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Babies drop their pacifier and look at you like “ah lads” as if remembering what they had to do to survive the Battle of Culloden

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censorship: “dis too gay, cut it from the show”

fansite: “no worries, fam, we got yo covered”

(Cr. 并蒂·1129x0511)

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HERE IT IS LADS! THE ULTIMATE CULIMINATION OF ALL THOSE WEDDING JOKES 💀💀💀 AT THIS POINT I AM CONVINCED WORD OF HONOR AND ITS CAST IS JUST ONE MASSIVE FEVER DREAM

So Gong Jun was invited to Chuang2021 as a guest (he did a really good job by the way!! 🥺) and throughout the event he would occasionally bring up a certain "Zhang-Laoshi"

So here he's being asked who he would form a boygroup with if ever given the chance,

*btw he ONLY referred to him as Zhang-Laoshi throughout the event and never by his fullname! It's hilarious that the Tencent subbing team just automatically subbed it with ZZH's complete name. Why are they so sure it's ZZH, huh?? There must be tons of other Zhang-Laoshis out there 😂

What he said was, "和我最匹配的人也就只能是张老师了” and I'd translate it as "the person most compatible with me can only be Zhang-Laoshi" or "the best match for me can only be Zhang-Laoshi"

The term he used was 匹配 and it is LITERALLY

He basically called him his perfect match! 最匹配! GONG JUN PLS NOBODY WAS ASKING THAT! HE DID NOT HAVE TO GO THAT HARD! AND BTW JUST TWO PEOPLE ISN'T ENOUGH FOR A BOYGROUP?!!

Then, he specifically called out a trainee, Wu Yuheng, to tell him that he's going to support him, because Zhang-Laoshi sent him a hongbao when they were chatting the night before. Wu Yuheng is ZZH's junior from the same company!

HE'S PROBABLY WONDERING WHY THE GUEST MENTOR IS ESPECIALLY FAVOURING HIM LMAO

The rest of the members of his group were like "Thank you, Laoshi" but Wu Yuheng said, "Thank you, Ge" to him instead, so now Wu Yuheng's fans are referring to Gong Jun as "brother in law" asjksgsksg HELP

And now the funniest thing about all of this, and the whole point of this post, is that a lot of people who didn't watch Word of Honor and don't know about Wenzhou, thought that Gong Jun was married after watching Chuang 😂

I kid you not, there were A LOT of people who LEGITIMATELY thought that Gong Jun was married to this elusive, mysterious "Zhang-Laoshi" that he kept on talking about.

This was further exacerbated by the fact that the host, Deng Chao, also refers to his actual wife as Sun-Laoshi! Whenever he mentions Sun-Laoshi, everyone knows he's talking about his wife. So you can probably imagine what happened when Gong Jun also kept bringing up his own mysterious "Zhang-Laoshi" 💀

Him talking about Zhang-Laoshi a lot, plus the stacked rings on his ringfinger, his overall demeanor and choice of words, the hongbao and the special favour for a specific trainee, all led to this one glorious misunderstanding. The stars really aligned for this to happen and I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING 💀💀💀

Some of the comments were just absolute GOLD. Like saying that they felt that Gong Jun was really too much, constantly talking about his lover during the event! 😭 And some were going "well it must be his wife, otherwise he would refer to them with their full name and not just a vague Zhang-Laoshi as if he expects everyone to know exactly who that person is" and also "he really smiles a lot when talking about his lover huh" asjkdgsdhs HELP ME WHAT KIND OF SITUATION IS THIS 💀

This is.....unprecedented. Clownery at its finest. LITERALLY ALL OTHER FANDOMS CAN GO HOME. I'm still laughing at the sheer audacity and absurdity of it all. All of the shameless wedding jokes the fandom and the cast members have been making until now have been absolutely STEAMROLLED into fucking oblivion by none other than Gong Jun himself.

Chen Zihan with her top trending Wenzhou wedding edit? Huang Youming and his wedding jokes? Zhang Zhehan calling them the hottest couple? Well Gong Jun skipped wenzhou's wedding altogether and literally made people believe he was married to ZZH 😂 I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE

I just???? What is this cast even doing?????💀

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So when the Word of Honor concert was first announced, there were lots of inside jokes in the fandom about how a live concert would even work when the entire cast is unhinged as hell and that every single one of them made it their own personal mission to make sure everyone knows that WenZhou are in love and married, censorship be damned.

One of the predicted outcomes was someone's microphone getting cut off mid-speech. But who was it going to be? The mad man Zhang Zhehan himself? Huang Youming with his wedding table jokes? Chen Zihan with her top trending wedding edit? Gong Jun the human collander? Wang-Laoshi and his blatant RPS agenda?

Well it was none of them because it was freaking Heizi-Laoshi (Gao Chong) of all people.

It started on the first day of the concert, when the 5 Lakes Alliance uncles shocked the fandom by being the first of the cast members to crack. They wrote 老温 Lao Wen ❤️ 老周 Lao Zhou on their whiteboards and held it up behind the unsuspecting Wenzhou's heads.

On the second day of the concert, people noticed that their seats were moved to the opposite side, as far away from Wenzhou as the seating arrangements allowed.

But what Youku and the concert staff didn't know at that time is that distance does not matter in the face of a determined Heizi-Laoshi. He had a big booming voice and was certainly not afraid to use it. Unstoppable Force (Heizi-Laoshi) versus Immovable Object (Censorship)

MC: "Heizi-Laoshi is going to show us his talent!"

Heizi-Laoshi: "YES I AM GOING TO SING A SONG AS A TRIBUTE TO OUR WENZHOU'S LOVE!"

