#Lou Yao

[raine-kai]

Completely agreed. Also I think a lot about the lead-up to this, because Shaoshang is not at all shocked by the inappropriate invitation to a private conversation--just the way he threatens her with marriage if she doesn't show up 😂 I think she is more aware than she pretends that he is interested in her, but romantic love and attraction are at this point useless to her. She isn't attracted to A'Yao (more or less clear in the sex ed scene), certainly isn't in love, but she does love him dearly as a friend she is comfortable being herself around. Having grown up the way she has, what A'Yao is offering her is more than she ever expected to get out of a marriage proposal, so she is not about to sabotage that. She still doesn't have Zisheng's measure, so even if she knows that he is interested in her and they are mutually attracted to each other, those are not elements she can build a better future around.

And yet it is so apparent that she doesn't want to lose these small interactions—the way she tries to assure him that they will see each other again, by offering to play the flute here or assuring him she and A'Yao will visit him together that time he was speaking to her when she was in a carriage with Yuanyi (and he completely neglected to even greet Yuanyi lol).

I think at this point, a relationship with the person she is in love with is not something she even considers possible. So she knows she is attracted to him in a way she isn't to anybody else, knows she wants to keep having these interactions, but is trying her best to find scenarios in which it would be acceptable for them to interact. She definitely doesn't want to lose these moments they have, and it is so heartbreaking because meanwhile HE is saying this goodbye I think not so much because he actually thinks he'll die on the battlefield, but to (1) remind them both but especially himself that if she married him, she would be living in anxiety a lot, and (2) because even though he fully intends to help her and A'Yao going forward, he doesn't actually want to socialize with them once she's married to someone else. All he wants is to hear from Shaoshang herself what she wants to do with her life, so that he can make arrangements around her accordingly.

Plus, the way he shows he knows exactly why she and A'Yao want to move away even as he entreats her to wait for the emperor to assign them somewhere safe, which he will arrange.

And this must be so completely mind-boggling to Shaoshang, who of course has never received this kind of dedication or love, and cannot quite process it but she is still so drawn to him.

They are both so visibly in love and it's such a beautiful scene.

Ok, but the private conversation among the ginkgo trees is so revealing and significant. While she still has her issues with him, SS has grown to respect LBY. He's saved her life and supported her multiple times; yes, he is intimidating and intense and demanding and confusing, but I think she holds him in high regard because of what he's done and his character. At first she is reluctant to stay and talk to him, but once he reveals he is leaving (probably not even coming back alive) and that it will be the last time they will meet as more than strangers, her attitude changes so fast. She's clearly bothered by the idea. She eagerly tells him that she'll play the flute for him if he comes back alive. Idk about her brain, but this is the moment her heart realizes she cares about this person as more than an acquaintance, that she doesn't wanna lose this connection. There are no romantic feelings on her part yet, I believe, but there's definitely something.

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Cdrama: Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

😂 Li Lianhua is really not a good cook 😂

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TENDER LIGHT 微暗之火 (2024)dir. yao xiao feng

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GUYS...

MY SPECIAL DELIVERY IS HERE 💌~

Lmaoo they knew I couldn't wait for these 🤭🤣

Ooh and they're so cutely packaged 🥰 (I see that cake hulijing 👀)

Okay but like I love these art so much?? Ugh it's so pretty 🥹 (also, running wittle llh is so adorable I shall frame him and look at him everday and give him wittle kisses and... ahem, sorry...)

OH MY GOD HULIJING I LOVE YOU 😭❤️

oh my God they're even cuter in person...

AHHHH THESE ARE SO PRECIOUS 🥹😭

OMG AND THE XIAOBAO CAMEO IM MELTING 😭💘

These are so beautiful, I love them all so much 🥲

A special thanks to @tiny-breadcrumbs for allowing us to pre-order these precious babies. Her art is so lovely! 🥰🥰 (did I mention her art is so lovely??)

I'm definitely going to be posting more pics of where I put these later hehe 🤭

that's all.. bye bye~

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Suzhou River (2000)

Dir. Lou Ye

[saturnaous]

do you wanna send me art rqs I promise I can actually draw sometimes

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[atamascolily]

Thunderbolt Fantasy + text posts, part 8.

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I don't know why but for some reason global/international version of iqiyi cut out the last 50-ish seconds of episode 24. But hey, here's the clip

[minsarasarahair]

I will always treasure these LouZuo and XieFan deleted scenes. You can tell that these two pairs are major offender in You Yao when it comes to being gay. Only YuKe manage to be unscathed for the final cut because they have tragic ending lol Love these dorks!

LouZuo: Lou "I rather die than be a burden" Zhu & Zuo "So you don't even care what you'll leave behind? What I feel?" Yunqi.

XieFan: Xie "I act cold when you act cute but I'm actually very soft whenever you do that" Liang & Fan "I bicker with you a lot but I don't really mind if they think our friendship is gay" Aiguo

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Cdrama: Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

#莲花楼 那就祝他们，在江湖之外，在传奇之后，永远快乐无忧 | 莲花楼 Mysterious Lotus Casebook | 爱奇艺华语剧场

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Suzhou River (苏州河) (Suzhou he) (2000) Lou Ye

January 21st 2024

[dan-fei]

[burningthegallows]

Zhou Yafu and Huo Buyi

Zhou Yafu, 周亞夫, was a minister in the early/mid Han period. His father was the paragon of military virtues, he made a name for himself fighting the Xiongnu with economic and military strategy, and he was responsible for ending the Rebellion of the Seven Princes in less than three months.

While Ling Buyi's character relies on a lot of tropes, there are also some particular historical figures that are being played with.

(There's a certain sense of humor to it in lltg (can't speak for the books) like making Ban Jia terribly sheltered and easily lost--snerk)

Some interesting things about Zhou Yafu:

He worked mostly under Emperor Wen's successor, Emperor Jing

The Rebellion of the Seven States was shut down under Emperor Jing

He was given the title "Defender-in-Chief" for, among other things, actually training his armies

He, like Huo Buyi, was General of the Cavalry and Chariots and deputy minister of the household

His older brother was executed for committing murder, thus he inherited his father's title and fief

Emperor Jing would eventually lose faith in Zhou Yafu and he would be fired and later imprisoned

When his son was discovered to be stealing from the Imperial Armory, they were both accused of treason, and he starved himself in prison

He tried starving himself once before in prison, but css his wife talked him out of it

Today he is thought of as some paragon of principled, martial virtue

There aren't a ton of direct parallels, but something about the details when Wendi was talking about his sworn brother, Huo Chong, reminded me of Zhou Bo, Yafu's father.

I'm sure it colored my research, but after I decided that lby was based on Zhou Yafu, I started thinking about the show as an au retelling. Like, history, but what if Zhou Bo and all of lby's siblings were murdered during the Lü Contention.

[As a further aside, even if I do think that Zhuo Yafu was the historical inspiration for Hou Buyi, Emperor Jing is not the third prince. Third prince is Emperor Ming]

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Zhu Lou - ONA: You Yao

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Thunderbolt Fantasy + text posts, part five.