#lin zhaoyu

[h1mmel]

About the 7s visual novel's characters and their symbolism

Taking a break from fanfiction to infodump about my favorite thing ever, which is symbolism in etymology! Sit down because this is going to be a long one... and if you read the whole thing I applaud you and also would love to talk about your thoughts!

Lin Zhaoyu

The origin of her name is actually stated in game itself, coming from the Book of Odes- a Chinese poetry book. Meaning literally, "morning rain," it is taken from the following poem. The letters that make up her name are bolded.

蝃蝀在東、莫之敢指。

女子有行、遠兄弟父母。

朝隮于西、崇朝其雨。

女子有行、遠兄弟父母。

乃如之人也、懷昏姻也。

大無信也、不知命也。

Here is the translation of the poem:

The part about her being untrue to herself in marriage rings very true.

Li Sushang

The symbolism of Sushang's name is connected to that of multiple other characters, despite the literal meaning of it sounding quite simple on the outside. You might see her name via MTL written as "plain clothes," but it's a stark oversimplification of something that's partially lost in translation.

素 (Su) refers to plain silk which has not been dyed, or white silk.

裳 (Shang) is a dress.

The first letter of her name is shared with her mother. Between Sushang, Suyi, Lingshuang, and Su Mei, there is a correlating theme of clothing that I will touch on in each of their sections.

Qin Suyi

As she had amnesia, Suyi does not remember her birth name and was gifted a new one by Fu Hua. Following the trend of how she named Su Mei, her name was also taken from the book of odes. The word Suyi appears in two different poems- again, I've bolded it as written in both.

揚之水、白石鑿鍪。

素衣朱襮、從子于沃。

既見君子、云何不樂。

揚之水、白石皓皓。

素衣朱繡、從子于鵠。

既見君子、云何其憂。

揚之水、白石粼粼。

我聞有命、不敢以告人。

And the translation:

The second poem:

庶見素冠兮、棘人欒欒兮、勞心慱慱

兮。

庶見素衣兮、我心傷悲兮、聊與子同歸兮。

庶見素韡兮、我心蘊結兮、聊與子如一兮。

And the translation:

From the second poem, you can see the references to grief in regard to clothing. While Suyi and Sushang both have the same literal translation of their names, "plain clothes," Suyi's name also carries an additional symbolism. The second letter of her name, 衣 (Yi), refers to a robe instead of a dress, so her name refers to "a robe of colorless silk." This specific term is used in certain contexts to refer to mourning garments, as it is customary to wear white while mourning in some parts of Chinese culture.

This theme of dye is continued in other contexts, where Suyi is known among the Seven Swords as "The Blade of Ink-Dyed Incense." Additionally, her Xuanyuan sword, while known in English as Ebonstyle, is also referred to in Chinese as "Ink-Dyed Incense"- but the word for ink used is different between the two. (It is not letting me copy/paste Chinese words right now so, source: trust me bro)

To delve into my personal thoughts, I think it's so clever that Sushang is "a dress yet to be dyed," while Suyi is a mourning garment, since Sushang still has a long life ahead of her, and Suyi has passed on. Anyways please hit me with a car.

((fun fact: the last letter of Suyi's name, Yi, is shared with Raiden Mei (Yayi), hence why her name comes through MTL as "bud clothes" sometimes 😭😭))

Su Mei

We actually do not know Su Mei's birth name either! She was given a new first name by Fu Hua, and was going to be given Zhaoyu's last name (Lin), but chose to take her mother's surname instead. The reason as to why she chose (or was recommended by Fu Hua) to change her name while still remembering her birth name is unclear.

At Zhaoyu's recommendation, her name also comes from the following poem of the Book of Odes:

It is not letting me highlight the text :,) so the part of the poem that is her name is "margin of the water." Mei specifically refers to where the bank of a river meets the water.

Fun fact: Her surname Su is shared with the MANTIS Su! It is said in legend to also be the surname of Xuanyuan's descendants.

