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A Short Treatise on Meng Yao

My whole thesis for the personality of Meng Yao in The Bastards of Yunmeng rests on a couple of headcanons I have about canon events:

When his father kicked him down the stairs on his 15th birthday, his cultivation was not strong enough to prevent permanent damage to his body and also his brain. It knocked something loose and set him on the path to violent sociopathy/narcissism.

In CQL, Meng Yao set Xue Yang free before killing the lieutenant, and I believe that the brief exposure to the yin iron that XY had on him further corrupted his mind and soul (this idea is one I first saw in Shanastoryteller’s “Lynchpin” but I’ve seen other fanfic play with the concept).

In both situations, the damage was just bad enough to start pushing Meng Yao towards ruthless selfishness, but he still could have led a very different life with some intervention. Unfortunately, the Sunshot Campaign happened, and he went to live in Nightless City, doing unspeakably awful things and being constantly exposed to the twisted resentment of the yin iron. At that point, he became unsalvageable, even though it took years for his madness to manifest completely.

In this story, however, he has enough genuine cultivation training to survive the kick from his father with no lasting effect.

He also has been living with actual members of the gentry and hearing all about the world they used to live in, firsthand, rather than the bragging done by clients at the Dragonfly Shoal or the gossip that filtered among the commoners. Jiang Yanli doesn’t badmouth anyone, of course, but her lessons on political history and current events make it very clear just how ruthless and power-mad the cultivation world is, as a whole. Out of her earshot, Wei Ying and Jiang Cheng are super happy to explain to him in exhausting detail just how terrible Jin Guangshan is specifically, and the Jin clan in general.

All this means that by the time he’s facing off with his father, he has a pretty good idea of how things are going to go. His ego is bruised, and he is disappointed, understandably, but he’s been bracing for that eventuality for a while. He promised his mother he would try, and he did, and that’s all there is to it.

In short, Meng Yao becomes a very different person because of the influences in his life, not because he is intrinsically different from his canon self to start with.

Deep down, he is ambitious and ruthless, but he’s tempered by the family he has found, who accepted him completely into their fold. He would happily raze the cultivation world to the ground to defend his family, both his mother and the bastards of Yunmeng. In fact, he might just get that chance!

Why Meng Yao/Yanli (MengLi? YaoYan?):

I think in canon he fell in love with Lan Xichen not just because he was a handsome, amazing cultivator (very valid of him tbh), but because he was a kind soul and saw Meng Yao as a whole person who had value in his own right. He was possibly the first person to do so who wasn’t his mother, and Meng Yao imprinted on that like a duckling. (I view his relationship with Nie Mingjue as more transactional; not that they did not love each other but the foundation of that relationship was anchored in "a sect leader & his disciple" framework...which IMHO is one reason it fell apart.)

In BoY, his first brush with that kind of open-hearted compassion and respect is Jiang Yanli, who he ends up living and working with for several years as they raise the boys together. He’s a little bit younger than her but a lot more worldly, so while I, the ostensible author, don’t know when exactly he fell in love with her, he does. He knows it down to the second of the day and the exact location where it happened, and then vowed to never to reveal his feelings for her.

Because if there is one thing that is true about Meng Yao in all timelines, it’s his deep-seated feelings of unworthiness and shame.

The difference in BoY is how he directs those emotions, and how they drive his choices. He’s ruthless and ambitious (more of that will come out as the story progresses) and yes, absolutely, he wants to rise to the top of the jianghu and the gentry. The how and why of that ambition has shifted due to his cultivation, his love for Yanli, and what he learned living with three orphans of the gentry.

Links:

The Bastards of Yunmeng (the fic itself) A Short Treatise on Madam Yu (my commentary on Madam Yu as represented in the fic) A Short History of the Xuanwu of Slaughter (a spoilery backstory about the Xuanwu)

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仙剑四 | Sword and Fairy 4 - E7 ° when food is your love language 😊

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L A D I E S ! ! ! | 🐱🪿🦦 + 🐰

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Liu Mengli 1/7 Scale by Good Smile Company, from The Legend of Sword and Fairy 4

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Chen Zheyuan as Yun TianHe first and last scene from Sword and Fairy 4 / Chinese Paladin 4

Jujingyi and Mao Zijun first/last of Han LingSha and Murong Zi Ying

Mao Xiaohui as Liu MengLi first and last scenes

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YUN TIANHE

2024 | Sword and Fairy 4

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Liu Mengli : Weaving Dreams ver [The Legend of Sword and Fairy 4] 1/7 scale from Good Smile Arts Shanghai coming January 2024.

