#xiao pingzhang

[ofredribbonsandpreciousgems]

Watched one of the best C-dramas out there and currently screaming into the void that it is over 😭

Nirvana in Fire 2: The Wind Blows on Changlin Manor ♥️🔥♥️🔥

Two brothers, one family,one name, a brilliant piece of a show! ♥️🔥

The satisfying feeling of watching a healthy brotherhood shape into an unforgettable bond is a one-in-a-million kind of experience! 🥹♥️

Fabulous Casting, brilliant acting, wonderfully well-done script brought to life, I can go on..

And I WILL, because one post would not suffice discussing this show!

10/10 for everything ❤️🔥

Got into this Universe by a dear friend, not planning on leaving it ever! Super-Happy! 😁

Xiao Pingzhang and Xiao Pingjing, respectfully I LOVE YOU BOTH WITH ALL MY HEART ❤️♾️

I am crying because it's over, I am also smiling because it happened 😂😭❤️

* on the way to immediately rewatch *

[iwillbemeforever]

I love these two dynamics. I love that they are such good brothers to each other. I love their affection for each other. 

This is the only thing first season (LIN SHU AND JINGYAN) needed and we never got: A HUG

Starting S2, it sounds promising as well.😍

Recommend me more good Cdrama please.

[nemainofthewater]

In honour of the fact it is the evening preceding the birth of a religious figure best known for rising from the dead please have this poll.

They are alive in our hearts 😭😭😭😭😭

There are SPOILERS

SO MANY SPOILERS

PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[hardwareabstractionlayer]

Countless heroes have departed this world—not all of them leave their names for posterity. Though this tablet is unmarked, our allegiance is in our hearts.

世间英灵无数，并非人人后世留名，此牌位虽无字，情义却在心。

[k1201a]

Ping Jing: “Dasao’s dishes always make me miss home and want to stay longer”

Ping Zhang : “.......”

“Not because of me ? 🤨 😑 ”  

Dasao: 🤭

[jianghushenanigans]

Xiao Pingzhang, Nirvana in Fire 2, basically every episode

Bonus meme-creation process meme

[acesgroupchat]

Xiao PingZhang is the Li Shang We Deserve

If you are like me (asian american, millennial, former disney ho on main), you may have been tentatively excited by the prospect of the forthcoming live action Mulan, featuring Actual Asian Actors. You may also have been super bummed when it was revealed that the new film axed best dude ever and all around BAE Captain Li Shang.

If you are actually me you may have even bitched to a friend about this, and what a shame it is, and how you even know a GREAT actor they could have cast. A perfect actor. In fact, he recently performed a role where.... wait.

So if you like, strap in for the top three reasons why Nirvana In Fire II’s Xiao PingZhang is the Li Shang we deserve, and also just the BEST.

Reason 1: An Impressive Military Lineage

Li Shang is the son of a general, and himself a commander of troops. Xiao Pingzhang is the son of THE general. He is Da Liang’s first and best line of defense, ready to sacrifice it all for family and country.

Reason 2: The Most Badass Wife

This one is obvious. Do you know who else fights good? Meng Qianxue! The love of Xiao Pingzhang’s life! Here to kick ass, take names, protect her husband, and shepherd her little brother-in-law through life.

Reason Three: THOSE ABS THO

I mean...

Mulan you are VALID

[princesswithabraidedcrown]

I’m an absolute genius that took 11 episodes of NiF 2 to remember why Jingyan was only being referred to as “the previous emperor.” And not his name or regnal name. Lightning fast mind, mine.

Also…what even is the timeline for this show? I’m trying to logic out how long the current emperor has been ruling based on how old he and Tingsheng look and I am drawing a blank. Something about the Donghai sisters coming 20 years ago, Consort Shu died seven years ago. The crown prince is ten. There are officials that were there during Jingyan’s reign… Would it kill the scriptwriters to use a number besides 20?

