#anyway I hope Jin Yu gets to do cool stuff this time

[feng-huli]

Bai Wang and his allies 🤍

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Fic: and sings the tune without the words, ch. 4

Relationship: Jiāng Yànlí & Jīn Zǐxuān, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Characters: Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín

Additional Tags: Epistolary, Food, Music

Summary: An epistolary follow-up to “the thing with feathers.” Exchanged letters.

Notes: See end.

Previous fic in the series: “the thing with feathers”

Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3

AO3 link

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Cheng-ge,

You’re the best gege anyone ever had! Lan Zhan told me you showed him the chili sauce to buy, and I remembered that time you took me all around the marketplace and got everyone to let us taste their chili sauce so we could decide which one we liked best, and this one made your face turn super red! I think I’d die if you hadn’t helped him buy it—the food here is so bland!

It’s super quiet in the Cloud Recesses, and you’re not allowed to run, which is weird, but everyone has this way of walking super fast which is kind of a cool skill, so maybe I’ll learn how to do that, too. Lan-xiansheng is being really nice when I accidentally break a rule, but I’m trying to remember so I don’t shame the Jiang sect.

They have a Cold Spring here and Lan Zhan and Lan Xichen took me to meditate in, and it really lives up to its name—I’m shocked it’s not frozen over, with how cold it is! But it’s infused with spiritual energy, and Lan-xiansheng thinks it might help clear out the resentful energy some. 

Some of the elders are researching curses in the Lan library, which is super extensive. I get to read whatever I want when I’m not in class and studying and practicing my dizi. So I mostly look for stuff on resentful energy since maybe I can find something that will help me get more memories back. Lan Zhan is looking up scores that might be more effective, too!

Lan-xiansheng wrote to Wen-zongzhu to ask about the healing branch, so please thank jiejie for the idea. Even if they can’t help, it’s good to look into all the possibilities. 

Lan Zhan’s father came out of seclusion briefly to meet me. Lan-xiansheng was surprised when he came out. I guess he wasn’t really happy about the betrothal because of Lan An’s love story. Apparently the Lans take love super seriously. 

I told him what I remember about my parents, and what I remember about me, and how much Lan Zhan has helped me. I told him if Lan Zhan finds his fated one, we can break the troth. I don’t know if he likes me, but he hasn’t said anything and he went back into seclusion, so I guess he’s fine with it. 

People are really restrained here, and so I’m really loud and stand out in comparison, but it’s so fun to hear the Gusu dialect. It’s adorable! Lan Zhan’s ears turn red when I say so, though. 

I miss you, and jiejie, and meimei, and a-niang, and a-die. Please tell them all I love them, and give my regards to the disciples and snuggle little A-Yu for your didi. 

Jiang Wuxian 

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Xian-di,

I also remember you pushed me off the pier that day and said the water would help cool me down. You’re lucky you were right, or I would’ve broken your legs! There might be new vendors since we did that, so when you come back to Yummeng, we’ll taste all the new ones, too. 

I heard there’s like 2000 rules or so, but I guess that’s why Lan Wangji was surprised we don’t have many. I can’t imagine how you can do anything, having so many rules to keep track of. How can you remember anything else? Anyway, don’t worry about shaming the sect: you’re Jiang and Lan-xiansheng knows you’ll act like one. 

That’s an interesting way to meditate. I read once that some monks use hot springs that way too. I wonder if we could use swimming as a way of active meditation. I’ll ask a-die. Then we can get away with going swimming and calling it training. 

I wish we had a big library like that, but books don’t do well in the humidity. I’m glad they have a lot of resources to help you. When I go to the lectures when we’re fifteen, you’ll have to show me all the best books!

The Wens are pretty clan-oriented so they might ignore the letter, but I hope they send someone. But even if you get your memories back, you’re still my didi, okay? I’m your gege forever, even after we cultivate into immortality. 

Qingheng-Jun is supposed to be one of the top cultivators of a-die’s generation, so I’m jealous you got to meet him. He better approve of you, even if you don’t wind up marrying Lan Wangji. It’s already obvious you’ll be friends for your whole lives. There are different kinds of love, right?

A-Die says each region has different dialects. Maybe someday we’ll get to travel and hear all the different ones. Make Lan Wangji talk in the Gusu dialect when he’s at Lotus Pier next so I can hear it!