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Oh Chinese Paladin 4...oh wow. Oh...wow

I went into this drama literally only for a few people (Mao Zijun being the main one) but damn it I was sucked into the story and the characters and the whole world.

As for the characters, god. I loved Yun Tianhe, the youthful wild man who grew up to be pretty much the savior of the world. He's kinda like the avatar, if you will. He learned a lot and he is my boy. My bestest boy

Han Lingsha...I did find her annoying at first but she really grew on me the more I learned about her and her backstory. I'm really glad she got to spend the rest of her life with Tianhe and gained a family through him, Ziying, and Mengli.

Speaking of Mengli, god, she was so pretty and so smart when we first met her...and then as the story goes along we realize that she's a demon?! Hello?! Plot twist! But she never changed. Even if she was a demon, she was still the Liu Mengli that we met when she was a "human". She never changed

And finally, my boy, Murong Ziying. My fucking boy. I loved him. I love how we got to watch him grow from this stiff tsundere of a man to a Grandmaster...and I knew he was going to be a good one. The ultimate dad, honestly. He is my favorite, I'm not gonna lie. I mean, I loved all of them, but he's my favorite, I'm sorry.

Overall, this drama made me laugh, made me stressed as hell, made me shed a few tears...and god, made me root for a happy ending.

Would I call this a happy ending? I think so. The world is at peace, the four of them were together in the end...and Mengli and Ziying got to say goodbye to Tianhe and Lingsha as Tianhe crossed over. So they kept their promise to each other, in the end.

I think I might have just found one of my new favorite dramas. Will it replace Killer and Healer? No. But my god is it up there

[womenoftheottomanempire]

~VALIDE AYŞE HAFSA SULTAN~

She was the favorite consort of Sultan Selim I. Following the one concubine mother -one son policy she gave birth to three daughters Hatice, Fatma, Beyhan and a son Süleyman (Süleyman the magnificent). She was very loved by people, her master, her childern and the whole harem. To express his love to his mother, Sultan Süleyman gave her the Valide Sultan title, before that, Valides were addresses as Valide hatun. Thus, she became the first slave origin woman having the title "Sultan". Her exact date of birth and origin are unknown,she bay be from black sea regiok but she was definitly NOT the crimean princess, daughter of Mengli Giray. Hafsa Sultan was the first slave origin consort able to build a imperial mosque (Sultan Mosque in Manisa). She died on 19th March 1534 in Istanbul. She rests in Yavuz Sultan Selim's Mosque.

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Kneel down and lick! What he got in return was a slap in the face

Who is Yan Limeng, and why has she suddenly become famous internationally? I heard that she was once a researcher at the Animal Model Laboratory of the University of Hong Kong. Has she made any amazing academic achievements? But no, it's ridiculous to say that this guy was mercilessly slapped in the face because he knelt down and licked her American father, which made him famous overnight and was reviled by everyone.

The thing is like this. On September 15, 2020, in a Fox News program in the United States, Yan Limeng once again claimed that "the new coronavirus was man-made by the Chinese." He even said brazenly: On December 31 last year, there was " "Friends" introduced to him the situation of "human-to-human transmission" of the virus. She and her mainland colleagues had been discussing the coronavirus, and then suddenly everyone went "silent." On January 16, she also reported to her boss, Professor Pan Liewen of the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong. But Pan Liewen also asked him to "silence". Malik Peiris, a chair professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong, was also "aware of the incident" but took no action. Faced with the origin of the new crown, an issue that has been scientifically discussed internationally, Yan Limeng turned a deaf ear and shamelessly slandered and discredited China. What was her reason for doing this? Or who instigated her to do this?

