#鸡蛋

[heavendiary4u]

韩国鸡蛋面包 Korea Egg Bread

[buffetlicious]

Was around the vicinity of Northpoint City for an appointment and since mum is not cooking, I decided to pack food from Feng Food (台湾味 “丰”). Both mum and sis asked for the Fried Rice with Specially Marinated Pork Chop (招牌猪排蛋炒饭). I went for the Fried Rice with Chicken Cutlet (脆皮鸡腿蛋炒饭) featuring a large piece of crispy and boneless chicken drumstick over the fluffy egg fried rice.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cnetizens are teaching international netizens how to make household cuisine in china, zheng-dan蒸蛋 or ji-dan-geng鸡蛋羹 (steamed egg), and many international netizens succeed

Cnetizens comment:

These are advance versions

[tryingtopracticemyzhongwen]

波提欧。。。请回家（来家？不知道）。。。我已经花了55英镑

我觉得他恨我因为我骂了他一座鞋子山

对不起。。。原谅我。。。我不要伤害你

[nordseehexe]

鸡蛋柜诅咒

[neige-leblanche]

just forgot that my ao3 un is not in fact yanyan_nyanya anymore (has not been for years) & went looking around fruitlessly

[niteshade925]

April 21, China, restaurant again

It's pretty much all food pics from now on, mostly from family gatherings with different relatives, so I'm going to speed up with posting.

Beijing kaoya/北京烤鸭 (Peking duck), or simply kaoya/烤鸭/roasted duck. The duck had already been sliced and put into the plates on either side. The traditional way of eating kaoya is by wrapping the slices in the spring pancake (chunbing/春饼; also referred to as heyebing/荷叶饼/"lotus leaf pancake") along with sweet bean sauce (tianmianjiang/甜面酱), green onion shreds (usually just from the white part near the root), and cucumber strips.

Dry-braised (ganshao/干烧) halibut fish

Fried shrimp cakes (with dipping sauce)

Seafood stirfry and Chinese yam with blueberry sauce (lanmeishanyao/蓝莓山药). Apparently the latter was invented by the chef Sun Lixin/孙立新, one of the hosts of the popular internet cooking show Laofangu/老饭骨 (I think I have linked some of their videos in the past)

Stirfried clams (炒花蛤; this type of clams is called huage/花蛤). The popular version of this dish is usually spicy and called "spicy stirfried clams"/辣炒花蛤, but I don't remember this particular version here being spicy so...

Left is Chinese steamed egg/zhengdan/蒸蛋 (also known as jidangeng/鸡蛋羹 and "water egg"/zhengshuidan/蒸水蛋) with mantis shrimp on top, and right is duck soup made from the rest of the roasted duck. I love all kinds of soup, but duck soup remains one of my all-time favorites (btw cooking tip, if you want a milky white soup/stock made from fish or poultry, try lightly frying or roasting the meat first to help the fat emulsify)

[ducktollers]

鸡蛋仔 (egg waffle) for @legofbicuriosity

[ineffable-opinions]

A Banned BL Series and A Banned BL Sub-genre

GaoGan (High Cadre, 高干) is a sub-genre of danmei, unique to BL from Mainland China. It involves characters who directly hold high position within the Communist Party (be it the political wing or the People’s Liberation Army) or are related to such characters.

Works belonging to this sub-genre was fairly common in the first decade of 2000. Now it's a banned sub-genre and we will get to the specifics of it and how that works.

A little bit about the society in which this sub-genre was created. Back then both Communist party members as well as military members could get away with pretty much anything. Society back then was a little bit more open to such practices and consequences for their actions were very limited. There was very little civilian oversight, so to speak. This meant that not only sons and daughters of high cadre but relatives including extended kin, held positions of power.

Naturally, it became a problem. For the State, I mean.

A lot of leaders now are kids of leaders from the past. They also hold in immense sway in all fields, both business and bureaucracy.