At a time where Filial Piety was of the utmost importance, her changing her surname to take her mother's surname is significant. To change your surname from your father's name could be seen the same as disowning him. At the time, women did not change their names to that of their husband when getting married, hence QIN Suyi vs LI Shen or LIN Zhaoyu vs MA Feima.

While not significant to her name itself, she continues Sushang and Suyi's clothing theme. Her ability revolves around being able to see the threads of fate and predict things that may happen. Hence, it is said about her that anything she says will come true. It's never mentioned in the text, but if you zoom in up close to this art of her, you can actually see her threads surrounding her.

From the threads plus her hair color, it makes me think of the legend of "The Red String of Fate," which is ironic being that she says she does not love anyone.

Cheng Lingshuang

Yes, she does share a surname with Cheng Lixue, but no, they are not related. Lixue was named by Fu Hua, and her surname comes from the philosopher Cheng Yi, and a saying about his disciples waiting for him in the snow, hence Lixue- Snow. Their names are so similarily themed that it's likely not a coincidence on Hua's behalf, but it's more of a homage than them actually being related.

Lingshuang means ice frost. It does not come from the Book of Odes.

To continue the talk on Filial Piety, Lingshuang is the only character to not go by her surname, either in character or on her actual dialogue name tag. She's only referred to as her full name twice, once when she is introduced as a baby, and twice when Senti is beefing with Sushang and low-key throwing shade on her master's name. Lingshuang is a character who ignores societal rules, and Filial Piety is no exception- she has no reason to care about her family or her father, so she disregards her name.

Any instance of her name being translated as "Ling Shuang" is a following mistake on HYV's localization team. (I did personally email them and they fixed it 😭😭😭) It was because the translators did not receive the context that she doesn't use her surname, so they assumed how her name was separated by first and last, as Chinese names don't have spaces between the two. If you spell her name with a space in the middle I will show up at your house at 3am.

The theme of clothes continues from her kid's as she has a loom in her house which she uses to make silk. She says that honing her fingers in such a way is also a way to hone her martial arts.

Ma... Yanqing, Feima

Ma Feima means "the horse is not a horse." He changed his name to this after getting married because he hated his past identity. It comes from "Bai Ma Fei Ma," a Chinese grammatical paradox that does not make sense in English. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't, but it means "the white horse is not a horse."

Ma means horse, and is also the most common surname within the Chinese Muslim community (specifically the Hui people.) It is used often in reference to the prophet Muhammad.

Yan means swallow, continuing Hua's bird theme.

A lot of his names and titles relate to horses. He really likes horses. A lot.

Jiang Wanxi & Wanru

These two get the smallest part because they aren't developed enough for me to GAF (I'm sorry 😭) basically their names come from a poem in the Book of Odes, which is funny since Hua isn't even the one that named them.

I hope if you read this that you enjoyed this session of Fun Facts With Mel and please tell me your thoughts. I also definitely forgot something so I might go back later and add things. Thank you for reading!

[oathofkaslana]

taixuan sect in chapter 27

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Some Things About Ma Feima (Yanqing) I Learned

And it matters to HSR Yanqing only because some people have had what they heard about Ma Feima affect their views of him even though it really SHOULDN'T imo.

The underlying point I'm trying to get at is that when we hear about parts of a story or characters we aren't familiar with, it'd be fairer to at least try to look into it more before making final judgments, especially if we only hear see memes and short summaries from a person over the internet.

If you're also interested in this topic then this will be very long, so thank you for bearing with me.

And if not, especially because you don't care or don't want to read about 7S/HI3 Yanqing then that's also fair, Ma Feima and Yanqing are different characters, and I hope you have a good day!

(NOTE: CW for the mention/discussion of a notable age gap between characters in the story. There are details surrounding that but I'd rather place this here for convenience. Look out for yourselves and stay safe!)

It's wild how many different versions of what happened in the Seven Swords visual novel, which is understandable due to its lack of official translation + not being complete (as far as I know? I am open to corrections overall). But the amount of details that go missing or are incorrect is notably large and I find this situation interesting. As mentioned, anyone who knows better (content, translation-wise, etc.), please correct me on anything if needed.

