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We were robbed! Why did they cut this? IT'S SO CUTE!

Xiaoshuai exploiting Chengyu's weakness for his cuteness is nothing less than what I expect from him.

ROBBED! Look at how sweet they are. I love all the times Chengyu dotes on Xiaoshuai. What logical reason is there to cut something so sweet and is able to show the progression of GuoJiang's relationship in a few extra seconds? 😭

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LET'S FUCKING GO! THE WICKED GAME TEASER IS OUT AND, OHHHHHHHH BOY, I'M GAGGED, I'M SEATED, I'M SOLD, I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW ON MY SCREEN, IMMEDIATELY!

Guns, secrets, people fighting for heritage, deception, love, and all that jazz? Count me in

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Revenged Love Episode 17

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This is not the look of someone getting their ass slapped for the first time.

How many times has Zhan Xuan slapped Xuancheng's ass that it has gotten to the point where Xuancheng just sighs and then pretends to pout a little so that Zhan Xuan will coax him? They are so married couple coded.

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YASSSS! One of the best tropes. 💖 May I humbly add one of my favorite series.

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We had a criminal lack of GuoJiang this week. I saw someone on twitter say that all of their screentime put together isn't even long enough to make instant noodles. Sadly this is true. :(

I can't wait for next week's sweet GuoJiang lady and the tramp moment. I love their playful flirting so much. Please let them fully follow through with the spaghetti kiss.

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Fully caught up on Revenged Love and every molecule in my body is vibrating into the eighth dimension. Here, have some more ambient thoughts on this show that is ruining my life while I blast Vietnamese pop in my house at an irresponsible decibel.

The ship name for Jiang Xiaoshuai and Guo Chengyu on the Chinese internet is "guojiang," a smush of their family names that sounds a lot like the Chinese word for "jam," which is both very cute, and also why if you watch any platforms with Chinese bullet comments, you'll see a lot of "果酱99" for "Jam 4EVA" basically.

Related, no one has made this a thing, but the smash of "ChiWei" sounds like "ciwei," or "刺猬" or hedgehog, and I'm mad nobody's started doing this because it's so stinking cute.

The plotline with Wu Suowei's mom hiding her illness from her son feels over the top until I tell you the summer I was 18 and balls deep in a summer situationship in Shanghai with a boy who was far, far too pure of heart for my shenanigans, I ended up getting conscripted to photoshop a fake medication label onto a family friend's prescription so that his nearest and dearest could conceal to him the fact that he was ACTIVELY IN PALLIATIVE CARE as he DYING OF LIVER CANCER. I did this using a bootleg copy of Adobe that my dad's best friend's son bought off of some guy on a corner. This man is now the father of a HUMAN CHILD. The situationship was also there for some reason.

Frustrating language nuances from eps 17/18: The subtitles for these two episodes really fell short of conveying the intensity of both the scene with Chi Cheng and Wu Suowei breaking up and when Chi Cheng stopped by Wang Shuo's house to step on his neck and abandon his snake child. It's not that any of it is wrong, but the dialog and delivery really has you by the fucking throat in both of those scenes, and the translation absolutely failed to capture the momentum and fury with Wu Suowei or the melancholy acknowledgement of all that had been lost with Wang Shuo.

English parallel doesn't exist language nuance from eps 17/18: When Jiang Xiaoshuai and Guo Chengyu are flirting and being so extremely normal and happy while their respective besties and worsties are having arguably the worst time of their lives, Jiang Xiaoshuai says that Guo Chengyu should use his "心眼," or "xinyan," to investigate the truth of what happened with Wang Shuo all those years ago. The translation, again, isn't wrong, but it doesn't fully capture the meaning of the phrase. In fact, I can't find a satisfying English language version of this at all. The technical definition according to Pleco is "heart, intention, conscience, consideration, cleverness, tolerance," which I guess is all true, but it's also frequently translated as pettiness, as scheming. It might be easier to think about its opposite, where someone without 心眼, or literally "heart eye," is someone who is pure and simple and straightforward. Someone with a lot of eyes in their heart is scheming and can be petty, who can be manipulative--and it's not necessarily meant as a condemnation of character, but just someone who isn't simplistic, usually someone who is clever. One of the big jokes that went around in Mysterious Lotus Casebook fandom on the Chinese internet is that between the trio of Li Lianhua, Di Feisheng and Fang Xiaobao, they had 100 heart eyes, with Li Lianhua having 800 heart eyes, Di Feisheng having 200 eyes in his heart and Fang Xiaobao having -900 eyes in his heart.

