#NING-GE.

[heymeowmao]

A Journey to Love x 新视线Wonderland, January 2024

[levemetal]

POV you are trying to cover for your ghost gege but no one told you the inside jokes between him and his head disciple

I arrived about 20 days with bootleg starbucks late for this, but I had this silly idea and I needed to get it out of my system.

[oh-dameron]

Lan Xichen and Qin Su had quite a bit in common when it came to Jin Guangyao:

- First met JGY when they were in peril and he came to the rescue,

- Notably kind, beautiful, and good-natured,

- Did not place value on his origin or look down on him for his mother's profession,

- Were vocal in their support of him socially.

Which makes me think that we were robbed of maybe the greatest potential JGY partnership: Wen Ning.

Wen Ning: so ride-or-die that actually dying did not stop him from continuing to be ride-or-die. Wen Ning, presumably in quite the tenuous situation in Nightless City after the Jiang heir disappeared under suspicious circumstances, right when Meng Yao was working is way into Wen Ruohan's inner circle. Wen Ning, the sweetest cinnamon roll.

Slight canon divergence where Wen Qing missed one single opportunity to send Wen Ning out of Nightless City for a while, Wen Ning gets into juuust enough trouble, Meng Yao has the keys to the cell... one flash of Wen Ning's bambi eyes and he would have been a goner.

[pr0cyon-lotor]

Do you guys ever have an au that you can't put into a summary because it makes no sense if you don't read it completely?

Like how am I supposed to explain the acid trip of an au I have swirling in my mind rn? It has so many parts to it.

Like the Shen siblings are transmigrated into the story but like the system messed up and they were thrown into different parts of the history. And they're trying to find each other within the confines of the system's rules.

Obviously jiuyuan is there, but like Shen Yuan is a cryptid because he's dealing with a penalty from the system but also he was just a creature beforehand but like sealed away. Bro's a changeling like that explanation makes no sense. And like Shen Yuan fakes his death by accident but also he did kill Wu Yanzi, which is always good.

LiuShang is there because I always want liushang to be there.

Mobei Jun gets with Shen Yuan's da-ge. Am I explaining that? ... No that whole storyline is too complicated. But hey, two silent, intimidating men that are gay for each other.

Also Shen Yuan's er-ge gets with Yue Qingyuan? I don't know how to explain that one either. Like what's more romantic than a battlefield? 😗 Probably anything else.

BingFan is also there because I also always want BingFan there. But they do fall into the abyss together. Forced proximity via being stuck in hell. Semi rivals to power couple

I mean Shen Yuan's meimei has a romance with Ning Yingying, and it's literally the most normal ship. They're childhood friend to lovers.

And that's not even to mention that the system is somewhat malicious in this AU.

Family dinners would be strange. Yeah we have here a fire demon that is married to the ice monarch, a disgraced cultivator that is married to this generation's greatest warrior, just deadass a cryptid who is married to the greatest battle strategist and scholar in this generation, and just a normal cultivator with a normal girlfriend.

The Shens would look you dead in the eye and say "Yeah this is my brother" and point to a literal creature of legend.

This AU is so batshit crazy but makes perfect sense in my brain like it's crazy

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

[paleturtlecherryblossom-blog]

My thought on the Rise of Ning, Pt 3

I finished 24 episodes of The Rise of Ning, and I wanna add in my two cents about the storyline so far, which, considering that I wake up everyday at 6 am to catch up on, is pretty damn good XD:

I was very pleased they adapted a scene of Lu Jiaxue observing Yining’s calligraphy and noticing that it bears a heavy similarity to Luo Shenyuan’s. This is an often emphasized point in the novel, given how prized a skill calligraphy was for scholars/officials back then, the fact that Yining can replicate his style is indicative of how very close they are. Now whether that’s a sibling thing or not, is anyone’s guess ;) hehehe

At this point, many of the drama plot lines are very different from those in the novel. But the one thing that the drama preserves in full glory, despite all the plotline modifications, is the sheer depth of Luo Shenyuan’s yearning for Luo Yining! And it’s just so!!! The way she is his most important consideration, the detail with which he prepares everything for her in the event of his death, and the extreme passion he is clearly repressing every moment sitting next to her… I’m so very satisfied, I’m giving five stars just for this alone.

