#zhao qindan

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WN Women Bonus Polls #4: Priest

[Propaganda below] - Spoilers Warning!

Feng Xiaoshu/Princess Jing’an from Lord Seventh

"How could a good-for-nothing hedonist like me be a match for a heroine like her? Don't be silly, Your Majesty." - Jing Beiyuan, Lord Seventh (Tumblr)

Submission: i love the kind of woman that can kick my ass 

Differences between FXS in Lord Seventh & Word of Honor (she’s wildly different lol)

Gu Xiang from Faraway Wanderers / TYK

Submission: She's purple and she's dumb as rocks and i love her 

Lang Qiao from Mo Du / Silent Reading

[No propaganda submitted]

Carrd Link

Lin Jingshu from Can Ci Pin / Imperfections

[No Propaganda Submitted] 

Carrd Link

Liu Qianqiao from Faraway Wanderers

Submission: someone please tell Liu Qianqiao to drоp her ungrateful man and also that im frеe on thursday night and would like to hаng out. on thursday night, when im frеe. 

Wiki Link

Manman from Itinerant Doctor / Youyi

Submission: *waves around adoption papers*

Youyi Carrd Link 

Su Qingluan from Lord Seventh

[No propaganda submitted]

Wei Chengxiang from Tai Sui

Submission: 

Wei Chengxiang is one of the most important characters in Tai Sui. She's the impoverished foil to the rich kid protagonist, and she becomes one of his most important friends. She grows up to travel the world, joining the most downtrodden, powerless people on her continent and helping fight for them to have a better life.  She dresses like a boy as a child in order to work factory jobs, and once she's grown up, she continues to dress in "men's clothes" despite living as a woman. She trades sassy backtalk with one of the most terrifying people in history. She has kickass gambling-themed cultivation powers. She gives her friends handmade embroidered new years gifts. She has a permanent magic wound on her face in the shape of a tear track. She goes on a revenge quest and succeeds! She kills the people that hurt her loved ones and eventually contributes to the downfall of the entire societal system that abused her.  She goes from impoverished orphan to founder of a rebuilt nation, and she never once stops being wise as hell and cool as hell in that time, even when she's facing unfathomable odds. I love her. 

Zhao Qindan from Tai Sui

Submission: 

Zhao Qindan is a smart, generally talented rich girl that grows up extremely sheltered as a result of her family's power. When she's introduced, she's very much the naive rich girl archetype. Then, as a young adult, she's almost forced into a heinous arranged marriage, and the main character has to step in to save her. She's suddenly thrown into the real world in the aftermath as she flees her family, and she's utterly unprepared to deal with this.  But! Over the next nine years, once out from her family's thumb, Zhao Qindan grows up into an intellectual powerhouse. She takes up the cause of the poor and downtrodden, and she learns about the system of sexism that drove her to her own desperate situation (the arranged marriage). She becomes a renowned debater and public intellectual, and she later begins to write for one of the continent's first newspapers. She eventually becomes one of the most respected reporters on the entire continent, shaping public opinion near-single-handedly, and she helps dismantle the social systems that led to both her family's unfair privileges and her near-miss forced marriage.  She lives for two hundred years and never marries, reaching old age as an internationally beloved and respected author. She's unbelievably cool. Dandan ILY.

[grassbreads]

Before Wei Chengxiang raises anchor on her first expedition beyond the continent, Zhao Qindan comes to pay a farewell visit.

Zhao Qindan/Wei Chengxiang fic is up on Ao3!!

Come get your once-yearly grassbreads fanfic oneshot :)

[stardust-falling]

Currently halfway through Tai Sui and already shipping Wei Chengxiang and Zhao Qindan so hard…

[cinammonelles]

Sketchbook is full so here's a little ts sketch dump :>

Bonus Xi Ping I literally don't remember drawing

[pippuns]

a life of regret is aptly named because xi ping is for sure regretting many things

[keupastel]

taisui log 1

[unfotp]

I know the average intelligence even irl is uh not well most people do make stupid decisions and deal with it but within a cultivation novel the overall brain cells used other than the protagonist is mostly -10. fodder as they say and it gets annoying most of the time but in tai sui you see

in tai sui you see your main protagonist is definitely smart and has this beautiful thing called kindness. obviously he uses his kindness in specific situations but it's there at heart and that what matters. the problem isn't that he's a brat

bratty characters are my favourite I love them with every fibre of my being i genuinely adore Xi Ping. i also adore how rude and obnoxious he is. so when the side characters make stupid decisions I don't stress myself out with ohmygod what will happen know because i KNOW i know that whatever happens will be absolutely hilarious because xi ping will absolutely find a way to make things worse.

anyway imagine you're a runaway bride from your family who are runaway treason committing assholes hiding in the neighbouring country. WHY WOULD YOU GO BACK TO THEM YOU FOOLISH GIRL

[hiemaldesirae]

prince zhuang… zhou ying…. oh babygirl you are soooo fucked up and evil

(plus an a-xiang and tiny little dandan)

[un-jaseur]

pose based on this.

