#xie wuyan

[phoenixkaptain]

I actually love the Villainess Won’t Let the Main Leads Break Up! for a variety of reasons, chief among them being that Shen Wanqing fucking hates being self-sacrificial and refuses to do it. The System tries to get her to kill herself or the love interest, and she just won’t. System literally has to trick her into offing the love interest, because Wanqing just refuses to do so.

Speaking of the love interest, I love Xie Wuyan. He is so confused. Their first meeting (the meet-cute if you will) is him waking up to find Shen Wanqing sitting on top of him with a knife, trying to kill him. She then stabs into the earth next to his head and says “an ant almost crawled on your face, that was close.”

Xie Wuyan assumes that someone sent her to kill him. At first, he thinks that that person is stupid and underestimating him, but he later begins to think that maybe that person just sent Shen Wanqing to fail on purpose because they don’t like her. She continuously puts her own foot in her mouth and he doesn’t want her to die solely because he wants to see how she’ll accidentally sabotage herself next. He threatens her multiple times and she never reacts that way he expects her to. She is an enigma and a fool but also she’s a bit smart occasionally and he has no idea what she’s going to do and so watches with interest because he thinks it’s funny.

Shen Wanqing has a brother, the male lead of the original novel, Ji Feichen. He really honestly truly loves her like a sister and the female lead, Feng Yaoqing, also comes to love her like a sister as well. But, Ji Feichen’s relationship with Xie Wuyan is funnier, so I’ll discuss it.

When Xie Wuyan and Shen Wanqing come out after everyone thinks they’re dead, and Ji Feichen wants to see his sister and Xie Wuyan won’t let him:

Ji Feichen: “She’s my sister.”

Xie Wuyan: “I’m stronger than you.”

Ji Feichen: “What does that have to do with anything? She’s my sister”

Xie Wuyan: “I’m stronger than you!”

Ji Feichen would like his sister to be happy, yes, but he is so tired. Xie Wuyan really wishes Ji Feichen were dead, but he knows Shen Wanqing would be upset at him if he killed him, so…

Honestly the whole novel is hilarious. It has angst and all that, but I came for the comedy and boy howdy it delivered.

Shen Wanqing accidentally seducing a marquis during the hour that Ji Feichen and Xie Wuyan weren’t there. Ji Feichen comes in and is like “what happened?” but Feng Yaoqing just “idk, I was asleep and when I woke up, this.” Xie Wuyan comes in and they’re worried about the marquis’ life, Feng Yaoqing is like “do you think you could take him?” and Ji Feichen “honestly? Probably not.” They’re like, man, Wanqing is taking forever in the bathroom and Wanqing finally comes back, sees Xie Wuyan who is clearly Not Happy, and turns back around, “I have diarrhea, I’m going back.”

Shen Wanqing doesn’t want a side character to think she’s in love with Ji Feichen, so she says she’s in love with Xie Wuyan, only for Xie Wuyan to come back right as she’s saying that. A side character asks whether or not Xie Wuyan is in a relationship with anyone, and Wanqing says “actually, he’s in love with me” and Xie Wuyan shows up just in time to hear her say he’s clinging to her. The marquis is bugging him, so Xie Wuyan says “actually, Wanwing is in love with me” and Wanqing is like “ugh, do I have to? Fine.” The marquis has dream demons and they go in his dream and he’s dreaming of marrying Wanqing and Xie Wuyan throws a tantrum and Ji Feichen just stands in the corner and watches Wanqing and Xie Wuyan fight. The crew goes to a brothel and Wanqing is interested in the gigolos and Xie Wuyan is less than impressed.

Shen Wanqing is like “You can’t kill this person, he’s too high profile, you’ll be put on a wanted list, you can’t be put on a wanted list. Let Xuanniao do it instead, he can be put on a wanted list.”shen Wanqing asks him to delete pages often enough that when she acts nice to him, Xie Wuyan’s first response is “what page do you want me to delete?”

Shen Wanqing becomes Palace Master and turns the drab palace into a real, uh, place. She bullies absolutely all of her neighbours. She kidnaps multiple demons. She has demon generals, none of whom have any qualifications. She makes a zoo, of which every single animal is one she calls a baby but everyone else calls terrifying. She discovers the place set up for harem members and fills it with only the weirdest looking guys out of spite (despite the fact that nobody has ever actually loved in it before and Xuanniao made it without asking Xie Wuyan if he wanted it). Upon discovering that the demons inside improved themselves so they wouldn’t be forced to leave, Shen Wanqing announces herself the demon lord’s most beloved concubine. She signs her letters as such.

