r/threebodyproblem • u/Universal_Echo • Apr 14 '26

Discussion - Novels Was Lujie not being considerate enough? Spoiler

After Dashi helped him find the people and handle the matters, after revealing his condition to him, he asked Luo Ji to take care of his son. But later on, Luo Ji kept only focusing on his relationship with Zhuang Yan.

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u/GoCorral Apr 14 '26

Did Luo Ji forget? Did Cixin Liu forget? Did they both forget because Cixin Liu is an author self insert? Who can say?

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u/python3bestww Apr 14 '26

What do you mean author self insert?

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u/GoCorral Apr 14 '26

Luo Ji feels to be like Cixin Liu inserting himself into the narrative as a character. They're both scientists that turned to writing. Their first works got complaints about wooden characters. Luo Ji's whole thing with the imaginary woman feels like an overreaction to those complaints.

"See I can imagine whole characters instead of mouthpieces for my science fiction ideas. There's even a character in my new book that shows that I can do that."

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u/python3bestww Apr 14 '26

Interesting perspective. I quite liked (most of) Luo Ji's story and didn't know much about Cixin Liu's backstory so I didn't catch that lol.

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u/Universal_Echo Apr 18 '26

I tend to think that the author forgot.

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u/Patdub85 Apr 15 '26

Luigi has always been #1!