#li xun x zhu yun

[dramaism]

zhu yun: 3

li xun: 0

Lighter & Princess (2022)

[baifengxis]

lighter and princess rewatch ━ challenge vs. @zhoufeis ˋ°•*⁀➷ episode 13. aired nov. 09, 2022.

[zhoufeis]

点燃我，温暖你 LIGHTER & PRINCESS China, 2022.

[kestrel-of-herran]

welcome to lighter & princess

a guide by kestrel-of-herran

[stonesarehavingapartyundermyfoot]

I am still emotionally damage by watching Lighter and Princess. It’s really hard to move forward so I am looking throught the tag, trying to cope with my too many feelings. If gifset maker could be kind enough to make more gifs about them, I would be eternally grateful (I can only imagine how long it must take to make a gifset and how many hours you spent doing it and I clearly don’t have the skills for doing it myself).

A few ideas I may have in my head…

Them taking care of each other (giving her his ice cream, bringing him food, covering her/him with a blanket, trying to block the wind with her body so he doesn’t wake up)

Casual touch

Them being married without being married (him clutching her hand when he is in the hospital, her playing with his shirt, him being protective of her, her defending him)

Just them bickering

The scene where she is taking care of him after he went to the hospital and he can’t hide anything from her

Feeling free to add anything or to come talk to me, we are in this together.

[ihateamor]

[palehorsemen]

[wingardiumleviosarrr]

lighter and princess gown (novel) by twentine SPOILERS AHEAD

so, bcs I'm obviously deprived of l&p contents I decided to read the original novel which still doesn't have an official english translation yet (the one I found stopped translating at ch 36 years ago), so i just used google translate from the original book in chinese (which was a mess bcs of that, but I was that desperate). twentine's book itself is exceptional. although my interpretation might be wrong because of the translation, I got the gist and found major differences from the show, so if you've read the book and you're fluent or native in chinese, please cmiiw.

read ahead if u don't mind spoilers:

1. the show romanticised li xun's character so much more than the original li xun from the book. (STOP READING HERE IF U WANNA KEEP HIS IMAGE FROM THE SHOW). if u think li xun in the show was cold as a fridge, he's the whole antartica continent in the novel. and he didn't treat zhu yun nicely, he was actually rather harsh to her not only verbally, but also physically (he tend to pinch her neck and waist and intimidate her in a way that made me uncomfortable)

2. the book tried to justify his character through his family upbringing, which was much more unfortunate and miserable than in the show. he was a bastard child and was bullied, basically was a puching bag of the family, esp. his step brothers. his dad was a total dick. other than his miserable, dying birth mother, li lan (his step-sis) was the only one who treated him like a human.

3. he was sexist and he literally laughed while telling people that he only like chicks with IQ lower than 60. he fooled around those women a lot. it's probably to brought up that zhu yun was the antithesis, but I dunno. it still doesn't sit right with me how he derogate women.

3. his titular lighter name was actually not bcs he had an emotional attachment to his father's lighter, but rather bcs he's a heavy smoker thus he brought a lighter with him everywhere he goes. (zhu yun was a smoker as well bcs of her trauma regarding xiaoyan, fang zhi jing, and her mom)

4. until the end, he never got zhu yun's parents' approval (and it's not bcs he cheated on exams like in the show, zhu yun's mother was just judgmental af for no actual reason at all - before li xun proved her 'right' by going to prison)

5. they did the deeds right after the confession.

6. fang zhi jing was the main villain until the end, gao jianhong just wasn't as significant as in the show.

7. they had 3 kids, and although it's not shown, it's implied that his character indeed became warmer over time.

[capitanelectra]

Lighter and Princess is beautiful.

I've never expected that the weight of a casual sentence would become so heavy. I didn't get what Li Xun ment. I thought that this moment was the beginning of our happiness. I didn't expect it was the end of everything.

Don't give up.

I won't let you.

I started reading the novel and then...

Zhu Yun describing Li Xun as walking lightbulb stole my heart. Her inner thoughts and remarks are priceless.

[codango]

okay, someone help out the ignorant…

what's the significance of the paper airplane release in episode 4 of Lighter and Princess? i'm guessing it's some kind of pun or something, given that Zhu Yun's performance was in crosstalk, but i def don't get it.

also…the paper planes were added by Li Xun, right? They weren't an original part of Zhu Yun's performance, yeah?

*what do the paper airplanes meeeeeaaaannnn???*

[dramaism]

What am I responsible for? You're responsible for worrying and I'm responsible for getting everything done.

[baifengxis]

favorite quotes from chinese dramas ♥ [2/?] 人生若只如初见 如果人死的时候 真有走马灯的环节 她 大概会是我这辈子 见的最后一个人

LIGHTER AND PRINCESS 点燃我，温暖你 [2022] EPISODE 36

[zhoufeis]

lighter and princess rewatch ━ challenge vs. @baifengxis ˋ°•*⁀➷ episode 13. aired nov. 09, 2022.

