#kk's mlc rewatch

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Rewatching Mysterious Lotus Casebook EP 1/40

not in the way either of you think

"less than five people know about this" I forgot this detail but man. There's something about Li Xiangyi using Wenjing so selectively. About the decisive killing intent of the sword Shan Gudao gifted to him. Deeply fascinated by the fact that this is the "secret" Shan Gudao told Fang Duobing about Li Xiangyi. The decision Li Lianhua takes to throw it away and embed it in a random cliff, breaking that cycle of violence.

And then finally at the cliff he shatters Shaoshi, ending "Li Xiangyi".

(I am fond of how he uses Wenjing though, considering it seems to be usually kept curled in his sleeves (?). Correct me on this, my eyesight is trash.)

I am gonna call this "heartbreak". Di Feisheng won't know this until episode 40, but yk.

appreciate that Li Lianhua puts the drugs in the tea exactly after "and revive the Sigu Sect". Esp with the face he makes.....

You Want To Share Something With The Class, Li Lianhua (Do not tempt fate: Li Lianhua edition)

should I laugh or cry. This first episode is plain traumatizing post series.

that applies for quite a lot of dead people, I must mention.

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and then it gets revealed that his father is someone from the Jinyuan Alliance.

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Rewatching Mysterious Lotus Casebook 5/40

the intensity of his expression the moment Di Feisheng comes on screen......The bitter rage....(and perhaps some amount of heartbreak).

You Sure Did. Might want to name this dog of yours?

I wonder how he felt all those years....nursing a single hatred even after having given up on the rest. Biqiu? Forgiven. Zijin is barely in the picture. But man. Di Feisheng, who he had some sort of arrangement with, who supposedly went and had his shixiong killed.....and then he finds out that was a lie too. His shixiong isn't even dead. He's alive and he hates him. He has always.....hated him? All this time? What else did he miss?

What other people have been concealing emotions that he never realised?

.... interesting ranking.

sometimes you need to become your own matchmaker and cling onto your crush like a leech. Does it work? Well,

my favourite part about their conversations is when Li Lianhua tells something to Fang Duobing as an advice but you know he's rebuking his own self. Don't trust the wrong person, check the body, you can't live up to the expectations of others, people must learn to forgive themselves....etc.

Jiao Liqiao......honestly knowing the fact that she was the one who arranged the thundering bombs makes the conversation funnier.

DFS: Did you know about the bombs?

JLQ: Of course, of course! It destroyed parts of both Sigu Sect and Jinyuan Alliance! [Said as I, recall how meticulously I planned my yandere schtick by poisoning and blowing up people]

DFS: *stare*

"Those who betray me will become like these two corpses here, don't you agree" man I know that he doesn't really start to suspect JLQ until a little later but I wonder what he thought of the whole situation. He kills two people suspecting treachery, and perhaps the conversation between him and JLQ is really just to establish his character and to foreshadow her eventual death, but hm. Makes you think about how he trusted only the Four Kings since they established the Jinyuan Alliance together.

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Rewatching Mysterious Lotus Casebook 3/40

it never fails to get me that he went back to the shore to die... after making that trip and listening about how Li Xiangyi failed the Sigu Sect

It is truly astonishing how much he manages to get on my nerves every single time he appears.

First watch: Li Lianhua why are you monologuing to FDB's wine gourd as if you are talking to your shifu

Second watch: Oh.

there's something deeply funny about him deciding that LLH is the great horrible Medicine Demon who is well versed in poisons and medicines and sending his servants to snoop around in his room. And the first appearance of the actual Medicine Demon has the poison gas causing a big chaos. Nevermind the fact that LLH has drugged him at least once by now. Clearly no one in a mystery story has died in this manner

again I say. Justice for Wangfu

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Rewatching Mysterious Lotus Casebook Ep 4/40

Li-er @ the person protecting the Medicine Demon: *points at random guy* He's the Medicine Demon!!!!!!

Getting put in chains count: 1

"Do you think that if you hadn't insisted on taking him on the adventure, if you had kept him under your nose and kept an eye on him, he would have been fine?" "I failed to take care of Wangfu" "When people are young, they are at their most energetic. You always think that it is your responsibility to protect the world. And you always feel you can protect everyone around you. But the truth is, many things are not as simple as we think and out of our control. Your servant's misfortune made you very upset. But you don't have to blame yourself for everything. People must learn to forgive themselves."

Li Lianhua: You must learn to forgive yourself and let go of your regrets! Unlike me, Li Lianhua who lives every day torturing myself—

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Rewatching Mysterious Lotus Casebook 2/40

yes indeed it would be tragic if your father was revealed all of a sudden to be evil and wanting to use you for furthering his evil plans.

(justice for Wangfu who doesn't even get mentioned later on in the series.)

The funny thing about putting that poison (?) on the quilt so that it would make his hand turn black after washing it so that they could capture the murderer is that.....they snuck in through the women's house to just do that. And she dies anyways. Just to capture the murderer with so much drama. (No but seriously, unless I am misreading something here.....WHAT WAS THE NEED TO GO THROUGH ALL THAT. What's more important, a dramatic reveal or two innocent lives, LLH and FDB, what's more important😭)

they were really pushing the three way parallel agenda right from the start huh

Fang Duobing: Don't be sad that your father turned out to be evil and uncaring! I will give you money to make up for it!

This is such a...typical richboy solution to problems, I'm crying.

nothing, I just love the hulijing scenes.