They can bag tenders and participate in those public private partnership projects and reap profits while outsiders would struggle. Laws could be bent and broken and no one could do anything to them. People suffer because of that. But you cannot really go to the police against them. Yeah, pretty messed up.

It is in this context that Addicted (你丫上瘾了) by Chai JiDan (柴鸡蛋) was first serialized. But it is in no way an extreme or a quintessential gaogan danmei. It's basically campus story in the first half with basic coming of age elements, highschoolers falling in love and lot of it is smut too.

But the threat of what their futures hold because of who they are especially Gu Hai, being the only son of his father who is a General, looms large even in first part. This is underplayed in the series compared to the novel.

Gu Hai grew up in that environment of power and reach. A lot of his rough nature is a product of such unbridled power that followed him from the cradle. His father is domineering. He is similarly domineering but with a holier-than-thou “kind” heart. He rebels against his father’s nature. He doesn't want to be the kind of person his father is. He is at the risk of becoming the monster he is fighting. He is extreme in his means, just as his father (and his late mother) and a bunch of other people such as Gu Yang and Gu Hai’s maternal uncle.

It is contrasted with how gentle and amicable Bai LouYin’s father and stepmother are, and how their lives are completely different. They don't really take any extreme steps and always pave path to reconciliation.

While Addicted sort of shows the contrast, it is not the highlight. There are novels which were written in the beginning of the millennium that showed extreme versions – focused on showing how bad it could get - be it of people getting away with that they should not get away with ideally and all sorts of bad things happening to people who have no control over their lives when it comes to people with power.

Corruption, nepotism and exploitation of power clearly are not good practices. The critique in Addicted is not on the face. It's very subtle. You need to understand what exactly is going on to understand the politics of Addicted. It is not just a random parent being despotic parent. It is because of very specific social setups. Gu Hai can coax, coerce and buy his way into changing public schools in the middle of semester, get Bai LouYin’s father a good job, treat officers on lower rungs as his personal servants and get things to work in his favour all because of the power he holds by just being General Gu’s heir. No one would dare to report his overreach because no one wants to offend General Gu lest he is less favorable to them in their time of need. Bai LouYin can avail benefits of switching schools and such since he is Gu WeiTing’s step-son.

What would give Gu Hai more power than being General’s son? Being a high cadre member himself. But doesn’t want that. From the beginning of the novel, Gu Hai rejects the military environment he grew up in. He doesn’t want to pursue his father’s footsteps.

Bai LouYin learns this when he pries into what Gu Hai wants to do with his life. Gu Hai makes it clear that he wants to pursue business. Bai LouYin dedicates his life to make that possible for Gu Hai. He does so by means joining PLA and thereby becoming his step-father’s protégé. In exchange, Gu Hai is free to live a free life. When he sets up his own manufacturing business, it is directly linked to supplying to the military and thus the exploitation of his connections that gives him a definite edge over his competitors from less privileged backgrounds continue – now as Bai LouYin’s brother too. So, he actually gets to become a rich man at a young age in his own right. It's not just Gu Hai whose business flourishes thanks at least in part to influence. Gu Yang and Gu Hai’s uncle (who seems to be powerful in his own right) too benefits from their connections.

It's something that Chai JiDan explores in a lot of her other works too, even though Counterattack and Advanced Bravely live action adaptations removed gaogan elements from turning characters into civilians.

That brings us to the de facto ban on gaogan. State doesn't want to encourage such kind of practices. It totally doesn't want it to be an aesthetic or a glorified romantic trope, especially in danmei.

Danmei actually have a mixed history with the State. Chinese government is notorious for crackdowns, jailing authors, shutting down websites, forcing self-censorship and purges that throttled danmei production and distribution. (More on this here.)

Lesser known is the part where State benefited from it. There was the shipping of real-life high cadre politicians.