We all miss you, too. The new disciples are doing well. Meng Yao is really smart, and the kids you were helping are doing well in their lessons and starting meditation and exercises. A-Niang said some of them were hiding food in their rooms like you used to, but they know they can go to the kitchens any time and so they’re getting better about it.

A-Lian wants you to find her a pretty doll while you’re in Gusu, if you can. Jiejie says to make sure you eat well—we can send you more chili sauce if you need it. She’s learning medicine still, and her golden core is getting stronger. A-Niang and a-die said to study well and do your best. 

Make sure to learn some Lan forms and teach me when you get back!

Jiang Cheng

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A-Ying is spending his first three month stint in the Cloud Recesses, and they managed to keep the chili sauce a secret until he got there.

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watching xikan on the 娱乐新鲜派,  一起爬墙吧 , and sina 娛情实验室 interviews just made me appreciate him even more. his snarky, playful side contrasts well with his caring, protective side. and i feel like we saw more of the former during ip and we’re seeing more of the latter during snzm. both are nice to see, but i miss his silly fun side and im grateful he still has it in him to act cocky in a non-snobby, but rather joking way but also speak like a true friend about how he feels about his friends who have found success post ip.

aw my child is on the front page :’)

ugh im surprised only xikan was so determined to use this opportunity to save people who need saving.... but i guess that shows how much he really values the opportunity and his friends who are not popular 

aw im glad linjie immediately corrected the interviewer who said that he has 3 geges in CTO to 6.... at first ngl i was wondering if had moved on from being friends with them, but im glad he hasnt forgotten. even zixin was so surprised zlj called him lol

aw i like that the team 7 group is all together still :’) rip enyu and linkai’s popularity tho. enyu always coming through with the realest quotes every ep. yes this is basically a test of how social you’ve been with the popular kids :\

AW WENXUAN PICKING XUE EN was such a good move on his part, i approve. but also i didnt realize they were close? LOL but like considering where they are, who xue en is, and who else in the group already? a good move.

hHAHAHAH I DONT THINK IVE EVER SEEN LIN MO THIS HAPPY awwww so first i didnt realize kou cong was doing so well, #11 good for him!!! but also this makes more sense as to why jin fan is the only tyger who didnt get picked into this group.... lin mo picked akey and kou cong picked zhan yu, which both make sense as individual decisions but then leaves out jin fan, unfortunately. but MAN they have a well-rounded group.... but seeing jin fan as the only tyger in the lower half votes area and also as the only one who didnt get picked to be in this group? a group that has a song style that he should try to pursue rather than being cast as a vocal AGAIN? hurts. the tygers are the ones who are most likely to save him and theyre all in a different group from him? ouch. i hope hes made enough friends so someone else will save him then... 

wow i didnt realize chaowen was close with shiwei, the cto kids are close with all the popular kids LOL but also im heavily surprised chaowen didnt pick ylq?? when i saw cyc and chaowen on one side and ylq on the other, i felt sad but thought theyd pick him for sure, because he needs saving. // oh i guess it makes sense ycw says he doesnt want to pick between ylq and cyc but still... ylq needs your help more, i feel like itd make sense? but its okay im happy he picked shiwei to help demonstrate further how much the cto kids are helping these popular kids!!! 

i appreciate sxl for choosing to save mxy over choosing a song he wanted most. ugh sad it didnt work out. but he couldve tried harder to pick a song mxy wouldve wanted, if he was gonna switch his choice anyway?? hmm i feel like mxy probably shouldve gone with sxl though... at least he could be saved next round and possibly get more screentime by being associated with someone whos more popular

oof ybz being salty about liu cong and relating it to cxh being salty over xzx.... as someone whos been on the other side of that, i think people should be able to have a best friend but still hang out with other people and make other friends? I dont think it should be restricted like that :\ hes so salty omg.... idk i dont think its a good look for him but maybe thats bc i disagree with his viewpoint about friendship. 

