#di feisheng x fang duobing x li lianhua

[solariene]

►Li Lianhua & Di Feisheng | Sacrifice

My contribution to this fandom!

[lilianhuas]

For science I took a poll on my yt channel regarding Li Lianhua’s hectic love life and well.

[larinaliel]

The meeting with his fiancee is to blame for everything.

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Во всём виновата встреча с его невестой.

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FeiLianDuo, first kiss

[omgpurplefattie]

WIP Wednesday

I have a new WIP -- "X Days Since the Wilful Destruction of Li Lianhua's Property" about the way FDB and DFS get onto LLH's nerves while they first travel with the Lotus Lodge. It's inspired by my cats who will keep growling and throwing things off tables even though I keep explaining to them that I have two hands, like Li Lianhua. I'm sure they will get along eventually, but at the moment, they make me roll my eyes several times every day

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Di Feisheng had helped cut the vegetables for soup, so cutely domestic, sitting at the low table outside the Lotus Lodge with a kitchen cleaver cleaving all sorts of greenery, not skulls.

"You need to wash the insides of the leeks, they are usually sandy," Fang Duobing said, but rather than just tell him, he brought a bucket of water and demonstrated to A-Fei, which ended in the young man painstakingly preparing the leeks, and Di Feisheng chopping up everything else.

Li Lianhua had the kitchen window open as he was browning spring onions on the bottom of his large pot, and watched them.

They needed constant watching, or they would start hitting each other with leeks, threatening the other with a cleaver or sparring with cooking chopsticks instead of swords.

How was this his life now?

Yes, he had made them come along this time, as he still wanted information out of Di Feisheng, and Fang Duobing would make a great decoy in his dealings with Baichuan Court. But really, the road to Pudu Temple and the old Sigu headquarters had never felt this long. Each day, these guys would find new and inventive ways of disrupting Li Lianhua's lifestyle, destroying his property and making him doubt their sanity.

[olderthannetfic]

if i'm posting a fic about a poly pairing, is it good practice to tag all the sub ships (x/y, y/z, x/z) in addition to the poly pairing x/y/z?

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No. It is extremely bad practice.

The only time you should tag the two-person ships is if the fic has a heavy focus on one or more of them by itself and not in the context of the OT3. For example, if X and Y spend a bunch of the fic getting together and then Z shows up late in the game and it ends in OT3, you might want to tag both X/Y and X/Y/Z.

I've done that on some fics when I wanted to really emphasize that a lot of the content focused on X/Y, especially if it's the least common of the three 2-person options in the fandom.

However, I didn't bother in my latest fic of this type because the whole Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing part is them both being in mourning for Li Lianhua, so the specter of his presence is hovering over their interactions the whole time. The overall intent is very OT3. The part of the fandom that is going to be interested in this fic is, for the most part, people who ship the OT3.

[junemermaid]

first lines meme

I was tagged by the lovely @airgiodslv way too long ago, but look, sometimes I do reply to memes (I'm always delighted to be tagged! it's just the, real life of it all getting in the way of my tumblr time)

anyway! I'm just gonna go in reverse chronological order.

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

1 — the taste of pomegranates (mlc, difanghua)

It's snowing again. The wind tosses heavy wet flakes onto the windowsill, leaving the occasional melting track in the oiled paper of the panes.

2 — the fox came down the mountain (mlc, dfs x lxy, feihua)

The moment the fog becomes rain, Di Feisheng halts his horse on the cliffside road.

3 — Down Among the Dead Men (datv, neve x davrin x lucanis)

When a commotion draws closer along the market street, Davrin's first instinct is to check where Assan is.

4 — A Walk Through the Ashes (datv, neve x davrin x lucanis)

The crack of Zara Renata's neck breaking echoes like a cannon shot in Lucanis's head.

5 — The Stars in Their Mansions (nif, yujin x jingrui)

Yan Yujin gets his best friend back as they ride to war.

6 — A Beacon on Strange Waters (datv, davrin & lucanis & neve)

They burst through the eluvian onto a twilit upper floor, and the rot of the blight hits Davrin like an armoured gauntlet in the face, hard and nauseating.

7 — and the days are bright red (mlc, difanghua)

In hindsight, Li Lianhua shouldn't have trusted the other two with the spring cleaning.

8 — the long winds of autumn (mlc, difanghua)

Fang Duobing bounds up the steps to the living area of the Lotus Tower with unusual verve even for him.

9 — Servant of the Spiral (shadowhunters, malec, ffx fusion)

This is the story: in the holy heart of the world, a heretic kneels down, and entreats the exalted dead for power.

