#sui guangchuan

[bellaroles]

Watch the Sleuth of Ming dynasty yesterday. It’s not exactly like the book but I do enjoy watching it. At least the found family plot is still there and although the dynamics between Sui Zhou and Tang Fan has changed, it is still quite cute in its own way. Also I haven’t drawn anything from this before, now I have the show for reference so I draw them 😄

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Oh tang fan you silly little ninny

[guangchuans]

they really don’t…

people really don't wail sui guangchuan anymore

[silviakundera]

aug objective: actually finish Meng Xi Shi's Fourteenth Year of Chenghua

I've started and stopped it twice before, but that was due to the english translation not being complete at the time.

Starting over from the beginning and I forgot how much I enjoyed him adopting the lil 8 year old to be his sister and them actually becoming like real siblings ❤❤ and then badass Brocade Guard boss basically moves him in and wifes him up without him noticing. I love how clear it is that the 3 of them have a richer, happier life together as a family. It's not dramatic & angsty, it's just subtle undertones cushioning the plot - just them becoming a warm & safe home for each other.

I also enjoy all the ancient china crime solving. A classic mystery fan, I grew up on Agatha Christie. After reading half-way the last time, I went looking a translation of The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (and then got sucked into late Qing/Republican true crime Murders of Old China by Paul French).

Random highlighted passages so far...

[Tang Fan finds himself in possession of an 8 year old]

“Can you take me in, Sir Tang? I’ll be really hardworking, and not give you any trouble. I don’t want to go to Nanjing, I don’t know the Young Lord that well!”

Tang Fan didn’t know how to react. “You being willing to come cook is fine by me, but the question is: will Young Lord Li be willing to let you go?”

Hearing that his tone had relaxed, she suddenly got excited. “He will, he will! I heard the steward say that the house has too many people in it right now, and they won’t need so many later on. Isn’t that them being eager to lose a few? I eat a lot and don’t work that much, so they would definitely be willing to let me go and wreck someone else’s house!”

“…” Is it really good for you to be that frank?

Ah-Dong stuck out her tongue. “I misspoke, I misspoke! Me being too happy is all to blame. Don’t take it to heart at all, I’m actually great! Just pretend that you didn’t hear what I said right then!”

[Tang Fan finds himself on a date (without knowing he's on a date) and then moved into his date's house. Sui Zhao is efficient like that.]

He took a long detour, and when he leisurely got back home, he discovered that someone was already standing at his gate — wasn’t that Centarch Sui?

“If I had known before that you would be here so early, I would have come back first thing so that you wouldn’t be standing in wait at the entrance!” Tang Fan promptly sped up towards him, an apologetic smile on his face. “It’s no problem,” Sui Zhou answered.

Tang Fan found that he was also carrying some food.

“My home is far from yours, so I’ll just stay with you for tonight. Do you mind?”

“Ah? I don’t mind, I don’t mind! My break is tomorrow, so we can talk through the night by candlelight!”

Mister Tang lived the legendary bachelor life to its entirety. ... “Where did you buy this crispy tofu? And why is it so delicious?” he wondered. “I had some ingredients at home,” Sui Zhou answered concisely. “You can cook?” Mister Tang was wholly shocked. Sui Zhou gave a rare hook of the lips, saying nothing. A few breaths later, Tang Fan was still soaking in his shocked emotions. “Brother Guangchuan, you can actually cook? That’s really, really, really…” He ‘really’ed for half the day, but didn’t get out what the ‘really’ was about. Then, a rapid knock echoed in from outside the door. “That’s really too amazing!” Tang Fan took in a deep breath. ...

“Since you’re in such contradiction with the Li’s, what are you going to do about housing?”

Tang Fan hadn’t told him the thing about him currently looking for board everywhere, but he still took note of it. His meticulous mind was apparent.

“The capital is big, and there’s a lot of rooms. I’ll likely be able to find some.”

Sui Zhou thought about this for a moment. “If you want, you can come live with me.”

