#changyang

[gaywaren]

ILLUSTRATED GHOST RUT SCENE FROM TGCF RADIO DRAMA

everyone, say thank you changyang for giving us these official illustrations!! you can watch this scene on this link

[wangxian-everyday]

Official MXTX artist Changyang uploaded some new Hualian art this week!

[guidaozongshi]

Tian Guan Ci Fu illustrations by ChangYang

[mdzs-equine-archive]

Mo Dao Zu Shi Novels; Vietnamese & Thai Version Covers

Artist: Changyang

Equine featured: Xiao Pingguo

[j-nendo]

Creating the Crown Prince shrine from the Thai TGCF artwork by artist ChangYang

[长阳_家属团激战动物园]

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[shieruu]

“Your Highness, I understand your everything.” / “殿下，我了解你的全部。” – Hua Cheng

Illustrations from TGCF Simplified Chinese edition

Artist: Changyang

[lei-llustrations]

Master of Lotus Pier Master of my Heart

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[deep-sea-horror]

[thefeastandthefast]

Flourished Peony thoughts (spoilers up to episode 11):

I find it incredibly satisfying that Jiang Changyang refrains from intervening in Mudan’s life unless she explicitly seeks out his help.

I was actually expecting the contrary and bracing myself for a bit of white-knighting, since I'd read criticism from someone who'd watched up to episode 11 specifically complaining about the FL being written as supposedly empowered and strong but instead relies too much on the ML, who always happens to be present whenever she needs help. But now having watched up to episode 11 myself, I wholeheartedly disagree with describing a FL who astutely leverages her limited resources as weak and disempowered.

She first goes to him for aid with her divorce in absolute desperation, because her other proactive and well-executed gambits needed time to come to fruition and she didn't have time. It's a hail mary move and he proves himself unexpectedly sympathetic. Ultimately, though, the legal victory he helped her achieve means very little on a practical level. She still ends up on the run, starting over from scratch, without her divorce papers and without her dowry.

This drama skillfully establishes how the realpolitikal power of strategic relationships and networks (that perennial term 关系) softens and often even circumvents the barriers of social convention and hierarchies in a way a single individual has little hope to do. The patronage of the powerful and influential is worthwhile to cultivate in this context, especially valuable when the price for patronage doesn't require moral compromise from the protege (i.e. in the case of Liu Chang).

Jiang Changyang is powerful and influential and, most importantly to Mudan, does not demand what she isn't willing to give, consistently demonstrating that he adheres to the adage he keeps quoting- "a gentleman doesn't demand/take that which others hold dearest." Mudan has real skills and expertise to offer in exchange for fair patronage. Her reliance on his financial and social capital and continued cultivation of this relationship simply demonstrates that she's smart?

If we want to have more period-plausible shows like this one, which tries to be consistent in applying the rules and structural inequalities of its world to all of its characters, then it only makes narrative sense that the FL may need to occasionally rely on the aid of more powerful others and won't be able to only scheme and Charisma check herself out of every sticky situation. It doesn't make her poorly written or disempowered. Besides, Jiang Changyang is not the only connection she cultivates to great effect- she is able to help Shengyi obtain her divorce with Yun Niang's help and seems to have just found new allies in A'Fu and her mother.

Plus, as of episode 11, we see the intentional care he takes to NOT overstep the agreed-upon boundaries of this patronage relationship. The gorgeous, gorgeous scene when Jiang Changyang is behind the screen, watching Mudan's heartbreak and dogged determination as she gathers up the last handfuls of coin she has left to refund the angry mob- even obscured by the fabric haze, we see how deeply he empathizes with her in that moment, his always bemused eyes holding not a trace of laughter for the first time since he's appeared in this show.

He's a guarded man who's constantly shifting from mask to mask. His favorite persona is that of a gleefully avaricious fop who takes no one and nothing too seriously. But in that scene, we see that detachment fail and the pain in his face shows just how seriously he takes her pain. Even so, he also takes seriously the easily upset balance of power inherent in their relationship and his trust in her ability to resolve her own problems. Without her specific request for aid, any presumption on his part to step in would create the kind of debt she cannot afford and may not want to repay.

[gudansoo]

there isn't one woman liu chang can make happy

[shijiujun]

TGCF 天官赐福 New May 2023 Book Print Release PV | 24-Page Art Inserts of Xie Lian + Scenes from his POV

[gaywaren]

Your Highness, I’ve always watched you.

“I understand your everything.”

“Your courage, your despair; your kindness, your pain;

your resentment, your hate; your intelligence, your foolishness.

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives.

"But, I know you wouldn’t allow it.”

[1010ninetynine]

this manhwa can be so funny. but this panel takes the fucking cake

[ladyelainehilfur]

Chanyang bringing that Kenergy to the table, being all dependent on Nari for his happiness

[pilmyeol]

truly the most important question to ask when writing is “what if there was a weird guy”

[atlasllm]

i couldnt deny watching an ad to get TWO eps of odd girl out today 👉👈