I will use some screenshots from the videos that translated the available chapters (1-2 and part of the beginning/prologue of 3, I believe). The translations are not entirely accurate so heck, I might be wrong on stuff too.

From personal experience, there were two things I heard about Ma Feima from HI3 players:

He killed his master, Fu Hua.

He cheated on his wife.

Legit, the first time I encountered these points, it was as simple as that. And I took it at face value because it understandably takes effort to look into this stuff and a lot of players from HI3 were saying it. But over time, curiosity got to me and I wanted to see the context surrounding it, and here's what I found.

However, here are some things to know about Seven Swords and Fu Hua's disciples:

The Seven in order are: Lin Zhaoyu, Su Mei, Jiang Wanxi, Jiang Wanru, Cheng Lingshuang, Ma Feima, and Qin Suyi

The present of the VN is set in 1496 while the assassination of Fu Hua was twenty years prior in 1476.

Ma Feima, despite being the 6th disciple, is the youngest.

Ma Feima's original name was Yanqing but changed it to Feima when he got older.

Qin Suyi, the 7th disciple, is Sushang's mother in both HI3 and HSR.

Lin Zhaoyu, the 1st disciple, and Ma Feima are married.

Onto the points:

He killed his master, Fu Hua.

Yes, he was involved but some attribute the plan to him. BUT he wasn't. The person who formed this plan was Su Mei, the 2nd disciple.

Supposedly, all seven disciples participated though most, if not all of them, were reluctant to do so.

They were all bothered by Fu Hua's, effective but cruel way of dealing with Honkai-infected people (She would wipe out whole villages if even ONE person was infected).

The last straw for the disciples was when Jiang Wanru, the 4th disciple, got infected.

It was in that battle that Ma Feima got the scar on his face.

Also to note, Cheng Lingshuang, the 5th disciple, was the one to get the last hit on Fu Hua.

This is a straightforward point, a lot of people know this stuff, and is probably the point that's more elaborated on. But I still wanted to mention it because, oftentimes, a lot of the credit for the plan, and sometimes the last hit is given to Ma Feima. It erases the actions of other pretty interesting characters and is simply incorrect.

Onto the second point, because this is where things get really interesting and a lot is going on.

2. Ma Feima cheated on his wife.

This has given the idea that he had an affair, cheating on his wife, Lin Zhaoyu

No, he didn't.

It is true that he was in love with Su Mei but she never loved him back and was very clear about it so in a literal-traditional sense, he didn't have an affair.

Emotionally, yeah.

It seems that he had been attached to her since he was a child.

Lin Zhaoyu seems to have always been aware of that and still pursued to marry him.

BIG NOTE: This is where I'm going to cover the age gap stuff.

One thing that I have rarely seen anyone mention is the large gap between Lin Zhaoyu and Ma Feima in age.

It's said that Lin Zhaoyu is 15 years older than Su Mei.

Supposedly, Qin Suyi was around eight years old when Fu Hua found her.

Remember, Ma Feima is the youngest of the disciples.

I wouldn't have harped as hard about the age gap if they met/didn't know each other in Ma Feima's childhood, but the disciples technically grew up together so I found it to be questionable.

For reference:

In order, that's Lin Zhaoyu, Su Mei, and Ma Feima when they were younger.

At minimum and based on all the searching and math, at minimum, Su Mei would be thirteen there, and by the 15-year age gap, Zhaoyu would have been 28 years old.

Now, based on the writing, Zhaoyu and Feima most likely got married in the twenty years between the assassination of Fu Hua and the present of Seven Swords.

The youngest Feima would've been at the assassination was seventeen years old at that point.

For the present of the story, Zhaoyu, and Su Mei are 56 years old and 41 years old respectively. Feima is likely in his thirties.