LOL THE VOCALIST ROOM OF LI HAO, RENYU, LI CHENXU, JUNRONG, XU ZHAOHAO SINGING TONG HUA HAHAHAHHAHAH

HAHAHAH SU ER IS SO EXTRA like omgomg you picked me you picked me! and oscar’s just like... well.... hHAHAHHhah but id like to think that oscar remembered su er’s tears from ep 1 and kept his sadness to heart. maybe :) 

AYYYY RENYU being the highest ranked vocal in that room of vocalists :’) AHHH AND ENYU IS JOINING THEIR GROUP YESSSSS THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE EVER 

man its just like what youd expect, the rest of the group choosing gets like fast forwarded to the end lol but yay for cyc and ylq being able to pick the same group tho... even tho it doesnt seem like the type of style theyve done before? i guess that could possibly be a good thing? but man i wish sbh got to do another cool stage :\

OSCAR ATTACKING HONG WEIHAO WITH A BACK HUG I LOVE FRIENDSHIP

wait so the lower rank kids dont get to pick people, its just individual choice at that point? well at least jin fan got to pick a song he wanted :’) at least he’ll get to actually dance this time... (pls let him do some bboying pls let him do some bboying) 

oh rip this mxy hyj group :( feels bad to be the leftover kids.... mxy probably shouldve just gone with sxl....... i saw a post where someone said ofc its a star master trainee keeping this group together and leading their practice - loll..................

lol these closeups at the end are so obviously biased they dont even bother showing the faces of half the group members :( 

AW JIN FAN HOLDING THE TYGER SIGN 

even if jin fan is sad at least he has a good attitude about it ><

im crying they literally only included this group’s intros bc youku enjoys watching hyb get personally attacked LOL not that im complaining AT ALL HAHHAHAHAH i love this group already and i love how all the kids have hopped on the lin mua train :’) im cheng xiao laughing my butt off watching them HAHAH but also im 99% sure jin fan is the one who taught zhan yu to sing that line in cantonese 1) bc its cantonese but 2) bc jin fan ALWAYS sang that song in past interviews when asked to do a personal talent LOL my best brooos

real talk tho when will we ever get a zhan yu and jin fan stage? :( 

well everyones super shook that this was 1.5 hrs of song selection and we didnt get any stages... idk if theyre gonna stuff 8 stages into tomorrow’s ep but if they dont i will be worried about skewed voting yet again so hopefully they figured it out somehow.... 

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Well episode 55 was interesting to say the least. We finally get to see another Ignis, our Wind one who literally just named himself Windy just like that, and what’s been going on with him and such. Not going to lie, I have some mix feelings about this episode but before I get to that, I just like to take a moment to point this out for a second because I can’t be the only one who thought this and got a good laugh out of it. 

During when 56′s summary was first revealed, I saw some people wondering why Windy was asking Soulburner to duel Blue Girl, thinking it was for some important reason or another but no, it was really just because of this.

No females allowed in his “Ignises/Ignises holders only” club house!

So the episode starts off with Playmaker/Ai and Soulburner/Flame meeting back up with each other after their duels and finally entering the gate to this Unknown World with Ghost Girl and Blue Girl right behind them. After going through some trippy data, please tell me I wasn’t the only one who was getting a headache from that one scene, Playmaker and Soulburner enter a valley with a huge windstorm. The boys end up having some trouble but its nothing they can’t handle. The girls, on the other hand, are a different story. As soon as they enter the windstorm, Blue Girl gets knocked off her board immediately, shocker, but Ghost Girl is able to save her before she takes any fall damage. The girls have no choice but to take shelter in one of the many caves that this valley seems to have as they regroup. During this, Blue Girl gets a signal from the research team that’s been studying this area and goes to save them immediately with a moment of hesitation. 

Now here’s my main gripe of the episode and I will come back to this many times throughout this but Aoi’s character during this episode. Yes, I very well knew who was writing this episode coming into this but did common sense just leave this girl entirely? I respect her courage and selfless heart during other moments of this episode but there is a fine line between being brave and being stupid. Running around unknown territory, through a windstorm mind you, with just a signal as your lead is how you get killed! Have we apparently forgotten what world we are living in here? Signals can be hacked and use as an ambush! In any other situation, Aoi would be dead right now. However, lucky for her, this actually turned out to be the real thing but this reckless attitude of hers is going to get someone hurt sooner or later if this continues.

Anyway, after a brief cut away to Kusanagi, who has decided he is going to make himself useful by trying to dissect the Ignises’ program, we go back to Playmaker and Soulburner who are still having some trouble in this windstorm until Ai and Flame agree to use themselves as shields to protect their boys from the wind. And I just really liked this moment, especially later on in the episode, of how the two Ignises are willingly to hurt themselves if it means that their boys are able to get through. Later on in the episode, we find out that Windy, unlike Flame and Ai, really doesn’t trust humans and if he was put into that situation, he more then likely would have just let his human take the brutal beating before crashing. I don’t know if that was what the episode was going for when it came to comparing the Ignises but I just found that interesting.

