#npss

[qilingxiong]

[lunarriviera]

this has nothing to do with anything but it's one of my favorite danmei facts so i'm gonna post it anyway. in a 2019 survey of the wealthiest authors in china, guess who comes in at number 17?

that's right, our queen is worth close to a cool 5 million and that was five years ago so i hope it's doubled by now. (the rest of this says she lives in beijing and a representative best-selling work by her is mo du. oh and she was 30 then.)

honestly this makes me deliriously happy, pipi i hope you are rolling around on a bed of bright red chairman mao 100-yuan bills and laughing. i hope you have twenty cats and ten girlfriends and wake up at noon every day and have champagne brunch in a bubble bath. i even forgive you for forgetting chang geng's name.

someone else you know is #9, by the way: check out npss lol [source]

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when i first saw a screenshot of this video, i immediately went "I NEED TO MAKE A GIF OF IT" but the video was locked as bonus content on wetv. but!! thankfully, npss uploaded a short section to his weibo. so now we have! fandom specific "conspiracy board" gif for all your dmbj needs!!

[lilianhuas]

Class with Daomu BiJi author Nan Pai San Shu (Laoshi). In brief summary translations (by me): “Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling met thus putting them on a new path in life. There were many uncovered secrets of the Zhang clan family that Wu Xie set out to discover while Zhang Qiling was guarding the Bronze Gate for 10 years for Wu Xie. Xiao Ge had nothing to do outside. Wu Xie learns about the evil Wang clan hunting the Zhang clan for years and that sets in motion his 10 year long plan to destroy the Wang clan threatening the Zhang clan aka Tomb of the Sea story”.

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

劉暢 - Liú Chàng Mufasa

Ft WáÊr 娃尔

Performing 天真 Naive at the 2024 817 稻米節 Rice Festival.

[morweneledhwen]

Sanshu shares a photo of himself and William Chan.

I smell Mystic Nine 2 shenanigans. 👀

[luyi]

from nan pai san shu's POV (he uploaded the video to weibo):

none of us had any idea that he was actually filming zly on stage himself lol. and he must be very happy because zly actually spotted him.

i didn't find any sources on this yet, but i've seen some netizens talking about how npss wants to work with zly again. and we zly fans were like: yes if you are going to work on projects like belief (2021).

if you don't know, npss' company was one of the production companies behind zly's 2021 show belief.

i've read that the original novel has the two male leads in their 20s, but nobody in the production team thought any actors in their 20s could have handled the complex roles or acting, so they changed the characters and made them middle aged men. as a result, they were able to have zly as the first male lead and nie yuan as the second male lead. so you know, age is never a problem.

also did you notice tibetan sea flower actors in belief (of course, zhang fan is in three body as well)?

i think at this point nobody can deny the fact that npss is a zly fanboy (if you haven't read about how they meet in 2016, here you go). there's no shame in it. we all know zly is award winning director yang lei's muse lol.

so, so far we have three showrunners that's obsessed with zly: yang lei/杨磊, xu bing/徐兵, xu lei/徐磊 (npss), and did you notice the bold blue characters? the inside joke is that if you are a writer/producer/director with either xu/徐 or lei/磊 in your name, you might be "cursed" to be obsessed with zly LOLLOLLOL...and npss actually have both characters in his name, so maybe he's the most obsessed one LOL. i kinda want to put him in a "i love zly more" competition with yang lei.

ps. we all know these airing platforms' own awards don't mean nothing. but at least it's good to know that tencent is happy with tsf and zly. and i also suspect that they invited zly this year to make up to the fact that he didn't go to their event for three body last year. and i'm rather glad that he kinda paused for a sec and raised the trophy when he said "scifi". i'm pretty sure he was thinking about three body. and i'm glad du haitao (the host) mentioned three body <3.

Zhang Luyi at Tencent's 2024 All Star Night on 2025/01/04

[berryholy]

Npss may be a hack but he did give us that hand-over-hand-over-mouth scene in the heihua movie and for that alone I'll walk over broken glass for that ho

[lunarriviera]

How do i watch dmbj/the lost tomb? In order...they are so many....are they remakes...i know zhu yilong was in one...? I see different actors every time....Pls help if you watched it.

oh ho ho have i watched it. i have watched it alright. not only have i watched it but just yesterday i made my UNDERGRADS watch it (okay just one clip of xiao yuliang, bc i was teaching them about wirework) (bc i also made them watch house of flying daggers, yes it was my favorite day in film class: wuxia day!). NB however that surprisingly little of this is actually wirework—it's just xiao yuliang flipping himself around like a little pancake, bc that's what he DOES.