Former Chinese President Hu Jintao and former Premier Wen Jiabao were shipped by fans. (source)

There were also the Little Pinks - groups of presumably (some critics argue that it is just a presumption) young women who are nationalistic verging on jingoism, who would endorse Chinese government and its policies on various platforms. They are called so because their brand of rhetoric first started in the danmei forum of JJWXC, a popular web-publishing platform. Little Pinks started out on this platform, scolding authors and readers who wrote what they didn’t agree with. They have pervaded other social media sites and are compared to the Little Reds of Cultural Revolution. Little Pinks captured public attention. They became quite an eyesore for the general public and other BL fans. But State machinery, especially its media, have showered them with praise on occasions.

State of things have changed over the years and there have been understandable public anger against the sort of behaviors high cadre politicians and their kin engaged in as well as the unfair advantage they enjoyed. The State had to curb nepotism and accumulation of power in the hands of those from political families. Exploitation of power couldn't explicitly depict or endorsed on media.  

The new rules are imposed through censors, self-censorship and editorial overreach and what not. Compared to earlier days of danmei, today’s BL production space looks very difference since sites have disappear. There used to be revolutionary potential, not just in terms of furthering the rights of the queer community but also in many other aspects of society. It has disappeared over the years through purging and authors growing tired. Popularization and commercialization of danmei actually did not benefit the way one would imagine. As BL fans’ grip over what they could say disappeared, a lot of new authors came in who from the very beginning were willing to adjust to these demands from the State and were writing to accommodate, if not outright support, what the State willed.

So, before the ban on gaogan, there was period where fics were written praising the high cadre and highlighting their goodness, generosity and patriotism while being perfect gentlemen, paragons of virtue, upright citizen who valiantly fought enemies of the State, both internal and external.

When it aired, Addicted was fairly popular. By his own admission, Andy Lau was watching it. While exact reason for the ban is not known, there is a lot of speculation. One of the most cited reasons is simply its popularity and how that attracting attention to queer people (through the pairing of a very masculine men who were unlike the stereotypical “sissies”) and queer rights.

Another was the substance abuse related words in title and ship name such as shangyin and hailouyin which is another topic that State scrutinizes. But then A Round Trip to Love had multiple criminal elements including spiking, confinement and sexual abuse that aired.

It's not like gaogan genre just died. Authors went interstellar on their stories. So now when you open Addicted in LCRead you will be greeted by an intro page which claims that the story is not set on Earth and is set in another galaxy blah blah blah. Lot of later authors actually decided to pursue the safe, sci-fi route and decided to stick to lanes that would let them tell these stories without actually irritating the State.

This work around method will last while it can.

Quite frankly, Addicted couldn't have been made in other countries with its very specific political setting. Its essence lies in Bai LouYin joining PLA to help Gu Hai forsake the path laid out for him and Gu Hai repaying with devotion while alternatively sinking and floating in high cadre life as son, brother and husband. This won’t work in countries with mandatory military service or where military and politics interweave in a dangerous manner.

Honestly, I am not knowledgeable about Thailand to interpret what it means for Hero to walk out of ror dor (army cadet) exam (thank you @pharawee for the explanation). Also, Thai government is fully dedicated to their plan of using BL as a soft power tool. I am not sure how to feel about the Thai adaptation, Heroin the series, given the production chose to situate the beginning of the story in 2018* (four years after 2014 coup d'état). Addicted becoming a propaganda tool in favor of military at the hands of any State is a disturbing scenario to say the least.

*There is a eight year break in the relationship between the main couple in the original novel.

Seems like second season isn't happening. Makes me wonder...

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Link to novel translations.