Neutral language nuance from eps 17/18: The scene where Chi Cheng talks to Wang Shuo about he has only a measure of respect toward him, it's a technically correct translation -- but the usage also implies a kind of forbearance. I respect you, I forbear the things you do because of the person you were to me, the people we were to each other. It's a gritted-teeth acceptance that someone's left a mark on you, however much you don't want to carry that weight any longer, that you have a responsibility to them and the role they either currently or formerly occupied in your life. It's the kind of thing empresses scream about in Chinese harem dramas, that the emperor holds no love for her, that he only cares for her with respectful forbearance, for the role she plays in the hierarchy of the palace.

Fun language nuance from eps 17/18: When Wu Suowei shows up at the clinic and Jiang Xiaoshuai hasn't clocked how serious the situation is, he jokes about how Wu Suowei have been thrown out given how much Chi Cheng "宠"s him. That specific word, "chong" translates into "favor" or "spoil," but is contextually used specifically in reference to how the emperor favors a concubine--which leads also into how in the next few exchanges, Jiang Xiaoshuai references how Wu Suowei occupies the "正" position, or the "central," "formal" position. Historical polygamy in China was structured around only one woman holding the actual role of wife, or the 正妻 (or "central palace" or 中��� if you're nasty and in the actual formalized palace etc etc), with all other concubines in the household as technical servants under the control of the wife.

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anyway i'm still stuck somewhere between xiao shuai's adoooooorable lil face right here:

and ... oh man .... this moment right here:

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Thanks for coming to my party, I guess

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"How could this be love?"

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sigh* This is right here is what pisses me off about this whole thing and the way the fandom has simply dismissed Shuo’s feelings about inadequacy and insecurities when it came to Chi and Guo relationship.

The amount of people I have seen excuse Chi behavior because “Well. He was drunk and drunk people do stupid shit.”

I’m just sitting here going when the fuck has being drunk ever been valid to excuse cheating behavior.

Okay. You can argue the first time it happened, it was a dare (and even at that I’ve seen some translations where either the dare is said as a command to do it or posed as a question whether they actually would do it) thrown by Wang.

But what excuses this behavior this time.

Which then led me to think even if Wang had talk to Chi about his feelings about the nature of Chi and Guo relationship and how it left him feeling doubt and insecure, would Chi have really done anything to change his behavior.

Chi and Guo are so disgustingly codependent (fucking a set of twins and sometimes not even knowing which twin they were fucking says it all). In my honest opinion, no.

If anything I can picture Chi doing what all guys sometimes do in these situations. Ignore and say you are seeing something that isn’t there and that’s not my problem to deal with. It’s yours.

Just… I sometimes feel crazy that that I’m the only one in the void with these feelings and that discussion can’t be had because it just ends up with people going “But Shuo shouldn’t have done what he did”

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This set is even cuter! It's all the things Chengyu wants to do with Xiaoshuai when he gets back from his business trip. 🥹

I'm dying at Xiaoshuai looking at the half naked selfie Chengyu sent him back then.

Their couple pics on the fridge. 💖

Eating melon lol. They are drama free now.

The other doctor and the nurse's blushing faces. 😂 Not at the clinic boys! 🙈

So freaking cute!!

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"Do you have a heart at all?"

REVENGED LOVE (2025). EPISODE SEVENTEEN.

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one of you, pray tell WHAT went down in this Video Call bc WHAT has got guo cheng yu so aggrieved and xiao shuai biting down on his lip LIKE THAT, saying he was wrong! WHAT HAPPENED. :

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"This is called going with the flow. If you didn't leave, why would Chi Cheng and I stay connected even after seven years?"

REVENGED LOVE (2025). EPISODE SEVENTEEN.

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This is so cute!!

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