I know according to the book maybe, Jingyan only ruled for fifteen years. How long was he the crown prince? I don’t know. When was ye ol future emperor born? Probably super soon after the wedding, maybe? Tingsheng was like 12 to 14ish at the events of NiF. I’m pretty sure he was old enough to be in the military during the epilogue. But Pingzhang says he remembers part of Jingyan’s reign. Tingsheng probably didn’t get married until he was 20…you know what. I don’t care. Everyone lives in a state of flux on the spacetime continuum, everywhere and nowhere at once. Time is a ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. I’m not doing a freaking algebraic equation to try and figure out the potential ages of these characters based off of subtitles that do not give me the corresponding Chinese to investigate further.

[as-rare-as-trees]

Me, watching Nirvana In Fire 2: I have only had Xiao Pingzhang and Meng Qianxue for a day and a half, but if anything happened to them I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself.

[lady-a-white]

Just finished episode 27 of Nirvana in Fire 2.

I'm not okay.

[cerinamroths]

Nirvana in Fire 2 Thoughts

The strongest quality of NIF2 is the emotional resonance it gives to the audience as it focuses more on the characters/family and less about the intricacies of the schemes and politics. Whereas I didn’t feel as much in NIF until its ending, I felt and cried so much throughout NIF2. Also “The Wind Blows in Changlin”?? More like a fucking tornado storms through Changlin!!!

Let’s start with how the one sentence google summary of NIF2 is a terrible spoiler! The description basically summarizes eps. 1-37! It states “Xiao Pingjing finally succumbs to the grief caused by the death of his brother and his father, and he leaves the capital to return to Langya Pavilion.” 

This kind of ruined it for me, bc I expected their deaths from the first few episodes & then I just waited for them to die... and then every happy scene of them just made me sadder knowing what’s to come... It’s like reading about Game of Thrones with a description “The remaining Stark family learns to play the game as the oldest son & father perishes...” LIKE WHAT EVEN

The OST is beautifully heartwrenching! My favorite one so far - I’ve been listening to it between watching and driving to/from work.

The OTP of this series IS Pingzhang and Qianxue. Sure, Lin Xi & Pingjing are fated and cute, but we didn’t get enough moments between them. You see PZ & QX teasing each other, supporting each other, respectively doing their duties, going to battle together, being intimate as much as one can be in a cdrama, etc. I’m sad they had to end but at least she did have a son and we got a happy ending through Lin Xi & Pingjing.

Speaking of that ending, I am so happy for Pingjing. When it comes to responsibilities, especially in that time period, one cannot be so lucky... but to have those military achievements and honor of defending His Majesty and then being free of responsibilities & duties to go live out the rest of your life with your love is the best gift one could ask for. It kind of makes you thankful that Minister Xun succeeded in dismantling the Changlin army...

In asian culture where one has to be successful, especially if there is a family legacy, I really admired Tingsheng for imparting that final advice to Pingjing - saying he doesn’t need to continue with Changlin or to be what PZ and TS was in the past... but to live his own life. 

Maybe it makes for a better story, but I was utterly pissed off at Minister Xun & The Empress! I rather have someone with committed evil intentions (like Marquis Xie & Yuanqui) than someone with misguided intentions. The only reason why they dismantled the Changlin family was to thwart them from possible evil future crimes!!! URGH. I do understand though, and the show makes sure to highlight it throughout, especially at the end in the last conversation between General Yue and Pingjing.

I really hated Puyang Ying... but that just shows how much of a threat he was! If he had grander plans than just taking revenge for the plague, he could have been as calculating as Mei Changsu. I really feel bad for his disciples not knowing he stole his king’s seal & tricking everyone to commit evil actions. And Yuanqi... I clearly see why he did what he did, but those moments in the earlier episodes when you see Yuanqi contemplate his morals... URGH he could have been so good! Poor fucking Anru! ): I’m surprised Marquis Mozi didn’t make appear at the end but that’s most definitely a future problem.

I can’t believe they used the actress for Xia Dong in NIF to be Madam Qi from Donghai in NIF2!!! Also holy fucking shit when Yuanqi burned her alive!!!

