#li yan

[devdas5z]

Li Yan

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Guardian | S01E40

Chinese Drama - 2018, 40 episodes

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Native Title: #镇魂

Genres: #Fantasy

Tags:  #Censored Adaptation of Same-sex Original Work #Bromance

Cast: #Bai Yu #Zhu Yi Long #Li Yan #Jiang Ming Yang #Xin Peng

[marquisguyun]

有翡 | LEGEND OF FEI (2020)

Li Yan being a pampered menace for @cynical-harlequin

A @cdrama-action prompt fill

[minnarr]

48 STRONGHOLDS TRIO: LI SHENG, LI YAN, ZHOU FEI

— @asiandramanet creator bingo - layout

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[a-sea-with-no-shores]

No gifs because today has been a Routine Medical Procedures Still Suck kind of day but I am kind of impressed by how this set of originally unconnected side characters in "Legend of Fei" has evolved so far:

1. Li Yan: a gremlin. (the little sister no one wants, kind of annoying, professional fake-crier/brat, somehow part of an important martial arts family but not really that into it, thinks snakes are cute, honestly just needs something to do)

2. Yang Jin: a gremlin. (aspiring himbo, kind of annoying, obsessively good at martial arts, somehow a medicine sect leader but doesn't know anything about medicine, mildly snakephobic, sort of confused at how to do the right thing but trying?)

Because Li Yan's not very responsible sometimes and Yang Jin is not too bright when he really really really wants to fight some new cool jianghu star he's heard about, Li Yan winds up in a kind of Ransom of Red Chief situation with Yang Jin.

While supposedly being a kidnapping victim, A-Yan (right) yells at Yang Jin (left) for practicing too loudly at night, and then makes him go buy her snacks (NB: at no time was she ever actually unable to get out of this situation)

Later, Yang Jin keeps bumping into Li Yan for reasons, only half of which are because he wants to make sure she's OK, and it's becoming clear to everyone that this pair is THE TWO MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, TOGETHER AT LAST FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. Maybe it's meant to be?? BUT! THEN!

They bump into

3. Ying He Cong: a gremlin. (annoying poison otaku, itinerant poison doctor, confused by a world full of rude people who don't understand his sincere interest in putting in dibs on poisoned corpses, has a lot of pet snakes on his person at all times)

When we get the three together chaos ensues, from initial suspicions and snake-snatching (and snake-hiding-from) to Ying He Cong and Yang Jin debating over who's going to test the poison and antidote THIS time OH SHIT IT'S A-YAN DON'T LET HER SEE IT OR SHE'LL DEFINITELY CHUG IT LOOK NORMAL SAY SOMETHING NORMAL

(These 2 barely know each other at this point and Ying He Cong barely knows Li Yan at this point, and yet! the dynamics...!)

I'm not even going to tell you what these two dumbasses are doing in the below scene. Well, OK, they're trying to hold a sachet between their faces, which is the most ridiculous solution possible to their problem unless they just really want to squish their heads together for some reason.

But it's because Li Yan needs the braincell, you see. (The guys are in the background.) I have cropped out the spoiler (?).

I'm just. I know they're going to get broken up because it's inevitable but I kind of adore these three. GREMLIN4GREMLIN4GREMLIN

[gabrielokun]

[electricsoul-rpg]

fc: Zhou Jieqiong (周洁琼) / Kyulkyung

ethnicity: Han Chinese

[disabled-battlekukku]

They're putting chemicals in the water that's making the chinese gay!

[chengyi]

200701 | Stand By Me Weibo

[divineandmajesticinone]

FANGS OF FORTUNE (2024)

– What's this? It looks pretty. – This is not a hairpin.

[haifoct]

I simply wanted to share this hilarious moment of Yan An (Li Lun) dunking on Li Lun, while Chen Duling (Wen Xiao) and Tian Jiarui (Zhuo Yichen) look visibly confused and offended by it.

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Guardian | S01E02

Chinese Drama - 2018, 40 episodes

~ Episode List ~ |  ~ Chinese Drama Master List ~

[lost-sheep]

I would burn the world to bring some heat to you

[ajaxbell]

Fangs of Fortune (Bai Ze Ling): perfect on pure aesthetics alone, but also it will tear your heart out while being very gay.

I was lured in to this show by Tumblr gifsets and friends on Bluesky talking about how queer and poly this show is. I'm old and I've been in fandom more than half my life. I know how to read queer subtext. I'm also pretty well versed in cdramas, so again, I know how to read subtext. So I went into this ready to, well, read the subtext.

