#character: yu shisan

[heymeowmao]

一念关山 | A Journey to Love ° (๑•́ ⌓ •́)૭ ◟(•̀ ᴖ •́◟ )

[rose-tinted-vision]

When you're Yu Shisan, it means being a:

professional gaslighter: How to gaslight an entire village, Volume 1 by Yu Shisan.

personality hire: you can see the exact moment he goes 'shit I need to break the tension'.

relationship therapist: getting the tea from both sides

[qilingxiong]

he's been onscreen for one (1) minute but i'm obsessed with yu shisan

[jianghuchild]

I think curtain rise might be my magnum opus btw. Published while the fandom's still hot. The first English fic on ao3 (and currently one of only 2 English fics). Written before the ajtl tag was even wrangled. Had a person post separately about it, then stalk me (affectionate), then follow me. My ego is exploding. If I don't become a big name fan over this I'm gonna riot.

[nemainofthewater]

They are the sort of character who is amazing to watch on screen, but wow would you not want to live with them. Sit in the background and shamelessly enjoy the free entertainment, maybe.

The amount of drama that they bring with them is surely load bearing, and though they are generally very loyal, is it worth never being able to have a nice meal out*?

*unless you have very, very thick skin

-oh sorry, have to go, my gremlin is looking restless again - that could mean anything from writing terrible poetry to plotting a coup.

Propaganda, examples, and write-ins absolutely welcome!

[silviakundera]

"Fine. Xiu is unlucky. He was born to implicate people."

"Don't worry. If God sees I'm not a good person, he'll allow me to live a long life."

@dangermousie got me watching Eternal Brotherhood for the RIDE & DIE FRIENDSHIP and the historical drama flamboyant, incorrigible, badass main character of it all

boyyyyy that main character is indeed an entertaining motherfucker. This is kinda like if you took Yu Shisan from A Journey to Love and put him in a blender with the scheming protagonist of The Ingenious One. Then made that dude a general who is secretly v good at: (a) his job and (b) pretending to be a hapless scoundrel.

I didn't get his whole chaotic neutral vibes at first but by the second episode I was in love with him.

I hear tell this was a 40 episode drama that was streamlined into 24 and you can feel it - no extra filler, just Stuff Happening all the time.

Everyone is just constantly plotting and faking it 24/7. And the good guys are pretending to be Very Ok™ while screaming inside.

Very attractive cdrama. Pretty people, nice sets, great cinematography - they didn't have a huge budget and that's being handled with creativity. It doesn't look cheap at all. It's a small thing, but the way they try to use natural light makes things feel more real and middle-ages-y.

The death flags are everywhere. They're here for a good time, not a long time 👌

Despite knowing better, I'm shipping main character disaster man with his childhood sweetheart, because she's also shameless & during 7 years of exile instead of letters he has just been occasionally sending her momentos of traumatic events he's experienced. No communication but here, I bestow you horse hair. Another year, a feather. Ah, today a dead scorpion! And dear reader, she accepts and stores them all. Romance is not a main plot but please doomed narrative, just let them both live 🙏.

[zhoufeis]

so if you ever think i'm going to livewatch a cdrama again, you're wrong. i'm sick of losing my favorite characters, i'm so SICK of it.

i lost yuemi. i lost wan jie. i lost mu yu. i lost pian ran. i lost yu shisan. i lost zhuo lanjiang.

i'm done, sincerely, done. it is always the same.

[barananduen-blog]

About Yu Shisan - "A Journey to Love" ep.39 SPOILERS

"One day you'll find your match" "Impossible! I'd rather die. … But if I really did that, then I'd have been together with her for the rest of my life."

Yushisan! Look, I edited out the blood in these (to avoid the content flag); are you happy?😂

But this scene. "Yu Shisan, the most beautiful man in the world," who felt up his face after battles to check for cuts, after finding out he's lost his eyes and his face was covered in blood and cuts... If he hadn't already been prepared to die, can you imagine his emotional loss then?

1 - He couldn't bear to die, as he probably thought his wounds left him: "ugly," so he prettied himself up, even in the middle of the battlefield, the best he could. He was going to go down, but dangit he would look good at it! (and he did😭 LBR, that scene was COOL!)

2 - But he was also "Yu Shisan, who enjoys looking at the prettiest women," and I think artists can relate to this sentiment, this particular feeling of loss, that would be not only not being able to see in general, but not being able to see beauty anymore.

3 - He's the only one (aside from Ruyi) whose dead body we do not see. This is very in-character of the narrative. I don't think he would have wanted anyone to see him like that. He'd have liked people to remember him looking good, unmarred. So it fits that Chu Yue, being temporarily blinded by the explosion, never even saw him wounded.

Why do I keep feeling the need to write posts about Alen Fang's characters? 🤔 This show-stealer... 😂 *goes to watch another of his dramas*

[pippin-pippout]

So I dragged myself kicking and screaming and, yes, mostly in denial, through the last episodes of A Journey to Love.