Speaking of Windy, before we cut back to the girls, we happen to see his eyeball form as the literal eye of the tornado that is causing this windstorm which I found really cool how they did that. 

Blue Girl and Ghost Girl find the research team, knocked out cold, with Blue Girl deciding to use her emergency escape program to log them out. Ghost Girl is against the idea at first but Blue Girl was able to convince her to use hers, allowing them to log out with them now having no way out. Blue Girl gave this big speech about how she was acting like a child during season 1 and being selfish since everything she was doing was for her brother so she’s trying to become less selfish but really, that doesn’t happen later on in the episode because the actual reason why we are having Soulburner vs Blue Girl in the first place is actually really stupid. 

And yeah, Akira doesn’t seem to happy about that fact when he finds out about it. Again, I respect Aoi trying to be less selfish in that instance but again, later on, she just goes right back to her roots.

Back with the boys, Ai and Flame aren’t able to take the wind much longer so their shields drop and they are caught up in the storm once more but only for a few seconds as the wind suddenly dies down around them. They are able to process through the valley, finding a temple at the very end of it. I just like to say this now. I am loving all the Greek Mythology stuff that Vrains has been throwing into their show. I love Greek Mythology to death so seeing a Greek-like temple just made me smile. Anyway, the boys land on it, since it is floating in the sky and are immediately greeted by a giant monster, Vrains sure loves its non-Yu-Gi-Oh monsters, who Flame claims to have been one of the creatures that destroyed the Cyberse World. The boys are about to be blasted into kingdom come by it when suddenly...

“I tricked you!”

Windy appears, laughing his ass off.

Well, its official. All of the Ignises are little sh*ts if Ai, Flame, and now Windy are anything to go by. Light, Earth, and Water are going to be treats when we finally do meet them in person.

So yeah, we finally have our third Ignis everyone: Windy. I have to say, his fully design surprised me a lot. Compared to Ai and Flame, he looks almost half done in a sense. While Ai and Flame both have black bodies with their outlines being their attribute type (purple for dark and red for fire), Windy’s body is like a green yellow with pure green outlines and unlike Ai and Flame who have yellow eyes, Windy’s eyes are red. I have to say, I do like the fact that the Ignises aren’t all the same in terms of how they were designed but it still weird to see how different Windy is.

Anyway, the new little sh*t introduces himself as the Wind Ignis and that the giant monster that greeted them was his pet guard dog, Echo, who is a humanoid Ai Windy created that can shapeshift. He’s also Windy’s personal carrier because the little sh*t is to lazy to even fly around. Wow, and you got on Ai’s case for being a lazy little sh*t. Wow, I like Windy already. 

So Playmaker and Soulburner both quickly got dismissed as the three Ignises talk between each other. Flame questions why Windy didn’t go to his kid while Windy just straight up says he doesn’t trust humans and I found this really interesting. Flame did say that the Ignises did spend a lot of time discussing if they should trust humans or not. Flame seems to be on the side of trusting the humans while Windy isn’t so it make me wonder now just where the other three are if some of them don’t trust humans and didn’t go to their kids because of this. We still don’t know who the last two kids are so maybe one of the Ignises is on Flame’s side and went to them but the other two could be anywhere. It also makes me wonder who Windy’s kid is since he doesn’t say it. His exact words when asked this were “I can’t trust humans like you do. I don’t want to be captured.” which is making me think of Spectre since we know that Spectre is apart of the Knights of Hanoi and they want to destroy the Ignises. If it is him, Windy obviously has the right idea on staying away from him. Then there’s Jin and if Windy knows that he’s been captured and are using him for bait to get to him, his words make sense since he knows he would be walking right into a trap. But yeah, this whole Ignis situation is giving us more questions then answers by the second. I just hope we get to find out who Windy’s human is sooner then later. 

Playmaker starts asking his questions about if Windy created this world and that’s when Windy officially decides to name himself that, since he hasn’t bothered to give himself a “human” name yet. I loved Ai’s reaction to the name though XD. Windy introduces Echo and after Playmaker restates his question, Windy finally acknowledges who Playmaker is, the Hero of Link Vrains, and then Soulburner and I do not like fact that Windy just stops after saying Soulburner’s name and glares at him. Windy, you are not helping the conspiracy theories by doing that! Seriously, what’s with the death glare? Do you know something we don’t? Is it the eyes? I knew there was something up with Soulburner’s eyes! Starts talking, Windy!

