#ding guozhu

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"That smile is as fake as a store mannequin's. He smiles like this. Is it creepy?" - The first shot ep. 5

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THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 "Police Beauty, your joke is too much."

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new year's letter from halan, january 1998

dear everyone, hello, it is i, captain zheng bei of the halan public safety bureau anti-narcotics task force. things are going well however there have been a few challenges this winter so i thought i would take this opportunity to update you on our progress here in halan.

first of all there's xiaoguang and nan nan. everyone is really happy that xiaoguang sat up again and started talking and getting better, me most of all. i might have cried a little and i definitely hit him. the weird thing is he speaks exclusively cantonese now and we're not sure why but hopefully nan nan's cantonese will get better so they can communicate. gu yiran says it doesn't really matter because they could never actually communicate in the first place and i don't want to say gu yiran is right but just in this one specific instance he might have a point. anyway nan nan seems happy and they sing a lot. and make other noises as well but we aren't going to talk about those.

zhang xueyao is also doing well, she has some kind of boyfriend but she won't let us meet him and i find that somewhat distressing. i'm worried if he is ugly or maybe has two heads. or what if he's really tiny. maybe he's only like 150 cm tall and she just beats him up all the time, something that would not be good for a police officer to do. on the other hand she seems a lot calmer and doesn't chase guozhu around the office anymore trying to kick him, so i guess it's been good for her. again gu yiran claims that the boyfriend is probably completely normal and just afraid of us but i don't know why that would be true. we're only cops, there's nothing scary about any of us?

ding guozhu has not changed in any way whatsoever, he has knitted eight sweaters this winter and at this rate the only one of us who doesn't have a sweater is me. that's because i don't wear sweaters because i never get cold. i only wear t-shirts even when it's -30ºC which it is right now. gu yiran on the other hand is wearing three sweaters at this very moment in his lab but i can still hear him bitching. i told him when he wears three sweaters at once he looks fat and he told me my head is fat. i told him his head is stupid and he looks stupid and then he told me i am an unmitigated idiot and then we wound up in a supply closet in the hallway and then some other stuff happened. when we came out of the supply closet somehow i was wearing one of guozhu's sweaters. surprisingly it is very soft and kind of nice, and guozhu made it red, my favorite color, and tried to give it to me so maybe i will keep it after all.

then there's uncle. he went on vacation with his granddaughter to hangzhou and they never came back. i think he likes it there, he keeps sending us photos of them by the lake eating sugar pastry in shirt sleeves and smiling. we have all started using email now and uncle likes it the most because he says he doesn't have to waste money on postage anymore. gu yiran tried to explain to him that electricity and telephone usage also cost money but uncle says he's already paid for those so it doesn't count. anyway he keeps sending very large photos that clog up the office inbox for several hours while they download. sometimes there's a lady in the photos, i keep asking him who that is but he never answers. gu yiran says when he feels like telling us about her, he will. here's an old picture of him with gu yiran because it's how i like to think of him, still here with us.

ma and ba are fine and nan nan finally talked them into closing the restaurant one day a week to take some rest. they are saying they might go visit uncle in the spring, or go to shanghai. they are a little bit upset that gu yiran and i moved out, but they also like having nan nan out of their apartment so that worked out okay after all.

i guess that's the big news, that gu yiran and i moved to a new place. it was sad to leave the building but after the incident with the wall we figured it was probably time. i explained to ma and ba how the hole was only an accident but it was still a very big hole so they were right to be upset, we all worked very hard one weekend to tear the wall down and replace it with a better one. the hole wouldn't even have happened if gu yiran and i hadn't had a fight, but we did, and then we weren't speaking so he went home to do his experiment in the apartment instead of in the lab, and there was sort of an explosion. but it was really my fault, because if i hadn't called him an arrogant cocksucker we wouldn't have fought. on the other hand if he hadn't gone after six drug dealers in the chicken van by himself with nothing but a baseball bat and some sock bombs then i probably wouldn't have called him that. so i guess maybe we were both to blame.

the good news is our new apartment is very solid and sturdy, we found this out on the first night when we walked in the front door and gu yiran threw me bodily up against the wall and proceeded to [redacted] me. he says that as a true scientist he has to keep conducting ongoing tests to ensure the structural integrity of our domicile and i'm not entirely sure what that means but as long as he keeps slamming me up against things honestly does it really matter.

here he is studying and looking very handsome and also cute. when he catches me taking photos of him studying, he hits me and tries to get the camera away from me, i don't mind because when he starts hitting me it's sort of funny and also easy to tickle him. it turns out gu yiran is very ticklish, and when he starts laughing and his glasses fall off and his hair gets messed up he looks even cuter and then we usually forget about studying or taking pictures or hitting or tickling.

well that's about all the news from halan. there are always new drugs and new dealers trying to make money off them so we stay pretty busy. director gao says i can't say anymore about that because it's official police business but i will tell you that even though we have a new office and a bunch of new recruits from the academy, i still miss the old cafeteria, and uncle bringing noodles and bao for the team.

