#feihua

[difeisheng]

I have already fallen deaf and blind

And we are left now with the final countdown

How can one speak clearly of every minute, every moment, in just a few words?

If there still remains the final tacit understanding between us

The only gift we have, this final tacit understanding

Then let us use it

To lay this love to rest.

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) // 啊默契 (Ah, Tacit Understanding), Liu Yuning

[cheetahing]

fic meme fill for @orchisailsa for the prompt: Post-canon DFS being uncharacteristically sweet and trying to kiss LLH in the kitchen to distract him while FDB sneaks behind them to try to salvage whatever he's attempting to cook

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di feisheng waves smoke out of his face, frowning into lotus tower's kitchen. he doesn't know what exactly li lianhua is cooking up, but he doubts it's anything good. while his regular fare has improved, regaining his sense of taste has, if anything, made him more enthusiastic about his culinary experiments. di feisheng has even deigned to subject himself to some of them, mostly due to li lianhua's increasingly outrageous flirtations. while his indifferent mask and iron stomach are basically invincible, di feisheng can't say he's enjoyed the experience.

fang duobing, on the other hand, in the event of his visits, has neither of di feisheng's advantages and therefore is reduced to begging him for help. more often than not he plays along, simply because he enjoys having something to hold over fang duobing's head. today, fang duobing looks at him with pleading eyes and a series of hand gestures that make di feisheng scoff. still, he wades into the smoking kitchen and draws li lianhua away from the stove by the hips.

"xiangyi," he says, pulling li lianhua far enough away from whatever he's cooking to give fang duobing space to doctor it as he sees fit, "do you really have to go through so much trouble just because the brat is here?" fang duobing makes a face at him over li lianhua's shoulder, but di feisheng ignores him in favor of the bright smile beaming up at him from li lianhua's face.

"a'fei," he says, practically glowing, "i've told you before you don't need to be jealous of xiaobao. this is simply what a teacher should do for his student."

di feisheng purses his lips, mainly to keep from smiling. while he can't deny occasionally being possessive of li lianhua's time and attention, these little shows of jealousy are, more often than not, simply because they make li lianhua happy. "you've been cooking more every night he's been here," he says, because that's probably why fang duobing has reached the end of his endurance.

"his wife keeps him on a tight leash, he doesn't get to come that often," li lianhua says in his most reasonable tone, "i should spoil him when i can."

"are you sure that's what you're doing," di feisheng can't help asking, cognizant of the offended pause in fang duobing's frantic flailing at the stove even without looking at him directly.

"of course," li lianhua says, entirely sincere, "my shifu cooked for me every time i visited after i left yunyin mountain."

"ah," di feisheng says, because there's not much he can say to that.

"now stop distracting me," li lianhua says, starting to turn back toward the stove, "dinner will burn." well, that won't do.

"xiangyi," di feisheng repeats, and reels him back in to kiss. li lianhua relaxes into it after almost immediately, arms coming up to wrap around di feisheng's neck. he lets di feisheng's tongue nudge past his lips, sighing and tilting his head cooperatively, and for a moment they both indulge in the contact.

"what's gotten into you," li lianhua says, looking quite thoroughly kissed when di feisheng finally pulls back. behind him, fang duobing gives di feisheng a thumbs up as he scuttles out of the kitchen.

"nothing," di feisheng, letting his hands skim up and then down li liannhua's side before he reluctantly lets go. "can't i be affectionate?"

li lianhua laughs, presses another quick kiss to the corner of di feisheng's mouth, and turns back to the stove. he picks up the wooden spoon, tasting the contents of a steaming pot. "oh," he says, smiling, "not bad at all."

[roncheg]

I am eagerly watching Mysterious Lotus Casebook*o* so good!

idk what will the ending bring (nothing good, knowing Chinese dramas); but in my mind Di Feisheng (“gay as hell to have arch nemesis; what’s he arching? his back?”- meme personified) will always aggressively care for Li Lianhua (there probably will be threats of the snake pit at least twice a dayXDD)

[carduelis-art]

Commission for @the-wintry-mizzenmast

[homiehopper4life]

[thesinglelogbridge]

Mysterious lotus casebook as text posts. prev

[atsukunaritai]

and then the show proceeds to cut to the next scene where they've changed clothes

[naixaie]

🌱 the mlc triooooo 🥹🫶✨

[la-muerta]

Rewatching 《莲花楼》 (Mysterious Lotus Casebook) and they really gave us Li Lianhua rescuing stealing Jiao Liqiao's groom from the dungeon, spending the whole night with him in the wedding chamber exchanging internal energies, then drinking matrimonial wine while admiring the moon and toasting each other on the 10th anniversary of the night that they stabbed each other with their swords, and then they both waltz out in the morning and start to 打情骂俏 (bicker-flirt)? Right in front of Jiao Liqiao's salad? Smh guys.

[miaoyincourt]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Li Lianhua/Yi Xiangyi & Di Feisheng 1/?

[difeisheng]

DFS, LLH, and Composition

So tonight I was going through my bank of MLC screenshots and pulling frames from the show for photo edits, and I realized that in quite a few scenes significant to Feihua, the two are framed with DFS on the left (to the viewer), and LLH on the right.

It's not just there. Even in shorter or more casual scenes with them interacting, you still find this pattern. It's deliberate blocking for these two. (I can think of more instances of this off the top of my head, but I got lazy about taking screenshots. Oops.)

And then it hit me that, barring the bonus episode, this is the final shot in the show.

[fistfuloflightning]

the old fox’s efforts to get a laugh out of di feisheng

[eirenical]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook | Lian Hua Lou | 莲花楼 | Episodes 19 (left) and 21 (right)

Both Fang Duobing and A-Fei independently deciding that Li Lianhua has zero game and desperately needs their help to get the woman he's so obviously in love with. Both Fang Duobing and A-Fei also having so little game themselves that they independently decide that kidnapping is the only obvious way to go about this. *smdh* Boys, PLEASE.

I feel like we don't talk about this particular parallel enough. XD

[nutcasewithaknife]

List of the only things that Li Lianhua kept from his life as Li Xiangyi:

1. His Shifu's wine gourd.

2. Wenjing, the sword forged and gifted to him by his shixiong who had been at his side since he was 4 yrs old

3. The pouch that Qiao Wanmian, the woman he loved, gave him.

4. The armour that belonged to Di Feisheng, his arch-nemesis who he thinks got his shixiong killed

[carduelis-art]

[howdaretrashships]

Normal things that definitely straight men say to each other after getting married hiding in the newlywed chamber all night.

Especially since: one of them has never been interested in any woman, and only cares that one man doesn’t die. And then the other was engaged for years to the canonical Most Beautiful Woman, and got broken up with because he was a work-aholic.