#Story of Kunning Palace 1x18

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"Story of Kunning Palace" + Tumblr text posts (part 1)

[academyofbrokenhearts]

All her fear from life 1 is about to come back and I don't blame her.

Yes, and he's holding the same dagger he sent to her in life 1, which she misinterpreted as an invitation to kill herself. That alone is enough to bring back bad memories.

How to cockblock yourself in a few easy steps, by Xie Wei.

JXN comes in to see the usually contained preceptor Xie standing over a body in his courtyard, face splattered with blood, eyes devoid of sanity. And then he starts advancing on her. And grabs her by the throat, dagger still dripping in the other hand. Like - my man - you are condemning yourself to eps of suffering. All that easy rapport may have survived her misunderstanding about the Yans (especially if you explained but you are in no state to explain the color of the ground right now) but even a period woman fine with a bit of bloodshed is gonna get freaked the fuck out by this. All her fear from life 1 is about to come back and I don't blame her.

Side note - he has a hell of a thing for holding her by the throat. Let's hope JXN has a choking kink. I do love that even in this insane situation, she manages to keep her presence of mind to try to snap him out of it (and she realizes enough to realize that he's way way out of it/in a state or fit or w/e.)

Love that she uses the name he uses for her. And then you see sanity (and horror) return to his eyes...

Man, the way he cuts his own hand trying to control himself and his insanity.

I love that he asks, a sort of semblance of sanity. And I get why he doesn't engage in convo but between this horror movie experience and her not knowing what is behind the Yan thing, he's in for a huge stretch of pain...

[academyofbrokenhearts]

“Story of Kunning Palace” + Tumblr text posts (part 3)

[academyofbrokenhearts]

Jiang Xuening, don't listen to this friend of mine above, I promise to you that you can still get a quality sub out of this murderous psycho mess of a man.

(Yeah, I have the benefit of hindsight, but give Ning'er some credit, Mousie, she thrives on insanity.)

Makers of Kunning watched TTJ in TTEOTM and went, "most unhinged cdrama ML of 2023? Hold my beer!"

Yup, Traitor Geezer gets a dagger in the back with no warning. But honestly - to come visit a dude who hates you and who you tried to kill/ruin plans of and then proceed to mock and threaten him as his sanity is already holding on by a thread thanks to snow-related PTSD - is called Darwin award winner.

Still, it was totally unexpected for me and when I say I started screaming, this is not a figure of speech, I literally started screaming.

Man is full on lunatic mode reveling in blood watching his victim try to crawl away and I am amazed how unhinged the drama lets Xie Wei be. I mean someone with his personality, his trauma, his goals and his time period would totally be like this, but the man makes Ling Buyi seem a mellow bro.

The way he parrots the man's words to him as the man is bleeding out. !!!!!

Screaming got louder in my house.

God. My God.

And then he reaches for the dagger and drives it in deeper, the way he did with that assassin and the arrow, while promising to murder all his followers too.

Baby, Jiang Xuening, he's hot but he is not anything you can handle. His therapist would end up needing therapy themselves. Good luck, lady, in your future married life!