Anyway, conspiracy theories aside, Windy takes the boys and their Ignises to his private garden for them to talk. Windy explains how he created this world as basically a meeting point for the other Ignises so they can meet back up with each other after they all got separated so they can rebuild the Cyberse World together. He also created this world as a trap for the enemy that destroyed their world since he wants to get some payback against them. 

After Windy explains his side of the story, Playmaker shares why he and Soulburner came here to get Jin’s consciousness back. Since the person who stole Jin’s consciousness was also the same person who attacked their world, Ai asks if Windy would be able to help them. Windy looks to give some thought into the idea but flat out refuses since he clearly just doesn’t want to put himself in danger for the humans. He tries to asks Ai and Flame if they would stay in his world instead as well but they refuse as well since they want to get to the bottom of things about why the Cyberse World was truly destroyed for and because they are attached to their human partners now. Windy respects their decision, since he is just happy to know that they are okay, and is allowing them a safe passage to their destination. He just wants one thing in return.

“Tell these bitches to f*ck off! This is my private domicile and I will not be harassed!”

Windy shows the boys and their Ignises Ghost Girl and Blue Girl and asks them to kick them out before they reach his hideout. He has a no girls allowed policy.

Yeah...that’s why we are having the Soulburner vs Blue Girl duel on Soulburner’s end...

I do love how Ai is just like “do it yourself” while Windy is just like “hell no!” XD

So yeah, Playmaker and Soulburner go and meet up with the girls and I swear to god, Aoi you are a freaking idiot! I said I was going to face palm so freaking hard if they were able to figure out that Blue Girl was actually Blue Angel because of her playing Trickstar but no, she just basically tells them it! Again, what the actual hell was the point of her going undercover if she’s just going to tell them who she actually is?! If they just wanted to change up Aoi’s Link Vrains design, just do if off screen like you did with Ghost Girl! Don’t make it seem like she is doing it for something like hiding her identity when she isn’t actually going to do it! Once again, my brain is getting mad over something as simple as this but I can’t be the only one who finds this so counterproductive!

I will admit that Soulburner did get a good laugh out of me when he comments about how he likes Aoi’s new design and questions if he should change his look as well with Flame telling him what’s the point of doing so when he was already a nobody XD Rip Takeru. But no seriously, unless he’s going to turn evil and needs a new evil look to go with the turn, they better not change Soulburner’s design. I love it to pieces. Especially the scarf, I love the scarf.

So Soulburner, Flame, Blue Girl, and Ghost Girl are all finally introduced to each other with Ghost Girl figuring out that Soulburner is also a victim of the Lost Incident and is asking the boys why two of the victims are working together when the Knight of Hanoi were gone. Playmaker gives them the rundown and Ghost Girl seems to have put the pieces together on why Playmaker was dueling Bohman in the first place. Playmaker then asks her the same question on what they are doing here and Ghost Girl explains how they are trying to find Windy for SOl Technology. 

Uh excuse me what? When did this turn into the plot line of the girls working for SOL Tech? Yeah I know Akira is working at SOL Tech but he’s doing this behind their back. They are making it sound like they are doing this for SOL Tech and Blue Girl is really not helping that case when she’s starts pulling this sh*t that Akira did during his and Playmaker’s duel when she tries to convince the boys to lay off and let the “adults” handle this. I like how Soulburner states how they are the ones that need to lay off since they are doing things their way and that SOL also played a role in the Hanoi Project so they have no right to trust them. 

And right after that, I think I out right started to dislike Blue Girl for the rest of this episode when she says this.

“In that case, those Ignis were originally under SOL Technologies’ control. Give them back.”

Bitch what?

I love how even Emma is looking at Aoi like “bitch what?” after she says that.

So Blue Girl is convinced now that if they get Ai and Flame, they will be able to find Windy. Uh no...

Again, I know who is writing this but what is this mindset of hers at the moment? Even if she did capture them, you really think they will just tell you, let alone bring you to him? Geez, you wonder why Windy doesn’t trust humans...