Like I said, I'm making a big point to this because, like, what the heck. That's MAJORLY concerning even if you tried to reason your way around it. Besides any potential "normal in the era" type stuff and that they got married when they were both adults, it's still a huge yikes, isn't it? Also, I've seen barely anyone mention that, and the ones I did see it from, it was when I was looking into the visual novel.

It's mostly because Yanqing is the one in HSR, he's the character that gets the most eyes. And when people only know him as a "master-killing wife cheater" without any of the context surrounding it, it's a huge shame, albeit fair if people don't want to actively look into it themselves. But because a notable chunk of players have let those perceptions have weight over an unrelated by anything but appearance, old name, and the parallel of (potentially) killing a master.

The circumstances surrounding the two are very different.

HSR Yanqing has Jing Yuan to raise and guide him safely through his early life. He's still very young and while stubborn, has a good head on his shoulders, and has a lot of potential to grow into someone strong and stable.

7S/HI3 Ma Feima on the other hand, is shown to have grown very differently from his younger self.

He is far from enjoying life, and don't get me wrong, he isn't completely innocent.

But he's completely aware and is miserable.

There's a lot more I could cover in terms of Ma Feima, his circumstances, and the things about the characters around them, but my brain is so fried lol. All-in-all, his story alongside the seven, is very...complicated.

My main thing is that, hey, maybe we should be a bit more vigilant when we learn things about characters. Beyond fiction, misinformation spreads very easily because we, understandably, take things at face value. In terms of media literacy, we see it time and time again when characters get reduced to a singular trait or a ship or get heavily misunderstood by the audience because a simplified summary will never do the context justice.

[deathbxnny]

HSR!Yanqing x a Lin Zhaoyu!EXP!Reader bc we can agree that OG/HI3D!Yanqing was not a good person and Zhaoyu deserved a better version.

"Lin Zhaoyu is a very serene, soothing and polite person, able to address situations without overreacting or panicking. She is obedient, listening to every order her master (Fu Hua, or in HSR Marshal Hua) asks, but despite this she still questions if those corrupted (Honkai in OG, Mara in HSR) can have mercy. She is also kind, buying gifts for her fellow peers, and helping others even though she has no reason to help them at all." <– Her personality ^^

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A/N: Admittedly, I barely remember that part of the story arc, because it's been a very long time since I've gone through it. So I'm very thankful for your description! And I also thank you for the request!<33

Content: Fluff, established relationship, mentions of battle/fights, sfw

Reader has no set pronouns!

((Not fully proofread))

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Yanqing was always so impressed with everything you did. You handled everything with care and peace, never once losing your composure. He always admired to be more like you, even if you told him that there was no need. You fell in love with him for who he was and didn't want him to change, which just made him appreciate you more.

You always followed your given orders, always followed the rules. You were so different than him and yet also fit him so perfectly. You two completed eachother in the best ways possible, something many people saw and complimented you two on. You kept him in check and out of trouble, whilst he reminded you to take more breaks and have fun every now and then.

He especially respects your skills and morals on the battlefield. He loves how strong, yet honourable you are. You are merciful to even your enemies, a level of inner peace and serenity Yanqing could only ever dream of reaching. And so, he always supported and agreed with your decisions and opinions, even going as far as defending them to your superiors. You were always right to him, how could you not be?

Yanqing is so thankful, whenever you get him a gift and it usually being a rare sword he wanted to have so badly. He'd return the favour by practically spoiling you with his allowance. He doesn't care, if he has no money by the end of it. In his mind, it's worth it, if it's you. You're always so willing to help him out with everything, even with training. He doesn't know what he has done in life to deserve such a kind and peaceful soul like you, but he is definitely never losing you either.

