Anon, I don’t want to comment on shipping discourse, nor am I an expert on that character. I think the difference is that Blade has a more intimate connection with Dan Heng as a separate or changed individual apart from Dan Feng. He’s also just a more straightforward person.

I think the next XZ arc is going to be a Planarcadia-Astropolis situation where we'll stay on one ship most of the patch while making a stop-over at another. Frankly, I don't know if the Zhuming is plot heavy enough so it's likely going to be the Astropolis here. (1/2)

Blade will become functionally useless after they kill Yaoshi either by dying or turning mortal again. And if rooting out Yaoshi doesn't change his inability to die, what actually will without releasing Shuhu?