10 — the floating clouds, no resting place (mlc, difanghua (platonic))

The sea nearly claims Li Lianhua a second time.

lately, it seems, I've been starting in media res, with the notable exception of pomegranates, which instead starts with the weather. it's maybe apt for the kind of fic it is, though. I do like a punchy opening line whenever I can get one.

no-pressure tags to: @electricshoebox, @philologicalbat, @lynne-monstr, @la-muerta, @rose-tinted-vision, @neekerbreeker, @momosandlemonsoda, @thesilversun, @theotherjax, @busarewski no obligation, but feel free to blame me 💕

[peridot-tears]

Lianhua Lou X The Double Crossover WIP

Back by unpopular demand -- me, writing yet another Lian Lou WIP that might never see the light of day.

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Another vendor was more interested in the funeral procession that Fang Duobing had evidently just missed. “It’s a love story for the ages,” the man sighed as he presided over a boiling pot of stew. “Xue Fangfei, the daughter of a local magistrate, had eloped with a nobody. And through their partnership, it seems, that husband of hers rose to a grand position in court. “How tragic,” said the vendor as his pot ran over. “She recently committed adultery, and committed suicide on a mountain. Perhaps the guilt was too much to bear. Her poor husband.”

“She died from adultery?” Di Feisheng asked with a blank stare.

“It’s not the adultery that kills you, but the guilt of it,” the vendor sighed dreamily, even as Li Lianhua helpfully took a jar full of his spilling stew.

So, just locals being locals.

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Fang Duobing swung his legs as they sat on the rooftop of the Jiang family residence eating stew. No one would think to look up here. That Jiang Li was pretty—one of those willowy bodies, like Li Lianhua’s. She bade her servant—Tong’er, he overheard—to bring her a new sash. She must have been home for several months now, and she was resuming her studies at the local academy. When Fang Duobing was young, his mother made certain he received the best tutors in the capital. Perhaps this nunnery she had gone to had provided her with the same. Her penmanship was excellent; he did not need to be close to understand that. Just the way she carried herself, the strokes of her brush, told him all he needed to know. Perhaps her father had sent her tutors.

[mx-myth]

Mlc au where li lianhua just. Doesn't re-enter the jianghu. He has a couple of Big Realisations and disassociates so hard that li xiangyi is permanently dead now and he's not touching that shit with a ten foot pole.

He still meets fang duobing except they meet during on of fdb's probationary cases because he's like, sprained his wrist. He's also bleeding a lil' bit everywhere so when he sits down at the booth where llh has set up shop llh is like who is this yucky boy. Fdb is like daifu I'll pay you x amount of money to heal me. Llh ups his first impression to yucky rich boy.

Anyway it turns about when llh isn't there to guide him fdb is really reckless. But guess what! He always meets li-daifu wherever his case is! Isn't it a miracle? (Llh is long-suffering. Why does this (his, unfortunately) yucky little rich boy keep coming back to him)

Very soon fdb starts giving him gifts instead of money (because he has no money management skills). He starts off small like flowers and little soaps then desserts and then suddenly he's showing up with a set of fancy robes for llh (who had seen fdb looking at him all intently when he was estimating his measurements and thought he was checking him out. It was the start of a minor - soon to be major and ongoing - crisis) (but it turns out he likes the fucking robes).

At some point fdb runs into A Spot during one of his cases and declares, to everyone in the vicinity, that he's li xiangyi's disciple. This is overheard by di feisheng's spymaster (I CANNOT remember what his name is) who reports it back to dfs, who is like hmm, interesting.

And obviously, the most logical response here is to kidnap him and announce that he has li xiangyi's disciple held hostage.

Llh hears of this, scoffs because xiaobao can take care of himself, paces for ten minutes, and then grumbles to himself while grabbing his sword and booking it. He bursts onto the scene and it's all like:

Dfs: ...li xiangyi? You're alive?

Fdb: li lianhua-daifu!!! ...why do you have a sword.

Dfs: oh, i get it, you went into hiding. *shaking fdb* is this your new boytoy

Llh: di feisheng! Unhand him, he's a paying customer!

Dfs, nodding: I see. Boyfriend then. But you haven't had the balls to court him properly, huh

They have an argument that is actually just them exchanging small talk. Fdb is slowly dying because this is dfs, villain of the jianghu, so why is he having a reaction to him scruffing him like a kitten? Also, is li-daifu actually li xiangyi???

Long story short about three weeks later dfs arrives for dinner. And then he just. Keeps showing up. The third time he shows up fdb is there also having dinner with llh. They bristle at each other like street cats but eventually it becomes a Thing That They Do.

