#i assume he's gonna get a post-wedding hairstyle soon

[lunarriviera]

thrilling update: i am now on episode 17, got baited by guangguang dancing in his douyins and didn't realize he was in X NINE WITH XIAO ZHAN, ruan nanzhu really IS an idol. also i tripped and fell and may have read 1200 pages of kaleidoscope of death in 3 days, listen accidents happen. here is what i have discovered since then (spoilers!)

apparently when you meet the love of your life, you just go ahead and give him a wedding ring on the very first night. is this in lieu of stabbing him in the earlobe with a ruby stud? idk yet. tag urself i'm the fujoshi guy in the back with the awestruck look on his face

ah yes, letting yourself into your shou's bedroom and watching him sleep, typical wholesome gong behavior, love that for qiushi

pls look at these nerds leaving their very first door together, behold the helpless utterly lovesick look on ruan nanzhu's face. i don't know why this fabulous drag queen who flounces around in fabulous jackets looking fabulous at all times has fallen for a dumbass video-game-playing straight boy whose jeans are about 8 sizes too big for him, but fallen he has. lin qiushi (sorry i refuse to use their stupid drama names) meanwhile is the most oblivious fucking science major on the face of the planet. he suffers from a lethal case of wu xie syndrome, everyone loves him and no one is even really sure why.

me, aloud: oh honey we don't really have time to get into all that now

imagine drinking this much vinegar about your own damn self

bodies dropping all around them, blood flying everywhere, newbies screaming passing out and throwing up yet ruan nanzhu ignores it all and instead takes every available opportunity to gaze at qiushi like he'll die if he's not in direct eyesight. lingling remains painfully clueless and i can't wait for his stupid little heterosexual heart to shatter into a million pieces (i've heard the opening theme song okay i know it's gonna get sad this is not my first rodeo cdrama). also xia zhiguang is honestly just fucking crushing it. all that repressed tsundere yearning, his eyes are huge wounded pools of pain, i want to stand up and applaud after every scene.

did ruan nanzhu literally just say "your pussy belongs to me," yes in fact he did

the two genders: math gay and theatre gay. also i love how you can just tell nanzhu uses encapsulated retinol every night while qiushi washes his face with shower water

in conclusion here is ruan nanzhu looking on adoringly after lin qiushi has basically shouted at a village full of npcs until they capitulated out of embarrassment and apologized to a little girl. just yelled them all into shame. lingling is on an empathetic ghost-saving mission and he cannot be stopped, yes nanzhu he IS sensitive and YOU LOVE IT.

apologies to you all but i WILL update again after another dozen or so episodes; i assume lin qiushi will continue to be an idiot and play sudoku on his phone and not pay attention until [redacted] happens, and then he's gonna lose his goddamn tiny mind, i honestly CANNOT WAIT. in the meantime thank you for all your fic but especially @sunriseverse and @orchisailsa who have kept me sane, 再见—

yes i have started watching the spirealm yes huang junjie is styled like the beautiful lesbian that he is yes i am taking questions at this time but only about huang junjie's styling as a beautiful lesbian

although 1. why have they dubbed him 2. international crimes against hair have been committed but ok

also i'm sorry but chinese genre show OST lyrics just k*ll me, they're so FLOWERY and the contrast is just skjdhfkj, like ruan nanzhu: [stragnels an evil lady with extreme prejudice] MEANWHILE lyrics: 🎶"…in the transitooooory sea of existeeeeence!" 🎶

in conclusion (but only for now unfortunately) this drama is already excessively Gay and Tragic and i've only seen about 8.5 minutes of it byeeeee