Tang Fan was taken aback. “Is… that alright? Wouldn’t your wife be upset?”

“I haven’t yet taken a wife,” Sui Zhou replied coldly.

“There has to be someone like a wife, right…?”

Sui Zhou was not pleased. “I haven’t accepted any concubines, nor slipshod maidservants.

Before Tang Fan could ask anything else, he proceeded to say, “My parents live with my eldest brother. I moved out on my own. Don’t worry about that.”

With all that said, since the other was inviting him there in good faith, it would be poor of Tang Fan to decline again. He ended up clasping his hands together, saying with sincerity, “I’ll bother you for now, then, Brother Guangchuan!”

[Sui Zhao continues marrying in Tang Fan]

" Furthermore,” he paused to look at Tang Fan, icy expression finally suffused with a trace of helplessness, “you’re a Dynasty-ordained official that’s run off to write an anonymous book like that. If that gets out, your reputation likely won’t be kept.”

Tang Fan chuckled. “What’s wrong with doing it? It’s not just me, but a lot of people in Court that do this, too. No one can tell who’s who with pen names, anyways. How could somebody support their family otherwise? Relying on salary alone? If they don’t want to be corrupt, they can only take a different approach..."

“I have a salary.”

Tang Fan just kept going. “Wouldn’t you say so, Guangchuan… eh? What’d you say?”

“I have a salary. No need to worry.”

...Hearing what he said, Tang Fan was stunned for a while, after which he started to laugh wildly. He ended up having to support himself on Sui Zhou’s shoulder in order to keep steady, rubbing his own stomach in pain. “Ouch… well, then, us siblings will depend on you from now on, Centarch Sui. Once I use up all my salary, you’ll have to help me out!” “Mn.” Tang Fan still couldn’t resist wanting to laugh, but he was a bit touched, as well. He knew that not everyone was capable of making the man say stuff like this. //

“Today is a family banquet, second brother. The Old Madam said not to bring outsiders, so why did you bring someone we don’t know? There’s women here, too! He’s not even someone close enough to be considered family! You’re really being too careless!”

The speaker was the wife of Sui Zhou’s older brother, Lady Jiao.

... As soon as she was done, [Sui Zhou] gave her an indifferent answer: “From now on, he’s to be considered family.”

Those words were so authoritarian, no one could say anything for a moment. They all stared at Sui Zhou.

// “How would Ah-Dong be able to hold you back?” he asked. “From now on, after you get your salary of grains and cash from your paper money, hand half of it over to me. I’ll safeguard it for you. If you ever need to spend more after using up what you have on hand, you’ll need to justify that to me first. You can use it only after I agree to it.”

Sui Zhou had never been fond of meddling in others’ business. Almost all of said business that he had cared about in this lifetime had come from Tang Fan’s head.

It was fortunate that they had the kind of relationship they had. If someone else had been ordered to do this, they would feel it difficult to understand, and might even turn hostile. Someone like Mister Tang, who was different from the average person, just nodded with delight. “That’s great! With you stopping me, I won’t spend so recklessly!”

From that point on, Millarch Sui not only had a heap of things to look after in the Northern Bastion Office, but also had to help Mister Tang manage his money when he returned home. He truly did wield total power, both foreignly and domestically — how very envy-inducing!

[mserm]

First Lines

Tagged by @nostalgicatsea. Thanks for that!

Rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 (or however many you have) posted fics and see if there’s a pattern!

(I'm going to cheat and not include my last fic, since it's technically 16 ficlets and I couldn't figure out how to make that work with this.)

always say there's a time and place (so maybe ours will consolidate) (X-Men Movies, cherik)

“Do you want to pick all that shit up?” 

i have no more than all you leave (X-Men Movies, cherik)

After everything, Charles takes the helmet home with him. 

wait and see what you'll find (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, suitang)

“Where is my sesame candy?” Tang Fan asks with his best glare in Sui Zhou’s direction.

break with the day/bend with the night (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Sui Zhou/Li Fei)

It’s time to give up on sleep.

your lips, my lips, apocalypse (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, suitang)

Sui Zhou sets the plates on the table and arranges them so that they will be easy to reach. It will be just the two of them, after all.