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A/N: I hope this was okay! Thank you again for the request!<33

[vryivs]

brother yanqing you could have simply said when she started counting instead of deciding to emulate your father's flair for the dramatic

i know im too old because i keep stressing out about yunli stepping on broken glass or debris. i joke but damn. that really is my daughter

oh man im so annoyed at the expy claims. her ass is NOT lin zhaoyu. you dont even want her to be lin zhaoyu. so many reasons why. [brief detour to discuss expys in hsr]

i feel like a lot of the people making the claim are doing so because theyre more used to how expys look in genshin and just googled ma feima, saw he had a wife, and decided yunli must be her expy because they're vaguely similar looking

but every expy so far has shared a name (at least in part) with their hi3 counterpart (natasha = raven/natasha ciaora, seele = seele vollerei, bronya rand = bronya zaychik, cocolia rand = cocolia, himeko = murata himeko, acheron/raiden bosenmori mei = raiden mei, kafka = kafka/loner of prague, luocha = otto apocalypse/luocha/raksasha, marshal hua = fu hua, sushang = li sushang, yanqing = ma feima/yanqing)

in genshin most of the expys have different names, but hsr has been fairly consistent in keeping the names mostly the same with one exception (silver wolf, who potentially, like welt, also is just a hi3 character)

lin zhaoyu was NOT a nice lady

she's yanqing's groomer. she was already a grown adult when fu hua adopted him, and became obsessed with competing with su mei (a teenager) for his love. its heavily implied she coerced him into marriage

yunli doesnt even look that similar to her!!! they both have dark hair and amber eyes, but yunli's is blue, while zhaoyu's is black. lin zhaoyu is taller and like, explicitly aged (her vn sprite has wrinkles!) while yunli is shorter and younger than yanqing

(tbh, for that reason of age its also difficult to say 100% that yanqing and ma feima are expys. yanqing has more superficial similarities than yunli does, but my nonserious conspiracy is that he's actually the kid of this universe's feima

anyway detour over. this theory just really gets on my nerves, especially seeing it from people who ship yunqing

god this game is so stupid. every time there's meant to be a huge crowd and they have maybe a handful of npcs as set dressing. its so funny. this wardance is a FLOP

you would think this explains the lack of crowd but it just makes it funnier. jing yuan had five soldiers and a dream

this is so cute omg. yanqing <3

kinda mad this patch bulldozered all over yunli's personality. i miss when she was a rude little shit. where is my daughter and what have you done with her and WHY is she talking like a smaller melee yukong

march is their get-along-disciple i love these three

SHES SO SEXY HHGJDSGH

wow okay. rude

UGHHH its so annoying that theyve flip flopped on whether feixiao was a kid or an adult when she escaped the borisin. literally in the previous patch they depicted her as a grown ass adult. she would not be a child or a young girl when fighting under yueyu

CLEVER MAN!!!!! I LOVE HIM

MANIFESTING YANQING PATH SWITCH SOON??!??!?! omg. the jingliu parallels. how crazy it must be for jing yuan to accidentally rear someone so similar to his own master. i hope we get a destruction or nihility yanqing at some point. i wonder if they'd allow him to keep the same element or if he'd have to switch to a different one as well

i think its really interesting how jing yuan seems to have his impression of yanqing frozen at the heliobus incident without realising how much that fundamentally changed him (and how training march also impacted him). idk it feels very realistic for a parent to not notice how their child is growing until they already have.

meanwhile it seems like feixiao sees him for exactly who he is now

im really happy they let yanqing shine this patch. he finally got a textual win. maybe people can stop shitting on him now

"when i was just a child" [picture of someone at least in their mid-late teens]

a cunt-off

[tonin-terets]

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[pretty-sweet-plums]

me to Kiana on this new chapter: Can you Naruto run a little faster, babe?

