Sirrocco
Pedantic
One thing I notice about Xuan Shi is exactly how much of a geek he is. He's bookish and smart. He has his own weird little (erotic) fandom that he cares about perhaps more than is entirely good for him. He's not particularly good at the emotional side of things, and responds to that by leaning on the logical. His social skills are not great, but he's put a decent bit of effort into being inoffensive. He even did the plausibly deniable date thing where he literally invited the girl he likes to go adventuring with him as a couple through a formation strongly themed after an erotic romance novel, where that theming explicitly required a couple for the obvious thematic reasons, and at the end she still hadn't realized he meant it as anything but a friend. He's more of a production cultivator than a combat cultivator, and much of the combat power he has he's developed by leveraging his intellect... and then using it for a support/protection role. Of all the potentially eligible men in this story, he is the one that would most fit into the demographic of people who hang out in xianxia-themed messageboard quests and argue about potential waifu/husbando for fictional characters.
People tend to value those positive traits which they themselves possess, and be somewhat more forgiving of the negative. It is natural. I suspect he's getting at least a bit of a boost from that.
I find it interesting that you discard them so directly, and give more feedback on those who haven't courted her. I mean, Gu Rejected was a lousy choice because he really didn't have that much to offer, but Qian? I also note that you discard mudboy out of hand with the "meh, not interesting" label. I mean, I personally don't think he can really compete, but he's not nothing.
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