#shisan

[difeisheng]

shen nuo you say this to man'er about your "friend" while you earn money to pay his ransom and said friend apparently calls you pet names in front of other people, you know she thinks you two are dating right. right

[catchabookdragon]

Love this character!

[shijiujun]

In which it takes the whole damn village to help Boss Ning kiss his girl, and it pays to have friends like Yu Shisan (most of the time)

A JOURNEY TO LOVE 一念关山 (2023) | EP 12

[melodious-tear]

the squad + last words

[heymeowmao]

一念关山 | A Journey to Love ° (๑•́ ⌓ •́)૭ ◟(•̀ ᴖ •́◟ )

[ladynamie]

A Journey to Love 一念关山 | Episode 37

[siyi-draws]

s7 memes

[dramagifs]

Yu Shi San | A Journey to Love

[tategaminu]

It's a criminal offense I haven't found this scene on tumblr so here you go

[zishuge]

Hey... what were Old Ning and Beauty talking about in the inn just now? Why did his expression change? A Journey to Love (2023) | Ep. 7

[bonnieisaway]

can somebody PLEASE draw this but it's seven and thirteen i'm begging

[difeisheng]

alright! theory time, because i've chosen to overthink.

we already know that the design of this game is sketchy. its tasks and goals are unreasonable, and with little additional incentive or instructions to succeed given to its players. and that's without the fact that the team running the game initially dropped man'er into the ending where she got burned alive, then tried to backtrack like it was nothing.

since that beginning, the flow of the narrative and the turns it's taken have fallen into what feels like a normal, slice-of-life story, not events happening in a game. we have no sense of man'er clocking in and out of the sim or how many hours she's spent there, or that she remembers or thinks much about her actual life, aside from the modern references she drops into her speech sometimes. if not for man'er still being fixated on her one thousand gold taels, it's very easy to forget that this world and most of its people aren't real, actually. and if this is an unintentional move, then that's the writers not paying enough attention to their actual story premise. but maybe this drawing of both man'er and the viewer into the world of the sim is deliberate, and is going to be a future plot point.

which brings us to this moment with shen nuo and shisan. i'm pretty sure most of us already think that shen nuo is another player in the game, and honestly given the clues and his reactions to different things now i'd be surprised if he wasn't. with this exchange, i'm thinking shisan could be a player as well. this line about forgetting identity could refer to shisan's infiltration of the theatre troupe, but it's also ambiguous— where is "here"? combined with how this world in the game is depicted, shen nuo's line becomes far more serious of a warning if he's telling shisan not to lose himself in the fiction of the game itself. as if perhaps the game wants him to.

maybe the real goal of the game is to keep all its conscious players within its universe long enough that they forget everything else. maybe everyone else was a player, once.

i've been wondering for a few episodes now if this story will eventually culminate in man'er and shen nuo having to break out of the game, and fight the ones who created it, because they tried to trap them inside. i guess we'll see what happens, and how deliberate this show has chosen to be.

[danmeigirl]

[shijiujun]

Yu Shisan 100% deserving to be beaten up after this

A Journey to Love 一念关山 (2023) | EP 08

[mr-retnuh]

Thirteen: thanks seven

[heymeowmao]

一念关山 | A Journey to Love E30 ° Ning Yuanzhou & Yu Shisan🍵