Was Xie Gu Chou rude when he called Yan Chi Wu an idiot or is there some discord between the two?

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The person who was instrumental in Dong Hua meeting Bai Gun Gun was Xie Gu Chou. If you could recall the scene – Lian Song, Zhe Yan, Cheng Yu, Yan Chi Wu and Si Ming were chatting in Dong Hua’s residence in the Holy Blue Sea (Bi Hai Cang Ling) when Gun Gun made his grand entrance with Xie Gu Chou. Then, Xie Gu Chou’s voice was heard calling Yan Chi Wu “Idiot” before the camera focused on him and Gun Gun entering the room. Did you ever wonder why he said what he did?

In Tang Qi’s latest post, Mi Gu (her trusted assistant who helps her with answering fan’s questions and other tasks) explained that there is a background story as to why Xie Gu Chou passed that remark. In fact, Mi Gu points out – had the group not been so enthralled with Gun Gun, they (the gossipy bunch) would have probed further as to why Yan Chi Wu had been labelled an ‘idiot’. She reveals that among them, Lian Song is aware of the relationship between the duo and given some time, Si Ming could probably have uncovered the reason as well.

So, here’s the inside scoop…. part of the answer can be found in Lotus Steps and most of it is yet to come. [Note: Mi Gu points to excerpts in Chapter 17 and for brevity, we have summarised her original post but have preserved the part with the strikethrough.]

It seems that Lian Song had struck a deal with Xie Gu Chou about 50,000 years ago which required him to ‘locate’ Yan Chi Wu. At the same time, he had brought Cheng Yu to the Underworld to court her (mistake, delete that), to resolve an issue that weighed heavily on Cheng Yu’s heart. 

The request to look for Yan Chi Wu had been made for the sake of Xie Gu Chou’s elder sister, Xie Hua Lou, who had accepted Yan Chi Wu as her disciple. Apparently, Xie Hua Lou was in deep slumber at the point Lotus Step was being narrated.

In Xie Gu Chou’s eyes (though he does not come right out to say it), his sister is even more beautiful than Bai Qian, despite the latter being ranked the first on the list of beauties in the World. So, it beguiles him as to why his sister would take such an interest in Yan Chi Wu. Though ‘our’ pretty boy (Yan Chi Wu) is good-looking, his appearance pales in comparison with Xie Hua Lou’s beauty. 

Xie Gu Chou has a sister complex (read he is overprotective of his sister). He has held Yan Chi Wu in contempt for tens of thousands of years and is extremely unhappy with the sister’s choice of a man. He cannot find it in his heart to consider this person as his brother-in-law.

At the end of the post, Mi Gu informs fans that a book is in the making (expect one in the next 10 years), dedicated to an exciting story of Xie Hua Lou and Yan Chi Wu as CP (i.e. Chinese slang for a couple). And in line with Tang Qi’s acerbic humour, she taunts Xie Gu Chou, “Xiao Yan is destined to be your brother-in-law and whether you like it or not, you will have no control over that!”

Before she ends, she acknowledges that fans have been curious about what work life is like in the underworld, besides the sibling’s love life. Fans have posed questions such as: ‘How is the underworld like? Where is it? Is the sibling’s work similar to the traditional God of the Underworld, Hades?

Mi Gu, who is such a tease, says she will answer such questions another time…

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