[yes this guy is huang junjie, not xiao yuliang; but they both play the same character, xiaoge. yes we all know it makes no sense. shhhhh just roll with it, don’t fight it, it’ll be easier if you just accept that your favorite characters will never ever be played by the same actors, except for all the times when they are. why? because of c-ent. go home, c-ent, you’re drunk. also because it’s funnier this way.]

FORTUNATELY you don’t need me to explain bc smarter people than i have already made beautiful guides to watching dmbj. the main thing to remember is that you literally can’t do it wrong bc the entire franchise is, as we say in the american south, a dog’s breakfast. everything is made up and the points don’t matter. you can start with any of the dramas and it still won’t make sense, but that’s okay because that’s what fandom wikis and tumblr and all of us are for.

it’s all because of this guy, 南派三叔 = nanpai sanshu = npss, whose real name is 徐磊, Xu Lei. he never finishes anything he starts unless they force him to, probably by threatening to take away his alcohol. so if you read any of the novels, please don’t expect them to have endings, because half the time they just sort of. stop. (i’m still upset about sha hai. i will always be upset about sha hai. i'm in THERAPY about sha hai.) (and i suppose you could in theory read the novels, in order, first, before watching the dramas? i know exactly one (1) person who did this but they have an exquisitely nerdy doctorate and i really don’t advise it for the faint of heart, you’re gonna suffer through a lot of fart jokes and really super gross insects. sadly i know this because i too have read the novels, because i also have a doctorate and apparently way too much fucking time on my hands. which is why it’s 1 am and i’m answering another ask instead of grading the last half dozen papers on antigone and the popol vuh, okay where were we.) RIGHT, so—definitely read @foxofninetales’s wonderful guide to “possible entry points to dmbj” (or @laireshi’s guide to the novels, if those still interest you.) @laireshi also has an excellent guide to starting with ultimate note, which i think is a fine drama to start with! the cast is great. (just be prepared for a cliffhanger) (which can be resolved, anomalously, by reading the novel). @thelaithlyworm also has a good guide here, and @dramas-vs-novels has a guide to all the major characters. and you will love all of the characters, very quickly, with a degree of intensity that can and probably should alarm you. you will especially love the iron triangle. these idiots. them. yes.

so you can try to be logical about it!…OR you can do what i did, which was, knowing absolutely fucking nothing, just faceplant into reboot (because ofc i was obsessed with zhu yilong, who was my gateway drug, just like 99% of western dmbj rookies who fell in love with guardian), and then stare in horror as dmbj devoured my brain over the next two years and i couldn’t think about anything or anyone but xiaoge. you know. like that. isn’t fandom great.

just think, someday soon you’ll even be able to appreciate this absolutely idiotic in-joke. there are about a squillion more where this one came from, too.

but the main thing is, nonny: whatever you do, have fun! lost tomb is completely unhinged and that’s the best thing about it. it is also, as i repeatedly warn my students, the star wars of china, and you will never ever reach the end of its vast expanses. not least because npss keeps starting and not finishing things.

(but none of them are really…remakes…exactly? they're all mostly maddeningly different and cover different parts of the story, with a few…bizarre, difficult-to-describe…overlaps, and a few parts which don't fit anywhere, e.g. misty creed/conjuring curse.…you'll see.)

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NPSS Weibo Q&A (20240831) Part 1

This is a Q&A session held on Weibo. People will tag their questions with the hashtag #南派三叔藏海花在线答疑# (#NPSS Zang Hai Hua Online Q&A#) and NPSS will look through the tag to pick some to answer. The event started at 1500 hours on 2024 August 31st. For comedic purposes, this translation will include the timestamps for the answers. And for efficiency purposes, I have left out all usernames. The usernames of the question-askers can be found via the screenshots in this folder if anyone is inclined to do that.

1422 Come ask questions at #NPSS Zang Hai Hua Online Q&A#. I will stay online and pick questions to answer without limits from 3pm onward. 1500 Q: Sanshu, what was the thing that Zhang Qiling wanted Pangzi to tell Wu Xie that Pangzi mentioned when he was fixing Wu Xie’s dislocated shoulder? My friends and I would love to know. 

A: Eat well, sleep well, wear socks even in the summer. 1500 Q: Lei, do you like this pic I made? [It’s an edit of NPSS’s face on a pink dressed magical girl body]

A: I feel like this pic is affecting the fengshui in my house.

1502 Q: Shu, it is confirmed that Ten Years is included in the ZHH drama. Then, will the drama show the changes between ZHH Wu Xie and Ten Years Wu Xie? In yesterday’s livestream you said that there are four turning points in the drama. Is it that Wu Xie will become Xie Di after being tricked four times? A: Every character and their fate all have big turning points. Whether he’s a good person or an evil person, whether his answers are real or fake, you must watch till the end [only then you’ll know].