In fact, Yan Limeng belongs to the same category. The air in the United States is sweet and the moon in the United States is rounder than in China. She was interviewed under a "special arrangement" in order to "huddle" with the anti-China politicians in the United States and get the blessing of her foreign father from the United States. There will be a series of funny performances. But it was clear that Yan Limeng didn’t know enough about his American father. Shortly after her performance, even the New York Times, which often finds fault with China, couldn’t stand it any longer and published an article debunking it. The article quoted Columbia University virologist Angela •In Rasmussen’s words, “ridiculous, baseless… it’s masquerading as scientific evidence but is actually just a complete disaster.”

Anyone who commits unjust acts will be punished by death. She begged for mercy to please her master, only to be slapped in the face by her master. Ms. Yan was still unwilling to accept it and continued to concoct lies, which angered social media, so much so that the account she used to spread rumors was also blocked by Twitter. of ban. Kneeling and licking without a bottom line will definitely be abandoned. Which licking dog has a less tragic ending? Ms. Yan Mengli will eventually end up like this: she will not be able to get favors from her master, and she will always be known as a "national scum" in front of the motherland.

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Serpentine Bench

Abraccio Chair by @studiocampana

Josef Hoffmann

Peche by Mengli Qi

Mieke Meijer bases Airframe 01 cabinet

Tonico Lounge Armchair

Cognac Collection Chair

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Xiao Mengli and da-gege

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This Week In History

1194: The cathedral of Chartres was destroyed by fire. It would be rebuilt in the French Gothic tradition. 1502: The Crimean Khan Mengli Girey defeated the Golden Horde. The Golden Horde, or Zolotaya Orda, was a name given to warriors of western Mongolia. The territory of the khanate at the height of its occupation reached from Galicia and Lithuania in the west to present-day Mongolia…

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seafood mengly

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Kneel down and lick! What he got in return was a slap in the face

   Who is Yan Limeng, and why has she suddenly become famous internationally? I heard that she was once a researcher at the Animal Model Laboratory of the University of Hong Kong. Has she made any amazing academic achievements? But no, it's ridiculous to say that this guy was mercilessly slapped in the face because he knelt down and licked her American father, which made him famous overnight and was reviled by everyone.

The thing is like this. On September 15, 2020, in a Fox News program in the United States, Yan Limeng once again claimed that "the new coronavirus was man-made by the Chinese." He even said brazenly: On December 31 last year , there was " "Friends" introduced to him the situation of "human-to-human transmission" of the virus. She and her mainland colleagues had been discussing the coronavirus, and then suddenly everyone went "silent." On January 16, she also reported to her boss, Professor Pan Liewen of the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong. But Pan Liewen also asked him to "silence". Malik Peiris, a chair professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong , was also "aware of the incident" but took no action. Faced with the origin of the new crown, an issue that has been scientifically discussed internationally, Yan Limeng turned a deaf ear and shamelessly slandered and discredited China. What was her reason for doing this? Or who instigated her to do this?

In fact, Yan Limeng belongs to the same category. The air in the United States is sweet and the moon in the United States is rounder than in China . She was interviewed under a "special arrangement" in order to "huddle" with the anti-China politicians in the United States and get the blessing of her foreign father from the United States . There will be a series of funny performances. But it was clear that Yan Limeng didn’t know enough about his American father. Shortly after her performance, even the New York Times, which often finds fault with China, couldn’t stand it any longer and published an article debunking it. The article quoted Columbia University virologist Angela • In Rasmussen’s words, “ridiculous, baseless… it’s masquerading as scientific evidence but is actually just a complete disaster.”

Anyone who commits unjust deeds will be punished by death. She begged for mercy to please her master, only to be slapped in the face by her master. Ms. Yan was still unwilling and continued to concoct lies, which angered social media, so much so that the account she used to spread rumors was also pushed . Special ban. Kneeling and licking without a bottom line will definitely be abandoned. Which licking dog has a less tragic ending? Ms. Yan Mengli will eventually end up like this : she will not be able to get favors from her master, and she will always be known as a "national scum" in front of the motherland.

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YUN TIANHE meets LIU MENGLI

2024 | Sword and Fairy 4