So Soulburner tells Playmaker to go on ahead as he deals with Blue Girl and her bullsh*t. Honestly though, I think he just really wanted an excuse to duel Blue Angel. Playmaker leaves with Ghost Girl trying to follow him but Ai just bitch slaps her away with his data storm powers so who knows if she will actually be able to follow him now. 

And that’s basically how the episode ends up with Soulburner and Blue Girl about to start their speed duel. From the preview, it looks like Blue Girl is getting a new Trickstar but who knows what that will actually do if Soulburner pulls out a Fusion during this duel.

But yeah over all, this was an episode. Again, the bits with Aoi just pissed me so much since I honestly expected more out of her but again, bad writing and it is more then likely going to get worse next episode because again, you know who is also writing for the Blue Girl vs Soulburner duel. I did enjoy Windy’s introduction though and I can’t wait to see more of him in the future. 

[rqs902]

OMGOSHH EP 5 IS YAO CHI APPRECIATION TIME YESSSSSSSSSS HAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSSSSS 

ok bc i couldnt help but include some spoilers, the rest is going under the cut:

iqiyi giving mr tyger all the group shots bc........

BROOOOO CHEN SIJIAN’S RAP!!!!!!!!!!!! omgogomg this is where wuzelinwuzelinwuzelinsunzelinsunzelinsunzelinkeqinmingkeqinmingkeqinming comes frommmm i love itttt his lyrics are hilarious!!! and also immediately being like ‘ill get rid of wu zelin!’ when mc jin brings it up HAHHAHA

daniel is a cutie!!!!

yao chi talking about his rap..... wow can i hug him hes amazing

awwww xia hanyu talking about wenhan..... wenhan’s really done a lot for him

wait that whole last bit where they leave dachang is just obvious iqiyi favoritism and it kinda makes me sad.....

UGH honestly the worst part about jia yi being so popular is that hes gonna miss his tyger gege’s when he has to leave them behind....

by the time lin mo was called, he was already so done... he looked so defeated.... because he knew they wouldnt be able to stay together and its so heartbreaking..... 

OKAY THESE SPECIAL TEACHERS WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK. OH MY GOODNESSSSS HOW COULD YOU CHOOSE EVERY SINGLE TYGER MEMBER EXCEPT THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY NEED TO BE CHOSEN???!??!?!! THATS SO FRUSTRATING ALSDKJALSK LITERALLY EVEN IQIYI WANTED THEM TO BE CHOSEN!! THEY LITERALLY PAN TO EITHER JIN FAN OR ZHEN NAN AT EVERY SINGLE BREAK I SWEAR AALSKDJLKKSDK

jia yi hesitating at the end...... and zhen nan’s words at the end.... HES FREAKING 61!!!!!!1 61!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS FREAKING JIANG JINGZUO ALL OVER AGAIN BUT THEY DIDNT LET HIM SPEAK WTFFFFF ok if youre gonna keep giving zhen nan and jin fan screentime bc yall regret eliminating them so early why you dont give them screentime at the end when it really matters????? i wanna see what zhen nan would say (jingzuo’s last minute screentime got him a lot of attention too... the fact that they didnt give zhen nan any is NOT HELPING) and i wanna see jin fan and chen youwei’s freaking last friendship bc youwei was rooting for him the whole time bc HE KNOWS JIN FAN DESERVES TO MAKE IT!!!!

AHHHHHHHH LIN MO ITS LIN MO!!!??! HE’S INJURED!!?! AAAHHSHHGHHGHH NOT MY CHILD WTF NOOO!! lakjsdlakalsk omgosh please be alright..... it sounded like his voice making that pained sound, and the person was blonde so i think its lin mo....... noooo my heart.... i cant take more stress, we literally just had elims..... so lin mo has to say goodbye to his friends (including his best friend...) and then he gets injured???? alsdkjlakj ughhhh 

omgosh daniel getting the special time at the end is just another stab to the heart goodness.... he was my favorite oaca kid from the start.... 

i cant believe chen you made it and daniel didnt.... also im so sad that like ou tianrui was the only one who didnt make it from bg project, that must be so sad... also sad that yao chi is the only one from mavericks that made it... losing all your closest friends at once :c im happy for guan yue and mingming going up, they deserve it 

