#BaiLu 白鹿

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Jinsu 💜

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BaiLu as Li PeiYi

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231024 - 芭莎视频BazaarV Weibo

Bailu for Luckin x Harper's Bazaar China

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Till the End of the Moon (Not Yet Aired, 2023) will be insane. I finally binge the novel and I was so immersed in reading I forgot the time. I halted reading somewhere around ch80-85 only cause I couldn't finish because of the heavy plot. However believe me, rest assured that the characters has charisma and the couple dynamics are definitely jaw-dropping. Truly unlike any romance/angst drama out there, atleast for me. The main cp will shock you to death, bring heavy angst, push you to cry to sleep, and will make you to unable to forget them.

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Rất nhiều sự xinh đẹp hôm nay 💕 #白鹿

Source: weibo, xiaohongshu

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Cdrama: Till The End of The Moon (2023)

[#长月烬明] Till The End Of The Moon - Trường Nguyệt Tẫn Minh phiên ngoại #白鹿 #bailu #罗云熙 #luoyunxi

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N7yr_xhzsd4

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lol Bai Lu standing on an apple crate.

[burningthegallows]

Love Like the Galaxy and Names, pt 1

So I've been doing a bit of research for the monster fic, and I figured I would put together some name lists since I had so much trouble finding the names/titles/characters of certain characters.

This is very much incomplete and google translate helped a lot, so ... take that with a grain of salt. (all pinyin and characters from googlet)

{I kinda think this goes without saying, but just in case, if you see errors, take issue, or have questions, please correct me/reach out!}

Chengs:

Grandmother Cheng 程 (maiden name Dong 董) has three sons:

Papa Cheng

Second Uncle Cheng

Third Uncle Cheng

Papa Cheng is Cheng Shi (程始) (Shi 始 = beginning). Lieutenant 校尉 in the army (translation, google; i have also seen this translated as general, colonol, and captain). Marquis of Quling 曲陵侯 (Marquis in this sense = Duke. Word used: Huo 侯 has variations throughout history; common nobility title; different translations tell me different things); Qu Ling 曲陵 is ... i actually have no idea. is it a place? is it a concept? is it just a name/title not attached to a fief?

Cheng Shi is married to Xiao Yuanyi 蕭元漪, who i could not find out much more about. Her name uses these characters: 蕭 : mournful and 元漪 (元 first 漪  ripple). personally, in light of her relationship with Cheng Shaoshang, i think this is a banger choice.

Second Uncle is Cheng Cheng (程承) (Cheng 承 = bear)

Third Uncle is Cheng Zhi (程止) (Zhi = End). First he was made Hua County Magistrate (驊縣縣丞 = huá xiàn xiàn chéng). Then he became 郡守, which google tells me is 'Sheriff' but also means Governor? So, I am assuming that this role is a magisterial one at either the prefecture (1 step up) or province level (several steps up).

{To overly simplify, provinces (省, sheng) (34 total) are made up of multiple prefectures; prefectures (州, zhou) (339 total) are made up of multiple counties (Xian).}

Cheng Zhi is married to Shen Shunhua 桑舜華, Csh's 3rd Aunt. She married down, because her first fiancé (whose name is ... Huangfuyi, 皇甫儀 ??) was a negligent jerk. She is Daughter of the Mountain Lord (山主之女), the lord of Bailu Mountain Academy (白鹿山)

{Note that the character for Hua here in her name 'magnificent'; it also appears as a radical (wc?) in the character to Hua in Huaxian}

Next generation: Cheng Zhi has no kids yet; Cheng Cheng has Yang Yang, and Cheng Shi has Cheng Yong, Cheng Song, Cheng Shaogong, and Cheng Shaoshang.

Cheng Yong is first brother. 詠, Yong: chant, song, tune 

Cheng Song is second brother. 頌 Song: praise, song of celebration 

Cheng Shaogong (少宮) and Shaoshang (少商): two different strings on an ancient instrument, a qin (i have read better explanations of this, but I haven't been able to find any recently. Any recs?)

Cheng Yang (程姎) is daughter of Cheng Cheng (2nd uncle) and Aunt Ge. I was unable to find a good translation of Yang 姎, but the character does feature the female radical. Cheng Yang is also 程氏三娘子 (cheng third lady) which brings up an interesting question of mine... how df does numbering work in these families?

Cheng Shaoshang is 4th lady, which makes sense to me because she is forth child; cheng yang is third lady, which ... ok, maybe makes sense, but then, who are the first two cheng family ladies? are we to assume that their two older sisters died? Is the numbering consistent across all families? i.e., is it the same numbering done by the imperial family?

{genuinely all this research started to figure out wtf they were calling each other}

I'd also like to add Lian Fang, 蓮房, lotus pod. She's exceptional.

And that's enough for now. i think. let me know if you want more... i have done a lot of research for this monster.