(In the background dfs is picking up the fucking slack and destroying the whole nanyin revival plot. Fdb keeps unintentionally and accidentally foiling related plots as he takes cases)

(Fdb: I found this in my latest case and I don't know what it is. *holds up the Rama heavenly ice shard or whatever it is*

Dfs: ...it's a screwdriver.

Fdb, who has never seen a screwdriver in his life*: oh, okay *sticks in a drawer of the lotus tower and immediately forgets about it*)

(Dfs thinks it's amusing bordering on ridiculous because fdb just keeps bringing these artifacts back. But he doesn't know what they are and neither does llh so the lotus tower is turning out to be a really safe place to put them)

Also because this version of llh actually knows from the start that he wants to live. He just never actively looked for a cure because he didn't have much to live for in his little life. But now he does so he accepts the Styx flower or whatever dfs finds for him and they all live happily ever after.

(*Edit: oh I'm an idiot. Of COURSE fdb knows what a screwdriver is. He lives with the Queen of Inventing Clever Things (master he my beloved) for god's sake. I think if he knew dfs was lying to him he wouldn't be able to let it go, since we all know how he is. So I don't know what dfs would actually tell him lmao)

[la-muerta]

Writing Patterns

rules: share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

Thank you for the tag @yeliuxi! <3

1. one hand on the trigger (the other hand in mine) // 暗线, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

Li Xiangyi turned the collar of his leather jacket up and quickened his pace, trying not to look around too obviously as he checked if he was being followed.

2. again and again we look up to the moon // 细算浮生千万绪, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

Thunder rumbled in the distance, and the ship tipped forward with a gut-heaving lurch as the huge wave it was riding crested and fell.

3. Lightwood After Dark, Magnus Bane x Alec Lightwood (Shadowhunters), Rated T

The party at The Institute is in full swing now, with everything going according to plan — the food and drinks that had been catered presented exactly as he instructed, no tech issues with any of the screens and photobooths, the music list more or less bearable thanks to Simon, and every part of the theme perfectly executed.

4. no sweeter taste // 特别甜, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated G

"We don't need a recipe, of course your Lao Ba knows what goes in a cake," Li Lianhua says distractedly while digging in the depths of the kitchen cabinets for a bowl big enough to mix the batter in.

5. the moon in the water // 镜中花，水中月, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

The man that Di Feisheng and Fang Duobing find on the beach is Li Xiangyi, but isn't.

6. can't read my poker face*, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

Alone in his dark apartment, Li Lianhua is hunched over his laptop, the video that is playing on his screen reflected in the lenses of his glasses.

*this is a collaborative work but I happened to be the one who wrote the first line

7. being a teenager sucks, platonic junior quartet + Lan Sizhui x Jin Ling (MDZS), Rated T

"Why are we even here?" Jin Ling complained as he frowned at the rundown building looming in front of them.

8. now I've got you in my sights // 你眼里的一首情歌, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

The light this morning is perfect, the first proper sun they've had after days of gloom and rain, coming in soft and warm when it filters through the gauzy curtains.

9. this is the nonsense of love // 只想跟你说些温暖的废话, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

Friday afternoons just after lunch, Li Xiangyi decides, were not meant for sitting in Di Feisheng's office trying to make his brain concentrate on Fang Duobing's weekly department reports.

10. it ends or it doesn't // 奈何吟, Di Feisheng x Li Lianhua (MLC), Rated E

Li Lianhua can feel the bird's frantic heartbeat under his fingertips when he picks it up, life caged in fragile bone and soft feathers.

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Looks like my first lines usually have some sensory description. I remember that the last time I did this tag game, most of them started with dialogue, so it's interesting that I seem to have changed that habit.

No-pressure tagging: @peridot-tears @howdaretrashships @exitvelocities @junemermaid @omgpurplefattie and anyone else who feels like playing!

[acequinz]

That being said.

Mlc 4some.

Fang Duobing X Li Lianhua X Li Xiangyi X Di Feisheng

Very classic case of LLH and LXY sandwiched between FDB and DFS.

[bbcphile]

For the fic writers ask meme: 17 and/or 37

Thanks for the asks, @the-surreptitious-albatross , and sorry it has taken me some time to respond!

17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

I usually write the scenes in order, from start to finish. The closest I come to doing things out of order is that sometimes I will jump ahead and do a detailed outline of a later chapter if I think of ways I want it to be in conversation with an earlier one (eg. if there are interesting parallelism, or thematic commonalities), and often my outlines start with bullet points and then end up basically being very rough drafts, complete with pages of dialogue and the emotional beats or notes on where to add descriptions. And I guess with my current long MLC fic, I wrote a few drafts of the first few chapters, then did 15k of outlines/incredibly rough drafts for later chapters, and then the other day realized what was bugging me about how I had written the first chapter, so I went back and completely rewrote it. So I guess in that regard, I jump around, because I might go back and totally reconceive of a chapter based on something I want to do with character development later. (This is why I don’t post fics on AO3 until they’re done; I do a truly absurd amount of rewriting.)

