#Mo Qixuan

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Dashing Youth | Qixuan ✘ Yuji: 爱随风起

Qixuan. You're right. We grew up together, of couese I know that you won't betray the Young Lady. But did you think that I would betray you? -Episode 27

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The Blood of Youth | I can't tell how strong the white-haired man with the jade sword is.

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yeah uh my finger slipped-

here's some of my favourite shots for these ships though:

Me: "I am not going to fall for minor ships. I am not going to fall for minor ships. I am not going to fall for mino-"

"DAMNIT."

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ignore the tragedy focus on the sick as hell fight scenes

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Wuxin's dad will die but at least he has gay married uncles who watch over him lol

Among all pairs, I feel like Mo Qixuan and Zi Yuji have the most married couple energy. Their scenes are so intimate and romantic.

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yk what I had another Zibai (Qixuan/Yuji) fic that i had written three quarters of but these images made the brainrot hit hard

这一家三口真是。。。

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I saw a post on Weibo saying that Qixuan's entire vibe changes around Yuji (and YueYao) XD

without Yuji:

with Yuji:

(被委屈的小猫咪)

Update: I found the TikTok video lol

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Taps mic Welcome back to my channel:

Today's Dashing youth discovery of the day is learning that Qixuan canonically has a crush on Yue Yao (ngl that should've been obvious in retrospect), and Yue Yao was the first Qixuan/Yuji shipper (chapter 321 of the novel).

"Stop looking already, the Young Lady that you like has already left with someone else." Ziyi (the Purple robed marquis) patted his shoulder, "Young Lady, Bai fa (White hair) has always liked you."

Yue Yao nodded. "I know."

The purple robed marquis suddenly cleared his throat, "I have also always liked the Young Lady."

Yue Yao's eyebrows jumped lightly, "really? That I couldn't tell. I even thought you liked Bai fa."

(rough trans, I cant decide whether to translate "bai fa" bc the name sounds awkward in English lol)

"I have liked the Young Lady since young, but because Bai fa told everyone that he likes the Young Lady early on, so I've kept this to myself all along. But since you have someone you like now, then I won't hide it anymore either." The purple robed marquis suddenly smiled gently, "Young Lady, I like you."

The White haired deity patted the sword at his waist, "you're asking for a fight?"

"The Young Lady won't come with us even if you win." The purple robed marquis turned and walked straight down the mountain, "let's go."

Someone on Lofter made an analysis of the chapter,,,which arguably you could take as both Qixuan and Yuji having a crush on Yue Yao but through a shippers lens,,, can also be taken as Yuji having a crush on Qixuan,,,the love triangle is real, yall.

They pointed out that Yue Yao is so perceptive she could tell that Baifa (Qixuan) liked her, how could she fail to see that Purple (Yuji) liked her as well? (and instead saw that Purple liked Baifa 👀👀)

Another point they made was that Purple didn't deny what she said about him liking Baifa XD

(I don't want to steal all of their analysis, I'd suggest looking at the original post (the translation does an okay job) linked above!)

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Qixuan and Yuji behind-the-scenes

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ok so I was reading a fic when it hit me: yk the cliff scene (ep 37) where the Beique trio reunited and Yuji suddenly mentioned that Yue Yao also had selfish desires?

It seems like he was referring back to the cave scene (ep 27), when he tried to stop Qixuan and Yue Yao from escaping because it would only implicate (okay putting on my shipping lens here) Qixuan who helped her to escape?

He asked her to go back, which would spare them but she hesitated, because she wanted to go and see Baili Dongjun. And that's when their true colours come to light. Qixuan, who would never betray Yue Yao, and Yue Yao who no longer wanted to restore Beique. and Yuji whose motivations are still unclear (hear me out)

And since Mo Qixuan had decided to help Yue Yao escape and refused to turn back, Yuji could only take the fall for Qixuan. Which resulted in the both of them betraying Tianwaitian and being wanderers, and brings back the point of whether he blamed Yue Yao for it, which is why he brought up the point that she also had selfish desires?

(Because if she hadn't, and had just 乖乖的 remained in the cage, they wouldn't have been forced out of their home).