PS gu yiran says he wants to get a cat. at first i wasn't sure it was a good idea considering his track record with houseplants, but then i thought about it and decided i don't mind being the one who mostly takes care of the cat. after all i do a pretty good job with xiao ran.

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ahahahaha i'm obsessed w/ this running joke in the show that the task force in sheng city is copying what our team in halan is doing ... down to having the other members of the sheng city task force look like OUR GUYS!

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wip wednesday

The team drifts obediently over to take their seats around the table. Ding Guozhu shoots Gu Yiran a worried look that unsettles him. Gu Yiran sits down with something tight and anxious in the pit of his stomach. Even after they’ve gathered, Zheng Bei stands alone at the head of the table, hands clenched, hands bowed. “Captain Zheng,” says Director Gao, voice going uncharacteristically firm for a moment, “could we get started?” 

Zheng Bei jolts, then masters himself. “Director Gao,” he says, “thank you for joining us today.” His voice is strangely solemn. He sounds like someone else, like he’s reading from a script. His gaze is fixed somewhere above everyone’s head. “It’s been my honor to lead this task force for the last two and a half months, and now that this case has closed I’m grateful now that this task force can be disbanded.” Gu Yiran stops listening. It all makes sense now — how reluctant Zheng Bei had been to bring up anything about the case whenever he was visiting in the hospital, how tense Zheng Bei had been this morning, why he’d been drinking last night. They’re staring down the barrel of the end of everything, and again, Gu Yiran is the last to figure it out.  Gu Yiran doesn’t hear anything else for a while, not until Director Gao comes around the table to stand beside Zheng Bei at the head of it and says, “— and Gu-laoshi’s expertise in these new drug products, and all the hours he’s put into analysis —” To the side of Director Gao’s clasped hands, there’s one last pile of unfiled paperwork, with a blue folder peeking out of the middle.   Gu Yiran jolts back into his body, and somehow he’s already standing. “Director Gao,” Gu Yiran hears himself say, unnecessarily, because Director Gao is already staring at him. “The case can’t be closed yet.” He’s speaking too loudly. “Gu-laoshi?” Director Gao asks, frowning. “Is there some kind of problem?”

from the fourth draft of this fic! things are finally getting tense :)))))))))))))))))))

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THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 + Popcorn.

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THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 + The Sausage.

BONUS:

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THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 + Surveillance.

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middle of the night (and you're not here) (9k) by lunarriviera fandom: 雪迷宫 | The First Shot rating: explicit warnings: no warnings apply relationships: Gu Yiran/Zheng Bei tags: Post-Canon, Pining, Masturbation Interruptus, Gu Yiran's Life Is Very Difficult, Xiaoguang is fine because I said so, Getting Together, First Time, sorry for being this way, It will probably continue summary: Gu Yiran has a serious problem.

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something that touches back by lunarriviera fandom: 雪迷宫 | The First Shot (TV) rating: E words: 13.7k warnings: no archive warnings apply relationships: Gu Yiran/Zheng Bei characters: Ding Guozhu, Zhang Xueyao, Zheng Nan, Zheng Bei's father, Zheng Bei's mother, Zhao Xiaoguang, Xin Tiegang tags: Gu Yiran POV, post-canon, first time, getting together, there was only one bed, police, undercover, arguing, crime fighting, angst and hurt/comfort, team as family, family feels, idiots in love

Gu Yiran had taken everything off the situation board that morning, and boxed it all up for the archives. There was one photo he kept, ripped in half. He thought Zheng Bei might want it back, later. Zheng Bei’s face is drawn and his eyes are haunted. He's hardly spoken since he woke up. Gu Yiran hates it. He doesn’t know what to do, to make it alright again.