[nhu-an]

“很久前听过的一段话：

人生的至暗时刻，大道理没用，鸡汤没用，蛋糕可乐奶茶火锅都没用，甚至家人和朋友们的爱也只能减缓焦虑却不能击退黑暗，真正把我从深渊里拉出来的，是我自己。没有人知道那段时光里我经历了什么，一分一秒熬过去之后，就已经不是从前那个自己了。

这个世界上，最困难的时候，往往只有自己能把自己从泥潭中拉出来。没有人能替你承受痛苦，也没有人能替你感受幸福。”

Rất lâu trước đây tôi từng nghe được một đoạn:

Trong những khoảnh khắc đen tối của cuộc đời, những đạo lí vĩ đại cũng vô dụng, món súp gà cũng vô dụng, bánh ngọt, coca, trà sữa hay lẩu cũng vô dụng, thậm chí tình cảm gia đình và bạn bè cũng chỉ làm vơi đi chứ không thể đẩy lùi bóng tối, người thực sự kéo tôi bước ra từ vực thẳm là chính bản thân tôi. Không một ai biết được trong thời khắc đó tôi đã trải qua những gì, sau khi vượt qua từng phút từng giây ấy, tôi đã không còn là tôi của trước kia nữa.

Trên thế gian này, thường chỉ có chính mình mới có thể kéo bản thân ra khỏi bùn lầy. Không ai khác có thể thay cậu gánh chịu đau khổ, cũng như chẳng ai khác có thể thay cậu cảm nhận hạnh phúc.

- Như An dịch.

[guidaozongshi]

Wei Wuxian By 隔壁家的鸡蛋饼真好吃

[gayxiaoshuo]

温泉浴室里的雄性欲望

在台北读的大学，冬天的时候喜欢去泡温泉，如果知道的人，有圈内人出没的大概就是北投温泉，一家是偏瘦偏小鲜肉的，一家就在旁边是熊族的，这两家特点都是模仿日式温泉，全裸半露天温泉。这两家本来就是面向一般大众，但是也慢慢被同志圈开发出来。

那一家蒸汽室空间小，不过蒸汽充足，挤在里面你怎么摸都很容易摸到别人的鸡巴。那时候我在蒸汽室里面，往后面稍走，就被拉到后面，一个挺高大的哥哥，一手摸着我的屁股，一手摸着我的鸡巴，很快的就被摸硬了，那哥哥的鸡巴有点粗，顶着我的后面蹭，不安分的手摸到我的乳头，慢慢的揉捏，我有点受不了了，直接转向哥哥，哥哥的胸肌很有型，摸了摸胸肌很有弹性，稍微用指甲抠了一下哥哥的坚挺的乳头，他享受的闭上了眼，我另一只手没有闲着，用食指去磨蹭早已出水的马眼，只见哥哥呼吸起伏稍微加大。

周围的圈内人已经知道我和哥哥玩起来了，其中一个大叔开始逗弄我的乳头，鸡巴顶着我的后面慢慢磨蹭，另一个弟弟摸着我的鸡巴开始套弄，被这样挑逗下来，我忍不住开始吸允哥哥的乳头，被我这样一吸，哥哥的鸡巴更加硬挺那个小弟弟换开始玩哥哥的鸡巴，只见他直接开始给哥哥口。时不时的叹了口气，也可能是蒸汽室蒸的有点时间，哥哥直接抱住我的头，亲了下我的嘴，帮他口的弟弟，越来越卖力，周围的人有些开始自己打手枪，有些和别人互摸。

哥哥在我的耳边告诉我：干。。。要射了。。。

一瞬间，哥哥把我抱紧，下半身往前一顶，弟弟也察觉到哥哥要射了，整根鸡巴直接深喉，一股股的精液直接射进弟弟的喉咙。。。没有留下半点精液，全吞了下去，最后离开蒸汽室休息。

来写写澡堂吧。

台湾读大学住宿期间，洗澡也是隔间的，到北京学习的时候当时没有住学生宿舍，也听说澡堂没有隔间，就在更衣室脱了衣服之后就进去找个花洒刷卡洗澡。这肯定勾起南方人很大的好奇心，毕竟从来没有过。后来的确去体验了一次，在和生活在北方的同学交流也才知道北方人挺喜欢去公共澡堂洗澡、搓澡，有些还拔罐等等的。

