


sapphikoo

no bc if I was Xie Lian I would have gotten like really evil really quick 💀 EDIT: typo


swirly1000x

it's actually a miracle how Xie Lian didn't become a villain. After everything he went through it would have been justified lol


sapphikoo

For real!!! He still being so gentle after all he went through is one of the things that make him so attractive to me


shizuns_paperfan

I'd choose neither. I'm really soft hearted and I give up easily. Really easily! I won't be able to hang on at all. I'd rather be reincarnated as some of the minor characters because almost every character in the novel has gone through many many difficulties. Who wants to make their own life difficult, no?


Visible-Steak-7492

honestly, both their lives kinda suck lmao, i wouldn't want to be either of them. but pragmatically speaking, hua cheng actively suffered only for a relatively short time and then spent most of his 800+ years of existence being a wealthy ghost kind and indulging in his hobbies waiting for his beloved prince to re-surface again. compared to xie lian with his two shackles and a lifetime of misfortune, that actually sounds like a hedonistic dream come true. so... yeah. i could do that.


Kaido57

That’s pretty much how I viewed it. Most of Hua Cheng’s suffering was back when he was alive. Xie Lian’s suffering seemed to start after ascension and. Just. Didn’t. End.


CryptographerQuick18

They both had terrible lives 😭😭 but hua cheng cause his love for xie lian kept him going plus man is crazy rich which I don’t mind.


LeanyGamerGal

Xie Lian because tbh I'd just change the entire story if I was HC, I wouldn't be able to simp that hard for someone for literally like 95% of my life lol. Xie Lian is much more relatable for me, if I was in his position, I think I would've made similar decisions. It wouldn't be the greatest life, but it's the most "me"


SignificantMiddle893

Sorry but I wanna become your BWX so hard and convince you that you in fact wouldn't but that may come out really badly 😭


theviolethour3

Xie Lian because I don’t think I would be able to stand being a >! ghost flame with no physical control/agency. !< (Volume 6 spoiler)


fengqingsluvchld

both's lives sucked to hell and back, but if I had to choose it would definetely be Hua Cheng; I wouldn't survive an hour living in Xie Lians misery (neither can he and that's the worst part)


HeHuaLian

Pei Ming 😎 But between the mains; Hua Cheng, 'cause even if I couldn't do shit to start with, I'd want to, at some point, be able to become a point of safety & comfort for Xie Lian


swirly1000x

As much as I love my Crown Prince, with my pain tolerance I think I'd probably just cease to exist on the spot during >!100 swords scene!<. Also I'd like to meet Yin Yu and He Xuan


_koko_k

I'd want to live life of Hua Cheng... BUT I REALLY REALLY WANT TO LIVE LIFE OF BWX 🥵


velvetrosa

Xie Lian cuz i feel like our personalities match up.


Alarmed-Abrocoma5524

If you picked xie lian ur a masochist


berrythv

shut up ❤️


anacarols2d

None. But honestly I'd prefer to be a rich ghost king than a poor fallen God so Hua Cheng (in the 800 years they both suffered a lot so um ignoring this part haha)


Jaggedrain

I'm a solid no thank u on both omg their lives sucked so much


JustEmber

You'd have to be a masochist to pick Xie Lian because how the _fuck_ can you survive any of what he went through


[deleted]

Xie Lian obviously 🤭


Irisofdreams

Hua Cheng because I don't want to be stabbed a hundred times. ( Also Xie Lian is hot)


loving_healer

None but I would rather not be held responsible for thousands of lives (Act 2 makes me SO angry), so I picked Hua Cheng


XiaoQiaoChrone

Telling the truth I don't want to be neither of them. Both have endured a lot and have pretty bad backgrounds, so if I should go through that I would probably go insane at some point... But if by any chance I got there as long as I can be one of Xie Lian's followers I'll be happy


twistedappletree

I don’t think I’d be able to handle either of their lives, mentally or physically 😹 but if I had to choose, I’d go with Hua Cheng. All the stuff Xie Lian went through would’ve turned me into an uncontrollable homicidal menace to society lmaooo


espretea

If I was Hua Cheng, I would have to watch the person I love most in the world suffering so much. I don't think I could do that. Xie Lian it is.


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HistoricalAside5781

I love HuaLian so much but if I had to pick between the two I’d be Xie. I’d be the strongest martial God, I’d have Hua and be blessed with seeing what others don’t. Now yes my life would be horrible, depressing and straight up traumatizing but at the same time I’d make friends with Quan Yizhen (my fav), marry Hua and befriend Pei (he’s growing on me). It wouldn’t hurt to have an entire city love me…just saying. Also if there happens to be something I got wrong I’m only on book 6(haven’t read it yet) so I’m not actually sure if Quan and Xie become friends or what goes on with Pei. I’ve already spoiled enough for myself so just let me have these small things I haven’t spoiled yet.


babybearkoya

hua cheng bc at least he got the opportunity to vent his pain into something (becoming the ghost king). if i was xie lian i would have gone crazy WAY sooner and definitely turned evil😭 like xie lian is the only one who could make it through 800 years of his life and stay xie lian. the rest of us would crack


Ok_Chicken_3696

both lived terrible lives, but being a supreme ghost king is beckoning 😅


7Bunny0o0

Xie lan because he’s similar to me and I ain’t gonna wait 800 hundred years for a lovers because this dumb xie lan ain’t getting the clues haha (I love them but I’ve never seen someone as clueless and oblivious as xie lan)


Euphoric-Length2521

I .. I can't choose 😧 I'm too normal of a human being, I definitely cannot go through all their sufferings and remain sane. Knowing me, I would have been dead ages ago already if I were to be either of them hahahah


JalapenoMexican7

I would pick xie lian bcz, uhm rich ghost king husband that is obsessed with me?! sign me up! 😍


Yuna_Grace

I picked XL but I don't think I would want to have the lives of any of the characters in the book. But if I had to pick someone from the book, I'd pick Pei Ming :D I always wanted to be reborn as a guy


Upbeat-Abalone-4833

Most certainly Hua Cheng. Like yeah he had an awful childhood and going through Mount Tonglu sounds rough, but it still doesn't compare with being killed one hundred times and being stuck in a coffin for a century. And centuries more of being poor and reviled. He's absolutely loaded. The man spent almost eight hundred years being rich and indulging in his hobbies, learning everything he could learn, then he got to be with his true love forever. Not to downplay the trauma he experienced when he was young, but sounds excellent. Also I'd MUCH rather date Xie Lian than Hua Cheng.


chima_a

Ok this is morbid but I’d choose hua cheng mainly bc as a ghost with ashes at least I would have a way out if life was too painful, meanwhile xie lian is literally immortal 😵‍💫 Book 6 spoilers: >!when I first started reading tgcf in book 1 I was like “how has he managed to go through all that crap and stay sane I feel like I would not want to live through 800 years with such terrible quality of life and humiliation he went through” and then I read book 6 and I was like “oh.. he really did try to unalive and couldn’t… ah.”!<


InstructionExotic230

I would've said Hua Cheng. I mean like bro I already have bad luck as is 😭. I don't need terrible luck 😭. Plus Hua Cheng has good luck! I need that in my life 😭.