#cao wening

[evil-moonlight]

Tagged by @gosiksmallspace thank you pretty, please have a great day! ♡♡♡

Currently watching:

Word of Honor

I just finished this show some days ago and this is actually my second rewatch. This has a very rich storyline with a precious open romance between the two male leads!!! and the characters are all deranged, depressed, criminals (i like it) but for most of them they value soulmates, sworn brothers, someone whom they'll die for or with whom they'll die, and for some they only have a skin-deep relationship with it. Fate has brought soulmates together, especially for wenzhou and i like that this show has given us flawed characters but at the same time you can't not feel affection for zhou zishu, wen kexing, gu xiang, chengling, cao wening and the found family that they've put together, except for scorpion king who hasn't felt warmth in all his life even to death and that's why he has a special place in my heart. ♡

I have three shows to finish:

The Untamed (now on my second episode)

Guardian (now on my fourth episode)

Till Death Tear Us Apart (now on my sixth episode)

I'm honestly still not over Word of Honor and (Winter Begonia) and it's even harder to start a new one. But once I'm done with all of those I've mentioned, I am really going to start Under the Skin!!! because Tan Jian Ci ☺ also Mr. Sunshine, gotta try this one out. The rest will probably be The Knockout and A League of Noblemen.

Rewatching:

Word of Honor - this will live in my head rent free for a very long time, ngl

Beyond Evil - i have to go back to some scenes from time to time because i miss them so fvcking much

Killer and Healer - once i started rewatching K&H due to its 2nd anniversary celebrated on twitter i realize i REALIZE i haven't fangirled them enough and i owe them my life, i owe them this much

Winter Begonia - yesterday was the start of its third anniversary!!! and yes i came late to the fandom but i'm glad i'm here. I have so much to say about them but i don't know how, so i'm rewatching it to discuss on my own lol

Looking forward to:

The Story of the Bat - even if i have to wait for it eternally i will not give this up. I have waited for so long, plus it's Mao Zi Jun in it so i'm patiently looking forward to it. Also the rumours that it's gonna come out by the end of march is making me insane, tbh

Winner Is King - a twitter moot recommended this upcoming cdrama to me because it's gonna be tan jian ci's acting masterpiece so yes i am allowing this to devour me in the nearest future.

No pressure tags!!! @loisroo @tiffanylamps @heyguysgalsandenbypals @poisonedwinedeath @killerandhealerqueen @zennialemo @nineninepetals ^^ <333

[seekerofpatterns]

How is it that I still cry over Gu Xiang's and Cao Wening's wedding even though I've watched it like five times now?

[gendernonconformingpriestess]

lol. Why not?

[canary3d-obsessed]

WOH fic prompt

So the bracelets that Gu Xiang and Cao Wening are wearing when they get *cough* married mean that they are guaranteed to meet again in ALL their future lives, not just the three that fate generally provides. So...modern AU, University or whatever, they meet and fall in love and decide to shack up, and shenanigans ensue due to their (eternally) opposite temperaments. 

MEANWHILE, Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu are immortal. In the course of a thousand years together they have naturally managed to solve the “eat snow” limitation on their dining habits, and also the “stay on your mountaintop” limitation on their travel habits.  

So, right after GX and CWN have decided to move off campus together, WenZhou roll in to town, explain that they are family, and toss their bedrolls down in the living room for a nice long visit.  

GX and CWN, being reincarnations, have no idea who the fuck these crazy immortal uncles are. CWN doesn’t understand why he’s being given a shovel talk from one magic uncle and dating tips from the other. GX is trying to win an important scholarship and WKX keeps suggesting totally unethical ways to do it, while ZZH nods solemnly in agreement. Shenanigans intensify.

As with all my prompts, if you write it, I’ll signal boost it!

[chalkrevelations]

So, Episode 7 of Word of Honor, and where to start? No, I’m kidding, I know exactly where I’m starting, which is with some recognition of what a great job this show does of developing 98 percent of its multitude of characters, because the first two things I’m going talk about this week aren’t even Zhou Zishu, Wen Kexing OR Wen Kexing’s thirst (AKA, the three main characters of the show).

Well, I guess I’m really starting with the usual warning – this is a re-watch and so there are SPOILERS here, not only for this episode, but for most of the show. Scroll away and come back later if you’re trying to watch all 36.5 eps unspoiled.