My thoughts can be summarized as follows:

Obviously this is mainly due to me being horrifically traumatized by Yuan Lu’s death. After all, they told us from the get go he wouldn’t live to 20. They made it clear he had a deadly heart disease. And then. They had the nerve. They had the audacity. They had the actual fucking bahoonga BALLS to follow through!?

But then I found myself sobbing at literally every good guy death scene, plus all of the mourning scenes. The latter was in large part thanks to Alen Fang's acting - deepest apologies to him for just referring to his character as 'the slutty one' for the majority of the show. Not that I was wrong. Also thanks to strong performances from He Lan Dou for Yuan Lu's death.

Anyway so I need to add this gif x4 for the Liudao Hall babies:

Qian Zhao, da ge, who made mistakes but always did right in the end

Sun Lang, who just wanted to hold something fluffy at the end, dying a hero

Yuan Lu, who died in his princess's arms after running to deliver a letter rendered useless by the Emperor of An's greed.

Yu Shisan, who lived as he lived and had such a happy moment with Chu Yue right before it all became irrevocable.

When they added Yu Shisan to the snowball fight, I just about lost it. Liu Yuning's acting there - having the realization about Shisan's death as he watched them play in real time was so well done. Really hurt.

Plus I'll make a couple of versions with edits.

For the Wu Emperor. I knew it was gonna happen from the spoilers but damn, him genuinely learning the value of friendship and brotherly love made me root for him. Dude did not deserve to go out like that. Thank goodness for the magic of CDramas where he lived just long enough to pass on his will to Ning Yuanzhou, and do one last act of good.

It also ensured Duke of Chu was able to pass on his command to his daughter, Chu Yue, before dying of the same (was not clear if her bro died or not, or if dad was always going to choose her).

And for Deng Hui. Started out thinking he was just a sexist bastard. Turns out he was one of the most principled characters in the show.

Their deaths didn't make me cry, but I respect them.

Also loved Chen Du Ling's (Empress of Wu) small part in this. I may not like all of her characters but she can deliver a scene and hold a room. It was a bit cathartic to see her put every man in their place, and basically decide the fate of two countries, even though her lament that she'd only ever have power through another held true.

Ah Ying, my baby girl. This is a character that could have turned people off from the beginning. Thanks to strong writing and stronger acting, it did not. I was super impressed with He Lan Dou. She can dial it up and dial it down in a single take, and can play big dramatic scenes with a subtlety that some older actors cannot grasp. This was the first thing I've seen her in, though for her and Chen You Wei (Yuan Lu) I might watch Tiger and Crane if someone tells me it's good.

I still think Li Tongguang is a perverted and creepy child, who never managed to learn (except in literally the last ep), but at least I trust that he will treat Ah Ying well. I don't hold it against him for screwing up the battle - he was trying to be benevolent but made a bad choice.

The main couple win it for me this year. What an inspired pairing. They beat out heavy hitters including Bai Lu x Everyone which was near impossible. Something to do with letting Liu Shi Shi use Liu Yuning's height against him at every possible moment. Also the 'if you die, I'll finish the job and then follow you' is my favorite dynamic. I swear when Ruyi threw those bombs, NOT NEEDING TO HAVING ALREADY SUCCEEDED AT KILLING THE KING AND PRINCE, just to join him, y'all I died. Good for whoever posthumously gave her the Marquis title on her own (not just furen) - couldn't tell if it was Li Tongguang acting as regent or Dayang (great shot of those two at the end).

The final episode was one of the best final cdrama episodes I've seen. I might have to make another post about that. In sum, despite losing a large portion of the well-loved cast, the remainder gave a world-class finale. The visuals were incredible (explosions are my favorite). The final scene was beautiful (though I'm a bit surprised they gave it to Chu Yue instead of Ah Ying who knew all 6 of them closely).

[vyther16]

wip wednesday!

it's been a while since i've done one of these, but i have been churning out ideas for A Journey to Love fic nonstop since before the show ended (as @myhamartiaishubris can attest)

this snippet was written around like, eps 25-28-ish. (basically before everyone started dying). it was going to be the start to a Yu Shisan-centric time-travel fixit, but then the show finished and it made this whole thing irrelevant.

Basically, AU where the second prince isn't a dipshit, An Di isn't as terrible, and there's no real issues with getting our of the Wu capital.