Xie Wuyan acts cold, but he threatens the king of tiger demons with the OP sword of the world until Maomao is nicer to Wanqing. He very politely thanks Feng Yaoqing for spending time with Wanqing and looking after her. He doesn’t want to hurt her and he reads her diary and he gives her a cute dress when she’s upset so she’ll forgive him. He doesn’t make her get rid of her karaoke (non-alcoholic) bar and he takes over the demon realm because she mentioned wanting him to (for a really silly reason) and he steals a flying carriage so she can travel in comfort and when she gets into a fight with someone over one silver tael, he agrees to fight the other woman’s husband. Shen Wanqing is called his feisty cat and honestly, it’s a pretty accurate title.

All in all, good novel. I liked it. Shameless MCs are the only MCs I love, and few are as shameless as Shen Wanqing, who upon making up fake names for them all, gives Xie Wuyan a name equivalent to calling him Rover. 10/10, Xie Wuyan goes through so much and most of it is emotional turmoil.

[hils79]

Monday Fic Recs

Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua (Mysterious Lotus Casebook)

like the sea over sand by scy

Li Lianhua waits, is found, and probably needs, among other things, a warmer cloak. Also, he is an unreliable narrator, especially to himself. Di Feisheng and Fang Duobing are aware of some of this and the rest of it will be addressed very soon.

I love that his is told from Li Lianhua's POV and how grumpy he gets over people fussing and taking care of him.

Soft As Snowfall Over Jagged Ice by silver_sun

For the first time that Di Feisheng can truly remember, he is absolutely free. He can go anywhere, choose any life he wants, and do whatever pleases him. And he’s made his choices. He’ll go to the Lotus Tower, and choose to live there on whatever terms Li Xiangyi will agree to, and do…well there are many things he wants to do to Li Xiangyi.

Or Di Feisheng decides to leave the everyday running of Jinyuan Alliance to Wuyan, struggles with being able to relax or even sleep following having been alert for danger for so long, and goes to visit Li Xiangyi, because he's pinning his whole future on getting to be there with him.

Exhausted and having not had time to process anything that's happened to him over the last couple of weeks - or possibly ever, Di Feisheng jumps to an awful conclusion regarding Li Xiangyi willingness to stay alive even though cured from a half heard conversation. The resulting situation leaving him in need of care and comfort.

This is so beautifully written. A lovely story about comfort and healing, because god knows all three of them need it.

Hei Xiazi/Xie Yuchen (DMBJ)

A Collection Of Mishaps and Miseries by strandedchesspiece

HeiHua Whumptober prompt fills

(Drabbles and short one-shots)

A wonderful series of whump. I loved every single one of them.

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Complete character tag list

(sorted approximately by location and/or faction)

Lotus Tower:

Li Lianhua and associated tags (outfits, etc)

Fang Duobing and associated tags (outfits, etc)

Di Feisheng and associated tags (outfits, etc)

Hulijing/Fox Spirit

Sigu Sect/Baichuan Court:

Qiao Wanmian

Shan Gudao

Xiao Zijin

Shi Shui

Yun Biqiu

Bai Jiangchun

Ji Hanfo

Jinyuan Alliance

Jiao Liqiao

Wuyan

King Xunming of Yama

Yao Mo/Medicine Demon

Snow Master/Xue Gong

Granny Blood/Xie Po

Tianji Hall

He Xiaohui

He Xiaolan

He Xiaofeng

Minister Fang

Zhan Yunfei

Wang Fu

Li'er

Palace

Princess Zhaoling/Qing'er

Emperor

Xuanyuan Xiao

Yang Yunchun

Other

Su Xiaoyong

Guan Hemeng

Qi Mushan

Qin Po

Monk Wuliao

Feng Qing (Wansheng Clan)

Li Xiong and Li Xiao (Xiao Yuan City arc)

Lu Jianchi and Jin Youdao (drinking buddies)

Liu Rujing (former Sigu Sect)

Li Xiangyi's family

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[sunshine304]

Legend of Fei Ep 34

OMG Chuchu, after everything you’ve seen and went through, you’re still far too trusting and naïve. T_T She’s just like, “Yeah, sure, I’ll go into the forest with this shady-looking stranger because he claims to have seen Li Sheng!” Like, girl, no! sigh Well, since this is based on a YA novel, nothing truly bad will happen to her of course as Feng Wuyan desperately wants to get through the forest.

Yin Pei is not happy about all of this! He now wants to intervene pretending to be someone else. Uh how will he hide his face? A mask? Again?

Feng Wuyan notices that Chuchu actually doesn't know how to navigate the forest. he's pissed and leaves. Chuchu is so optimistic that she goes into the potentially deadly forest anyway. Okay then.

Awww A-Fei and Mu Xiaoqiao are still bonding! A-Fei also has noticed that MXQ’s powers are declining, that his martial arts style is harming him. But she also manages to make him laugh. They’re so cute!