SO, I mean, come on. Of course I’m starting with the Smartest Man in the World, who has finally shown up in this episode, and I’m reminded once again what an actual cinnamon roll, too good for this world, Cao Weining is. He’s maybe the single completely good character we meet  – even Chengling wants to burn down somebody’s house at one point because he’s mad. But Cao Weining is almost too good to be true – and yet, there he is! Living his best life, being good, eating good, falling in love, and refusing to let his beautiful, clever, fierce girl’s neuroses come between them. I love him, y’all. And not just because he instantly falls in love with A-Xiang when he happens to see her beat up a bunch of drunk bro assholes in the inn where he’s having a quiet little lunch by himself before she storms into his life like a purple whirlwind. But let’s do think about this from his perspective, yeah? And let’s remember it as we watch the progression of their relationship, as we wait for the revelation we know is coming, and as – many eps down the line – he learns the truth of her. Cao Weining’s first experience of A-Xiang is someone who’s brave and capable, who defies outsized odds to come to the rescue of those in need, who doesn’t allow women and girls to be abused, who expects proper behavior from the representatives of the jianghu, and who is absolutely fearless in demanding just treatment and never even thinks to be intimidated when she faces unfair censure from an authority figure. This is the girl WKX raised, y’all. This is a girl who embodies everything Cao Weining has been taught to believe in as a cultivator. And this is the girl Cao Weining sees every time he looks at A-Xiang. Maybe, just maybe, this is the truth of her, and Cao-dage sees and understands it from the very first time he spots her, and anything else he’ll learn about her is really extraneous. (Hmm. I wonder what other relationship we’ll eventually end up seeing that kind of dynamic in, where someone truly knows you and believes in you, so everything else is unimportant?) Also, Cao Weining tells A-Xiang she’s very beautiful, and how many people do you think have ever told her that before in her life? He asks why he would want to fight and hurt her, and how many people – particularly men, given where she grew up – have ever told her that before? He buys her lunch – twice, because the first round gets cold. Remember a few episodes back, when WKX asked her who the second cutest person in the world was, and she responded that it was someone who would buy her a meal? Well, here he is. For bonus points, it is hilarious how badly WKX responds to Cao Weining’s very existence after ZZS points out the pair of them having a toast at the same inn that WKX and ZZS have stopped in WKX has dogged ZZS’s footsteps into. Poor Cao Weining doesn’t even get the shovel talk – although to be fair, he doesn’t get the full-court Ghost Valley Master press, either, so WKX must have been holding back somewhat – he just gets told to get out, before WKX grabs A-Xiang by the ear and delivers some scathing commentary on her taste in men, like he didn’t immediately fall for some rando who was tits out, drinking himself to death in the gutter.

ANYWAY, from the Smartest Man in the World, we’re going to move to Han Ying, My Beloved, who we see interacting with the Five Lakes Alliance again, this time in the person of Gao Chong, leader of Yueyang Sect and host of the upcoming Heroes Conference, da-ge of the 5LA. I had honestly forgotten we got to see so much of Han Ying this early on. What strikes me here is that this is a guy who I actually could believe is the second-in-command of Tian Chuang at what is it? 21 years old? When he’s doing his job, and ZZS is nowhere around for him to make pining puppy-dog eyes at, he’s focused and determined and a bit forceful and somewhat threatening and, frankly, appropriately arrogant for the job he’s been sent to do. He’s also wearing a cloak with a mini-Collar of Evil. He comes off as, dare I say, a capable leader of an assassin organization and a guy who’s able to do a proxy flex for his boss without looking completely ridiculous - which puts him one up on Duang Pengju, omg that asshole, and also makes me feel a little better about how I want ZZS to wreck him (or I guess, technically, him to wreck ZZS, because I’ve never seen a character (except Marcus Flavius Aquila, THANK YOU for your service, Channing Tatum) who put off such subby service-top vibes. WHY is there not more Han Ying/ZZS on AO3, fandom? I thought better … worse? … better? … of you.) When Gao Chong claims the Glazed Armor is a myth, Han Ying basically calls this older, respected zongzhu a liar and gets up in his face before refusing a dinner invitation and sweeping out in his mini-Collar of Evil with a credible “PAH.” My boy has layers, y’all.

