#Daqiang

[utterlyhooked]

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Talking about kisses!!!

I should cover my eyes or look away... but... WHOA!!! *fans self*

Understandable that they edited it (so much!?) for the final cut. The censors would probably go apoplectic if they did not!

* I feel like I'm intruding while watching but I can't look away!

[pnmndd]

He's so fine😍

[harocat]

I know the post-series Weibo posts aren’t exactly the most canon thing, but one thing I love about them is how silly Xiao Lanhua is in them. She’s so fully herself.

She’s trying every food in Lucheng on New Year’s (DFQC buys them all for her of course), and she’s being confused but entertained by the opera, and she’s drawing terrible art, and she’s back to sleeping in sometimes. Even if you don’t consider the weibo posts and just use the canon epilogue, there’s such a ‘XLH will be XLH vibe to it.’

It’s nice because we don’t get to see that much post goddess XLH where she’s not pretending to be someone she’s not. The trauma and the grief are inevitably going to make her a more serious person at times, but she was already heading down that path anyway. She’d learned to take a serious, measured view of things even before she ‘dies.’ She views her roles as Moon Queen and Goddess as something she is genuinely dedicated to.

But now we know that despite all that, at least once DFQC returns, she’s still able to be the light-hearted, indulgent, gremlin of a character she is meant to be. And that’s very important to me.

[lynne-monstr]

Tiger and Crane | The real MVPs of Episode 4 (they got married after this, they told me personally)

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

THIS EPISODE IS. VERY HARD TO WATCH ;A;

poor daqiang ;A; poor old man ;A; poor EVERYONE ;A;

but um. don't listen to the old man tho. it doesn't matter how much u've suffered already!!! IF IT SUCKS, HIT DA BRICKS!!!! HIT THOSE BRICKS DAQIANG!!!!!!!

props to ALL the actors tho, they are KILLING IT. they are SLAYINGGGGG and SERVING and WORKING HARD. i hope they've got the recognition the deserve bc they've done fantastic work here ;A;

[mengyan]

sharing this canglan parallel that ruined me. ep 31: losing xlh & trying so hard to keep his emotions in. it's futile, he knows. she's dying. but if she lives, the bone orchid will kill her. xlh knows he's hiding his feelings. ep 35: dfqc breaking down in front of the love locks. xlh trying so hard to hold her emotions in so he won't know it's her, won't have to see her die again. it's futile, she knows. he already thinks she's dead. dfqc doesn't yet know she's hiding her feelings.

anon i have many questions. first of all how DARE YOU

[6pmtea]

cang lan jue: where watching the second time is more stressful because you know the extent of the meaning and weight of each and every word and action

[xinyuehui]

八卦 Bagua, 五行 Wuxing (five elements) within LBFAD

As I was writing the post for the historical China omegaverse and how 八卦Bagua comes into play. I haven't seen mentions of Bagua within LBFAD. There's a common misconception that Xun Feng's full name is Dong Fang Xun Feng. Even Wikipedia and MDL have it written that way. However, in the Chinese credits, it's simply "Xun Feng" with no surname, "Xun" is not his surname either. The name actually references Bagua (eight trigrams).

'巽xun' is one of the eight trigrams which symbol is the wind, and wind in Chinese is "feng", hence his name Xun Feng. Xun is associated with southwest - not relevant to east(dong fang).

Xun gua element: Wood

Xun gua symbol: Wind

While Dongfang is a compound surname in China. Dong Fang Qing Cang's surname is not Dongfang. Screenshot below taken from Baidu.

["Dongfang" is not a surname, his full name has no surname, nickname is "Daqiang".]

Although his name is not directly a reference to a gua, I'm taking a wild guess that "Dong Fang" refers to the position "east", which corresponds to '震 (Zhen)' in the trigram, whose symbol is thunder. This aligns with his thunder powers.

Zhen gua element: Wood

Zhen gua symbol: Thunder

Even though both are wood elements, in the context of 五行(wuxing, five elements). They represent different aspects of the wood element. Zhen reflects the explosive, initiating energy of wood, like a tree bursting forth in spring or a thunderstorm bringing new life. Xun embodies the more subtle, pervasive influence of wood, akin to the wind that shapes landscapes over time or the steady growth of trees.

I'm not sure if any of this was intentional on the author's part, but it all aligns with their personalities. Their element being wood also ties in with the speculation that DFQC's true form is a tree or plant of some sort.

[clj-art-blog]

When XLH hid DFQC in Simingdian, she forced him to do chores. (How i see it)

XLH: Daqiang, you are tall, so go and wipe the dust. DFQC: !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? XLH: … DFQC: Will this make you happy? XLH: This will make me joy. DFQC: Then I'll do some general cleaning for you.

