#a-yuan WHOMST etc

[leatherbookmark]

you just can't win with polls, can you

they say "the least handsome" and people are still getting upset in the tags... no one's calling your fave ugly, just that they're the least handsome out of this list of stupidly gorgeous men. that still means he's handsome!! gosh

[coquelicoq]

well i pulled a muscle in my back today and couldn’t do anything for several hours except sit very still in a chair (with my feet flat on the floor like a normal person, god it was so boring), so i finally got past my cql block and am finally back in the present day storyline! hallelujah!!

31

bummed that lwj didn’t deliver the baby party invitation in person. i was really looking forward to that interaction! but at least this way wwx gets some mail, which is always nice. not to project or anything, but if i were a fugitive living on a cursed mountain i would for sure treasure a handwritten note from an old friend.

i wonder why wq is so worried when she reads it. maybe she thinks that wwx might leave them for good? or is she worried about wwx's state of mind when he sees that the invitation is from lwj, since the last time they talked about lwj was when wwx was crying into his cups about the one who got away?

wwx all “new phone who dis” at jin zixun lmao. take that, LOSER

this fight is so funny like wwx couldn't have just gone to stand behind the rock, noooo wen ning had to pick it up and move it a couple feet so that it's in front of him lol

wen ning just stabbed jin zixuan! what the fuck!!!

i was 100% not expecting this to happen right now!

i take it back. this fight is decidedly not funny

i have such bad instincts for what kind of injuries are serious in this universe. i kept expecting jin zixuan to be just fine, because cultivators are constantly sustaining what i would expect to be mortal wounds and then they just heal. wwx recovered from a stab wound (which he appeared to refuse medical treatment for) even after he lost his core. madam yu was coughing up blood for like half a day and only finally bought it when she impaled herself in the heart. apparently stabbing is no big deal except when it is totally a big deal

aw nuts wwx makes ah-yuan cry again. hey yiling laozu, do you take constructive criticism?

i had a hell of a time getting through the back half of this episode because jzx’s death really fucked me up, but i’m glad i did eventually so i could see the scene of wq saying goodbye to wwx. otherwise i probably would have been very confused about how wq and wn came to turn themselves in, why wq didn’t protect wn, why wwx didn’t stop them, etc.

that said, why did all the wens turn themselves in? i thought only wq and wn had to? where's ah-yuan?? WHERE THE FUCK IS AH-YUAN?????

32

also wasn’t sure i was going to watch this one cuz i didn’t want to see shijie die but i’m glad i watched everything up to her death because otherwise i would have missed out on:

wwx finally getting to defend himself verbally in front of all the sect leaders & call out their hypocrisy and incredibly nonsensical evidentiary standards. burden of proof whomst??

wwx keeping his spirit army from attacking his brother & the jiang sect!!

lwj hardcore protecting wwx when wwx comes down to look for shijie even though wwx had been the one to start fighting him when he had just been chilling on the rooftop trying to play some mellow tunes

also had i skipped 32 i would not have known anything about the second flute player. somehow i have not noticed anything about this in any fic or gifsets, my primary sources of disjointed intel about this creative property

isn't it clear that wwx isn't the one doing this? there’s flute music even when he’s not playing. i guess it’s too hectic and nobody notices?

does this mean that shijie’s death isn’t actually directly his fault??

33

just gonna skip right on past jiang yanli’s tragic death on a battlefield in front of both her brothers, thanks again to the friends who gave me timestamps so i could do that <3

wwx throws the yin tiger seal in the air and it explodes. he cry-laughs as he watches everyone fight over the pieces, and then he throws himself off a cliff. it has been a bad day for this guy

and then the two people most important to him in the world show up and they all do very intense & heartbreaking things with their faces that i canNOT get into right now

time jump!!! awesome cuz i am SO ready for present-day shenanigans again. i hope it doesn’t matter that i didn’t understand and now have forgotten anything that was happening in episodes 1 & 2 lol

wow so much romantic shit happens in 33!

wwx waking up to lwj playing their song & asking if lwj would believe that he doesn’t know where he was for the past 16 years, and lwj being all “dude if you told me two plus two equals three i would find a way to make it happen”

(sidenote: did wwx not ever actually die in this story (as opposed to in the novel)? cuz they never found his corpse and he's still in his own body, so idk what that is supposed to mean about what happened to him)

wwx walks around cloud recesses and has lots of bittersweet flashbacks of happier times playing with his siblings and harassing lwj. ngl guys, the sadness and affection in his eyes as he watches his younger self causing mischief and being carefree...that got to me

oh fuck this is when he sees lwj in the cold springs and gets an eyeful of his scars. omg the camera ZOOMS IN on the wen clan brand! jesus fuck even when i know something’s coming they still manage to surprise me with how effin romantic it is!! (good news @ctl-yuejie i’m still hopelessly underestimating the level of romance)

i'm so confused by what happened to ah-yuan. and where is the part where wwx keeps telling lwj to get lost? is that only in the novel? so if that part doesn’t exist in the show, why does wwx not know what lwj did to get lashed? (it's just nightless city, which wwx was present for, right?) is it his bad memory? but don’t tell me cuz probably it will all become clear later

wwx logic: i'm gonna play my flute so badly that lan qiren will pass out from how much my music sucks. then once he’s out, i can play normally and he won't know it's me!

wow if this worked in the real world i could be dropping people like flies constantly

so there were five pieces of yin metal. three were destroyed (allegedly; i still think that’s a suspicious claim), the murder turtle sword was one, and xue yang had the fifth one. wwx turned the murder turtle sword into the yin tiger seal? he destroyed the yin tiger seal, but since xue yang had another piece of yin metal, he was able to take some pieces of the yin tiger seal and make it into another malevolent sword, which he (or somebody) then left at mo manor? that’s what i’m getting from this infodump but only time will tell i suppose

poor wwx. he gets to qinghe and is immediately confronted with a bunch of ugly caricatures that some guy is trying to sell as his likeness. what a blow to his ego.

and then jin ling shows up and just yeets the guy into a market stall!! you can tell this kid was raised by jiang cheng, he really knows how to make an entrance...