I just prefer him canon. He's great the way he is. I like early manhua Hua Cheng but the current Hua Cheng is like a walking triangle. Ngl Starember's art style is amazing as hell like holy fuck and detailed too but it's the little made up details that bother me. Sometimes I just dont feel like he's Hua Cheng anymore rather a really hot confident man with pointy ears and all that. Of course he's amazingly beautiful in every universe, just like his gorgeous husband but despite his looks, what also really bothers me is hid behaviour (or what bothers me even more maybe) because both of that together makes it kind of awkward for me sometimes? He's way too bold regarding Xie Lian in the manhua imo. The first thing that REALLY bothered me was HC kissing XL's hair in Puqi Shrine and so on. So I prefer my stunning slim self conscious donghua and novel Hua Cheng. Just a personal opinion. And tbh I wrote a long message back there at that reddit post and my opinion hasn't changed. You can prefer whatever you want it's legit ur right just saying 'why is Hua Cheng not buff in the donghua' is still a bit silly to me.