Okay second point: Yuji's personal motivations/selfish desires (put on your shipping goggles with me here). His selfish desire is Qixuan's safety.

Hear me out: when Qixuan demanded to know where Yuji's loyalties lay between the Yue clan and Lord Wuxiang, he didn't answer, so as the audience we were led to believe that he's one of Lord Wuxiang's men. Which is also supported by episode 8 when he told Wuxiang when Yue Yao had gone off to Tianqi.

But then he turns to go and lie to Wuxiang's face about being the one who released Yue Yao, and then when Yue Yao asks them why they would follow Ye Dingzhi, Qixuan answers for them that they previously did not really believe that Wuxiang could lead them to restore Beique (so either it's Qixuan's own Unreliable Narrator moment or Yuji really was never actually loyal to Wuxiang).

So in that case, whose side was Yuji on all along, really? Since he also kept silent when Yue Yao asks them whether she really was still their Young Lady, and only kneels to greet her after Qixuan did.

(also note how she's addressing Yuji specifically, since i guess she also knows that Qixuan has given her his undying loyalty. Or at least, that's how it looks like to me).

This might be drama canon, but i find the cliff scene might be alluding to Chapter 322 of the novel (I made a post about it a while back), where Yuji confesses to Yue Yao on Qixuan's behalf. Now, they didn't actually re-enact it in the drama but it was there, I believe.

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Fic: 我宁愿 留在你方圆几里

Fandom: Dashing Youth (少年白马醉春风)

Relationship: Mo Qixuan/Zi Yuji (aka. Wu Xin's gay uncles)

[read it on ao3] | Spoilers for ep 27

Being raised in Tianwaitian, the one thing that had been ingrained in Yuji since young was to restore Beique to their former glory, to live in the shadows while secretly training for the day, laying in wait for the right time to strike and bring the royal family of Beili to their knees.

Qixuan and Yuji had both been displaced and orphaned at a young age, eventually taken in by His Royal Highness who had deemed them talented enough martial artists, and thus raised them as the Princess’s bodyguards and attendants.

(What no one knew was that though Yuji had pledged himself to the Young Lady, he had also pledged to himself that he would always protect Qixuan, his first and only close friend in the cold piece of land they called their home).

It was inevitable that Qixuan had developed feelings for the Young Lady, Yuji thinks, watching wistfully as Qixuan silently made his way to the chamber where she had been locked up by Lord Wuxiang.

The Young Lady had always been graceful and kind, courageously setting out on expeditions that Lord Wuxiang sent her on without complaint, even as she carried out her own secret mission to search for an innate martial artist. Qixuan was the one accompanying her more often than not, silently guarding her wherever she went, and biding by her every wish.

That sort of devotion– it was not unfamiliar.

He had seen it coming, the day when their loyalties inevitably clashed, but it didn’t make the hurt sting any less when Qixuan levelled his sword at him, urging the Young Lady to go. Surely Qixuan knew that Yuji would never harm him– as it was, Yuji’s sword stays fully sheathed even as he reasons with Qixuan in the hopes that maybe, just once, his feelings would reach his friend.

(They do not, but when has Qixuan ever noticed anyone other than the Young Lady? So he does the only thing he knows how to– the only reason why he has chosen to work for Lord Wuxiang– and lets Qixuan go after the Young Lady).

He stands before Lord Wuxiang’s chambers, steeling himself before knocking on the doors that stood tall and imposing, seemingly towering over him.

“Enter.”

“I was the one who let the Young Lady go. I am here to accept my punishment.” He kneels before Lord Wuxiang, willing his voice not to tremble, and hopes that the old man does not see through him.

“Do you know what punishment you will face?”

“I do.” Of course he knew. Yuji knew better than anyone else what sort of punishments traitors of Tianwaitian faced– he was the one doling them out more often than not.

“There is news from Nanjue that something has happened at our base there. You will go and handle it.”

“Zi Yuji will obey your command.” He complies, taking his leave without any complaint despite the furious hammering of his heart. He regrets not giving Qixuan a proper goodbye now.