Another thing this drama does excellently is to more subtly portray Yining’s extreme levels of attachment to him: the way in all her visuals of the future, he is eternally just accompanying her, reading to her, living with her (girl has truly never accounted for a possible future husband and sister-in-law in all these dreams lolol), her headlong jump into the river to avoid implicating him, even though she has to have heavy trauma of falling off high places… Also her keenness in noticing all the girls who are trying to marry him, while he couldn’t care less. (Also I daresay her determination to matchmake for him is also her oblivious way of staking a claim on her San-ge)

Also, shame they made Lu Jiaxue and Zhao Mingzhu adoptive sibling, putting them on the same generational level. This is because there is a point in the novel where our hot pining Marquis Lu becomes Yining’s godfather without having a clear idea of who she is, and the way he manipulates that seniority is truly a delicious read.

Notably the drama ALSO preserves the forceful and unpleasant aspects of his obsession with regaining Yining; in the novel, he truly cannot conceive that she has a whole life and family she will protect above him. Also in the novel, Yining is reborn in the Luo family after twenty years as a wandering spirit, so by that time, she mostly moves on from her romantic attachments to him, though she does blame him for her death. The blaming for death section is there in the drama, but here I feel that Yining's primary feeling towards him is raw fear, which also biases me firmly against Lu Jiaxue rn.

 Now I’ll begin my usual rambling commentary on plot changes lol. They’ve quite significantly changed Daoyan’s character here, enough that he’s basically a whole new person. While this makes sense with the drama plotline of reopening the Chen Jiuheng case, that’s not a plotline found in the novel. Novel! Daoyan is an eccentric monk who is also a military genius. My first read of him in the novel was that he was very ruthless, but tbh it’s more of that he is unaffected by emotions and is exceedingly practical, and in this he contrasts both Lu Jiaxue and Luo Shenyuan, who have an obsession with Luo Yining in common. So that’s a dynamic we are probably not going to see, oh well.

With regards to the side plot of Luo Yixiu and Lin Mao… I somehow don’t really care for it? Sure, with regards to my personal life, I believe in marrying a person you sincerely like, but in a feudal context like in this drama… it honestly feels a bit out of place. The princess’ son is genuinely a pretty good choice for her, given that he cares for her, has an odd personality that is not likely to take concubines later and has a pretty reasonable mother! Also I just instinctively dislike Lin Mao for always lecturing her about her weight and giving her weird weight loss medicine! Even if she says she likes Lin Mao, it comes off more as a childish infatuation than anything else.

Now that I’ve gotten started on this, novel! Lin Mao is actually shown to have a crush on Luo Yining, which no one except Shenyuan ever takes seriously. He does propose marriage, only to be turned down pretty firmly, and he goes off to a border region. Throughout the novel, he is portrayed as a playful individual who keeps wriggling in and out of sticky situations. He eventually does make his name by securing disaster relief for the border but throughout the novel AND the drama so far, he’s the kind of person I may want to have a short summer romance with, but never the kind of person I can depend on for a steady life. And that is kind of a very important criteria for marriage for a noble lady in those times!

Anyway moving on, regarding the plotline of Gu Minglan’s death, it is not a mystery in the novel: she forces herself to give birth to Yining prematurely, so that Yining’s parentage is not suspected. In a way, the novel portrays her as a very sensitive woman deeply conscious of the social taboos of her time, after Yining is conceived, giving birth to her is the only thing that keeps her tethered to life. 

The drama alters Gu Minglan’s character to be more self-reliant and thus adds in an element of intrigue to her death. I feel this is primarily driven by the fact that they will only reveal that Yining isn’t the garbage Luo Second master’s blood daughter much later in the drama, but this reveal actually happens pretty early in the novel. And THEN all the courtyard intrigue takes place when Yining joins her blood related paternal family (I don’t wanna spoil this, but maybe you guys will guess who it is anyway). In the drama plot, the intrigue continues to happen in the Luo family, after all, as a main character, you NEED to have some family member scheming to kill/ruin/wrong you always. 