[h1mmel]

this is sushuang to me

[uwasari]

 DESTROY  THE  CORRUPT,  THE  RULE  THAT  SHE  WAS  TAUGHT  AND  FOLLOWED  EVER  SINCE  BECOMING  A  DISCIPLE  OF  THE  PHOENIX.  but  she  was  still  hesitant,  she  still  gave  people  mercy.  she  knew  very  well  that  would  result  in  her  death    ...    she  knew  she  had  to  do  better.  but  it  was  hard.  lin  fought  back  the  urge  to  sigh,  gaze  down  as  she  watched  herself  go  through  the  steps  to  make  onigiri.  her  master  hadn’t  eaten  so  the  student  wanted  to  try  her  hand  at  meal  prep.

 not  that  she  was  any  good  at  it,  however,  seeing  as  how  disfigured  the  onigiri  was.        ❝    hmm.    ❞   (  @pearlofshenzhou​   )

[logosminuspity]

I saw the WiP grab thing! Haha, the AE harem certainly looks interesting! I assume its some period drama, au type thing?(assuming hua was rather bitchless in her ae period😅😅)

LMFAO congrats anon you gave me a good chuckle. It's a pseudo-au that was started before I actually started playing Honkai, all when I looked at this stigma and thought: "1) there is nothing straight about that and 2) hua ma'am you are giving me very toppy vibes":

Anyway more here:

“Master…”

Fu Hua turns her bemused attention back to her protege, and catches Zhaoyu briefly worrying at her bottom lip, her two hands still clasped together but just on the verge of fidgeting.

“Master…will you not say something? Anything?”

“And what is it you would like me to say? Or perhaps…what is it you would imagine me doing?” Hua speaks so perfectly even and cool, the only betrayal of the foreign urge to tease that has suddenly overcome her a single, raised eyebrow.

Lin Zhaoyu turns a brighter red than the first blooms of the plum flower upon the snow laden branches of winter. She is pretty, Hua realizes abruptly, all flushed and squirming under the full attention.

She takes a deep breath as if to steady her resolve, and then speaks, and for all that her voice drops in pitch and volume, Zhaoyu does not stutter—and she does not look away.

“I imagine the privilege of disrobing you, Phoenix. Of undoing the ornaments that hold your hair up, and parting the silk that hides your skin. I imagine your knuckles against my lips, where I can taste the shape of your calluses and the salt of endless toil. And I imagine kneeling before you as I try to grant you a reprieve, even if but for an evening, from that ceaseless work which you pursue…like petals falling from flowers and gifted to the wind.”

The wholly intimate implications are hardly lost on Hua, and now it is her turn to blush. A heat suffuses through her, part embarrassment—when did this all start, and how was she so unaware of it until now?—and part something else. Something that uncoils within her gut like a serpent that has spent its whole life sleeping until now.

[voliyu]

Let's play game of guess

But before that if some of you haven't read the novel

Read Here

• After Fu Hua was killed by her disciples, who was the one helped her body escaped to the stone chamber?

Lin Zhaoyu

Su Mei

The twins

Cheng LingShuang

Suyi

Ma Feima

Kallen

I'll post the prologue of Chapter 3 later 👻

[pearlofshenzhou]

@uwasari​ liked for a Genshin starter ages ago that I only got to just now and I am extremely sumanai

“.....Zhaoyu, there is no need to linger in the doorway so. I can sense the uneasiness in your qi.”

Fu Hua’s voice is soft as she remains in bed for yet another day, her injuries continuing to ache. Still, she at least knows that her recovery is undoubtedly in progress, as slow as it may be. It only emphasized the true gravity of the injuries she had suffered at the hands of her students. Eyes closed, a soft sigh leaving the adeptus’s lips--Her azure eyes open half-liddedly, before she manages to use what little energy still within her to turn her head to face Lin Zhaoyu.

“Is there something you need ask of me?”

[deathbxnny]

If requests are still open, may I please request a continuation of the Lin !Zhaoyu!Reader meeting Jing Yuan, whog their dynamic and height differences (rip Yanqinq)?

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Hey there!

So I stared at this request for an eternity and tried to think about what to do with it and yeah... I just don't think I want to write a continuation at the moment for it, because there wouldn't be much to write about.

I hope you understand and thank you for the request anyways!<33

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Lin Zhaoyu

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Series: Honkai Impact 3rd

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Completion: Manhua

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 i  will  say  this.  i  love  lin  zhaoyu  so  much,  ever  since  i  first  saw  her  in  the  manga.  and  knowing  me,  i  will  want  to  write  her  so  expect  to  see  her  on  my  multi.