What else? We start out the ep at Luo Mansion, a wedding scene, and I’m struck by how the Ghost Valley colors match traditional wedding colors, here. I’m thinking about how A-Xiang’s wedding dress won’t be red (and I think green was more common during the Tang dynasty?) although all the decorations will be, and I’m thinking about how we have this wedding as a book-end to that wedding, and I’m thinking about how it’s interesting that a girl who was raised in the Ghost Valley and protected by the Department of the Unfaithful meets a man who’s going to be so faithful to her in the same episode as this wedding with/of the dead. Ghoul, who’s one of the attendees from the Ghost Valley, also remarks that the red makes him hungry, so there’s a meat reference to throw into the thematic basket, I guess. (Also, hey. Ghoul is played by the same guy who’s Sun Yongren in Killer & Healer.) Lovelace (ugh) briefly menaces one of the Department handmaidens before Luo Fumeng shows up, and I think she’s Yun Zai or Hong Lu, one of the two maids that A-Xiang rescued from him, although I’m not positive, because her hairstyle is so different and hides a lot of her face, here. So, we’re all attending the “wedding” of Mu Yunge, the apparent fuckboy who got got a couple of episodes ago as bait for Ao Laizi when Changing Ghost got his hands (briefly) on the Danyang Glazed Armor. We did see a brief scene with Yunge in the last ep, when he woke up tied up in bed, being menaced by someone who appeared to be his dead lover – who hanged herself while pregnant with their child – but turned out to be Beauty Ghost using a face-masking technique similar to ZZS’s disguises. In the interim, Ghost Valley has kidnapped 10 cultivators as his wedding party, and – this is the important plot point – that includes Deng Kuan, head disciple of Yueyang Sect. We get to see some of Beauty Ghost’s ruthlessness here, as she carries in the dead woman’s memorial tablet draped in a red cloth – how’s that for some foreshadowing (my f’kn HEART) – to set it down in the “bride’s” place before Yunge is forced to bow three times. (Dead girlfriend was a Mo from Broken Arrow Manor, and I … am not sure if that is significant or not. Is she possibly related to Mo Huaiyang? Does anyone know which sect is associated with Broken Arrow Manor?) Beauty Ghost also kills two of the 10 “guest” cultivators for talking without permission as she explains the next event to them – cage match. Only one of them gets to get out alive. Deng Kuan, the best of them, apparently, pleads with everyone to not let themselves be divided, but we can all guess how this is going to go. I guess maybe he’s the other completely good character we meet, but he sure is a punching bag. He ends up the last man, sort of, standing, as he kills the final other person in self-defense, but not before getting stabbed, and he goes down and is out for the count.

Meanwhile, cut to Zhao Jing and Shen Shen drinking and gossiping at an inn on the way to Yueyang. Shenshen – Shenshen – continues to bemoan Chengling’s uselessness, and also talks about the torture the other Zhang family members underwent just in time for Chengling to overhear in the hallway, so thanks a lot for even more trauma, Shenshen. Zhao Jing is so sad about it all, y’all. He’s just so very very sad, can we just stop talking about it, Shenshen, because you’re making him sad, and he’s just going to let Da-ge figure it all out, OK? Uh-huh.

Fourth plot thread of the episode is ZZS skulking around, following Chengling, trying to convince himself that this kid is safe now that he’s turned himself in to gone to live with the 5LA, even as ZZS spots Tian Chuang spies in the ranks of the Yueyang disciples and among the dumpling vendors on the streets outside. ZZS follows the dumpling vendor, gives him a code phrase and almost gets his head taken off by a Scorpion blade for his trouble, before stabbing Dumpling Man in response. WKX picks this exact moment to wander back into ZZS’s orbit, taking the chance to flirt as Dumpling Man spits up blood and dies in the alleyway, because of course he does. WKX tsks, accuses ZZS of being cruel, and quotes some poetry about fair faces and poisonous hearts, which - like all of his poetry - has a double meaning, because which of them is he really talking about, ZZS or himself? ZZS notes that WKX is openly wearing the (Danyang) Glazed Armor because of course he’s looking for trouble, but WKX loosens his stays and clutches his pearls and replies that he couldn’t possibly be looking for trouble – him? Philanthropist Wen? He’s not a merciless killer like ZZS. Whereupon ZZS finally says out loud what he’s been clearly thinking since he started going on about what an awful person he is in the LAST EPISODE, which is why the hell don’t you stop following me around, then? There’s some more flirting, and WKX continues to follow ZZS around, and ZZS takes note that WKX is obviously flaunting the Glazed Armor out in the open, and then there’s a little sleight of hand when Famous Pickpocket Fan Bu Zhi, oh noes! Steals WKX’s Glazed Armor right off his belt when he isn’t even looking! before WKX continues to follow ZZS around, conveniently into the same inn where Cao Weining and A-Xiang are having lunch. After WKX attempts to chase him away, we discover Cao Weining has had his wallet stolen. WKX deploys his Sadness Eyebrows to convince ZZS to turn over his wallet to pay for Cao Weining’s and A-Xiang’s lunch. ZZS – who does an admirable job of refusing for a bit – finally caves, and WKX orders lunch for everyone, on ZZS. Now all we need is Chengling, because the fam is not complete without Goldbean.

