Why cant they just kiss
The laws in China prohibit any depiction of LGBTQ+ people in any medium. That's why old xian will never explicitly show the characters kissing in any of their comics, because they could get in trouble with the law. The kisses can be insinuated if the faces are mostly hidden (like in chapter 410). But besides that we won't get much more
Because the gOvErNmEnt
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