#shuang jing

[agendratum]

the rituals of wishing your girlfriend luck before her murder trial are intricate

[lena-point]

Couple of Mirrors rewatch let's goooo

[fanfictionroxs]

me explaining couple of mirrors to someone: yan wei takes out her rifle to go climb on rooftops and murder whoever hurt you yi. you yi only shows her happy self to yan wei and has zero issues with her girlfriend being a full blown killer. they have a baby

[archiveoftragedies]

[ql-of-all-time-bracket]

QL of All Time - Round 3 (Loser's Bracket): Couple of Mirrors (2021) vs Until We Meet Again (2019-2020)

[xinyuehui]

Signing divorce papers 📃🖋

Couple of Mirrors (2021)

New Life Begins (2022)

[thepromisedbride]

detective jiang leaving what is soon to become a murder scene early and missing the whole lead up because he was fed up is possibly the funniest part of couple of mirrors and it happens not even five minutes in

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Silent Criminal (2020)

The Silent Criminal

Watch this video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/UNQP0wBV_g4?si=qtgJpmfVPL38RfUo

[palehorsemen]

Illustrations to Mirror: A tale of twin Cities and The longest promise/Zhu Yan

[wolfsonic]

Dai Lu is trying to sleep while her two hyperactive kids, WuKong and Shuang, just want to play!

[binging-asian-dramas]

Princess Silver. 9

Story: 9

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: Goodbye,My Princess (cdrama); Ashes to Love (cdrama) ;

This is one of those hella complicated, hella melodramatic rollercoaster of a ride historical cdrama���s. It’s so much fun, yet exhausting at times too. It does take a handful of episodes to fully get into, but once you do, if you’re into this type of genre, since this won’t be everyones cup of tea, you’ll be fully hooked. The female lead has the best storyline and character growth throughout even though she’d could be a bit obtuse at times but no more worse then her counterpart. The main male lead I wanted to throttle him and don’t get me started on the ‘brother’. All the torture he put his ‘sister’ through. Ugh. In the end though, with all the tragedies, it made a excellent melodramatic drama.

[twelve-feathers]

Lu Zhiang protected them when they have trouble.

Rush to the Dead Summer (2017)

[bl-is-totes-my-jam]

[archiveoftragedies]

[chineseredcarpet]

GQ shares snaps of Mika and Santa, Jin Jing and Yi Mengling, Lin Yun and He Cong, and Yi Yangqianxi and director Xin Shuang from GQ 2023 MOTY Awards

[tossawary]

The Qijiu position as the top two peak lords is fascinating to me, because if Shen Jiu really, REALLY didn't want to be around Yue Qingyuan, he could just leave! Shen Yuan spends about 3 years wandering after the Immortal Alliance Conference, so Shen Jiu wouldn't even have to leave permanently, if he needed to get away.

But Shen Jiu pursued the wealth and power and stability of Cang Qiong, and he's not giving it up! On the way to Shuang Hu City for the Skinner Demon, Shen Yuan comments on the carriage being packed full of luxuries like a fancy chessboard that won't be used and multiple tea sets, so I think it's fair to say that Shen Jiu liked being rich and being seen to be rich. Shen Jiu spent his childhood wandering the streets and his teenage years trailing after Wu Yanzi, he doesn't want to be back out there, even if he's now a powerful cultivator with the means to support and protect himself. He won't walk away from it.

The sect comes with rules and protocols and traditions. Yue Qingyuan has authority over the entire sect, but he can't press Shen Qingqiu and Qing Jing Peak too hard (it does not matter that Yue Qingyuan wouldn't do this, because Qiu Jianluo would have) without the other peak lords sitting up and taking offense at the sect leader interfering with one of these 12 subsects banded together. The entire cultivation world might take notice if Yue Qingyuan behaved badly. This kind of mutually assured destruction is not without tension, but it gives Shen Jiu a measure of control, which he is not going to give up to leave himself vulnerable and Yue Qingyuan as a powerful sect leader (enjoying the power and privilege that he thinks Yue Qingyuan happily abandoned him for).

I wonder if Shen Jiu ever told Yue Qingyuan to "prove himself" to him by abandoning Cang Qiong. "If you didn't leave me so you could chase power for yourself, then prove it, give it up," kind of thing. "I'll keep Cang Qiong for myself and YOU go away," kind of dare, because Shen Jiu is bitter and wants to hurt Yue Qi back or just wants to be left alone or whatever. (If Yue Qingyuan gets to enjoy this, then Shen Jiu isn't going to be the one to give it up and walk!)

Unfortunately for Qijiu's communication and potential reconciliation, I don't think Yue Qingyuan would do this, because I don't think he's willing to give up the power and control of being a peak lord either. Yue Qi also had an extremely shitty childhood and presumably hates being vulnerable. He's not about to abuse his position over Shen Jiu, but his position is how he protects Shen Jiu, so he's going to dig his feet in and refuse this demand, even if it makes Shen Jiu angry, because he's also worried about their survival. Better to have Shen Jiu angry and alive than defenseless.

So, they're stuck in this awful, tense state of affairs, because they both know what it's like not to have anything and they're not willing to give it up! Yue Qingyuan won't talk and Shen Jiu won't listen, so there's just this! It's agonizing.