[hnyibee]

wonder how priest feels knowing she has some of the coolest women ever in her character roster

[morethanwonderful]

God there are SO many stories that use a tragic death as an initial character motivation/a way to thrust a sheltered character into the real world, and so many of those where it's specifically a woman's tragic death as the inciting incident for the male protagonist's journey, but no other instance of that trope has cause me anywhere near as much heartache as Jiangli/Chen Baishao from Tai Sui.

Like, Jiangli gives up her life to save Xi Ping, and the story never ever lets you forget that she has become a part of him in this way. And Xi Ping never forgets it either.

Almost the entire second book is the story of Xi Ping going on an epic journey to avenge Jiangli's ruin and death. He names himself Jiangli when he needs a woman's name as "Zhao Qindan's" servant in book 3. Hundreds of years after her death in the extras, he takes "Mr Peony" as his final stage name and wears a white peony in his hair to honor her. One of the last twists of the novel is that Xi Ping being saved by Jiangli's life swapping talisman was fate, a destiny passed down from his probable ancestor Yuan Hui being saved by his mother in the exact same fashion.

A trod upon, cast aside sex worker gives up her life to save a boy that was a little kind to her, and in the process, she sets into motion the chain of events that will one day rewrite the entire world and topple all the systems that led to her abuse and destruction. A girl sacrifices herself for her crush and in doing so becomes an impression on the heart of the world's very last living god. Jiangli dies in the first story arc and she is inextricably tied to the cycle of fate and fall of immortality that the whole story centers upon.

In the final arc of Tai Sui, when Zhi Xiu and Xi Ping talk before deciding how to save the world together, Xi Ping speaks of Jiangli in fondness and in painful melancholy as a friend. He corrects a rumor that gives him credit for an accomplishment he helped her with. He maintains her as her own person separate from himself, but carries her death always as a part of him.

She doesn't change him exactly, because Xi Ping is by nature loath to be changed, but her imprint is always there deep in the core of his being.

There are so many ways that Xi Ping is marked by her death—so many ways that he carries her with him both consciously and unconsciously. She is dead and written out of the narrative and Xi Ping will never let you forget that she was a part of it. He grows around his grief for her, but it never goes away.

There's just the intense aching melancholy surrounding Jiangli and Xi Ping that makes me feel like nothing else. The tragic young woman death by origin story trope is so tired, but I can never be mad at this instance bc Chen Baishao is the all-time fucking example of it.

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Web Novel Women Tournament 

[Please be kind and respectful in the notes. Anti-Propaganda is NOT allowed.]

Li Xian from Female General and Eldest Princess

"If you go fight against the enemy now, that is the best way to protect me."  - Li Xian, Female General and Eldest Princess, Chapter 25

Submission: Lesbian princess who is excellent at manipulating people and schemes all day every day. The girlboss of all time. 

Mod Propaganda: The Eldest Princess who’s (originally) trying to keep herself and her sickly brother, Crown Prince Li Zhu, alive during a fight for the throne

Zhao Qindan from Tai Sui

Submission: 

Zhao Qindan is a smart, generally talented rich girl that grows up extremely sheltered as a result of her family's power. When she's introduced, she's very much the naive rich girl archetype. Then, as a young adult, she's almost forced into a heinous arranged marriage, and the main character has to step in to save her. She's suddenly thrown into the real world in the aftermath as she flees her family, and she's utterly unprepared to deal with this.  But! Over the next nine years, once out from her family's thumb, Zhao Qindan grows up into an intellectual powerhouse. She takes up the cause of the poor and downtrodden, and she learns about the system of sexism that drove her to her own desperate situation (the arranged marriage). She becomes a renowned debater and public intellectual, and she later begins to write for one of the continent's first newspapers. She eventually becomes one of the most respected reporters on the entire continent, shaping public opinion near-single-handedly, and she helps dismantle the social systems that led to both her family's unfair privileges and her near-miss forced marriage.  She lives for two hundred years and never marries, reaching old age as an internationally beloved and respected author. She's unbelievably cool. Dandan ILY.

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

hello to the 3 tai sui people on the internet. if i joined this with like. zhao qindan and wei chengxiang. would u all consider also joining

[lady-a-white]

The night wind carrying spiritual energy touched her meridians. The Way of the Heart Zhao Qindan had always felt wasn’t very firm because she hadn’t inherited it suddenly became fixed amid the mournful-seeming laughter of the Turmoilers.  

People were born different. Some people were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and some people’s swaddling clothes served as mourning garb for their deceased parents; some people were born full of wits or with the strength to lift a cauldron, and some people were naturally deformed, bedridden all their lives; all people were divided among male and female, strong and weak, clever and foolish, their natural endowments separated into many grades…but so what?  

If you were frail and sickly, did that mean you should lie in bed and wait to die? If you were born lowly, did that mean you had to be lowly all your life? Should a woman marry and take on a slave’s brand, be a playing chip with no freedom of her own, birth another’s children?  

She wanted every person in the world to be able to live for the sake of achieving their own goals, even if their whole life was spent exhausting their strength in a struggle to remain human.

- Tai Sui by Priest

[pippuns]

i love that xi ping is now a cautionary tale at the latent cultivation temple

[grassbreads]

Was seized with the powerful urge to write fic out of nowhere, so now I'm suddenly 800 words into the Wei Chengxiang/Zhao Qindan idea that's been rattling around in my head for like a month