37: Talk about your current wips.

I’m honored that you want to hear about it! I actually have 4 for Mysterious Lotus Casebook fics (3 with absurdly detailed outlines, but only one that I’m actively drafting), so for now, I’ll just talk about the one I’ve worked the most on. 

Post-canon (OT3) Beach fic:

tw/cw: suicide attempt, off-page non-consensual medical procedure

When Li Lianhua’s shiniang tried and failed to sacrifice herself to save Li Lianhua against his will, he fled to the Donghai beach, intending to die before she could catch up with him because he can’t endure the idea that someone else he cared about might die for him. Di Feisheng and Fang Duobing find him first and save his life for the moment, but are horrified to discover the truth that Li Lianhua can’t lie his way out of: that the damage from the survivor’s guilt of everything he’s been through is just as dangerous as the damage from Bicha poisoning. With each of them reeling from the traumas of the past year (Li Lianhua from Shan Gudao’s betrayal and now medical PTSD from his shiniang’s procedure, Fang Duobing from almost losing Li Lianhua and being terrified to let him out of his sight in case he goes straight back to the water, and Di Feisheng from the abuse at the hands of Jiao Liqiao), they have to figure out how to face everything they pushed aside to save the country, and in the process, learn that the hardest battles aren’t fought with swords.

To read an excerpt, follow this link: (x)

I was going to write up synopses for the others, but I’m out of energy (and don’t want to sit on this ask for another week or so to write them out), so I’ll just do quick teaser/keyword summaries for the others:

Missing Scene Fic: Di Feisheng’s first night in Lotus Tower (featuring him finding the Yinzhou armor being used as a potholder, his feelings on having his meridians and qi blocked, and helping LLH after a nightmare so it doesn’t wake up FDB and give away his identity.)

Pre-Canon: Yinzhou armor backstory, Sigu sect waterfall spars, and LXY/DFS first time; set the evening after Shan Gudao resigned from the Sigu Sect

5+1: FDB and DFS sharing the Lotus Tower guest bed (from FDB’s POV, covering the entire show + post canon)

[evolutionsbedingt]

New Fic!

Ascend the Lotus Tower (2.1k words) Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV) Rating: T Warnings: None Relationships: Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua Additional Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Blind Li Lianhua, Terminal Illness, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary: Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng find Li Lianhua on the beach, but this is only the first step to saving the man.

[bbcphile]

Reblogging this for three reasons:

I am LOVING the responses people have made in the tags for this. I am 10000% on board with ADHD Fang Duobing, and I agree that an Autistic Li Xiangyi is very convincing (special interest in martial arts, making weapons, and difficulty picking up on social cues/intention behind words making it easier to be manipulated by trusting the wrong people, has noticeable physical repetitive movements that could be considered stims, etc.). I am so happy people are talking about neurodiversity in MLC, because I think there's still so much more to talk about. (@potahun, @difeisheng, @zishuge, @redemption-revenge, seriously, thank you for your comments in the tags! It made my day! Y'all are great!)

For anyone who wants more details on DFS + autism (and CPTSD), @kingsandbastardz and I have been discussing this in a separate post, which you can find here (x). It seems like there are some people who find the concept laughable/deserving of mockery for some reason, so I'm hoping that the (unsurprisingly autistic levels of) infodumping about autism and DFS in the post will be informative to anyone who wants to learn more about autism.

In writing this and in the conversation with @kingsandbastardz, I've realized that I have a heck of a lot to say about CPTSD--which is also a kind of neurodivergence and one that overlaps in interesting ways with autism--and both Di Feisheng AND Li Lianhua--and that not a lot of people know the differences in symptoms between CPTSD and PTSD, so I'm posting here to say that I'm going to start working on a lengthy (maybe multi-part) meta about that, since I have Feelings about how accurate the representation is. (and hey, might as well put my CPTSD experience to good use, right?)

Is it just me, or is there a surprising lack of Tumblr posts on Mysterious Lotus Casebook and neurodivergence?

I would have thought Di Feisheng’s special interests in sword fighting and Li Xiangyi would have inspired at least a few comments about him being Autistic.

(Plus his preference for blunt speech, ignoring social rules/etiquette, dislike of social settings, and sensory sensitivity (sound in particular), etc.)