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wip wednesday

There’s a quiet murmur of sound in the room, movement and conversation. Gu Yiran waits, lets it wash over him until he can make sense of it. Two people speaking in low voices, the occasional lilt into a question before the sound dips back down into [murmuring]. Ding Guozhu, and Zhang Xiaoguang. The quiet metal sound of a thermos opening, and Ding Guozhu’s voice cuts out for a moment.  Zheng Bei’s voice isn’t there.  Neither is Yaoyao’s, Gu Yiran reminds himself.   It’s only that — The last thing Gu Yiran remembers, concretely, with any certainty, is Zheng Bei. The look on Zheng Bei’s face, bursting in through the door, the way his expression changed when he saw Gu Yiran, something almost frantic in his eyes. The very last thing Gu Yiran remembers is the shape of Gu Yiran’s name in Zheng Bei’s mouth — not Gu-laoshi, for once, but Gu Yiran. To Gu Yiran’s right, the door to the hospital room unlatches.  Ding Guozhu and Zhang Xiaoguang’s conversation quiets as the door swings open. First, Yaoyao’s voice, “I bet you’re all starving! Lao Jiu—” and then footsteps coming toward Gu Yiran’s hospital bed, too light and quick to be Zheng Bei’s. There’s a hurried shushing from the corner. The door closes too fast to admit a second person.  Gu Yiran’s eyes are already open. He’s already disappointed.

from the third draft! hopefully the penultimate draft - at least the one scene i have drafted feels like it's only about a draft worth of revision from being done, so i'm optimistic. i'm trying a new thing where i am simultaneously constructing the "outline" / very chaotic list of events by scene for the third draft while also starting to write it. i think i'm liking it so far.

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wip wednesday

Gu Yiran is still thinking about the dinner when he and Zheng Bei get back to Zheng Bei’s apartment, as they’re going through their nighttime routines.

The group’s conversation had turned, expectedly, to everyone’s plans after the case closed. Lao Jiu’s official retirement would be at the end of the month, and after that he had traveling plans with his granddaughter. Ding Guozhu and Zhao Xiaoguang were both traveling back to their respective hometowns for a week, and had spent a good portion of dinner fretting over how to avoid telling their parents about the more unsavory aspects of this case. Zhang Xueyao would take her parents out on holiday, had already bought the tickets and booked their first hotel.

Zheng Bei, Gu Yiran noticed, hadn’t volunteered anything about his own plans.

But the dinner conversation had slid right past him and refocused on Gu Yiran’s post-case plans, once he was back in Huazhou. Zheng Bei had inserted himself into the conversation then, and said, “Gu-laoshi, maybe we’ll all come visit you in Huazhou after this case closes. Even if there isn’t work for us to do together, we can all just go there for fun, right?”

Gu Yiran couldn’t imagine what Zheng Bei might find attractive about Huazhou, what might be there that he wanted to visit. Compared to Zheng Bei, there was so much less Gu Yiran could offer as a host — he doesn’t have a ready set of loyal and familiar teammates, or the warmth and welcome of a bustling family home. But it was easier to play along, to agree, to believe, just for that moment, that any of them would still remember or want to visit after this case ended and the immediate bonds of intense collaborative work had faded. And so, Gu Yiran had merely said, “Of course I’d be glad to have you all,” and smiled, and carefully had not met Zheng Bei’s eyes.

a slightly longer snippet from draft 3.5 (-_-) of the beiran fic bc alas i think this section is going to die in this round of revisions and i quite like it!

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well i've decided ding guozhu knits. why? i dont know he needs a hobby

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oh my god, the narrative inevitability and irony of gu yiran letting li wenlong go in episode 29 is destroying me (in a good way). like, earlier in the show, gu yiran is one we see pulling zheng bei aside after they find out that jiang xiaohai is lele is qing yi's godson. gu yiran is the one that stares zheng bei down and forces him to answer, aloud, whether he'll be able to put aside his personal ties to do his job as a police officer. gu yiran is the one that stands there and nods approvingly when zheng bei says, i will pick doing the right thing over my personal relationship to lele. but gu yiran never answered that himself!

i'd been wondering why, when we finally see gu yiran confess his true reason for taking this case and coming to halan, when he says, so quietly, you must think me selfish, why it was ding guozhu who was so effusive with his rebuttal, why we only say zheng bei say, we know the kind of person you are. that seemed so churlish and unexpectedly reserved, coming from zheng bei. but i think this moment in episode 29 is why! in this critical moment, zheng bei shows up to the aftermath of gu yiran facing li wenlong down, sees li wenlong jump the window and gu yiran just staring after him, yanks gu yiran's handgun from him to count the bullets and sees they're all still there, and has his — most well-hidden doubts? deepest and unwanted fears? — confirmed: in the moment when it matters, gu yiran will pick his personal goals over the greater good.

like oh goddddd we've had this aspect of gu yiran's character foreshadowed for like, ten episodes! just because gu yiran knows about it doesn't mean he can help it! this is so delicious to me!!!!!!!

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WE WERE ROBBED OF DING GUOZHU PRETENDING TO BE A FIRE SAFETY INSPECTION OFFICER WHILE PLANTING BUGS IN LIANG JIAJU'S OFFICE??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