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Xiao Heng: I care, I clothe.

Also Xiao Heng: I will not sully my hand by touching your ex-husband's ugly clothes.

(Can't help thinking he must've smelled nice, judging from Jiang Li's reaction ><)

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should i watch? i saw the reviews... it was..... errrr

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@asiandramanet December Bingo: Free Choice

Meeting you… is my blessing of three lifetimes. ↦ Love like the Galaxy (2022)

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Shaoshang may not be what everyone considers as an obedient and amicable lady, but in my eyes, within the capital, in the entire world, she is the best lady.

星汉灿烂·月升沧海 LOVE LIKE THE GALAXY China, 2022.

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I can't believe they're my friends.

Lovely Runner (선재 업고 튀어) 2024

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The Double | It's the sanctuary for women.

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Who is he if not my brother in law?

✩ The Double ─ Episode 35 (墨雨云间)

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the double's guide to having a secret identity

miscellaneous official, royal, or servant: omg it's xue fang fei! xue fang fei: fuck you no im not miscellaneous official, royal, or servant: you're right im sorry ma'am

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What the Duke has given Li is certainty in him - it's huge enough for any period woman but for one with her background? Insane.

The adorableness! The way she reassures him!

This is a later ride but I cracked up!

And of course this! Finally!!!

The way they shine!

Also, we 100% know what happened in his house in the middle of the night. Let's hope they used ancient time protection or the heir to the Duke is gonna be a lil premature!

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I am intrigued by how non-lethal Duke Su has been so far. He has a mission and he needs to question people, so it makes sense that his main weapon is a fancy shield (his gold fan). He tries to incapacitate and block, but very rarely do he or his cronies try to kill someone. It's interesting because so many characters like him are lethal even if they are trying not to be.

Now there is a bit of a problem because Li is bloodthirsty. It's going to have to be about balance...

The face of a man calculating exactly how many stabs his crush can squeeze in before he really has to stop the bleeding

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I told you she is a poison user.

✩ The Double ─ Episode 35 (墨雨云间)

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I continue to love what the drama did with the husband. It would have been so predictable and boring to make him a villain who would do anything for a promotion but he's just a pathetic broken man who loved his wife but not as much as his own life and perhaps only realized just how much he loved her after he committed unforgivable acts against her.

I love that he's haunted by her even as he knows she's alive. The haunting did not stop after his finding out.

This whole scene was amazing, where he does talk to her in the flesh and she confirms to him that he's nothing to her.

I loved this confrontation for her because she deserves to live free of her past and her pain but for him it's a different kind of liberation - a bleak one but one nonetheless - she is alive so he did not kill her after all, but he's dead to her and he can't even console himself in her past love, not really. She's not dead but she might as well be as far as possibility of ever being together is.

Love him walking through his own music video afterwards.

The thing is, her being alive has dispelled some of his guilt and by that restored some of his sanity but it's not good news for the princess because now the man who's snapped is playing with all his own (bleak as fuck) marbles. With the confirmation of her being alive on top of the confirmation of her understandable hatred and on top of long realized confirmation that the princess doesn't like him or love him or even care if he lives or dies and just wants to torture him for kicks, and with any sort of hope or fear tormented out of him, this is a man with nothing left to lose but a hell of a lot of plans for revenge of his own.

I mean, look at this scene, where he's kneeling in the cold/snow all night. These are some serious Tantai Jin eyes here.

And when he goes in and she keeps slapping him, there is no fear, there is no shame, there is no self loathing, there is not even mute endurance, the way there used to be. This is a man who is letting a lunatic vent as needed to get whatever he wants done.

I mean, look at this man as he says this to the princess. He's barely bothering to conceal how false his words are even if the killing intent is very real. If I were her, I'd sleep with a knife under my pillow but she's so demented she doesn't get it.

Instead she pokes him some more, another confirmation as to how she doesn't see him as human.

Lady, this is the face of a man who would like to wear your skin as a cloak. You are so epically DUMB!!!!

He's got more human emotion imagining his wife than in the whole above scene. And once again, I love love LOVE how he's haunted by the woman he very much now knows is alive. Because what's dead is his chance at happiness and his happy marriage and any real path forward.

It is SUCH an unusual take on the usual villain from past life/evil spouse our FL must overcome and I love it!

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Xiao Heng and Xue Li's flirting making people nauseous, a series...

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#manspreading

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Your clothes look terrible.

✩  The Double ─ Episode 30 (墨雨云间)

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I CAN'T

Jiang papa: That LECHER

Emperor: In front of my salad?

Stoic guard: wait I wanna see

Jiang Papa: Won't you do something about him?

Emperor: Unfortunately I'm not permitted by the bro code

Stoic guard: *ready to knock either of them out if they interrupt*

Jiang Papa: I'll do it myself

Emperor: You can't I'm also unfortunately his wingman

Stoic guard: I don't want to have to knock out future furen's fake dad but I will if I must.

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The Double Text Posts 2/3 (Part 1, Part 3)