An Untangled Knot (Sleuth of the Ming Dyansty, wangtang)

Wang Zhi entered the capital long after nightfall.

A Diamond Where The Star Would Be (616, steve/tony)

Steve considers the implication of entering the elevator for an uncharacteristically long time. They’re just cufflinks, he thinks. 

it's a beautiful night, we're looking for something dumb to do (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, gen)

“Wait! What’s going on?” Tang Fan shouts as Dong’er pulls him by the wrist from the courtyard to his bedroom.

the smoke to clear the sea (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, gen)

“Guangchuan, I’m too late!” Tang Fan shouted at the smoking embers and what was left of Ji’an’s prison as if Sui Zhou’s ashes could hear him. 

Ship to Shore (MCU, steve/tony)

Tony’s eyes dart up when he hears the door open.

So I definitely see a pattern here. I like to open up in the beginning of an action, either with a character deciding to do something, doing it, or saying they're going to do it. It's not exactly conscious, but I do want my writing to feel like it has a lot of forward movement. It makes sense that I'd conceptualize the story by hitting the ground running.

The first one is kind of strange because it's lifted directly from the DoFP and I'm relying on the reader to know the scene and how that part fits into the movie to set up the rest of the fic.

It's kind of funny that two of my fics start with Tang Fan shouting. *hangs head in writer shame*.

One thing I'm proud of, rereading these, is that I think most of the lines set up the pov character's voice well. Sui Zhou sounds different than Tang Fan sounds different than Steve.

I think most of the people I interact with have been tagged in this, but I'm not sure if @catholicjigglypuff, @sheronwrites, @avengersnewb, @ironlawyer have. If you're reading this and I forgot you or you HAVE NOT BEEN TAGGED, please do it anyway! It's been a lot of fun to read everyone's.

[guangchuans]

back at the iconic url

i know i said i want something not fandom related but sui zhou guangchuan isn’t that to me he is my friend ❤️

[extraordinarilyextreme]

“保重。”

[Take care of yourself.]

[irisflammea]

成化十四 Book Cannon moments that I can't stop thinking about Part 1 (or how our scholar realized his feelings for Sui Zhou)

For someone so perceptive of other people's thoughts and actions, Tang Fan is extremely dense at perceiving his own feelings. Sui Zhou, the dear patient softie that he is, tries to give him as much time to slowly realize his own feelings (he knew Tang Fan felt the same). But after a year of giving hint after hint, his patience ran thin.

Our loved starved Baihu (at this point he’s not a Baihu anymore and he’s gotten promoted so much lol) pretends to be engaged to his cousin to trigger jealousy. And it worked. Cue our darling dense scholar panicking at the thought that he might lose Sui Zhou (it only took him 1.5 years to realize it but that's besides the point). So he goes to Wang Zhi's house late at night asking for alcohol. Wang Zhi bedrudging ly gives him the alcohol and after a few drinks, Tang Fan drunkenly proceeds to gay panic over losing Sui Zhou. Wang Zhi of course was not surprised and already knew that they loved each other just tells him to go for it and pursue him back.

Tang Fan gets upset and says that he can't be with Sui Zhou even if he wants to because as the only male hair of the Tang family line he needs to continue the lineage/lastname and in order to do that he has to marry and have a child. His reasoning is "a couple is for life and two people should not betray each other".

Wang Zhi being a eunuch gets pissed off at his reasoning and he realized the obvious which is just to adopt to continue the family line.

At this point Tang Fan is extremely inebriated,and Wang Zhi is just so tired of Tang Fan's antics that he get his servant to fetch Sui Zhou to pick up Tang Fan. His servant leaves to get Sui Zhou only to find Sui Zhou standing outside within earshot of the conversation that Wang Zhi and Tang Fan had.

