#liu yuru x gu jiusi

[mengyan]

相守; guard you, guard me

🩸 2.6k words, complete oneshot ❤️‍🩹 missing scene from before jiusi wakes up at the end of ep 15 🩸 emotional hurt/comfort with a splash of codependency ❤️‍🩹 liu yuru has a score to settle with her self-sacrificing husband 🔗 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50290201

reblogs, kudos, and comments are very appreciated!!

[fallingsun]

everywhere and nowhere ∞

→ a canon-compliant destined one-shot → for @be-bi-do-crime - happy (belated) birthday!

🔗 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55240576

[dangermousie]

Chapter 30:

Chapter 31:

Chaos erupts and the Wang family decides to take down the Gus because civil society starts breaking down in throne fight X incipient rebellions X start of civil wars.

I’ve mentioned (in IMs) that the more I read the more Gu Jiusi is reminding me of straight Shen Miao from LSWW - easy going, used to the cushion of money and reveling in it, unorthodox ideas and smart as fuck even if originally too lazy to do much with it, spine of steel under laidback manner. It’s actually an incredibly rare ML type for web novels I’ve read, het or danmei, which love their intense alphas.

But the more I read it, the more it reminds me of LSWW in another way - the fluffy/cottagecore/everyday start but always with hidden underpinning - in LSWW, Shen Miao buys fancy things, acquires a built friend with benefits, bickers with family, builds a waterwheel and makes his estate profitable. In CFD, Yuru and GJS adjust to an arranged marriage which was not one they wanted but turns out well by giving each a friend, learn business (her)/classics(him), deal with petty family annoyances, play in the city etc etc.

And then, as in LSWW, the floor falls out with suddenness which in retrospect is not so sudden at all (LSWW has a darker underpinning from the start but still.) And we go from Shen Miao improving his fields to Shen Miao being crucified by the invaders. I still remember going !!!! because it was both so utterly unexpected and inevitable at once.

And it’s a bit like here, we go from two lovely young people getting closer and learning to like each other as best friends to dealing with their family potentially being wiped out and Gu Jiusi doing the utterly insane thing of getting Yuru safely out, leaving her a letter of divorce to protect her, and going off to rescue his father with chances of rescue close to nil. And this is where I started gibbering because ladylike, calculating, smart Liu Yuru takes the first impulsive, utterly irrational step in her life and goes after him:

The best part is just as when GJS whipped himself over and over to get her an apology from that Wang dude, when Yuru goes off to rescue GJS despite being a lone woman with no martial skills or anything, she is not in love with her spouse. She just likes him as a person. They are best friends, no love or anything and I love that.

You know I don’t even care if the drama adaptation is a disaster because finding out about it made me read the novel and I love it so so it’s worth it!

[mengyan]

乡思; homesick

🌧️ 2.6k words, completed oneshot

💌 missing scenes from ep 33 before liu yuru's funeral takes place, canon compliant with novel elements (ch 105-106)

🌧️ through fire and water, gu jiusi will always bring his wife home.

🔗 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48962551

reblogs, kudos, and comments are very appreciated!!