#li Xiangyi

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He’s dead btw

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[shenzhiheng]

Fanghua + Calling for A-Fei (and the one time it wasn't needed)

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Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful... or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other? [insp]

Li Xiangyi & Li Lianhua | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

For @mysteriouslotuscasebookweek prompt, Day 4: grief

[lianhuajing]

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Mysterious Lotus Casebook | pov: there are only 2 beds

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You used to be quite arrogant and very talented. You made a lot of friends, but few of them were true friends... Later something big happened and you ended up all alone.

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[where-the-water-flows]

ok so I keep coming back to an au where like.

Instead of faking his death, Shan Gudao fakes Li Xiangyi's death, and still blames the Jinyuan alliance for it.

(and, because, y'know, what's the point of winning if you don't have anyone to see it, stashes poor Li Xiangyi in a convenient dungeon somewhere. if you don't start with your own captive audience, a shidi is fine.)

Shan Gudao thus becomes the head of the Sigu Sect, bc...like, he is second in command, and now he's got 1)prestige and 2)time to work on his ultimate goal of Becoming Emperor Of Everything Ever. Probably does the occasional 'expedition' to 'search' for his beloved shidi's 'missing body', by which I mean go and update poor captive Li Xiangyi on whatever new terrible step in the 'take over the world plan' he's up to, and/or do a bit of torture, psychological or otherwise.

Di Feisheng, on the other hand, is fully losing his shit trying to work out what in the actual fuck happened to Li Xiangyi, because someone has clearly murdered him. And on the one hand, he's now, kinda, the top of the jianghu, and on the other, he hasn't exactly earnt that, has he, and winning by default doesn't fucking count, that's not skill, that's random luck.

And sure, literally everyone in the damn world is out for his head because of the whole ' "murdered" Li Xiangyi' thing, but that's 1)more fights to test his skill in 2)not the point, he has to find out who Really murdered Li Xiangyi, if that means mowing through every idiot stupid enough to get in his way when he can't just lay low, so be it. (A surprising number of people are thrown off by a mask.)

all of which is to say: in this world the kinda sketchy and mysterious guy wandering the jianghu on a quest to find a corpse that Fang Duobing latches onto is Di Feisheng, who-- is initially tolerating this idiot in part because he's Li Xiangyi's disciple, which means he has just as much interest as Di Feisheng does in working out what the fuck actually happened a decade ago, and in part because --

well. ten years of looking for a dead man, let alone a famous dead man like Li Xiangyi, is an awful long time to find nothing at all. a suspiciously long time, really, like there's not actually a dead man to find.

like Li Xiangyi is still alive.

[miaoyincourt]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Li Lianhua/Yi Xiangyi & Di Feisheng 9/?

MLC 1 | MLC 2 | MLC 3 | MLC 4 | MLC 5 | MLC6 LLH 1 | LLH 2 | LLH 3 FDB 1 | FDB2 DFS 1 | DFS 2| DFS3 JLQ 1 JLQ 2 | JLQ 3 FEIHUA 1 | FEIHUA 2 | FEIHUA 3 | FEIHUA 4 | FEIHUA 5 | FEIHUA 6 | FEIHUA 7 OT3

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Commission for @the-wintry-mizzenmast

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I built one of the Mysterious Lotus Casebook model scenes!

You may remember that I built the Lotus Tower model kit last year, and made some modifications to it:

(More about new additions to that model in another post!)

So it's probably no surprise that I also an addition of my own to this kit in the form of some tiny model lights. I love the idea that they could be fireflies accompanying Li Lianhua down the river or souls escorting him to reincarnation.

Progress pics below:

You may be able to guess from its size, that this model came together pretty quickly. Assembling the table together with both the boat and LLH was the trickiest bit:

I love all the small details, though, even if the curves were quite intimidating.

In order to wire it up with the tiny lights, I actually made very little irreversible changes to the model itself.

The base is a hollow space, as you can see bellow, so I used a hole that was intended to hold one of the lotuses to instead thread the lights up through the base to the scene. The lotus in question was meant to be positioned behind the boat, and so wouldn't actually be seen at all - perfect for hiding most of the wiring.

Then, in order to secure the battery pack to the back of the model, I cut off a small portion of one of the tabs that help fit the bottom piece in place. This effectively made a hole right at the bottom of the model for the wires to pass through. And that was all it took!

I stuck everything down with tape so it can be removed easily and without damage should I want to remove the lights at all, or make my messy wiring more respectable 😅

I'm really pleased with how it turned out!

Although you can see the wires around the boat when the lights are off, when the lights are on it pretty much achieves the floaty, ethereal effect I was going for:

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"Do you think my master might be in hiding, under an alias?" — Fang Duobing to Li Lianhua, who is in fact his master who's in hiding under an alias

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (莲花楼) Episode 21

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