WHOEVER MADE THE ENDING CREDITS IS LIN MO BIASED HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA WTFFF THERES 3 CUTS OF HIM AND 2 OF THEM ARE REALLY EXTRA AND THE THIRD ISNT EVEN FROM THIS EPISODE HAHAHAH WHO INCLUDED THAT???!! i mean yes he looks very sad and is crying there but its like so random i laughed (im sorry)

okay not gonna lie i didnt cry as much as i thought i would. yes it was sad but i kinda already knew that jin fan and zhen nan werent gonna make it so i was more just FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY watching the whole thing and seeing them get random bits of screentime (YOURE TOO LATE IQIYI) but i heard rumors and then when i saw those goodbye videos they uploaded on weibo today....... my heart sank like oh goodness its real...... i cant live in denial forever.... I STILL CANT BELIEVE ZHEN NAN WAS FREAKING 61 AND JIN FAN WAS FREAKING UNDERAPPRECIATED WTFFFFF everyone on jin fan’s team im sure was rooting for him bc they knew how he was so vital to their success --- he literally taught them all the choreo wtf chen youwei would be nothing without jin fan..... ughhhh alsdkjalsdkjlaks this is so frustrating im so sad for him....... but now i just really wish jin fan and zhen nan do some really cool stuff and stay active while they wait for the others. i think its likely (sadly) that zhan yu will get eliminated the next round, (but im honestly surprised and grateful that the special teachers recognized his talent! he realllyy killed that ‘retreat’ stage even tho zhenning is getting all the attention) and lin mo is liked by iqiyi (i think) but i dont think he has enough potential to actually make it into the top 9... or maybe its just my wishful thinking bc i hope mr.tyger can go on promoting without jia yi, but without jia yi AND lin mo, itd get pretty rough for them, so if at least lin mo stays behind with mr. tyger, i think they could potentially still do somewhat well in the meantime while jia yi goes off to debut with the top 9 and they wait for him to come back

and now for my random predictions: 

right now its rather fixed that wenhan, guan yue, and jia yi will make it. I think youwei, huaiwei, mingming, chunyang, wang jiayi are all likely, which means most of them will make it (but probably not all), and then xixi.... honestly i feel like xixi wont make it (BUT I REALLY LIKE XIXI) but i think iqiyi doesnt like him enough to give him enough screentime for him to make it (at least at this current rate....) also please note that YAO MINGMING WAS THE ONLY ONE FROM THE TOP 9 who did NOT get to go on that trip to leave dachang coughiqiyihatesmingming but luckily/hopefully mingming is popular enough to get votes anyway, LIKE MINE BC I VOTE FOR MINGMING). other than the current top 9, I think its likely either shi zhan or li zhenning or deng chaoyuan will make it. zhenning is the lowest of the three right now, but iqiyi likes him and hes gotten the approval of all the judges AND he was able to shoot up a ridiculous amount from pretty much just ONE DAY of voting (maybe a week at max, counting from the time they released the solo cams), and these votes have been tallying for the past month. so can you imagine how much more he’ll shoot up next time? he has a ton of potential to make it. shi zhan is already up there but iqiyi really likes him too bc of how hilarious he is, and jolin’s approved his smile so i can see him getting more and more screentime too. yao chi i think is also likely, bc he won 1st place visuals hahah that gets him attention from the public but also the staff, so i think theyll give him more and more screentime too. plus he has a touching backstory and mc jin has approved of him too. i think yao chi is someone who they’ve depicted as really humble and works really hard, and they like his smile. (who doesnt hahaha) but ofc there’s probably gonna be a lot of toss up in the rankings yet to come. from ip1 we learned that 70% of the kids were fixed from the start hahaha but 2-3 of them can come from behind, so who knows. iqiyi seems to really like cheche and wangzhe (how did wangzhe and wu chengze get to go on the trip to leave dachang but not mingming?? i mean i really like chengze tbh but i was just so surprised he was there! hahaha it seems so random bc hes #22?? i mean good for him but still)

anyway im all in all kinda all tired from watching a stressful 3 hrs lol but tbh i feel like they didnt show as much of the fun hotpot time as id hoped... and what about all the other rankings besides #1 visual? i dont really understand why they took a few random kids (who, no surprise, all dont get eliminated this ep) out of dachang for that trip.... i like a lot of those kids honestly, but id rather have seen more of the big group bonding / singing over hotpot (giving some of the kids who get eliminated some last screentime before they leave) or at least like find out who ranked in #1 boyfriend or something like that hahaha.... oh well..... now its time for me to go wallow in some mr tyger content so i can mourn the loss of our two children....