Although Madam Chen’s character is more fleshed out here: her resentment is only human, considering that she loses her first son early and has to watch her husband harbor feelings for her sister-in-law, which is probably the highest level of social damnation for her, if it ever came out. Both in the novel and drama she is a person obsessed with maintaining ‘face’. In the novel, her first son is alive and well, and also her husband occupies a higher position than his brother. In the drama, she possesses neither of these comforts, and it’s not illogical that she plays a more vicious role. And the actress is also killing it; her expressions when no one is observing, do give off an ominous feeling.

[mengyan]

im obsessed with them

[p-h03n1-x]

Saturday workout inspiration with Xiao Zhan 💛

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Rise of Ning (2024)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama "The Rise of Ning"

【锦绣安宁】第1集 | 张晚意、任敏主演 | The Rise of Ning EP1 | Starring: Zhang Wanyi, Renmin | ENG SUB

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n9IGi7CmhE

[xthelastknownsurvivorx]

okay but why did the whole whipping scene in episode 12 of ajtl have this energy:

[daily-suyao]

[heymeowmao]

紫川 | Eternal Brotherhood E1 ° Rendezvous - I didn't expect this secret room to still exist. - The Imperial Capital has been peaceful for the past seven years. Who'd still use the secret tunnels?

[nickie78]

"My little raccon"

Just a little post to appreciate Ning Yi calling Feng Zhiwei "little raccon".It's so cool and cute.I always found it comedic,especially in the earlier episode when someone overheard Ning Yi worrying for his lost little raccon and the "raccon" in question was no other than her.

Meanwhile all of the other people are imagining some feral animal,running around Ning Yi's residence.I cannot take it seriously 😆

[this-blurry-photograph]

The Lost tomb 2: Ep.2

The entire first half of this episode was scuba diving. I wonder if doing these underwater shots was really expense so they had to make sure they got their money's worth by giving them a good chunk of the run time.

I totally didn't make an effort to clock what colour each of the characters' gear was so I have no idea who's doing what *crying*.

Wu Xie and Fatty have a very playful relationship in this season that I'm very much enjoying. We saw a little bit of it in the first season but it's really coming out in this one! Also I have determined that Wu Xie's new acting is adorable enough to play him.

Oh, A-Ning is up to something nefarious.

This Zhang guy just picked Wu Xie up and spun him around like a wind mill. Oh my goodness, some of these stunts are hilarious.

What?? She just used him as a human shield. There's a bunch of arrows in his chest now. There's no way one of those didn't hit a vital organ. If this Zhang guy really is Xiao-ge in disguise I'm gonna have a word with him. Although this incident of just running off without warning is only making me think it is Xiao-ge more.

Oh my goodness they're fake arrows?!? Did A-Ning know that?

Oh my goodness it is Xiao-ge!! His acting while disguised as the Zhang guy brought out a whole new side of him. I miss the emo hair from season one a bit, but I'm happy we officially have him back! The little shoulder slapping with Wu Xie is cute.

This tomb seems familiar but he can't remember? Is Xiao-ge immortal but has memory issues? I'm back on my Xiao-ge origin theories.

Another man named Zhang in this flashback. It's even the same character for it. His father, an uncle, him but old? I am very much enjoying this Xiao-ge mystery!

Adding +4 to the Xiao-ge saves Wu Xie tally retroactively since the Zhang guy was revealed to be Xiao-ge. Two for last episode (once on the boat during the storm and once on he ghost ship) and two for this one (when they were attacked by the hair thing in the water and then with the arrows (I'm still counting it even though Wu Xie wasn't really in danger because they all thought he was)).

Xiao-ge saving Wu Xie count: |||| |||| ||||

[potahun]

tonight haunted by liu yuning and luo qi's 你的柔情我永远不懂.

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Marquis Anbei