#and of course we all know that the second something went wrong most of sigu sect immediately laid the blame at his feet
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Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) | Ep. 19
#mysterious lotus casebook#莲花楼#li lianhua#fang duobing#cheng yi#zeng shunxi#cdramaedit#mlcedit#*gifs:mine#remember when llh tells fdb “we can't always live up to the expectations of others – maybe li xiangyi never expected so much from you”#first time i saw it i was like TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE! but then i realized that for li xiangyi it wasn't simply “others”#it was “the whole world and everyone he knew including himself”*#because no one's expectations of li xiangyi were ever higher than li xiangyi's#and of course we all know that the second something went wrong most of sigu sect immediately laid the blame at his feet#but fdb is saying that no... everyone's expectations of li xiangyi were bullshit actually#the standards were simply unattainable#li lianhua told fang duobing “maybe li xiangyi never expected so much from you”#and this is fang duobing telling him “maybe li xiangyi should never have expected so much from himself”#and you can see li lianhua's entire worldview shifting just a little to the right (gifs 3+5)#and that soft smile at the end. which of course leads into “to my new friend. my best friend.” lsakjfdsldfkjasldk#it's not enough to change his mind really – it's too little and much too late to drown out a decade of self-loathing and guilt#but i wonder – if fang duobing had been able to be by his side for those ten years#telling him this again and again and again#you weren't perfect. you didn't need to be. you were young. you were trying. you were good. you were so good.#if li lianhua might have been able to heal that terrible rift inside himself#aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#translation notes: it made me chuckle that iqiyi's translation for gif 6 was: “they're just a bunch of selfish posers” very succinct.#also this lighting was so difficult to color ack i never really know what to do with a super green bg#*shifu as the only exception and thus shifu remains forever the best.
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