Ah. I always forget the huge hats with the long fabric draped over them. So, Yin Pei has a hat for concealing his face. He helps Chuchu, who indeed is lost, and she yet again trusts this weird mysterious person who showed up out of nowhere. It’s almost dark now, too. Seems she was running around in that forest for a while. After helping Chuchu, Yin Pei meets Feng Wuyan (who doesn’t recognise him) who tells him about Li Sheng. Now Yin Pei is pissed and helps FWY through the forest as well – I guess because he wants him to kill Li Sheng? Because.. he wants Chuchu for himself? IDK.

DRAMA! Li Sheng and Feng Wuyan fight, FWY basically wins but demands that Li Sheng tell him the secret formations that Chongxiao taught him. Li Sheng refuses. Chuchu vanishes basically during this conversation, IDK, I guess she… fled to seek help? IDK. Anyway FWY has a deep crisis, thinking about his past and how he is the heir of Qi School but was too arrogant and fucked up, and now the Qi School is basically dead and some rando is the last one to know its secrets… This does things to a man, I imagine. Li Sheng is like, “Bummer. Guess I have to console him now.”

A-Fei and Mu Xiaoqiao make a pact: He’ll help her get the lotus and she’ll give him the seal of the Huo family later, after she’s done with the shit she’s doing. They then go to trick that Disha guy still waiting out in the snow for them. A-Fei can finally get the lotus, thank heaven.

Back to Li Sheng, who notices a reference to the HTYS in the fly-whisk while he’s still kinda bonding with FWY? And then Disha arrive, because of course they do! They found Chuchu outside in the forest and somehow found the way to the temple.

Gu Tianxian and Feng Wuyan fight over the fly-whisk, but Chuchu can trick them and get it. She is hurt in the process, though, oh no! :(

Let’s check in on Li Yan: She recites the poem from the map fearing that she might forget it. Like… write it down, perhaps? It had been written down before…?

A-Fei and Mu Xiaoqiao part ways at the foot of the mountains where both their horses very nicely have waited for them, however long they actually sat on that mountain. MXQ says he trusts her to keep her word (or else!).

Chuchu is hurt badly it seems and Li Sheng tries to bring her to Madame Nichang, who has retired to… somewhere.

OMG I’d forgotten about this asshole! Yu Wenzhi, advisor to the Emperor (I think, something like that) shows up at Disha Manor to annoy Hu Tianying. He’s pissed that Disha has messed up so much and the HTYS is still lost and especially that Xie Yun is not dead. We learn that he put his trust in her after she murdered Li Zheng, poisoned Xie Yun and destroyed Big Medicine Valley. Wow, that woman sure had a busy schedule.

Gu Tianxian is back home from the Qi School again and is immediately sent to look for the HTYS again by Shen Tianshu. I guess this is just for us to know that he got out of there and is now running around again to likely happen upon any of the teenagers…

A-Fei brings the lotus to Penglai and faints from exhaustion. When she wakes, she’s told that Xie Yun is better but that he is now in seclusion. She’s sad about it but wants to also go immediately to look for the third important plant that they’ll need. It’s in the south, close to Little Medicine Valley and she thinks that Yang Jin or Ying Hecong might be able to help her.

We end with Shen Tianshu and Hu Tianying. She tells him that he's still too hurt and he wonders if everything he's done so far was just a waste of time. Oh the sadness. (┬┬﹏┬┬)

[sunshine304]

I’m sorry, it’s been a bit slow going because of ~Reasons but I’ve at least  managed eps 13 + 14!

Awww Li Sheng has “read some books”. Good for you! XD But seriously, what else was there to do at 48 Strongholds except sword training and book reading? Anyway, the bad guy in Li Sheng’s current arc is smirk king Feng Wuyan (Wuyuan?), and it seems that Li Sheng is actually making some kind of progress.

Yin Pei is still jumping between shouting and crying, gets called “A-Pei” by Ji Yunchen. That’s... awfully familiar. Hmmm.

General Wen wants Xie Yun to come back (to court?) but XY is... conflicted I guess. So it’s backstory time! He’s actually Xiao Chuan (or Zhuang? the wikis are not clear here), born to the prince of the former dynasty (so his grandpa was the emperor?) and then there was rebellion or sth, everyone’s dead, but that nice eunuch rescued little infant XY. And then General Wen brought him back... someday because they wanted to get that family back as emperor I guess, then there was a hostage exchange with the neighbour like, “please let’s not fight again yeah?” and then there was another rebellion, and now there’s the new dynasty where Chen Zichen is now a prince. I guess. Well I guess I’m close enough in recapping this.

