i think you are too optimistic here cause there is a reason why letting xingke going first was part of the path to blank check and not letting him will have a steeper price than you can imagine
Yes, but that take on the situation was back before the over 2 dozen 100 rolled that followed. By the time we sat down in front of Lihua it's a bit out of date.
I don't think it'll be that steep. We'd have gotten a bit more of a warning otherwise. It's a rough start, a sour note in a relationship of one person doing an extraordinary amount to help a complete stranger and succeeding vastly beyond anyone's expectations.
Lastly, as slayer has said before, following the Guide puts us in the best possible circumstances with Lihua, but comes at cost elsewhere. I think Lihua has come out of this sitting fairly pretty, and it's all but confirmed that we've accomplished things well beyond what we were expected too when slayer gave his page 600 Guide, so we can deviate from the script without too much loss.
Lastly the wedding shouldn't be all we consider in this vote. That combination of Piety and Treaty is going to see our security stretched thin and potentially overrun when we have facilities in both China and Australia to cover as well as new Caledonia.
There is factually a majority that quite simply wants to marry Lihua instead of Meihua, a decent portion of which prefers stewardship, but are hesitating over the order in which we Marry her that sufficiently that it is still in quest whether we will Marry her at all. Were these people to just let go of that preference for specifically marrying Lihua second,b rather than focusing on marrying Lihua at all, Plan A Better China could easily pull ahead of by a good ten or more votes and we'd be ensured of success.
As for the backup options, I'm voting for them. Have been for over 24 hours, because I'm perfectly fine with Marrying her second and made a plan fewer than 5 hours after I posted the first one, because I got over my preference for marrying her first an hour after waking up, gyiven it's the marrying her that all and avoiding compromising the security of Lelouch and his Retinue thats important.
The closest of alternatives are still more than a dozen votes short of the lead, compared to Plan A Better China's handful of votes behind. There are enough people paying attention to easily put it in the lead over the none Lihua Marriage option and the Piety options, if only they could get over the difference between first and second, as I have. Let's not let ¼ of a plan impede us from supporting our preferred ¾ of it, and maybe we can secure the marriage many of us want, but are oddly and unnecessarily divided over the specifics of.