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Whumpmas in July Day 18: quiet (prompt)

For @whumpmasinjuly day 18, a short bit of my new project.

CW: bloody nose, implied torture and mass murder

“Why…Why does that man hate you so much?” Lin Zhaoyu winces as the words crawl out of a throat burning and raw from screaming. There is blood dripping from his noise, spreading across his lips and down his chin, but he is still smiling that awful, foolish smile of his that Liao Xuerong would have found infuriating on any other person.

Lin Zhaoyu infuriates him for other reasons, like insisting on getting captured alongside him, but Liao Xuerong doesn’t have it in him to hate that smile. He closes his eyes so he doesn’t have to see it.

“You’ve heard of the Battle of Taicheng?” Liao Xuerong begins, already tasting the acrid combination of blood, sweat, and iron on his tongue. Lin Zhaoyu does not need to respond; even small village children have heard of the Yan State’s depressing victory at Taicheng Pass. Liao Xuerong is all too aware of the scars pulling at his skin as he continues, “General Han didn’t plan on sacrificing the standing army at Taicheng. He abhorred the idea and was vocal about it, even if that meant he would be demoted right after the battle.”

“They say that General Han was killed in battle early on,” Lin Zhaoyu says slowly, his bright eyes dimming as he pieces the evidence together. “General Han Wenqi, that was this Han Jiang’s father?”

“Yeah,” Liao Xuerong sighs, despite how the movement pulls at the bruises wrapped around his ribcage. “His Vice Commander was told to incapacitate him if he refused to carry out the plan. That Vice Commander was my father, Liao Pengjie.”

“Oh,” Lin Zhaoyu says simply, perhaps lacking the energy to say anything further. Liao Xuerong keeps his eyes shut, as if being unable to see the young man across from him means he no longer exists.

Liao Xuerong had grown used to the quiet the first time he was imprisoned here. It devoured every thread of sanity he had in him, at first, until he welcomed Han Jiang’s torture sessions because pain meant something more than the silence that reminded him too much of the mountains of the dead at Taicheng Pass.

It’s quiet and still now, but it’s not silent. Lin Zhaoyu, even if he says nothing, is constantly shifting in discomfort. He refuses to groan in pain, but Liao Xuerong saw his expression was pinched and sweat glistened on his brow from the effort of suppressing his reactions. After a while, Lin Zhaoyu finds enough energy to lift his head again and laugh quietly into the cold, still air.

“How immature. He should be happy, shouldn’t he? His father didn’t have Yan’s best interests at heart, but he is still hailed a hero.”

Liao Xuerong frowns. He’s not wrong, but Liao Xuerong has never thought of it that way.

Lin Zhaoyu sighs, his breath catching in his throat, and says, “But who am I to talk? In the jianghu*, no one would think twice of seeking revenge on the behalf of your family. In fact, who can respect you if you aren’t willing to avenge your own blood?**”

“You shouldn’t have come here,” Liao Xuerong says, changing the subject to one that has bothered him from the second Lin Zhaoyu chose to accompany him. “You have no obligations to follow me to the ends of the earth.”

“Of course not. If I did, I would definitely never have come,” Lin Zhaoyu laughs sharply. “I chose to come here of my own free will, you don’t have any right to stop me.”

He has always thought that somewhat timid, but chatty boy he met four years ago is certainly a strange one. Right now, Liao Xuerong is equal parts grateful and filled with dread.

For better or for worse, he doesn’t have to endure the silence alone.

*I’ve translated this annoying term as the martial arts/pugilistic society, but it doesn’t fit in the dialogue. :p 江湖 means mountains and rivers, it refers to the outskirts of mainstream society and can apply to more than just martial arts.

**One of the most important Confucian virtues was filial piety, so loyalty to one’s “own” was expected and socially enforced (see: Zhao Wuyi and boxie whose entire families were executed due to the crime of a single person in the family).