Their base at Nanjue has long since been taken over by their enemies, as far as Yuji knew. Lord Wuxiang was sending him to his death– not too bad a sentence, compared to what the other traitors had faced– at least he would be able to die while doing what he loved most.

To die in battle, it wasn’t half bad.

To die in order to protect the person in his heart, it wasn’t too bad either.

He could only hope that Qixuan has gotten a decent head start before Tianwaitian was alerted of his hand in the Young Lady’s escape and the subsequent disappearance of their White haired deity.

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As expected, their base at Nanjue had been overtaken, the once vibrant town that he had once visited now in tatters, bloody and devoid of life. Their enemies had fully taken control of the streets, turning the area into a ghost town, and now they stood guard, as if someone had alerted them of his presence.

Such was the cruelty of Tianwaitian, Yuji silently laments.

They were already so few in number, and Lord Wuxiang would still choose to get rid of one of his best fighters– Yuji did not agree with the old man’s ways, but he would accept his fate without question– it was better than working without Qixuan by his side, anyhow.

So he fights without abandon, without any hope of surviving, what with each of the enemies proving to be highly skilled in their own right. The battlefield had long since been prepared, and Yuji had nothing left to live for, anyway.

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He barely manages to survive, but he is too tired to move, hanging on by a thread between the fine line of life and death.

What he was hanging on for, he doesn’t know– until he hears a fluttering of robes, someone landing before him– Yuji is too weak to do anything other than clutch at his sword hilt, desperately trying to gather the remaining dregs of his qi, and he opens his eyes a crack.

He catches a glimpse of familiar robes, a head of snow white hair, and he briefly wonders if he is hallucinating.

Was King Yama so kind as to show him a vision of his deepest desires before he died? He dares not hope for too much.

But the Qixuan before him proves to be real, as he manoeuvres Yuji onto his back, catching his sword as the last of his strength leaves him, as Yuji finally lets his guard down in Qixuan’s presence.

“Why are you here?” He finally has the presence of mind to ask, a few minutes into their walk around the now-deserted streets.

Qixuan says nothing, his grip around him tightening as he replies cryptically, “after this ambush, our debt towards Tianwaitian for raising us has been repaid.”

“Aren’t you supposed to be following–” he pauses, choking back the blood that had risen in his throat, “following the Young Lady?”

“I couldn’t stop you from taking the punishment for me, so this is the least I can do.” Qixuan replies instead, turning into an empty house. There was no sign of its owner, its interior relatively untouched with a thin layer of dust covering its surfaces.

“But–” aren’t you in love with her? This time he is unable to hold it back, and he turns his head to cough, splatters of blood staining the wooden floor red.

“The Young Lady went to look for her lover, I doubt she would want me there.”

A blatant lie, but one that Yuji has no energy to call him out on. The temptation to sleep was too alluring, and he wants nothing more than to give in to it– which Qixuan denies, settling him on the daybed propped against the wall.

“Yuji, don’t fall asleep now,” Qixuan gives him a light slap, which startles him out of the haze clouding his mind, and his eyes snap open to meet Qixuan’s worried ones, “I’ll look around the house for medical supplies, try to regulate your zhenqi in the meantime.”

He does not know whether he even has enough qi left to regulate– he felt like nothing more than a dried up well– it would take a few days for his zhenqi to fully replenish, if he manages to survive that long.

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“Rest, I’ll take care of Tianwaitian if they arrive.” Qixuan says firmly, gently pressing him back down.

“They’ll come to ensure that I’m dead,” Yuji protests, “and you cannot be seen by them.”

It wouldn’t be easy– Qixuan was simply too conspicuous with his hair and clothes, especially in this ghost town, where he would only stand out against it's dreary surroundings.

“Have you forgotten everything we used to do? I’ll simply do the same this time.” That said, he passes Yuji a set of robes, the very ones his attackers wore, a little worse for wear after the trashing that they endured, but he understood.

Qixuan was going to fake their deaths and let their pursuers bring back a fake body.

And well– it would have to do for now, until they thought of a better plan– scheming had never been their strong suit, having been reliant on the Young Lady or Lord Wuxiang to think up strategies while they executed them.

But nevertheless, Yuji was prepared for a life on the run, as long as Qixuan was with him.