[vanimeiy]

221215 — fansite update 🌊

© 青崖间·白鹿

bailu at GQ men of the year (MOTY) 2022❣️

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【白鹿 Bailu】白鹿：丁达尔效应下的精灵#大播奇#大播奇娱乐界#白鹿 Bailu：The Elf Under the Tyndall Effect

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Sunday, 28th January 2024

Welcome, fáilte, welcome, ยินดีต้อนรับ (yin dee dtôn rab) 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Wu Guo Gushi" to "Alfred James Broomhall". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Wu Guo Gushi "Wu Guo Gushi ("Stories of the Five States") is a 10th-century Song dynasty history book, which in 2 chapters describes 5 of the southern states during the chaotic Five Dynasties period (907–960): the Wu, Southern Tang, Later Shu (including information on Former Shu), Southern Han and Min Kingdom,..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Former Shu "Great Shu (Chinese: 大蜀; pinyin: Dàshǔ), known in historiography as the Former Shu (Chinese: 前蜀; pinyin: Qiánshǔ) or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It existed from 907 to 925 CE. The country's..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: Ba–Shu culture "Ba–Shu culture (Chinese: 巴蜀文化; pinyin: Bāshǔ wénhuà; Wade–Giles: Pa-Shu wên-hua), sometimes also named Chongqing–Sichuan culture, refers to the culture of Sichuan province and Chongqing city, China and the surrounding areas, including parts of the neighboring provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, since..."

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Step 3️⃣ 👣: Bailu, Pengzhou "Bailu (Chinese: 白鹿; pinyin: Báilù; lit. 'White Deer') is a town under the administration of Pengzhou, Sichuan, China. As of 2018, it has one residential community and eight villages under its administration...."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: Albert Shelton "Albert Leroy Shelton (1875-1922) was an American medical doctor and a Protestant missionary in Tibet, especially in Batang in the Kham region of eastern Tibet, from 1903 until 1922. He authored a popular book about his experiences and collected Tibetan cultural items and sold them to museums. He was..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: Alfred James Broomhall "Alfred James Broomhall (6 December 1911 – 11 May 1994), also known as Anthony James Broomhall, or A. J. Broomhall, was a British Baptist Christian medical missionary to China, and author and historian of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship in 1964, known today as OMF..."

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刀斩山河 by 不落不落

不管他是教书先生还是高贵的龙脉，于伏城都没有区别，他只想看看他，告诉他，白鹿城的晚霞，很美。 Whether he is a schoolteacher or noble imperial blood makes no difference to Fu Cheng. He just wants to see him, and tell him the twilight in Bailu City is a beautiful sight.

Synopsis

Liuying Alley, tucked into a dark corner of a small town near the northern borders, is home to many sabre masters of dubious origins. They will accept any hard and dirty job for the right price, except for Fu Cheng, who refuses to kill despite being a formidable fighter .

After a rescue job goes wrong, Fu Cheng's client and a friend go missing, and Fu Cheng is stuck looking after his rescue target, Zhou Xuanyi, a beautiful young man with serious injuries, an insufferable personality, a mouth-watering bounty on his head, and an inconvenient bout of amnesia that renders him incapable of offering any explanations or solutions to this mess.

Zhou Xuanyi offers to help Fu Cheng find his friend and promises a sizable reward for Fu Cheng's continued protection. He settles into life in Liuying Alley with Fu Cheng and his ward, teenage girl Jin Ling. Their investigation into Fu Cheng's missing friend quickly connects their plight in the far north to conspiracies that can rock the very foundation of the Zhou dynasty. And as protecting Zhou Xuanyi forces Fu Cheng into increasingly dangerous scenarios, Fu Cheng is forced to reflect on the demons in his past that has robbed him of a life-saving skill -- the ability to kill in battle.

The Main Characters

Fu Cheng is a versatile and efficient fighter, a "traitor" expelled by a famous sect. However, he literally cannot strike a killing blow due to psychological trauma from his childhood in a destructive cult. Despite his morally-dubious profession and dark past, Fu Cheng is a kind idealist who always wants to help people and give them another chance. He falls in love with Zhou Xuanyi, and even though their social positions mean they have no future together, he wants to make the most of the time he can have with the young man who has given him a new purpose in life.

Zhou Xuanyi is the mysterious young man whom Fu Cheng is hired to rescue from a kidnapping, whose real identity is possibly the Crown Prince Zhou Heng. Zhou Xuanyi is daring and smart, always thinking a few steps ahead, and makes the most of every tool and resource at his disposal. He manages to survive the threats to his life in Bailu City without his memories, but the real challenge is waiting for him in the capital. After falling in love, he is determined to hold onto Fu Cheng for as long as he can, though later he feels guilty for bringing Fu Cheng into the quagmire of imperial politics.

Both are in their early twenties.

The Relationship Arc

This story has my favorite type of sour-sweet relationship arc. Two people get to know each other and admiration develops gradually. The main couple gets together about halfway into the novel, so it has a fair amount of fluff from an established relationship. They love and trust each other so fiercely in the present moment, but they also believe they don't have a future together given their political reality.