Yet again, I love Chuchu! Everyone’s just sending her from one place to the next like, “Deal with it”, and now she puts her foot down! “I only trust A-Fei, I’m not an object, so please don’t pass me around like one.” ♥

OMG Xie Yun whining at A-Fei’s door and begging! XD Also, then he’s sad because Zhou Fei is.. well, not exactly winning at empathy. XD

Great how Zheng Luosheng (the Azure Dragon Master, and really, those 4 Mountain Masters have really cool names) is like “Nah we’ll not fight” at first and then sees two hot young women and is like, “Hm changed my mind, let’s fight, I want them.” Wow. *eyeroll*

XY: “Yay I’m eloping with a pretty girl!” ZF: “Is it forbidden to hit the emperor?” (asking for a friend) XD

Oookay there is slowly some backstory emerging for Yin Pei. Thank you but I feel it would have more impact if we’d known him before. He’s crying all the time so it’s all very sad, I’m sure. He’s the descendant of Yin Wenlan, who is another cool awesome super swordmaster!

WTF Zheng Luosheng has... a mouse?! Seriously? (And thanks again for telling us that this obvious CGI mouse isn’t real.) Also, I guess the inn owner (who was also some important master) sacrifices himself? Seems like it anyway.

I love how XY simply always knows everything about anyone and anything! XD King of exposition and then acting innocent as if he never said anything at all. XD

Also, Yin Pei is super annoyed by all the flirting. XD I’m not sure if I should like him or be irritated by him. We’ll see. But I think he is one of the main cast so he will be there for quite a while.

What I noticed at times: You can see the actors breath in some of the outdoor scenes. I looked it up and they shot from Sept 2019 till April 2020 with a break in there. Well, seems that it was at times really cold.

Ep 14 brings us backstory on Yin Pei and Ji Yunchen (finally!). So Ji Yunchen was an arrogant youth (as ... almost everyone seems to be in this show if they aren’t cute) whose master Guan Feng (the Blade of the North - to Li Zheng’s Blade of the South) had warned him to cross the border to the south but JYC went anyway. He also challenged pretty much anyone he met and killed them because he was just that awesome and skilled and arrogant. He hears some people gossip about how awesomely awesome Yin Wenlan is and goes to challenge him. As you do.

Interlude for A-Fei feeling insecure and inferior because all the great masters she knows (her mother, 9th Madam Duan, Ji Yunchen) did cool shit when they were her age and what does she do? Yeah right nothing, she thinks. XY notices immediately that A-Fei is sad. ♥

Anyway back to tragic backstory. It seems Yin Wenlan fought Guan Feng back in the day and bested him which Ji Yunchen can’t let slide; he wants revenge for his master’s humiliation. So he kidnaps YWL’s son (as you fucking do) who just so happens to be Yin Pei. YWL shows up, they fight, he bests JYC even though he was already heavily injured from a fight with Disha shortly before, and then someone tells him that his whole clan just got attacked. I have to wonder about this timing, seriously. And I assume this was not a coincidence. XY definitely implies that there’s sth fishy about it. When Ji Yunchen brings Yin Pei back to his family the whole clan is indeed slaughtered including YWL. Very sad. :( So JYC becomes Yin Pei’s foster father and feels very bad about it all. Then Yin Pei finds out about the circumstances (how?) and joins Azure Dragon Master.

XY says some good and kind stuff, but JYC wants to keep wallowing and YP is a bitch. Ah well. There’s some flirting with A-Fei until she notices that she has been nice to XY for about 10 minutes and steps on his foot. “I get mad just looking at you.”

Uhuh.

I just love how Zhou Fei is always, always in “Fight me!” mode. XD

Azure Dragon Master with those loud gongs. This is not actually a stealthy way to stalk someone. XD

Excuuuuuse me, the “fragrance smelling mouse”?!?! What is this shit?! And thank you, A-Fei, for voicing my thoughts. He could’ve mentioned that!

XY does what he does best: Talk. XD And you can never know for sure if he’s serious or not. But I think the stuff with the sword is true and he just backtracks later on. Also he’s like, “Yep I’m royalty” but never wants to elaborate and ppl just accept it. XD

Anyway, for anyone who wants to ship it (I don’t see it so far but who knows):

Ahhh and there’s the bit with XY going, “Why is A-Fei covering for us! Does she want to kill off my future offspring?!” XD In his imagination they’ve been married for a while, have a house, he cooks for her and combs her hair and dotes on his beautiful heroine of a wife feeding her grapes or something. XD

At least A-Fei now notices that there’s something going on between them, too. Well, kinda. “I trust him. Is it because of his good-looking face?” Hmmm IDK A-Fei, is it? XD

So okay Yin Pei seems to have his own agenda and they’re confronting him about it. In the cool cave that is definitely totally trustworthy and not dangerous at all I guess. XD