#had nothing and no one to mourn him ... just AAAAGGHHH!!! 'my name was liu sang' like no i'm not emotionally compromised rn why do you ask?
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okay i was WAITING but my god, the viscerality of it!!!
Gao Bai hung transfixed in midair, writhing like a pinned beetle. His hands came up to scrabble helplessly – convulsively – at the red-smeared stone protruding from his chest. His lips worked, but it was not words that came out but blood, vomited with the last unspent air from shattered lungs, a brilliant crimson rush that bloomed and dripped down chin and cheek. He gave one convulsion, heaving against the stone as if to free himself, then relaxed, blankness drifted like clouds across the surface of his eyes. His hands fell away. His wide-splayed limbs twitched spasmodically – once, twice – then stilled.
Gao Bai was dead.
like this is an incredible description, but also: you didn't have to go THIS HARD!!
Intersection - Chapter 19
Fandom: DMBJ / The Lost Tomb Reboot
Relationships: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling/Liu Sang, established Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling, Iron Triangle
Summary: An alternate universe where five-year-old Liu Sang never escaped the human traffickers but was instead trained to have his special talents used by the highest bidder. Fifteen years later, the Iron Triangle are forced into a troubling collaboration.
Read Chapter 19 on AO3
#OK!!! ok so I'M crying#like the the tags were scaring me AND reassuring me but they didn't cushion the impact at all#i would swear but i'm still sniffly and i kind of have whiplash!!!#like it was action-adventure & xiaoge kicking ass in seconds -'and the knowledge that all this time death had been hovering at his shoulder'#and then suddenly it's like heavy-hitting emotional moments and Huli and everything coming to a head and#it all happened SO FAST i am still reeling - Huli realizing they mean to trade the jade for HIM#like he can literally *hear* how much xiaoge wants to end gao bai but that he's holding off BECAUSE OF HULI#the way that even physically affects him - like he doesn't even seem to spend a second on the idea that wu xie & co. might want to use him#the way he has been - he KNOWS they're making a choice not a ... purchase and that gives him the impetus to say all the things he's been#holding inside for /years/ like how you describe the *relief* in him how this weight of being 'property' has pressed on him even more than#being under threat of losing his life and how what he says to wu xie illustrates that - that the chance to speak his mind to STRIKE BACK to#be SEEN and treated as a *person* who *mattered* to know that in the end HE was someone who was cared for and respected while gao bai#had nothing and no one to mourn him ... just AAAAGGHHH!!! 'my name was liu sang' like no i'm not emotionally compromised rn why do you ask?#AND THE KISS!!! and the salute and *collapse* in xiaoge's arms - like if i did not know that this is a series my god i would be cursing you#whew! ok trying to calm down bc i do want to say this was some gorgeous gorgeous scene-setting - the description of the coffin and the jade#was just so sumptuous i loved it and could picture it so clearly - and the little side details that make everything feel so fleshed out like#the mercenary whonwas crying or the minutiae of them disabling the traps how they know from experience not to get sloppy and rush once#the goal is in sight - and if that didn't tip gao bai off that they're the types to bud their time for revenge i swear he was so obsessed#and let me express my admiration for the decision to have huli himself trigger gao bai's much deserved destruction via his own choice and#actions! no one else is to blame - it was his decision to save wu xie and fight off gao bai and i think that was insanely sexy of him as a#writing direction - the way it comes back to the theme of self-determination and everyone making their own choices and respecting those of#the others - wu xie choosing huli; huli choosing to trust wu xie; xiaoge and pangzi choosing to accept wu xie's choice and choosing huli on#their own as well after seeing how he is and what he's dealt with - just ALL of these amazing caring choices this underpinning to such a#huge action-packed tomb exploration story! it just boggles me and thrills me at the same time it'#s SO GOOD!!! and also like now i'm STILL in horrible suspense bc not only am i stuck on HOW???!??? will the fic tag be fulfilled but ..#the johannes guy came back zombied?? does this mean the other mercenaries ... ?? that the thing that makes anyone who dies in the tomb ...#it's still going??? so ... HULI??!! or the prince even??!! like i guess xiaoge can chop up the others and gao bai can't climb back up ..??#you sure know how to leave us in suspense even with ALL the reassurances my god!! (plus kinda going all in on the horror with some of it 😨)#so now i'm biting my fingernails for ... but also like eagerly anticipating??? ... the next chapter bc i REALLY REALLY want to see#the completion of this part of huli's arc .. like i am desperate to see the emotional fallout of all of this -plus the houdini-like suspense
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