But no this show is just puts the queer it right there in the text. The vague information we have about Chinese censorship repeatedly left me asking, 'wait how are they getting away with this?' Like some of these jokes and implications are just so blatant it seems incredible this show ever made it to being broadcast. It just feels very much like queer media made for queer people even if t's more subtle than something western like Queer as Folk.

Even without the heavy coloring of gay this show is incredible and so much more than I expected from the title and the promo. The premise is essentially the death of the goddess, who governed relations between humans and demons, leads to an influx of demons in the human world. This brings together the goddess's disciple, Wen Xiao--seeking to restore the goddess's power. WX's childhood sweetheart, Zhuo Yichen--seeking to restore the demon-hunting bureau after the powerful demon Zhu Yan killed his father and brother. It opens on Zhu Yan, in human disguise as as Zhao Yuanzhou, volunteering to help the imperial court restore the demon-hunting bureau to quell the chaos. They are joined by Pei Sijing, a retired female general from the rival demon hunting sect, and a very young doctor (and comic relief) named Bai Jiu. It starts off as a sort of monster-of-the-week with a grim Scooby gang doing detective work and fighting monsters. Each major demon has a mini arc that relates to the larger case (restoring the power of the goddess to balance the realms), and they are repeatedly blocked by either the demons or the rival demon hunting sect. Each mini arc also acts as a mirror or parallel story to slowly revealed backstory of all the main characters as well. In true cdrama fashion it's a mix of adventure, intense emotional drama, romance, and comedy. And queer and poly jokes and romance. It also has a kind of manga vibe in the way the comedy is woven into the more serious story, and in the fantastical depiction of the characters and how the story unfolds.

It is also just insanely beautiful. Every single shot is lovely. The costumes, make up, and hair are incredible. The casting director made all the major demons inhumanly beautiful. The sets are spectacular. The effects are nicely done. Every bit of has the vague surreality of a fairytale. The perfection of each shot ads to the manga vibe, as if we're seeing each critical storytelling panel come alive. There's recurring water-based special effects that are just gorgeous. Based on aesthetics alone this show would be worth watching to me. That it is combined with a complex, very emotional story is a spectacular gift to the watcher. A lot of the negative reviews of this complain about the staginess or that it's overly contrived in how each scene is shot. But I think it's gorgeous, works perfectly with the storytelling, and if we criticize art on whether it achieves the goal it intended then this show is doing exactly and perfectly what it means to do and doing it beautifully.

Additionally the acting is also very good, but Neo Hou is the stand out for sure. I enjoyed him in Back from the Brink, especially the later part of the story, but in Fangs of Fortune he's transformed, utterly embodying the role, the way Dylan Wang is Dongfang Qingcang in Love Between Fairy and Devil. Neo Hou has the right look, a slightly uncanny beauty perfect for a gorgeous immortal not of this world. The show does incredible things with his styling between the various looks and personas the role requires. But in acting he somehow manages to utterly transform his face and demeanor to manifest each aspect of the character as story demands changes from him.

There is a lot of crying in this drama. Like early on I joked that there was going to be a character crying a single perfect tear in every ep. Lol nope. Multiple single perfect tears per ep and many outright full on sobbing scenes. This show is just waiting to rip your heart out and you see it right from the beginning. But it was such sweet pain all the way through. Just a truly engaging and utterly wrenching set of intertwined stories.

My only criticism is that the pacing falls apart in the last 3 episodes. But overall the story is solid through the end, though like so many cdramas, it's saved by the epilogue.

You should absolutely watch it if you want the chaotic bi polycule (it's her, her girlfriend, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's boyfriend who is also her boyfriend, their two idiot sons, and her boyfriend's ex-who is also eventually sort of his boyfriend again), or if you want your heart torn out and stomped on. Or even if you just like really gorgeous cinematic things. Also if you watch, please don't skip the ending credits, as they change as the arcs change, and the radiant joy Tian Jiarui has as he dances is an excellent antidote to the emotions of each episode.

[la-muerta]

[ENG SUB] Deleted lines from the script, Li Lun and Zhao Yuanzhou/Zhu Yan, EP04 & EP33

I don't know what their source for the audio is but the deleted lines are from the original script. This vid edit was made by 诹拾 on Bilibili.

[gabrielokun]