The thing is when you read Chinese fanfic they don’t really bother with tags so it’s a blind box situation. Bcs wdym the summary was just like “XiaLou short fic after eps 29💕” and it hailou laying eggs (pleasant surprise for a freak like me)
Shipping culture had really shifted… ppl are now chasing only “canon cp”… which is fine you do you but then they start looking down to ppl who ship/watch non-canon one…