I got no faith that AC Jade won't be Orientalist. It's another one of those western games that want to imitate Cdramas but will probably fall into the white idea of what ancient China is (stares in mulan 2020).
On a related note -- I love Shao Jun as a character, but you can hear that she's voiced by a white woman with a caricaturist's accent a million miles away.
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From Fall in Mistaken Love on Bilibili.
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delete it later
If Jiang Fengmian has a hundred haters, I'm one of them
if Jiang Fengmian has zero haters, I'm dead
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imo reducing the jiang clan dynamics to "wei wuxian was only a servant, never family" undermines the tragic reality that he was both. his position was a dubious, unclear thing, complicated by his debts and the jiangs' varying intentions.
jiang yanli had called him her brother and treated him like one in direct defiance of their class differences and her mother's words. jiang fengmian had seen wwx as a replacement for his parents, not a son, as evident in his passive refusal to defend wwx and his prioritization of his actual son's life. yu ziyuan had seen him as an arrogant servant transgressing class norms and threatening her son's position, and she had consequently scapegoated him at every turn. jiang cheng, the youngest, inherited all of their sentiments in one way or another.
the love was there, it was not enough. so mdzs concludes the jiang clan sub-plots by having jc let wwx leave. that's important. he chose to let to go of the yunmeng shuangjie promise, the oath of fealty. because wwx's position with the jiangs — a brother, yet also a servant, an outsider, never an equal, certainly never a son, bound by duty — made a mockery of love. i think that's more tragic than him being solely a servant and nothing more.
and not to make this lan wangji (actually, everything is always about lan wangji), but that's why it's so important that wwx found a home in him, in a relationship that has no need for debts like "thank you" and "sorry."
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From Fall in Mistaken Love on Bilibili.
Despite all the Wrong, I'm enjoying this title very much. The art is lovely, too, tho little of it lends itself well to posts like this.
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