[tinylilemrys]

he's so in love with her i might cry

[min-kit]

the way word of honor has me wanting to write a mlw fic for the first time in over 12 yrs... thats just how amazing Weining and Xiang are though

[trafobic]

[chronomally]

Can someone just pay this fucking dinner bill please

[wen-ke-xing-has-a-shoulder-kink]

The woh concert, a summary:

-the cast shipping wenzhou openly

-zzh and GJ playing wedding games

-Cao wening and a-xiang getting married

-approximate singing but it doesn't matter because they're all lovely

-the smoke machinist going berzek

-Zhou ye starting to cry in the middle of her song and being saved by her screen fiancé (i died)

-NO WOLONG NUTS WTF?

[shaguagua]

山河令 ep22 pt.1

They met Gu Shang and Cao wening on the way to the siji house [四季山莊] and also met Shen shen..

This part is I thinnk Zhou zishu knows about Wen kexing being the head of ghost valley as he asks,

是誰長舌鬼？

Who is changshegui (long tougue ghost?)

They were discussing about Zhao jung and the death of Zhang family, and Zhou zishu had suspicion of diaosigui(吊死鬼) that he's not the one then Wen kexing was saying it was changshegui(長舌鬼). So actually Wen kexing gave his Identity away to Zhou zishu. Zhou zishu was really the head of tianchuang (天窗)

[huggy-bears]

one thing i notice about Wen Kexing's way of attacking is that he always flies in in a vortex. I guess in terms of arrow dynamics it gives him a much faster speed and creates more momentum for the first strike.

The fighting choreography in WOH gives each character a very distinct and constant martial art style. While Zhou Zishu has a straightforward clear of intention very powerful way of combat, Wen Kexing is of the unpredictable always going for the killing shot way of fighting, Gu Xiang took this influence from WKX as well. Ye Baiyi, Cao Wening, The Scorpion King, Mo Huaiyang and the husband and wife assassins, to name a few, all have their unique martial art style.

[homiehopper4life]

Day 4: Favorite Side Couple

So...I chose two because I have a gay couple that I love and a straight couple that I love.

Bing Wei and Shi Zhe Yu (We Best Love): I called it pretty quickly that these two were bound to get together! I loved their interactions in the first season (especially during the scary night episode) and in the second season they got to show off their charm as a couple. Bing Wei is such a sensitive and sweet forgiving guy while Shi Zhe Yu is so petty and quick-tempered but they get along so well and it’s adorable. Absolutely precious couple. I wish they had had more screen time.

Gu Xiang and Cao Wening (Word of Honor): This side couple breaks my heart but I love them so much! The way Cao Wening just loves Gu Xiang for being herself and never feeling any embarrassment or anything about her being a wild child. While reading the novel, I realized there weren't many scenes showing their relationship develop, but I was so happy they did in the show. They really were so precious together.

ALSO THE FACT THAT CAO WENING FINDS OUT WHO SHE REALLY IS AND IS ONLY UPSET BECAUSE SHE DIDN’Y TRUST HIM ENOUGH TO TELL HIM BEFORE ADMITTING HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE HER NO MATTER WHAT EXCUSEME_____

[canary3d-obsessed]

“This is Dao Wu's gift. The world only has this single pair of red bracelets. It's a divine gift, blessed with prayers. If lovers tie this on, they will meet for all their lifetimes.”