History HoYay / LingQi

You think [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Free Free!]] is the gayest non-BL work to ever come into existence? Think again. The ridiculous amount of queerbaiting in Ling Qi will awe even the most seasoned BL fans - to the point that declaring it a non-BL work is almost pointless. Starting from chapter 70-ish, almost every few chapters, we will have Yang Jinghua and Duanmu Xi lovingly look at each other and whisper the sweetest of declarations. There probably isn't any other existing work that contains such blatant subtexts - so blatant that it makes you wonder why Ling Qi has not gone full-blown into the BL territory yet. In fact, it would be fair if readers want to consider Ling Qi a love story (or at least, a very sentimental story) between 2 humans who are fated to meet and have nothing left but each other in the world.

* Their major mode of energy transfer is through kissing. They have done that for [[spoiler:6 times]] throughout the whole series up till this point. And we all know there will be more, considering that there are still some hundreds of chapters left.

(However, in all fairness, author Ping Zi has confirmed on numerous occasions that Duanmu Xi and Yang Jinghua would never have romantic feelings for each other. Therefore, Ling Qi does not and will not belong to the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiGenre?from=Main.ShounenAi Yaoi Genre]].)

(However, in all fairness, author Ping Zi has confirmed on numerous occasions that Duanmu Xi and Jinghua would never have romantic feelings for each other. Therefore, Ling Qi does not and will not belong to the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiGenre?from=Main.ShounenAi Yaoi Genre]].)

(However, in all fairness, author Ping Zi has confirmed on numerous occasions that Duanmu Xi and Jinghua would never have romantic feelings for each other. Therefore, Ling Qi does not belong to the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiGenre?from=Main.ShounenAi Yaoi Genre]].)

You think [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Free Free!]] is the gayest non-BL work to ever come into existence? Think again. The ridiculous amount of queerbaiting in Ling Qi will awe even the most seasoned BL fans - to the point that declaring it a non-BL work is almost pointless. Starting from chapter 70-ish, almost every few chapters, we will have Yang Jinghua and Duanmu Xi lovingly look at each other and whisper the sweetest of declarations. There probably isn't any other existing work that contains such blatant subtexts - so blatant that it makes you wonder why Ling Qi has not gone full-blown into the BL territory yet. In fact, it would be fair to even say that Ling Qi is ultimately a love story between 2 humans who are fated to meet and have nothing left but each other in the world.

(However, in all fairness, let's bear in mind that author Ping Zi has confirmed on numerous occasions that Duanmu Xi and Jinghua would never have romantic feelings for each other. Therefore, Ling Qi does not belong to the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiGenre?from=Main.ShounenAi Yaoi Genre]].)

* This is the chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooiGUMu5Odg "无限大"]] ("Limitless"), the official opening song of Ling Qi donghua. Many fans have voiced that the song perfectly depicts the relationship between Xi and Jinghua:

-->Converge into an unlimited, exciting splendor."

You think [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Free Free!]] is the gayest non-BL work to ever come into existence? Think again. The ridiculous amount of queerbaiting in Ling Qi will awe even the most seasoned BL fans. Starting from chapter 70-ish, almost every few chapters, we will have Yang Jinghua and Duanmu Xi lovingly look at each other and whisper the sweetest of declarations. There probably isn't any other existing work that contains such blatant subtexts - so blatant that it makes you wonder why Ling Qi has not gone full-blown into the BL territory yet. In fact, it would be fair to even say that Ling Qi is ultimately a love story between 2 humans who are fated to meet and have nothing left but each other in the world.

* In chapter 156, Jinghua calls Xi "女男通吃", roughly translated as "takes both male and female (bisexual?)".

** It should be noted that Jinghua is the only 'living' person that knows Xi's birthday.

** It is then revealed that after the incident in which Jinghua [[spoiler: stabs himself to save them both]], Xi summons a very complex technique to save Jinghua's life force. He then continuously transfers energy to Jinghua to the point that he is exhausted and falls asleep.