Sui Zhou carries drunk Tang Fan home. During the next couple of days, Sui Zhou talks to Tang Yu (without Tang Fan knowing) and talks to her about, what we as the readers can assume, Tang Fan wanting to continue the lineage/lastname. We know this because Tang Yu , a few days after the drunk incident, talks to Tang Fan about her son He Cheng wanting to change his last name to Tang.

Tang Fan eventually agrees and gets A-Cheng's last name changed to Tang. Tang Yu points out afterwards that now that A-Cheng is now Tang Cheng, he can continue on the lineage/lastname so Tang Fan doesn't have to and that she just wants her baby brother to be happy without restrictions. Tang Fan figures out that Sui Zhou must've talked to her. Tang Yu refuses to tell Tang Fan about their conversation and says that if he wants to know to ask Sui Zhou himself.

Our smart but adorably dense scholar ponders her words, and SIX MONTHS after the events of his drunken stupor, finally chooses to confess his own feelings to Sui Zhou in the most ridiculous way possible.

Masterpost

Part2

[oliveskylarks]

local noodle house

by ashings on ao3

People don't seem to pay attention to everything and everyone around them. Wang Zhi pays attention. He is cautious and dangerous, but to everyone he seems youthful, playful, well-mannered, and polite. She sees the dichotomy of Wang Zhi from their very first meeting.

1/1, 2450w, wang zhi & oc friendship

[cuthalions]

Sui Zhou:

for @lethal-desires​ 

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Stupid sexy Sui Guangchuan with his sexy frown striding around sexily in his sexy clean-cut black uniform

-Tang Fan, probably

[recapitulation]

What have been your favorite Cdramas out of the ones you’ve seen? Like top 3 or top 5 favorites?

hehe hiiiii thank you for the question :)

I'm going to leave out mysterious lotus casebook/lhl/莲花楼 (2023) because I finished that most recently and its consuming my every waking thought so I don't think I can be properly impartial. and I strive for long-term accuracy on tumblr dot org

okay here's my opinion on a top 5 from what i have personally watched (but really that isn't that much)

1. the untamed/cql/陈情令 (2020). obviously. lifechanging for REAL it taught me about the power of love

2. guardian/镇魂 (2018). OBVIOUSLY. shen wei you will live in my head forever.

3. till the end of the moon/长月烬明 (2023). i thought this one was fucking captivating i wish more of my mewchuals watched it pspspspsps

4. the sleuth of the ming dynasty/tsomd/成化十四年 (2020). tang fan voice SUI GUANGCHUAN ‼️‼️‼️

5. love between fairy and devil/clj/苍兰诀 (2022). BEST costuming. story was so fun. as long as you can get past The Killer (the secondhand embarrassment in episode 8 or whatever it is)

honorable mention to hikaru no go/棋魂 (2020), I really loved that one too.

once upon a time word of honor/shl/山河令 (2021) would have had a place here but my feelings abt it are complicated now. that being said there was truly nothing like all the jesties watching it at once. take me back !!!!!

also when eternal faith comes out i have no doubt i will lose my mind. i need to see the wind master. huge.

[deathcupcake]

H-h--HEY!

[lostarcher17]

Currently reading The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty by Meng Xi Shi. I might be late for the hype, but this has become one of my favorites♡

It's well written, and interwoven story with great plot, amazing characters and their development. It also touched upon the concerns in the society which I guess most of us have experienced, especially when you're working in the government. For instance, unjust compensation, backer system/nepotism, and corruption. It's highly political, suspenseful in some parts, but at the same time humorous. You could just find yourself diving in every arc, that despite its long chapter (4k-6k words/chapter), you would never get tired of it.