[mind-of-a-mundane]

When Daqiang wanted Fairy Orchid to be happy 🥹❤️

[bellanut]

I’m deep in my LBFAD rewatch, and im finally at Lucheng which I am OBSESSED with. There’s this quiet softness to Daqiang and Orchid here that is mesmerizing. Theres a disconnect that they’re both navigating so cautiously. Because of how much they now care about each other they have something to lose. They aren’t saying everything out loud anymore. They’re holding back. And they both feel that shift and aren’t sure what to do about it. And there’s this, like, identity defining conflict between them thats obviously causing a communication breakdown. Orchid is very much trying to figure out who she’s going to be on her own with her own ethics and allegiances while also loving and wanting to protect this man she’s at odds with. And he’s just, like, delightfully stubborn and confused and frustrated by these FEELINGS he’s having and the impact she has on him now. He can no longer act completely of his own accord because she now takes up space in his heart and in his mind and in his life. He isn’t alone anymore, and he’s not used to that. Literally, please, the way he keeps saying things like “well since there’s apparently no love between us anymore”, this man is so funny, he keeps throwing that in her face with these pleading eyes hoping she’ll take it back because when exactly did he give her the power to pull the rug out from under him like that?? And this is honestly one of my favourite moments in the whole show:

Do you think Ive been abnormal lately? I’ve been distracted. I can’t concentrate. Especially when it comes to Orchid. Sometimes, I should be angry, but I can’t get angry. I even hope she will make me angry. But she… she always used to talk my ear off. But now, she doesn’t want to spend a single second with me. It has become quiet.

*clutches chest* PLEASE. Im going to watch this section as slowly as I can and savour every moment because I know by the end of it they will be fully burn-every-ember-of-the-sun devoted to each other and it’ll be time to destroy entire universes for each other 🙃🫠

[utterlyhooked]

One of the things to appreciate about Love Between Fairy and Devil is they actually kiss! Hurrah!!! ... and... and... and... there was a loooooooot of kisses in this cdrama!

Not the stereotypical asian drama kiss where a scene requires a passionate kiss but they just bump lips, or both are just weirdly still, or where one tries and the other is just stood there unmoving, like a statue.

ETA: I almost always have an issue with bump lips kissing scene. We are meant to be watching people who are in love but when they kiss, they seem like they have been forced to do it and have their lips bump and motionless for like 30 seconds. I don’t mean torrid full blown tongue french kissing because that would ruin the romanticism that we love most about cdramas. In LBFAD, when they kiss, they look like they actually love each other but it is still in the PG side.

* there were of course the kisses where they are both just still but it fits in with the story line, so no complaints

[pnmndd]

DAQIANG🥹

[harocat]

hello, hi!! I'd like to request a DFQC and XLH drabble for the prompt: "please, don't leave"

Hello! Once again, longer than a drabble. Warning for very cutesy fluff. Takes place almost directly post-canon, shortly after Dongfang Qingcang's return.

AO3: Shades of Pink and Red

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In the quiet of late morning, with the sun shining down on the meadows of Xilan, the green grass soft, now dry of morning dew, Xiao Lanhua wished that she could stop time 

Dongfang Qingcang rested in her lap, eyes closed, but conscious, and he had a lazy, content smile on his face. It was an expression that was somewhat new to him; he was still getting used to smiling, let alone one as casual as this. He was so warm. He reminded her of a cat. If she could grasp a moment and put it in a pouch, to carry with her everywhere, it would be a moment like this. 

It had only been about a week since he’d returned, since he’d come back to life from that tiny piece of his soul she’d nurtured for five centuries, and there was still an ache in her chest every time she looked at him. Was it possible for an ache to be good? Because this was. It was like her heart was pressing against her chest at every moment, overwhelmed, overfull. He was really back, and he was in her arms, and he wasn’t going anywhere. 

But she was.

Xiao Lanhua sighed and grumbled under her breath. Dongfang Qingcang had not come back to her one hundred percent healthy. It made sense, considering what he’d put his primordial spirit through, but he was, for lack of a better word, convalescing now.

He got tired and winded easily, ached in places he’d never recalled aching beforehand, and he was hungry all the time. The latter made Xiao Lanhua laugh, considering that in the past, he’d teased her for how much she could eat. She was certain he’d mostly recover in time, that any long term effects would be minimized, but she still spent a shichen or so each day channeling her power into him to expedite the healing. 

She didn’t want to leave him. If he'd been well, she wouldn’t have wanted to, but he wasn’t even that. Sure, she knew he could handle himself fine on his own for a while, but that hardly changed her feelings. 

“Daqiang,” she finally said, her voice gentle. “I need to get ready to go.”

He responded to this by shifting further into her lap and pretending he did not hear her. 

“I know you’re not asleep,” Xiao Lanhua sighed. 

“I am,” he answered. 

She was trying, and somewhat failing, to stop herself from giggling. “Come on, I’ll be back by later tonight, I promise.”

“No,” he said, and he opened his eyes and stared up at her. “You are too busy.” 

And at this she finally broke down and laughed. “I haven’t left your side since you came back.” 

He reached up and grabbed her hand. holding it against his chest. “Xiaohuayao, what is it you have to go do again?”

She bit her lip and exhaled. “I agreed to bless the new garden at Fountain Palace.” 

He frowned. “You are going to spend the day with the worst man in the three realms, for something that isn’t even important.” 

“I promised to do it weeks ago.” She puffed up her cheeks, indignant.

