#Mo Yu Yun Jian

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Double (2024)

Xiao Heng: "I don't indulge in romance" 😄 #thedouble #wangxingyue #wujinyan #cdrama

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHUqPYW_xY

[electricsoul-rpg]

WANG XINGYUE (王星越) as Xiao Heng, Duke Su

The Double 墨雨云间 (2024)

[palehorsemen]

[shijiujun]

literally in the middle of a coup and danger lies everywhere, they could die any other moment—

xiao heng: *sees a-li return and princess carries her off the horse and hugs her*

a-li: *scared too and now safe in beloved's arms*

everyone else:

jiang li's dad: UHHHH ????? *wants to stop em*

emperor bro who's the most in danger: no no no let them be, they're having a moment

grandpa: *surprised but not surprised too and probably proud*

[weepingwonderlandharmony]

𝑿𝒖𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒆𝒊 & 𝑿𝒊𝒂𝒐 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒈 (𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑰𝑰)

[divlraba]

Wang Xingyue and Wu Jinyan as Su Guo Gong and A’Li in THE DOUBLE.

[rapha-reads]

Another thing I really like about The Double is that they don't hesitate to show not only A'Li's trauma, the mental when she almost spirals down the first few times she sees her murderous husband, or the physical with her wrist, but also that there really was love between her and Shen Yurong. Just because he betrayed her doesn't erase the years they had together and the fact that they really were in love, and that they taught each other a lot of things. They could have completely skipped that past to focus solely on the future romance with Duke Su, and it would not have been as impacting as showing all these past scenes between A'Li and Yurong.

Though now that she knows Wanning is behind the plot, I hope we get more Xiao Heng screen time. For once, less court intrigue, more romance and badass power couple, please.

[academyofbrokenhearts]

Am I still hating and despising this man? Yes.

Was his interaction with Xue Fangfei in episode 7, followed by him being absolutely tortured by the memory of her words (words she deliberately chose to remind him about the fact that he buried her alive on a cold night on the mountain), absolutely fascinating to watch? Also yes.

[bellaroles]

I’ve been aiming to watch the Double but haven’t got time lately. Mostly because of Wu Jinyan. I love her performance in Story of Yanxi Palace. Anyway, I’m itching to draw her for a long time and now I have!

Will watch this soon after I have more free time.

[academyofbrokenhearts]

And, if I recall well the novel meta I have read, it takes a completely different direction - there, Xue Fangfei realised from the beginning that the princess was the main enemy, and so all her revenge efforts were directed towards her, she didn't really bother with Shen Yurong at all (it's also true that Shen Yurong was completely different from his drama self as well).

I continue to love what the drama did with the husband. It would have been so predictable and boring to make him a villain who would do anything for a promotion but he's just a pathetic broken man who loved his wife but not as much as his own life and perhaps only realized just how much he loved her after he committed unforgivable acts against her.

I love that he's haunted by her even as he knows she's alive. The haunting did not stop after his finding out.

This whole scene was amazing, where he does talk to her in the flesh and she confirms to him that he's nothing to her.

I loved this confrontation for her because she deserves to live free of her past and her pain but for him it's a different kind of liberation - a bleak one but one nonetheless - she is alive so he did not kill her after all, but he's dead to her and he can't even console himself in her past love, not really. She's not dead but she might as well be as far as possibility of ever being together is.

Love him walking through his own music video afterwards.

The thing is, her being alive has dispelled some of his guilt and by that restored some of his sanity but it's not good news for the princess because now the man who's snapped is playing with all his own (bleak as fuck) marbles. With the confirmation of her being alive on top of the confirmation of her understandable hatred and on top of long realized confirmation that the princess doesn't like him or love him or even care if he lives or dies and just wants to torture him for kicks, and with any sort of hope or fear tormented out of him, this is a man with nothing left to lose but a hell of a lot of plans for revenge of his own.

I mean, look at this scene, where he's kneeling in the cold/snow all night. These are some serious Tantai Jin eyes here.

And when he goes in and she keeps slapping him, there is no fear, there is no shame, there is no self loathing, there is not even mute endurance, the way there used to be. This is a man who is letting a lunatic vent as needed to get whatever he wants done.

I mean, look at this man as he says this to the princess. He's barely bothering to conceal how false his words are even if the killing intent is very real. If I were her, I'd sleep with a knife under my pillow but she's so demented she doesn't get it.

Instead she pokes him some more, another confirmation as to how she doesn't see him as human.

Lady, this is the face of a man who would like to wear your skin as a cloak. You are so epically DUMB!!!!

He's got more human emotion imagining his wife than in the whole above scene. And once again, I love love LOVE how he's haunted by the woman he very much now knows is alive. Because what's dead is his chance at happiness and his happy marriage and any real path forward.

It is SUCH an unusual take on the usual villain from past life/evil spouse our FL must overcome and I love it!

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Double (2024)

吴谨言王星越 墨雨云间现场：“你真好看”

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XesH5YABdLc

[electricsoul-rpg]

WANG XINGYUE (王星越) as Xiao Heng, Duke Su

The Double 墨雨云间 (2024)

[palehorsemen]

[shijiujun]

we need to take a page out of a-li's book LIKE?!?! they've honestly NOT really like officially officially promised love and devotion to each other and verbalized it fully even though yes it's 100% understood they got each other, and like technically they're also not official in other people's eyes and here XUE FANGFEI IS LIKE YEAH GRANDPA I AM HIS BELOVED AND HE IS MINE TOO and SHE LOOKS SO DAMN GLEEFUL

[weepingwonderlandharmony]

𝑿𝒖𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒆𝒊 & 𝑿𝒊𝒂𝒐 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒈 (𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑰)

[divlraba]

Wu Jinyan and Wang Xingyue as A’Li and Xiao Heng in THE DOUBLE