He died in a car accident when I was very young. When I was in high school, we had to sell our house and I found it under my wardrobe. My mom said that my dad was a truck driver. He used to be a heavy smoker. Shortly after I had been born, he asked my mom to hide the lighter somewhere he couldn't find, so he wouldn't smoke at home anymore whenever he wanted to. Later on, to earn more money, he engaged in long-distance transport. However, he was killed on site in an accident.

[sombredancer]

Asian dramas and Love tropes

There are my favorite characters and their love stories as a list. Enemies to lovers

Drama: Her Royal Highness/长公主在上 Characters: Gu Xuanqing x Li Yunzhen Screentime: Main A boy is sent to be a servant in the unruly princess`s palace in order to find some dirt about her and to help his master to overthrown her, but something goes wrong... The HE is attached.

Drama: The Legends/招摇 Characters: Li Chenlan x Lu Zhaoyao Screentime: Main A leader of a demonic sect died trying to get demonic sword. Her soul returns to the world full of wish to get revenge on the current leader of her sect, who, as she thinks, killed her in the past. Found the way to be close to him, she learns that he wasn't the reason of her death and, moreover, desperately in love with her for many-many years. This is an adaptation of the novel "Ostentatious Zhaoyao", which I love more than a drama, but it's a good story in both variants. The HE is attached (although it`s a little bit obscure in the drama).

Drama: Till the End of the Moon/ 长月烬明 Characters: Tantai Jin x Li Susu Screentime: Main A boy who is destined to become a Demon God and to destroy the World tries to fight his doom. In a process, he falls in love with a transmigrator, who was sent 500 years back in the past to prevent his transformation into a Demon God. The irony is,making him falling in love is the only way to kill him for good... It`s an adaptation of the novel "Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script", which I like way-way-way more than the drama, not the least because the drama has BE and the novel has HE. I just watched it as a visually beautiful fanfic to the novel.

Drama: Love Between Fairy and Devil /苍兰诀 Characters: Dongfang Qingcang x Xiao Lanhua Screentime: Main My favorite drama of all times! Trying to save her love, a girl accidently falls into a secret prison for immortal criminals, revives the most fearsome demon of all times and heals his ability to feel. Later, forced to spend his time together with the girl from the enemy camp, the demon finds out that he actually likes her... The HE is attached. I wrote A LOT about them and made recap of the whole drama from the point of their relationship development in these posts: one, two, three, four, five and six.

Drama: My Journey to You /云之羽 Characters: Gong Shangjue x Shangguan Qian Screentime: Secondary In order to destroy the martial artist's clan, a female assassin was sent in there. While she is trying to seduce one of clan's young masters, he tries to expose her lies, but, eventually, falls in love with her. Unrequited. Maybe. This story has an open ending. My analysis of their relationship is here.

Drama: Butterflied lover /风月变 Characters: Ling Changjin x Bao Zhu Screentime: Secondary A wicked nobleman marries a princess because of her miraculous blood: it`s able to bring his zombie sister back to life. The princess allows him to treat her bad because she has been in love with him for a long time and believes he is a good person. Bit by bit he starts believe in it himself and begins to cherish his wife more... The ending is obscure (in a traditional Chinese way).

Drama: The Blue Whisper /与君初相识 Characters: Li Shu x Xue Sanyue Screentime: Minor A cat demon prince infiltrates the valley of demon hunters in order to set free the great demoness, but falls in love with one of demon hunters. Mutually. The ending is traditionally Chinese - they met again in another life. Т_Т

Drama: Immortal Samsara / 沉香如屑 Characters: Xuan Ye x Ran Qing Screentime: Minor An Asura king infiltrates the Heavenly Realm in order to steal the artifact that can help him conquering the world. The keeper of this artefact is a brave and honest goddess and he can't help but fall in love with her. After, he needs to choose: to be with his lover or to rule the world. He wants all at once, but there is no way to get it all. No HE for this pair. Pride and Prejudice

Drama: Lighter and Princess / 点燃我 Characters: Li Xun x Zhu Yun Screentime: Main A girl from a rich family with an anxious type of attachment falls in love with her classmate from a poor family with an avoidant type of attachment and tries to win his heart. It`s a problematic ship in a full meaning of these words and I like it this way. Yummy! The HE is attached.

Drama: Derailment /脱轨 Characters: Qi Lian x Jiang Xiaoyuan Screentime: Main A boy accidently meets his school sweetheart after many years of radio silence and understands that something is wrong with her. It turns out that her body is occupied by a transmigrator from a parallel world. At first he hates transmigrator for replacing his lover, but bit by bit he learns, that a transmigrator has not only the same appearance but the same habits and way of thinking, and falls in love with this new personality again... The story ends with HE but not in a way that you may think it would.

