#Mingxi

[nexthlive]

Introducing 10 Chinese Models

[serenewongms]

. Your kind words have touched my heart deeply and I am grateful for your support and encouragement throughout the years. Our friendship has stood the test of time and I value the bond that we share. I am blessed to have you in my life and hope our connection continues to grow stronger. Once again, thank you for your beautiful words and for being a wonderful friend.#friendship #serenewongms #mingxi #love https://www.instagram.com/p/CrlK-fkxOvJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rrainbowwarriorr]

[agendratum]

The punishment I used on the criminals in the Ministry of Justice was somehow lacking. I heard that Official Ren has a knack for corporal punishment. Hence, I want to seek her advice.

[melodious-tear]

[lizhly-writes]

@somefishycat @zyrafowe-sny @whimsicalmeerkat annnnnd now we have a totally random assessment of words! AKA ill-advised au where I've given two characters kids (they should not be having kids together) (they're fine for now)

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Jiang Mingxi didn’t really like children. This was less a statement about children and more a statement about people. In general, she didn’t really know what to do with them. Children, despite their size and ignorance about the workings of life, were still people; Jiang Mingxi and people did not get along.

She hadn’t thought about how this would apply to her own children, but in retrospect, the answer had been obvious. There had been no instant connection to the child, no maternal instinct telling her what she was supposed to do. Faced with the prospect of holding a baby – any baby -- Jiang Mingxi was left only with the conviction that she was somehow unqualified for it.

The baby didn’t soothe her feelings about this. The baby only stared at her with big, dark eyes, as if it, too, was judging her.

“You’re holding A-Chen like he’s a bomb,” Yang Haoran said dryly. “He’s a baby, he’s not going to explode.”

“You don’t know that,” Jiang Mingxi said.

Yang Haoran huffed and took the baby from her. “A-Chen isn’t going to bite you. I wish A-Chen would bite you – but A-Chen is so good, he’s so well-behaved, do you know how many parents would be jealous of having a baby like you? That’s right, A-Chen is the best --”

It was weird, watching Yang Haoran dissolve into cooing over the baby. Jiang Mingxi had been certain he also didn’t really like children. By default, he was better at them than Jiang Mingxi was, as how he was generally better at people, but he’d expressed great distaste at at the concept of actually having them.

Then the baby was born and Yang Haoran was suddenly and severely afflicted with parental sappiness, to the point where Jiang Mingxi was mildly unsettled by it. Yang Haoran had never been this nice to anyone or anything in his entire life. Parenthood had changed him in strange and unnerving ways.

“I wish he’d bite people,” Yang Haoran said, stroking the baby’s head. “When he gets teeth, he should bite people, it’s good for him.”

“… Really?” said Jiang Mingxi, who distinctly remembered being told not to bite people as a child.

“He needs to defend himself from strangers,” Yang Haoran said righteously. “Of course it’s not good to put dirty things in his mouth, but breaking the skin should scare people off.”

Jiang Mingxi didn’t know very much about parenting, but this didn’t seem correct.

“Are you… planning on handing the baby to strangers?” Jiang Mingxi said, perplexed.

Yang Haoran glared at her like she’d just suggested dropping the baby in molten lava. “As if.”

“Then why--”

“He needs to be prepared on the off-chance it happens,” Yang Haoran said. “I don’t see why you’re trying to argue with me about this. You liked biting people all the time.”

This was true.

“Mostly, you liked biting me.”

This was still, unfortunately, true.

“Why are you talking about this,” Jiang Mingxi said.

“Actually,” Yang Haoran said, starting to sound dangerously amused, “you still like biting me, don’t you?”

Jiang Mingxi’s head snapped towards Yang Haoran so quickly that it felt like she’d broken her neck.

She wasn’t a little kid anymore; she didn’t pick fights where biting was a viable winning strategy. The only context in which she was still biting anyone at all – Yang Haoran specifically -- was during sex.

They didn’t talk about sex. They’d spent a good number of years pretending they hadn’t been fucking each other, and this had extended even after their marriage. The habit was strong enough that she could barely believe what he’d just said, except there was literally no other way she could interpret it.

Yang Haoran had a pretty smile on his face. Something almost playful, not that dangerous, sharp-edged thing he’d directed at her for almost the entirety of their acquaintance. He’d tilted his head ever-so-slightly to the side, baring his neck just enough to give her easier access if Jiang Mingxi really did want to sink her teeth in.

Was that an invitation. Was this flirting.

“You’re making such a stupid face right now,” Yang Haoran said. “What kind of shit are you thinking, huh?”

[heymeowmao]

安乐传 | The Legend of Anle E15 ° I didn't know you could play the guqin.

[devdas5z]

Yan Mingxi

[electricsoul-rpg]

fc: Liu Yuning (刘宇宁)

ethnicity: Han Chinese

[lyselkatz]

Líng Láng 琳琅 & Lùo MíngXi 洛銘西

能不能為您再跳一支舞?

只為您臨別時的那一次回顧

Can I perform one last dance for you?

Just so you look back at me before we part.

Yún FeiFei 雲菲菲 - BáiHú 白狐 (white fox)

...☕?/commission

[springsheep]

Imagine Luo Mingxi finally found you after years of separation...

[bpod-bpod]

Improving Stem Subjects

A new approach to generate induced neural stem cells from murine and human cells – enabling creation of better models to study neurodegenerative disorders

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Mingxi Weng and colleagues

School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, August 2023

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[rrainbowwarriorr]

[agendratum]

the polycule is expanding

[melodious-tear]

[lizhly-writes]

HI THERE. IT'S BEEN A WHILE.

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That would take her, what, maybe twenty minutes? Jiang Mingxi was a quick and efficient person. She would come back from the shower and have her dinner soon enough. Yang Haoran contemplated the notebook he’d been flipping through. He didn’t particularly want her to see it --- didn’t particularly want anyone to see it --- but Jiang Mingxi never actually looked in his notebooks. As far as she was concerned, his notebooks were either 1) the boring remains of college notes 2) his business. He might have had a problem if it had been Zhao Yuhang, who viewed curiosity as an obvious aspect of social interaction, but Jiang Mingxi would only be curious if he asked her to be curious.

This was a good thing, because if she actually read through his notebook, she’d probably think he was insane.