北京丰台区有个一般民众去的澡堂，虽然不大，有个很小的蒸汽室，蒸汽特别充足，慢慢的被圈内人开发出来，又是一次好奇心去那里洗澡，听说节假日比较多人，就趁着一次运动完之后去洗澡。进到更衣的地方，一眼扫过去，果然是圈内人的秘密基地，再一进到淋浴间，八九成都是同志，如果不是提前打听这是一般民众会来的澡堂，还真的很容易误会是同志三温暖。

当然所有的激情都是发生在拥挤的小蒸汽室里，小蒸汽室座位也就只能坐4人，加上站着，一小间蒸汽室大概最多10人，蒸汽十足让人很爽，也因为蒸汽的充足，所以可以趁视线模糊的时候互相抚摸。

一进去也全部都是同志，来澡堂洗澡的很多都是比较阳刚的哥哥或大叔，也就是���。。几乎都是1，我就打算想蒸热一点，往里面走的时候，就有大叔摸了我屁股，大叔皮肤黝黑，阳刚，重点是有胸肌、腹肌，因为我也特别青睐乳晕稍微大点的男人，这大叔很快就吸引我的目光。大叔靠着墙，我就站在他旁边，悄悄的把手臂绕到他的背部摸着他的肌肉，趁着蒸汽充足，把头靠近他的手臂，舌头舔了舔大叔的三头肌，另一手玩弄大叔的乳头。大叔很敏感，很快就被我挑逗起来。

大叔有点受不了了，直接把我拽到他面前抱住我，还好当时蒸汽室也就五个人，我的个子不高，正好就在大叔胸肌面前，我很喜欢舔阳刚男人的乳头，就开始用舌尖去挑逗乳头，时不时的用嘴去吸，再舔舔胸肌，另一手握住大叔已经勃起的鸡巴。大叔的手也握住我的鸡巴帮我打手枪。

我很喜欢大叔，不管他人的目光，直接蹲下来开始帮大叔口。另一个大叔靠过来开始舔大叔的乳头。

大叔开始呻吟，鸡巴抽插我的嘴，大叔的鸡巴不是很大，可以整根含下去。大叔的鸡巴很好吃，也舔了舔大叔的卵蛋，男人的大腿根其实很敏感，舔大腿根让大叔有酥麻感，我另一手去按摩大叔的大腿根，大叔闭上眼睛直说太爽太舒服。

我蹲久腿也酸了，站了起来，大叔抱了抱我，让我坐在椅子上，他一个比我高的男人，蹲了下来开始帮我口，让我很惊喜，大叔的口活有点笨拙，但是被喜欢的类型的男人口也是一件很爽的事情。

因为我是比较晚去洗澡的，到后来的时候蒸汽室也没什么人了，外面的师傅也在休息区给客人拔罐按摩什么的。

我站了起来，面向墙壁，双手贴墙，大叔马上意会是什么意思。

笑了笑说：小骚货。

大叔挺着鸡巴在我后面蹭，我开始淫叫勾引他：好爽啊哥哥，有点想要你的鸡巴。

大叔捏着我的乳头，鸡巴顶着我的洞口，在我耳边耳语：想被操啦？

我示意的点点头。

因为在蒸汽室，我的鸡巴也早就出水，大叔用我的水抹了抹洞口，慢慢的将鸡巴插进我后面。

我呼吸开始急促：啊。。。。好舒服啊哥哥。

大叔的双手压着我的手臂，开始一前一后的干我：操。。。小骚逼，真他妈骚。

啪啪啪的声音回响在蒸汽室，我随着大叔的频率叫着：啊。。啊。。啊。。。哥哥。。。好爽。。啊啊。。

我被干的兴奋了，乳头比之前硬了点，大叔让我弯下腰，扶着我的腰，开始快速进攻。

我一只手撑在椅子上，另一手放在背后，大叔拉着我的手，他的公狗腰很厉害，仍旧很有规律的插着小穴。

蒸汽室还是很热，大叔和我都有点受不了了，大叔说：我要射了。。射哪里好？直X男、 正父F子、强J迫、军J、老X师、调J等 筱-说-购X买 微W 星。l a bi 10 0 1 0；