“Hmph,” he replied, unconvinced. “You are the goddess of Xishan, you are the Moon Queen of Cangyan Sea. There are more important things for you to be doing with your time than blessing a garden in Shuiyuntian.” 

She smiled and lifted up his hand, pressing a kiss to his knuckles. “Like spending the day with you?” 

“Yes.” 

He said this as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. 

And he was not wrong. Of course he was more important to her than a meaningless ceremony, but the three realms were living in a time of peace now, and decorum such as this was important to maintaining that. Once he’d recovered and returned to his role as acting Moon Supreme, she knew that Dongfang Qingcang himself would have to get used to events that felt pointless, but were important to continued diplomacy. He had never lived in a time of peace before. This would be new to him, but she was confident he’d be able to thrive now. 

Xunfeng had been to and even hosted many, and though he’d loathed every single one of them, he had managed. Xiao Lanhua thought that Dongfang Qingcang, though he wouldn’t enjoy them, would be a bit more tolerant. He had a better head for public facing politics, and— well, for better or worse, he really liked to show off. He may need some instruction in the benefits of using ‘soft power’, but she’d be there for him. 

Having been in two diplomatic roles for the entirety of the past five hundred years, she’d learned a lot more about politics than she’d ever thought possible. It turned out, even blessing a garden was part of it. 

She shook her head, but her happy expression remained. “Dongfang Qingcang, not every battle is a war. Sometimes a battle is going to Shuiyuntian and trying not to tell Lord Yunzhong that the way he planted his perennials is all wrong.” 

Dongfang Qingcang’s lips quirked up in a half smile at that. “So the fairy king can’t even plant a flower garden correctly? Such a thing would never happen at Silent Moon Palace.” 

“Yes, because I’m there,” Xiao Lanhua retorted. She tapped his nose, which crinkled a bit in surprise. “Now let me get up and get ready.” 

“What if you get hungry?”

“There will be food there, I’m sure.”

“What if I get hungry?”

“There is plenty of food here.”

He cleared his throat and furrowed his brows.  “I wanted to take a bath today. I am not sure I’m strong enough to do it all on my own…” He pushed himself up, then made a hissing noise, as if he were in pain, and plopped back down right in her lap. By this point, she knew he was just teasing her, but— it was hard to get too irritated. Not when she was still not even used to hearing his voice again. 

“We’ll take a bath tomorrow. We can go to the warm spring behind the hill,” Xiao Lanhua offered, a sing-song tone to her voice. 

“Together?” he asked, and it was quiet. Was he worried he’d read her wrong? He had not. 

“Yes, if you’d like that.” 

And then, something divine happened; a light flush spread across his cheeks. Xiao Lanhua committed this to memory, painting every detail of it in her mind. She knew she’d seen many aspects of the Moon Supreme no one else had seen before, but this one? She was certain it was hers alone. No one but Xiao Lanhua had been allowed to see Dongfang Qingcang blush. 

To be fair to Dongfang Qingcang, he was at a disadvantage on this front. Xiao Lanhua had had the last five hundred years to imagine being intimate with him. It’s not that she didn’t think she’d be a bit embarrassed when the time came; she knew she would be, but she was ready. And besides, this was just a bath together, in a rather roomy spring. 

That did not, however, mean she wasn’t going to try to get him to blush again. She wondered how red she could get him. This had only been a sweet pink. What would happen when they finally– she grinned inwardly and made it a personal challenge to find out. 

“I would like that,” he finally managed, with a curt nod. He cleared his throat. ��I’ll um– get up now. The sooner you leave, the sooner you can return.” 

Dongfang Qingcang pushed himself up and brushed the front of his robes off, and Xiao Lanhua joined him, taking his hand in hers. She stood at his side, allowing him to lean some of his body weight on her, something she’d noticed he appreciated during his recovery, as they walked back to Xilan’s Arbiter Hall. 

She pecked a quick kiss to his cheek, and he started in surprise, but then squeezed her hand tighter. At least she had something delightful to think about during the ceremony today; all of her favorite shades of red and pink, and how cute each would look coloring the cheeks of one Moon Supreme. 

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Like and subscribe if you remember that DFQC is canonically a 38,000 year old virgin who never even thought about romance, let alone sex before he met XLH, and who literally says 'let alone marry, I won't even look at another woman [who isn't the one I love]'. Peak baby boy.

[jielih]

Oh, Daqiang 😅😅🥰😘

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

xunfeng having his slutty lil entrance with his slutty lil rock collar. meanwhile in the forest..............😳😳😳

i am also glad that going outside to kiss and get struck by lightning is just. a thing they do now. its just their thing. ppl even watch them, they don't mind. IT'S NOT WEIRD :V :V :V

UM THAT IS. A LOT MORE KISSING THAN LAST TIME THO. DAQIANG. DAQIANG WHAT ARE U DOING. THAT WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE CLAIM KISSING. might as well just piss on her for all that smh 😒😒😒 UPDATE: SHANGQUE GOOD BOY FOR LIFE ;A; 'ur the most important person to me. ur like my xiongzhang' IM GONNA CRY