Moreover, I love how the main characters were intelligent and witty, and think logically before going into actions. Although they had their own flaws, too, which was understandable since no one was perfect. It's also endearing how they (Tang Fan & Sui Zhou) ranked up from the bottom together, illustrating the beauty of finding one's soulmates. You know, I do believe that soulmates are like miracles in our life that once found, everything would seem like going into their perfect places. Thus, despite the slow burn of their love story, which took 97 chapter, and 7 arcs before the long-awaited confession and *kiss*, it's oh so worth it. Perhaps that's the beauty of slow burn... Just don't expect a smooth acceptance, and suddenly became lovey-dovey after that, since Tang Fan was too intellectual to realize his own feelings. He's kind of frustrating, but I could relate to it since it was new for him. Those feelings were new, so he's confused.

Unfortunately, the translation isn't done yet. There are still 50 episodes, plus 18 extras if I'm not mistaken. So for the meantime, let me share some of the scenes I truly love.

Spoiler Ahead!!!

Tang Fan not getting a wife

Just one of the words of wisdom/Thought to ponder. I have encountered a lot of people like this.

Oblivious Tang Fan

And I think, this line is legendary. I would always remember this confession♡

I heard the live adaptation included new characters, that's why I would like to read the novel first, and know the original story first, before I watch it.

Reading the Eng. Trans. At Chichi's Dive

[guangchuans]

bro sui zhou… sui guangchuan… his entire life he never took anything for granted… being the second son of the family meant all honour would go still to the first son… and then climbing the ranks of the army so smoothly partially due to skill yes but also royal ancestry… and then while in the army there wasn’t a day he wouldn’t lose someone… god his survivor guilt is so strong too but that’s another topic. and then coming back to the capital, first months there, there’s the bomb explosion, the destruction he thought he might never see again. and yet during that darkest moment in lives of many, he crosses paths with those who would later change his life in a way nothing/no one has done before. just that chance meeting would then lead to so many friendships and joyous moments. but with taking nothing for granted, he doesn’t Allow himself to even think that his family - the new one, tang fan and dong’er and the whole squad - would actually want to Stay with him. get old with him, be there through the happy and bad times. and he even SAYS it himself when getting ice with dong’er while duo’erla and tang fan are sick with poison. you can’t know that tomorrow the people who love you will still be there…

i do think, however, he partially learns it, by the end of the series. it’s not fully gone, he has ptsd and it’s the 15th century, but… just how he puts the coat on tang fan, them both in the courtyard of THEIR home… the ambient noise of people filling the halls… how it’s HIS and THEIRS to keep… i think he allows himself to breathe. to want and to think of a future where he isn’t alone.

[ripeteeth]

There’s a challenge in Tang Fan’s expression.

Sui Zhou is infinitely familiar with the minute changes across that mercurial face. He could look away, as he often does, huffing into his meal and letting the steam curtain off his face, but something stops him. Maybe it’s the wine. Maybe it’s the easy domesticity they’ve fallen into, a strange dance that they both know will end in one or the other’s bed. There are many things he doubts, but Sui Zhou has learned not to doubt Tang Fan.

The grin widens across Tang Fan’s face, his dark brows arched in humor. “You’re too much of a gentleman, Guangchuan. You wouldn’t just take what you want like that!”

(Like that. Like the recent romantic lead of one of Tang Fan’s spring novels, who had shoved his lover up against a wall and taken a kiss for himself. The character was stoic and steady, and Sui Zhou often wondered if Tang Fan was trying to say something, to ask for something, without saying it out loud.)

“Wouldn’t I?”

Tang Fan stares, silenced, before bursting out into bright laughter. “You almost had me,” he says, delighted.

There’s sauce on his face, and Sui Zhou reaches out to wipe it off. Tang Fan stills beneath his touch. It’s easy to curl his hands into the collar of Tang Fan’s robes, and easy to pull the other man into himself, because Tang Fan goes willingly.

“Wouldn’t I?” He asks again, breath hot. Tang Fan’s eyes close, his lashes black as charcoal. When he presses in for a kiss, he finds Tang Fan’s mouth waiting, wet and open.