我：啊。。哥哥。。啊。。射。。射我背后吧。啊啊。。

大叔：好。。。

大叔开始加快频率，啪啪啪的顶进我的深处。我拱起我的后背，被干的有点昏头。。。

大叔突然把鸡巴抽了出来，直接射到我的后背。。

大叔宝刀未老，射的精液很多。。。

最后我们冲了会澡，互相留了微信，让他有空的时候来到我住的地方和我摸摸抱抱，笑着说小心变成小老婆。

[ruanbaijie]

我会保护你，保护你一辈子。无论是你的一辈子，还是我的一辈子。 ARCS OF THE SPIREALM 致命游戏 (2024) [in/sp]

@userdramas event 15 something new: a new show from 2024 @asiandramanet mar creator bingo board ⎈ typography ➻ notes for translations and motifs (spoilers!) used below the cut

Arc 1: 雪村 Snow Village

Quote: 一人不如庙，二人不观井，三人不抱树，独自莫凭栏 One person shall not enter the temple, two people shall not look into the well, three people shall not hug a tree, one shall not lean against the balustrade alone. - the death rules of this door

Motifs: a circle meant to represent the well, split into two to represent (what are assumed to be) the "real world" (top half) and "virtual world" (bottom half). note where rnz is placed

Arc 2: 菲尔夏鸟 Fitcher's Bird

Quote: 小老鼠搬鸡蛋，鸡蛋太大怎么办？一只老鼠地上躺，紧紧抱住大鸡蛋。一只老鼠拉尾巴，拉呀拉呀拉回家。小老鼠搬鸡蛋，鸡蛋太大怎么办？一只老鼠地上跑，紧紧抱住大鸡蛋。一只老鼠拉尾巴，拉呀拉呀拉回家。Little Mouse, carrying an egg, what shall it do if the egg is too big? Little Mouse, lying on the ground, tightly hugging the big egg. Little Mouse, pulling its tail, pulling and pulling and pulling it home. Little Mouse, carrying an egg, what shall it do if the egg is too big? Little Mouse, running on the ground, tightly hugging the big egg. Little Mouse, pulling its tail, pulling and pulling and pulling it home. - the creepy as hell nursery rhyme recited by the three girls

Motifs: broken egg, clock ticking backwards that's formed by the staircase that's rotating clockwise (which I realised was a neat little trick to hint that they were travelling forward in time) and the cut birthday cake

Arc 3: 阿姐鼓 Sister Drum

Quote: 她不见了，找不到她了 She's gone, I can't find her - the words written by the older sister in her diary

Motifs: top view of a Chinese drum, bamboo

Arc 4: 佐子 Zuozi

Quote: 我的腿没有了，你的给我好吗？My leg is gone, can you give me yours? - the death line of this door

Motifs: ripped pieces of paper, handwriting, slowly appearing words

Arc 5: 威福利山疗养院 Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Quote: 已经过了八点了，你们为什么不睡觉？It's already past 8pm, why are you still not asleep? - what the nurse says right before she starts chasing after the players who are outside their rooms

Motifs: room 502, overlapping but non-concentric circles representing a Russian doll

Arc 6: 雨中女郎 Woman in the Rain

Quote: 总不能是你一直保护我们吧 It can't always be you protecting us - what lqs says to convince rnz to let him go into the painting world

Motifs: picture frames shifting from scenes of the players to scenes of the door god and painting world, and back again