CW for major character death under the cut

Yu Shisan does not die in a dramatic blaze of glory, nor does he die to protect a beautiful and virtuous young lady. He dies halfway home from the An kingdom when a stray arrow from a bandit hits him in the lung. Ning Yuanzhou makes a truly animalistic sound, and Ren Ruyi and Sun Lang both viciously fight off any bandits who come near him and Lao Qian. Lao Qian looks stoic as ever, hands perfectly steady as he tries to bandage the wound. Shisan already knows it's no use, but Lao Qian's eyes flash beautifully when he tries to say that. "Ah, Lao Qian," he tries, "You shouldn't worry; you'll get wrinkles, and then where would your good looks go." "I'm not one of your ladies, brought to my knees with pretty words and fluttered eyelashes," Lao Qian snaps, stripping Shisan of his armor to better reach his wound. Oh, Shisan thinks. "I know that," he says aloud. He intends to keep talking, but instead he coughs, sending blood splattering over Qian Zhao’s robes. Qian Zhao’s lips purse, but he doesn’t pause in his ministrations. Yuan Lu has come to kneel by his side, hands shaking as he reaches for Shisan’s hand. “You can’t die,” Yuan Lu says, voice choked with tears. “Yang Ying will be so upset if you die.” “I didn’t mean to,” Shisan says, and coughs again.  “Stop talking,” Lao Qian snaps. “You’re aggravating it.” Shisan chokes on a laugh. “Ah, Lao Qian,” he says, ignoring the way his whole body lights up in a flare of pain. “I must maintain my image.” “You can’t do that if you’re dead,” Ning Yuanzhou says. Shisan didn’t realize he’d knelt down next to him. That must mean the bandits are gone. He says as much, or at least he tries to, breaking off into another blood-soaked cough. He thinks everyone else has gathered around him, like they did that time Ning Yuanzhou was dying after the fight to protect Beauty’s dumb disciple. Someone moves his head, and then he’s looking up into Beauty’s worried eyes. He can die happily if he’s looking at a beautiful woman, Shisan decides, but then she lets go of his face, letting it loll back to look at Qian Zhao. There are more hands on his chest, and then a tear slips down Qian Zhao’s face. “That’s not right,” Shisan tries to say, attempting to reach up to wipe away Lao Qian’s tears, but he can’t do either. It’s getting harder to keep his eyes open. He hears a desperate conversation happening above him, multiple voices overlapping, but he can’t focus on it. Instead he keeps his eyes on Lao Qian’s face and the tears tracing down his cheeks until he can’t force them open any longer. Yu Shisan dies surrounded by his brothers, barely half a li from his own country.

so i wrote this before everyone died and had to scrap it, but rest assured that the au is still being written (alongside @myhamartiaishubris who is writing all the parts i can't, namely the flirting)

[heymeowmao]

一念关山 | A Journey to Love E30 ° Ning Yuanzhou & Yu Shisan🍵

[rose-tinted-vision]

hello is episode 35 really necessary 😭😭

Shisan and Yuan Lu just lost two of their closest friends in less than a week??? They didn't even get to properly mourn Qian Zhao like they did for Sun Lang???? Their leader isn't even there with them just imagine the emotional turmoil 🥲

[melodious-tear]

Fandom: 一念关山 | A Journey to Love (TV) Relationship: Ning Yuanzhou/Yu Shisan Characters: Ning Yuanzhou, Yu Shisan Additional Tags: set before the events of the drama, AU (?) in which Ning Yuanzhou was actually undercover as an 'escort', Crack, accidental kink acquisition, Yu Shisan is a good friend and does his best, if he wants to, this is the story of how Ning Yuanzhou became a blushing maiden

Summary: Ning Yuanzhou receives a letter with a special order - but he needs the help of the only person he can trust with that. Yu Shisan is that person, but as we can expect, he has his own ideas about it.

[jianghuchild]

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

tagged by @vyther16 on main

hovering over empty years - Chai Ming knew he wasn’t any sort of hero.

a dream of golden millet - It started with a broken cup.

curtain rise, curtain fall, all guests in the end - Chu Yue finds Yu Shisan half-dead and fully blind on the battlefield.

not to me, not if it's you - Noah Marshall isn't a scary guy.

two sharp things - The collar settled around Val’s neck with a doomsday click.

so, you two? - Lü Xian was not following You Fangyin.

until the stars lose their fire - It should feel like something here.

borrow an ordinary life - Aranya has been dead a long time.

mr and mrs smith - “Shiniang! Shiniang!”

remember the way home - She’s the enemy. She’s the kindest person he knows.

You know, I wasn't expecting to see a pattern, but doing this exercise actually did make me realize I have a very particular way of starting a story. Which is to say, a short in situ line that then gets explained through context.

Some of these, like mr and mrs smith and so, you two? start pretty much in media res, requiring the rest of the opening paragraph to explain what's going on. Some, like remember the way home and not to me, start with a sort of... exposition? Like, rather than beginning in the action, it makes a circuitous route around the action by first setting a tonal stage.

A funny thing I noticed, two sharp things is probably the most in media res of all of them, entirely skipping the inciting incident and dropping the characters right in the middle of the story. And I think it's because it was already twice removed from the source, so I felt more comfortable just assuming context instead of providing it.

Tagging (no pressure): @severeweatheralert, @kald-dal-write, @be-bi-do-crime, @fallingsun, @naughtynanzhu, and anyone else I missed!

[nemainofthewater]

Best Character surnamed Yu

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgot anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

[cookie-of-fortune]

Ok of course the main leads are great, but step aside mains and give me more:

Yu Shisan - most hilarious character ever

Really the rest of the squad also

Yang Ying - amazing character, riveting

Li Tongguang - so damaged but I want so badly for him to just get some love and recognition