Oh and she also tortured shige's little brother, but it certainly shouldn't be obstacle to their happy marriage. Yes? 🥺
Round 1, Match 16: Liu Qingge vs Wang Manchun
Match 16 is between Liu Qingge (shixiong: Shen Qingqiu) from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System vs Wang Manchun (shixiong: Ming Lou) from The Disguiser
Propaganda under the cut
Liu Qingge:
Okay I marked this as non-canonical but that's just because Shen Yuan is completely oblivious to how down-bad everyone around him is
Liu Qingge constantly aids and takes care of Shen Qingqiu, even fighting Luo Binghe (the actual ML) for 5 years to return Shen Qingqiu's body.
Wang Manchun:
Shi-ge? Why won't you marry me shi-ge? It's all your da-jie's fault! I can't believe she won't let us marry simply because my uncle had your parents assassinated and tried to also have you assassinated! She is so cruel and horrible your da-jie is an awful hag! She's the only reason you won't marry me and its definitely nothing to do with the fact I torture people for fun. Shi-ge?! Shi-ge come baaaaaaaack
[ID: gifs of the series "Mysterious Lotus Casebook" showing Fang Duobing's sword. It features a decorative silver hilt with a tiger on the pommel and a piece of circular white jade hanging off of the end. In two of the gifs he is seen threatening Li Lianhua with it. /end ID]
The sheer sense of defeat in his last moments - asking for forgiveness without thinking he deserves it - feeling a failure as a lover, a brother, a friend, a sect leader. He’s a legend but he does not die gloriously in battle and there is no huge meaning. At most showing that BCF did not kill him prevented WXS from killing BCF (but BCF still died) and some sect members remained alive who wouldn’t have otherwise but he does not feel this is any sort of a triumph. The fact that he dies as a mercy killing, on his knees, emotionally spent and defeated. This drama is emotionally AWFUL!
The incomprehension in WXS’ eyes. Ouch. He does not know about the poison.
And he gives the signal. And YWX hesitates and he has to remind him and just - the sheer determination in this. The man never truly broke and he at least died by the side of his loved ones and with his mind and will still his own but oh god.
Yup, that’s his da ge’s blood splashing over WXS’ face.
This is her doom, too. But while there is grief, there is no surprise. She knew he’d never live a puppet. And despite his telling her to move on, I think on some level he knew this is her end tbh - his telling her otherwise was wilful delusion like hers that they could be together.
Don’t think it has escaped me that Su Mengzhen committed assisted suicide over Bai Choufei’s body and in WXS’ arms.