Their future (or the lack thereof) and their class differences cause genuine complications to the relationship that never get hand-waved away. Fu Cheng believes people like him won't find a happy ending, especially not with someone noble and royal like Zhou Xuanyi; every moment in the relationship is clouded by his belief that it won't last. Zhou Xuanyi himself also expects to one day marry a woman and produce heirs as his position requires; he can't bear to let Fu Cheng go but feels guilty about keeping him in this limbo state. Their circumstances make them angry and a little resentful, even though they still love each. Until it happens at the very end, even they don't believe they can have a happy ending together.

This is also one of the few truly verse/switch couples I have seen in danmei. They both show traditional gong tropes. Fu Cheng is physically stronger, very protective, and Zhou Xuanyi eventually becomes the top priority in his life. Zhou Xuanyi confesses his feelings first, and have more control over the status and progress of their relationship. They are not shy about sex, and they don't bring any gender and power dynamic into who tops. They start with some kind of turn-taking, but it's generally decided based on their needs and vibes at that moment.

Zhou Xuanyi has no other partners after starting a relationship with Fu Cheng, but he has been attracted to men before, and his male ex-something plays a major role in this story. He also has two concubines in his estate, but he hasn't been intimate with them for years, and they are just bored stuck at home and end up striking up very fun friendships with Fu Cheng.

The Plot

To put it briefly: action-packed and fun, but don't think too hard about it.

This novel is a fusion of wuxia and political intrigue. Most of the conflicts in this story are rooted in political motives, but they are often resolved by wuxia-style showdowns. Fu Cheng's personal arc deeply linked to his past in the martial sects, while Zhou Xuanyi's is all about the court politics.

Personally, I find the plot more engaging in the first part of the story, when it's set up like a mystery trying to figure out Zhou Xuanyi's kidnapping and backstory. The second part of the novel is mostly set in the capital, but instead of elaborate politicking, the story relies on creating incredibly threatening villains to raise the tension.

This novel also stands out for putting its main characters are under more intense pressure/threats than I typically see in works of this genre. Fu Cheng is a strong fighter, but his effectiveness in battle is seriously reduced by his inability to kill. Zhou Xuanyi is smart and have a very important title, but I have never seen a main character in a worse position than Zhou Heng in terms of manpower, resources, and political capital. As smart as they are, it feels like an uphill battle just to survive, let alone strike back against their enemies.

Supporting Characters

The side characters are surprisingly fleshed out in this story. Through their actions and choices, they all have different answers to the question "what is the most important thing to you." Some have surrendered their identity and pride to protect the people they love. Some have given up their personal interests to fight for the greater good. And some choose to trample over lives of innocent people for their own personal ambitions, or break the hearts and trust of people they love out of selfish resentment.

Compared to the "friendly" supporting characters, the villains are more cartoon-ish. This story relies on villains being incredibly powerful and threatening to create tension, which limits the space for nuance and complexity. But it is an effective strategy that keeps the story engaging enough.

Other Thoughts [spoilers ahead]

This is one of those rare stories in which the protagonist ends the story in a much worse mental state than what he starts with -- which is fair, given what Fu Cheng goes through, but still an atypical course of character development. He conquers his inability to kill, but is worse off in every other way. In the final chapter, Fu Cheng is technically living out his dream retirement of running a restaurant, but he seems to be doing it to make a point, not because he is enjoying it. He is not nearly as open or friendly as his initial appearance. This vague ideal of Zhou Heng, being a healthy and wise ruler far away in the capital, is the only good thing in the world that gives him purpose to keep living.

It feels strange to see Zhou Heng, set up as a great emperor, leaving his position to be with Fu Cheng (even though he does a lot of good work in his decade of reign and prepares his successor). They are certainly not the first danmei couple to take this route, but it feels a bit off here. Due to Fu Cheng's state near the end, it feels less like them starting a new chapter/retirement that they both look forward to, and more like Zhou Heng choosing a vulnerable Fu Cheng over his responsibilities. However, from Zhou Heng's POV, the worst of Fu Cheng's trauma comes from the sacrifices he has made to help secure Zhou Heng's peaceful reign. Returning to Fu Cheng is him taking care of someone who has given so much to him and the nation, as much as it is about him reuniting with his lover.

Ultimately, the protagonist loses against the challenges set before him in the story. And as sad as it is, it is sort of comforting to see a character who loses, fails, and despairs, but remains sympathetic. Fu Cheng returns to the battlefield to help Zhou Heng in the final arc, but he is so broken compared to who he was before. Zhou Heng isn't judgemental or disappointed that Fu Cheng hasn't healed; he aches for him and only wants to ease his pain. Healing is difficult, and it takes time and energy and support that are in very short supply for broken people. And even though Fu Cheng's recovery is slow, imperfect, and incomplete, he is still capable and deserving of love.

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