1502 Q: Sanshu, what was Wu Xie thinking in the split second when he saw Menyouping’s portrait in Tibet? A: “What the fuck!” (T/N: swears are not very translatable in meaning. I tried.) 1503

Q: Pumpkin Sect (T/N: this might be an intentional typo punning of nanpai which means southern sect), what would the scene be like if Xiaoge’s mom met Wu Xie? Would Bai Ma be happy that her child had gained some humanity because of Wu Xie? A: Bai Ma would probably teach Wu Xie to sing. Something like The Night of Ulaanbaatar.

1505 Q: Shu, why have you been answering so many questions lately? Has there been some big thing happening?

A: They said that I’m a liuliang celebrity so I should shoulder the publicity mission. (T/N: Liuliang celebrity refers to celebrities who are popular (or controversial) and are able to generate a lot of social media traffic. For example: when a celeb would get on the trending searches whenever they post selfies/ attend events/ do just about anything.)

1513 Q: What would Mo Yungao from Southern Archives do if he had really found Xiaoge? A: He would eat Zhang Qiling.

1523 Q: Is the audience viewing experience taken into deep consideration when making drama and movie adaptations? For example, allowing those who haven't read the novels to understand the plot. I saw some people saying that they couldn’t follow the plot [from the drama].

A: For Reboot, in order to help the audience get into it, we introduced the characters and their occupation in the first episode. But for ZHH,  according to the number of votes, we all chose to do a cold open based on the novel. 

1524 Q: Sanshu, Sanshu, I want to know, based on Zhang Qiling’s arm strength, how many Wu Xies can he carry?

A: If he uses the strength from his waist to assist, he can throw Wu Xie up to the third floor.

1526 Q: What is the ending for Boss Jiao in the Reboot novel?

A: Became Jiao. (T/N: The character for Jiao means burnt).

1527 Q: Will Xu Zhenxuan play Wu Xie in the Heavenly Palace re-shoot?

A: Yes.

1528

Q: Shu, did Zhang Haike recommend Xiaoge’s drink to Wu Xie because he wants to show off that he understands Xiaoge? A: Hahahahaha

1532 Q: ZHH drama and novel will have two separate endings. Now that the drama has an ending, have you decided on the ending of the novel? When will you experience Tianshou? A: I always understood the dramas as the dreams of the characters from the books. That means that the changes in details in the dramas, to me, I would always explain it as the intentional and unintentional amendment to the details as they tell this story to someone else. Or that these are part of their dream and after-the-fact fears. I will explain it again after [you] see the end.

1533

Q: I would like to know the mental state of the company. It seems like it’s taking big steps towards a beautiful direction.

A: It’s rare to be able to legally go crazy. Everyone’s very happy.

Here's the first 15. There are more answers and I will chip at them at a pace that will hopefully be able to keep up with NPSS. The folder also contains a google doc that has all the complied Q&As if anyone prefers to read on that.

[lunarriviera]

LOSING MY DAMN MIND

Well they just announced 13 new DMBJ movies are currently in the making

[lilianhuas]

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

劉暢 - Liú Chàng Mufasa

WáÊr 娃尔

2024 817 稻米節 Rice Festival.

[taomubiji]

The Grave Robbers' Chronicles Fandom Wiki (TV series/live-action wiki) Will Merge into the Daomu Biji Wiki

Based on the recent poll and also the poll from 2021 which overall favors merging, the two dmbj wikis will be merged into one wiki.

The Grave Robbers' Chronicles wiki will be the one moving, and the Daomu Biji wiki will be the surviving wiki. Once the merge is complete, the Grave Robbers' Chronicles wiki will be shut down.

Most of the character & location pages will be separated into TV Series & Novel to highlight the different lore being discussed (see Zhang Rishan's pages below as an example)

However, pages for items/artifacts & creatures will remain on the same page. This is due to many of these pages having lore from the comics & games, so they can't easily be separated out. Information about them in the TV Series and movies will be under the sub-section "Adaptations" (see examples below)

Unfortunately, I don't know how long the merge will take to be completed. But I can't see it taking less than 6 months, so it will be a long while until the Grave Robbers' Chronicles wiki is shut down.

In the meantime, if there is a page on the Grave Robbers' Chronicles wiki that you'd like to work on, please let me know and I can merge it over.

[lunarriviera]

for the people he cared about

feeling insane over wu xie 😭✌️

[berryholy]

i love how NPSS is a total fucking hack BUT ALSO lowkey the realest motherfucker in the game, truly an inspiration to writers everywhere bless his heart