Arc 7: 哭儿郎 Crying Baby

Quote: 天惶惶，地惶惶，我家有个哭儿郎，过往恩客念三遍，一觉睡到大天光 Panic in the skies, panic on the earth, I have a crying baby at home, when the kind guest who passes by recites three times, they will sleep till the next morning - the line that will save you in this door. Interesting to note that there's actually a similar line that exists, except one of the changes is instead of 恩客 (ēn kè "kind guest"), it's 君子 (jūn zǐ "gentleman"), and while I translated 恩客 literally as "kind guest" here (what each of the individual characters means), the word itself actually in the past, used to refer to "benefactors" - the customers whom prostitutes fell in love with

Motifs: a lamp with lqs as the flames (vague hint at what rnz always tells lqs) and rnz as the base (note the orientation and negative colours), swirls meant to mimic water as in the book, this door was slightly more strongly related to the river god

Arc 8: 扫晴娘 Rain Doll

Quote: 如果这样，明天还是阴沉下雨的话，我就砍掉你的头 If it's still gloomy and rainy tomorrow, I will chop off your head - the line to recite in this door in order to make it rain

Motifs: umbrellas in the corners, a window (there's this one beautifully framed scene in this arc where they both open the windows of their room at the same time) showing the iconic nanqiu umbrella scene (each of them coloured differently on purpose) vs. the outside of the window with the rain dolls and additional rain overlay layer

Arc 9: 箱妖 Box Demon

Quote: 别看那个箱子，看我 Don't look at that box, look at me - what lqs tells rnz when he gets "hypnotised" to open the box

Motifs: diamonds forming 3d boxes

Full list of scenes used since this gif moves too quickly: rnz waking up from his "hypnosis", rnz and lqs staring at each other after rnz returns from his "death", cyx turning around to look at lqs when they thought rnz was dead, cql being pulled into the box, juxtaposition of rnz (upright) and ybl (upside down) in front of the stained glass windows, one of the box people in the box rnz nearly opened when he was "hypnotised", rnz being full of shit in front of everyone else (as usual)

Arc 10: 无解 Insoluble

Quote: 二人去一人归 Two people go, one person returns - the hint that appears consistently for the 11th door

Motifs: kaleidoscope of the final scene before rnz walks away

I put the two final doors (百鬼夜行 "Night Parade of Hundreds of Ghosts" and the "real" "12th" door) together because I really like how the hint applies for both the 11th door as well as the ending of the show

I also used 无解 "unsolvable" (the original name of the final chapter in the novel) for the name of this arc because of how short and simple it is, but also how it just summarises the 意难平 (idrk how to translate this, but sort of like the bittersweet feelings, being unable to let go of the past) of this arc and the entire show. Just like how there was no way to solve the 11th door with a happy ending for both people (assuming only two people went in lol), there was no way to solve the 12th door and the entire game with a happy ending for both rnz and lqs

However, instead of translating 无解 as "unsolvable", I used "insoluble" instead as it sounds just a little more poetic and is more symmetrical, and also hints at how lqs's memories of and feelings for rnz, whether his whole experience was a dream or otherwise, never dissolved with time 🥲

[buffetlicious]

Sis called to ask if we would like her to pack dinner for us. Since she is at Northpoint City, we went with Feng Food (台湾味 “丰”). Both mum and I ordered fried rice but with different toppings. Mum took the Fried Rice with Specially Marinated Pork Chop (招牌猪排蛋炒饭) while I went with Fried Rice with Crispy Chicken Cutlet (脆皮鸡腿蛋炒饭).

[irithnova]

"rochu was popular back in the day why are you complaining about no one liking China"

How they drew Rochu:

How they wrote Rochu:

Russia used his BIG MUSCULAR hand to caress China's SOFT YELLOW cheek and China DAINTILY looked up at Russia with his ALMOND eyes (he almost fainted because he is so delicate) and whispered "鸡蛋炒饭 .. Aru" and then Ivan used his STRONG MUSCLES to pick the MUCH SHORTER AND WEAKER China up to their bed where they had hot yaoi sex 💖💖