Drama: The Love by Hypnotic /明月照我心 Characters: Li Qian x Li Mingyue Screentime: Main In order to build relationship between two countries an emperor arranges marriage for his son. His fiancée is from a barbaric tribe: she is good at horse riding and archery, but knows nothing about palace etiquette and ladies stuff. It`s a light and sweet story about finding a path to each other's heart. The HE is attached.

Drama: The Long Ballad /长歌行 Characters: Hao Du x Li Leyan Screentime: Secondary A tsundere of a low background with a poker face does his ruthless job in a court, that's why a young princess thinks he is an awful man and is scared of him. But in reality he is a loyal servant and son and, moreover, secretly in love with the princess, who can't stand him... The HE is attached.

Drama: Miss the Dragon /遇龙 Characters: Xue Qianxun x Qingqing Screentime: Secondary A very naïve bird demon girl accidently meets a tsundere god of netherworld and turns his well ordered life into havoc. He starts liking it, though. The HE is attached. Forbidden love

Drama: A Frozen Flower /쌍화점 Characters: Hong Rim x No Guk Screentime: Main A gay king needs a heir, so he forces his lover to conceive a child with a queen. In a process, a boy, who was groomed as a king's lover from his childhood, finds out that he likes women much more than men. A traditional Korean tragedy. Very beautiful and full of feelings, though. (No GIFs because they all would be erotic ones).

Drama: 100 Days My Prince /백일의 낭군님 Characters: Moo-yeon x Kim So-hye Screentime: Secondary An assassin who is working for a wicked court official is secretly in love with a wife of a crown prince, who happens to be a daughter of the killer of his parents. Forbidden love doubles! But it's mutual, unfortunately for him. It's a very beautiful and full of desperation and feelings story. No HE, we die like Koreans. More detailed story of their relationship is available here, here and here.

Drama: The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity/晴雅集 Characters: He Shouye x Zhang Ping Screentime: Secondary A woman, who is destined to restrain the undying evil within her body for eternity in solitude, falls in love with Yin-Yang master. Her love is mutual, but her lover can't be with her forever, so he leaves with her his guardian demon to brighten her loneliness. Protecting her for ever starts being the only goal of demon's life... A tragedy, but a beautiful one.

Drama: The Legends/招摇 Characters: Gu Hanguang x Shen Qianjin Screentime: Minor "The Legends" once more! The main doctor of a demonic sect is in love with a leader of a righteous sect. A girl is not allowed to love anyone, otherwise she will suffer from the poison, so he anonymously sends her packages of medicinal herbs. She is curious about anonymous sender, too. But nothing can be kept in secret forever... Unfortunately, no HE for these two. In the novel he is safe and sound, but he has no love plotline at all. So is a price of love Т_Т.

I will talk about my other favorite characters and tropes in the next post.

Also you can see: Enemies to Rivals/Lovers recipe Asian dramas and relationship dynamics (Pt. 1) Asian dramas and relationship dynamics (Pt. 2) Asian dramas and my favorite types of characters

[silviakundera]

Zhu Yun is so iconic. Any characters like her? She was so hardcore for Li Xun and I feel like I've seen a thousand male leads like her but no female leads.

She's definitely iconic and the actress did a great job at the portrayal of such memorable character in L&P. I'll be real w you that I can't think of too many love-interest male characters outside of danmei that are operating at her level (they're usually instead the ML's devoted right hand man who dies in the last act), but let's put that aside.

To find similar characters, let's break down her motivations and the dynamic she had with the ML... 🤔

has a love interest who she sincerely believes is a genius, a unique brilliant mind

she doesn't think this right away, the narrative has her buy-in and transition into becoming the modern day equivilant of his 'disciple'

repeated allusions of her being his disciple / knight, him her sworn liege

intensely protective of ML's pride and dignity

willing to devote herself to him as a follower (instead of aiming to be equal partners to him, from the start instead he is put on a pedatstol above her and she's totally fine there)

she's a narrative foil to Worst Friend Gao - who is threatened by Li Xun's talent & superiority, while she is admiring and protective of it

So where can we find this dynamic?

CEO x assistant

The Greatest Detective/Chief x constable

God x believer (The Hua Cheng Complex)

Royalty x imperial guard 👍

shizenfucker!!!!! SEDUCE YOUR MASTER YAAASSSSS QUEEN 👏 🎉🙌

If I watched more investigation/procedural genre cdramas, I'd probably have encountered more Greatest Detective male archetype with devoted follower FL. This dynamic is common for m/m ships. But this type for m/f, along with CEO x assistant, aren't my favs.

IMHO the better hit of dopamine is wuxia and xanxia disciple/master shipping and royalty/guard. Sadly there is not enough opportunities for female knights/head of the guard. But MY BODY IS READYYYYYYYY

Lighter & Princess is a modern cdrama set in IT industry but the ship vibes are actually more esteemed master/disciple and I ate it up. 😋