Heizi-Laoshi, after singing: "I WISH THAT THEY WILL ACCOMPANY EACH OTHER FOREVER UNTIL THEIR HAIRS TURN GRAY AND WHI-" *mic gets cut off*

MCs, desperately trying to drown out the crowd's screaming: "THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU HEIZI-LAOSHI, THANK YOU!!!!"

The only thing more impressive than Heizi-Laoshi's determination to literally scream out Wenzhou's love to the world is how casually Zhang Zhehan and Gong Jun reacted to the whole thing. No embarrassment, no awkwardness. Just pure chaotic approval.

And then Huang Youming, determined not to be outdone, declares that he will be singing a song as well.

Huang Youming: "I'M GOING TO SING A SONG BY MY IDOL JAY CHOU"

MCs: "Okay!" ☺️

Huang Youming: THE TITLE OF THE SONG IS "A SECRET THAT CANNOT BE TOLD"

MCs: "HUH????"

In the end, none of the parts described in this post were included in the livestream's replay version. No doubt the funniest thing about all this is that everyone expected the younger cast members to go wild, but it was the uncles who ended up scandalizing everyone. Huang Youming was expected, but literally NO ONE saw Heizi-Laoshi coming. Bless his shipper heart.

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i literally stayed up all night watching shl fans wilding on weibo 😭

for those who don't know, Chen Zihan (who plays xisang gui/traginomic ghost) posted a video edit of her character officiating wenzhou's marriage, and it blew up so fast she had to delete it. But the fandom (bless them) got a little TOO into it that "chen zihan hosts wenzhou's big wedding" trended #1 on weibo for a while

Cfans, probably: "hehe wenzhou married...SHIT OH SHIT IT'S NOT MOVING FROM THE #1 TRENDS SHIT OHH FUCK"

So to do damage control, fans desperately started spamming the tag with SHL poster edits that make it look like one of those 90s wuxia shows with ChengLing as the main protagonist. They also spammed some Cao Weining/Gu Xiang pics in there for good measure all the while insisting that it's just your good ol' average wuxia show nothing to see here.

After some time the tag dropped down to #9 very quickly, so fans speculated that Youku must have forked out some cash to drop the trend, but it rose again to #7 in a while 😭

Youku, probably: "C'mon guys work with us here,"

Cfans: "hehe wenzhou wedding go brrrr"

Everything's chill now but it was definitely wild as hell last night 😂 Chen Zihan probably did not know the chaos she would unleash with that one little edit and it's so fucking funny how freaking bold everyone on the show is, from Li Daikun (scorpion king) spilling the tea nonstop during his livestreams to Zhang Zhehan talking about how they had to retake a certain scene and how much better the original cut was than the one that was aired, only for c-fans to dig out the original footage and were shocked to see how bold it was. They were like "well no wonder the director had to tell those two many times to tone it down! The original cut would not have passed inspection!"

Anyway this is Chen Zihan, the queen herself, a harbinger of #1 top trending topics and an agent of chaos 🔥🔥🔥

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immortal curmudgeon’s adventures in modern day china for @thebaoxiang zine

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No context.

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WAIT THEY DID NOT JUST DO THIS HOLY SHIT

W A I T

I’m so sorry for all the screaming but oh my god I’m losing it I’m trying so hard to contain myself but please do read all of my posts in a screaming way because despite the lack of all caps I’m actually screaming and not calm at all

I can’t believe it we actually have the clip of A-Xu leaning against Wen Kexing which never made it to the final cut for episode 27

And also the way he cupped his face in this version is so much softer, and Wen Kexing is also a lot softer and this whole mf clip is so soft, im out here sobbing because of all the softness ahshasgahgsjaahsjsja

They really did film every fucking thing 😭💖

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ye baiyi + text posts (1) (2) (3)

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been watching word of honor

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one of my favorite scenes in all of word of honor is episode 14 at exactly the 2min mark where ye baiyi shows up and is like "you're my idiot students idiot stupid idiocity is generational anyway strip my Immortal Daddy sense tells me you ill as fuck" and zhou zishu is like "you want me to STRIP in the middle of the HOTEL LOBBY???" and YBY is like, "god millennials these days" and then they fight and YBY rips a piece of ZZS's undershirt off and the camera pans to it gently fluttering in the wind like it's the last love letter of a jane austen char got from their beloved with news they died in the war as they gaze over the cliffside over the stormy ocean and then BAM Wen KeXing shows up like a jerry springer guest from the side door and is like "UNHAND MY BELOVED THE REASON MY HEART BEATS EACH MORNING WHEN THE SUN RISES" and catches ZZS by his tiny waist to dramatic spin for extra fruit flavor and YBY is like "who the fuck invited this twink?" and then they fight and it explodes a river and shit and ZZS is like "omg you're gonna wake up the whole neighborhood!!" and YBY is like "I'm literally to Daddy to be dealing with this shit just strip so I can diagnose your martial arts cancer" and WKX is like "MY BABY HAS CANCER???" and tries to strip ZZS himself and ZZS is like "what in the fucking 90s shojo manga by Yu Watase Fushigi Yugi shit is this we're in a CLAMP manga stop pulling at my clothes!!!!" and then just to be extra dramatic and Gay (tm) ZZS rips open his own shirt to reveal *gasp* three nipples nails of martial arts cancer and YBY is just like "damn bae you fucked" and WKX has a complete Gay Breakdown

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ye baiyi + text posts (1) (2)

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Word of Honor + Text Posts (7/?)

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This has been haunting my brain all day.

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ghosts

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Word of Honor ❖ Wen Kexing + outfits

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word of honor as whisper posts