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thefeastandthefast · 5 months ago

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I'm OBSESSED with the terrifying Princess Wanning and want ALL the backstory about her time as a hostage and everything she did to survive (and possibly even thrive?) in such a situation. Please, drama, give it to me! (Do I feel fic urges coming on?)

She's over-the-top and openly, gleefully cruel and sadistic in a way that female villains don't often get to be, but the actress makes her chillingly believable. The actress Li Meng oscillates so naturally between all the minute shades of her many malevolent moods and is clearly having a ball playing her. Li Meng was great in The Bad Kids and now I know I will definitely be seeking out more of her work. Suggesting two men murder each other in front of her as a job interview is exactly the kind of unhinged psychotic creativity that I appreciate about Wanning.

#the double #墨雨云间 #cdrama #my commentary #she is the absolute worst and I love her so much #she's a funhouse mirror that distorts and warps the rules of good and expected female behavior #the way she makes a gesture of carefree delight #(twirling girlishly with her silken robes fluttering behind)#into something utterly and beautifully sinister!#also the scene where she blithely pours tea all over minister li's hands as he twitches and scrapes and smile-grimaces #weaponizing feminine hospitality and politeness!#and her sparkling indignant amoral eloquence in arguing for a team-based competition #on behalf of women! on behalf of the spirit of cooperation and solidarity!#(she doesn't give a shit about other women)#but she'll use that argument if it'll give her the win #it's so damn real

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