Pingzhang was the best male character of the series - he was the embodiment of a powerful warrior, intelligent mind, responsible-but-can-have-fun personality... the love for his family especially finding out he was adopted & saving his brother’s life was just so amazing!!!! 

Feizhan was the second best male character. He has such an unbreakable moral foundation. Now that is an example you can pit against Yuanqi... he will still make the right choices even if his family is in the wrong. Poor him for being in love with Qianxue! Bc in that life and in any other reincarnated life, it’s going to be PZ & QX buddy... unless AU OT3?! But anyways, how can you not admire his steadfast and resolute moral outlook!?

Pingjing grew on me throughout the drama. I understand that main characters must have flaws to overcome in a story, but he was really annoying in the beginning. Smart, but stupid with Lin Xi! He was so impulsive with court matters, that I wanted to facepalm & cringe so hard. But when he really had to grow up... man the change! ): 

My favorite moment is when the disbanded Changlin army reunites and is ready to go to battle for Pingjing to save His Majesty.

The battle at the Northern Border with the solar eclipse was also epic!!! I haven’t watched many Chinese Movies/Dramas, but it felt semi-reminiscent of Red Cliff and it made me yearn for more battle scenes.

From ep. 38 and on, I really like the plot they give to the side characters of Pei-er, General Yue, and his subordinate Tan Heng.

Little Emperor - ngl, my favorite moment was when he ordered to kill Yuanqi! Like YES, DIE YUANQI. But also I really enjoyed his relationship with Pingjing. That ending quote though took my heart:

“Older brother Pingjing, no matter where you will be from now on, do not forget your old friend here in Jinling. You must frequently write him back." 

I love the callbacks to NIF and those scenes made me so emotional especially when Tingsheng reminisced about Mei Changsu & his father Jingyan! Also wtf happened to Fei Liu! I’m annoyed that Commander Meng didn’t spend as much time teaching Qianxue & focused on the boys instead... especially when fucking Princess Nihuang led the entire Mu army and protected the southern border. It was nice to have Pingjing & His Majesty escape through the tunnel between Changlin Manor (aka Prince Jing’s Manor) and Sir Su’s residence!!!

There are barely any fics for NIF2!!! I really with for a time travel fic where maybe the NIF2 characters meet NIF1... or NIF1 characters come to the future and help Changlin Manor and let the world know what’s up (imagine Mei Changsu scoffing at Minister Xun & The Empress). Or even PJ going back to the start of the drama, showing how much he’s grown to his father and elder brother. Some fluff between PZ & QX and PJ & LX. 

Also with both NIF & NIF2, thank goodness Langya Court isn’t evil lol... because they are certainly biased!

Ending with a shot of Ce’er waving goodbye (so cute!). Hoping to start The Legend of Fuyao or The Rise of Phoenixes next. 

[daktyl-z-jordanii-blog]

sacrifice

(xiao pingzhang & xiao pingjing, wei wuxian & jiang cheng)

[viva-la-whump]

Gotta love a good AU that gives you more whump! ;)

[nineveh-uk]

I can't vote for them under Other, because ironically I feel that switching Xiao Pingzhang and Cheng Fengtai (Huang Xiaoming) would solve more problems than it causes. Cheng Fengtai is much more politically savvy and would run rings around Xiao Pingzhang's family's court rivals. Meanwhile Xiao Pingzhang is firmly heterosexual and Fan Xiang'er would be charmed by a husband who is very attentive and apparently wants lots of sex (he doesn't really, because he hates to betray his wife, but he has to keep up the disguise and can't imagine that the guy he swapped with wouldn't be having lots of sex with this intelligent, striking woman). He's also great at dealing with invading forces and hopefully would have access to much better antivenom.

It's really fun pointing at the screen and going 'hey it's that actor!'

(Or at least it is if you can tell the actors apart when they have a different hairstyle, which i can't. In that case a trusted friend helps)

But have you ever considered.

What if the two characters changed places?

[ahintofblue]

Nirvana in Fire 2, “琅琊榜之风起长林” → Episode 24

[guzhuangheaven]

Pity your poor wife, Pingzhang.