#wu nainai

[epicwalrus]

Just a few more chapters to go!

Wu Xie is a police detective who likes to act first and think later.

Zhang Qiling is the head of the Zhangs, the oldest and most powerful organised crime family in Changsha.

When strangers scurrying deep within the shadows of their city threaten the delicate balance of power that has maintained peace between the nine most powerful families of Changsha, the two must work together to find answers...while protecting secrets of their own.

Snippet:

Zhang Qiling stood at the gates to Wushanju. Unwilling to share important information on Detective Guan over the phone, Zhang Qiling had arranged a meeting with an uncharacteristically haggard-sounding Wu Erbai. The gate opened, and Zhang Qiling stepped inside. The interior mood of Wushanju could only be described as pandemonium. The once-peaceful gardens buzzed with frantic energy as a beleaguered Wu grunt led Zhang Qiling along the carefully manicured paths and past the large pond. The sun had long since set, and the earliest star had stirred into a single point of light in the sky, coldly watching the unfolding scene below. A trio of Wu men ran by, and Wu Erbai appeared at the door of the nearest building. “Find him by dawn, or I’ll have your heads!” he shouted before turning back into the house, pinching the bridge of his nose. He paused and stepped outside once more, crouching next to a man who sat on the steps, his head in his hands, and placing a comforting hand on his arm. “We’ll find him. We’ll find him if it’s the last thing I do.” The man looked up. He had heavy shadows beneath his eyes, dark enough that they resembled deep bruising, as if he had taken a punch, and short dark hair. A worried frown tugged at the jagged edges of a scar on his temple. Guan Qiao. The man had clearly not slept, his skin pale and his eyes dim with exhaustion. So Zhang Qiling had seen the man around Wu Sanxing. 

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[sunriseverse]

i WOULD like to know more about what the FUCK the guan gen persona comprises of backstory-wise though. like. this incredibly proficient man shows up one day and he knows a fuckton about antiques and tomb robbing at the exact same time as the wu heir goes rogue and everyone was just like. yeah seems legit nothing to see here.

[inimitablereel]

What do people call Xie Yuchen?

books

Ultimate Note

Lost Tomb 2 (Explore with the Note)

Lost Tomb 2.2 (Heavenly Palace in the Clouds)

numbers under the cut

With all of these, I manually searched for nicknames containing "Xie" or "Hua", so it's possible I missed some that I didn't spot or are different than expected. Once I'd built that list of names, I've just been running a script to search for them. That means there could be some mistakes where the name comes up but it's about someone else (e.g. little Xie COULD be Wu Xie or Xie Lianhuan, not Xie Yuchen), though I did try to look for outliers. Also, everything is obviously based on someone's translation choices and how much subtitles are even including the nuances of naming - I'm getting the impression that they were fairly detailed so thanks to whoever subtitled these.

If there's some other nicknames you know are used, I can get rerun this script pretty easily (also didn't run other shows/the heihua movie because I don't have subs for it downloaded, but it'd be pretty fast to do if people are curious)

Books:

I pulled these from the Merebear epubs, so this is missing some sidestories etc that aren't in epubs yet. [ETA worth noting that even though this is a mtl, merebear doesn't always 1:1 translate names, so this like everything else is extremely dependent on tl choices]

Xiao Hua:1231 Xie Yuchen:591 Boss Xie:63 Master Hua:60 Pink Shirt: 36 (all in Volume 7 before Wu Xie learns his name lol) Xie Yuhua:18 (written once as jie yuhua) Big Hua:4 (written once as da hua) Xiao Xiejiu:2 little Xie Nine:1 (this might actually just be a footnote translation of Xiao Xiejiu) head of the Xie family:3 A Hua:3 (Pangzi, Xiao Hua doesn't like it) Xie Xiao Hua:1 (also Pangzi) little Xie:10 (didn't make it into my wordcloud oops - probably NOT Xie Lianhuan because I skipped the volumes that don't have Xiao Hua in them, but I didn't check) (no Xie just) Yuchen: 1 (Li Cu apparently)

Bonus: in stories from the rain village Wu Xie makes up a story about "three heroes" which has a character who's "Official Xie"

Ultimate Note:

Just the 36 main episodes, I don't have a separate subtitle file for the extra

Xiao Hua:103 head of the Xie family:1 Master Hua:12 Master Hua'er:86 (this is what Hei Xiazi calls him most of the time) Xie Yu Chen:6 (UN subtitles decided that was two words?)

Lost Tomb 2:

Xie Yuchen:11 Xie Yuhua:13 (split fairly evenly between Xie and Jie - this is all around the arc with his family) head of the Xie family:2 Master Hua:23 Xie Zi:12 (Huo Nainai calls him this) little Xie:7 (Pangzi but not to Xiao Hua's face - this is an overcount because at least 2 of them are actually Xie Lianhuan) Brother Hua:5 (Pretty sure this is Xiuxiu)

Lost Tomb 2.2: I was planning on combining this with lt2 but it is notably different

Xie Yuchen:20 head of the Xie family:1 Master Hua:45 Xie Zi:12

[bahoreal]

tbh i do not recall the infertility but but in the beginning i was a bit cold on the series since they started off with the universal set-up in cdrama where all female characters but the lead and her servant at bitchy for no reason...so....yeah....some bits could have been better (especially since they had all the world set-up to ground the bitchiness of most of the women in the partiarchial constraints they are faced with) BUT it speaks to the otherwise very good character writing that 1. i got other that (and they did sth more interesting with some of the female characters 2. i don't remember the infertility plotline (if it is one)... - this got longer and more confusing than i intendend. but i love seeing your live comments on the show!

it was when wanning had the fake pregnancy herb thing! the doctor said she was infertile bc she had too many miscarriages in the past, and often when (western) media uses infertility as a character building device its where a woman sees herself as less feminine or even less useful or less human because she can't get pregnant (for example: natasha romanoff.) so i was SCARED they were gonna be like oh shes actually evil because shes infertile. but no that was literally just to make the fake pregnancy even more devastating and to give her a glimpse into having something she didnt know she could want any more, shes evil for other reasons ❤️ they dealt with it better than i thought they would, i rly feel for wanning after that plot, i mean shed be a terrible mother playing mind games with a 2 year old but her grief was so poignant..... i often get bored of wanting to be a mother plots but that just made me like her more. i support her rights And her wrongs tbh!!!

also yes i was a bit worried when i started watching that it would be stereotypical women in a cdrama but every single character has so much depth and no one is reduced to a stereotype... i especially love jiang nainai shes such an excellent character whenever she appears 🥹 its a good drama for women lol idk what it is abt wu jinyan but she picks dramas where women are Weird about each other and its amazing

im glad you're enjoying my live comments KDJDJDJE im so late to the party but im lovvving it. im jus sad there are only 33 fics on ao3 :(

[lunanoc]

snake wu xie fic :D

thank you for asking! <3

it's probably not what you're thinking expectations failed 😶‍🌫️ and i don't have a snippet because it's waiting on whenever i get to yucun biji farming arc so it's not really elaborate, but the premise is wu xie, being wu xie, is oblivious about feelings in ways that make you want to cry a little inside sometimes, and the nice gods for once of the land have noticed he likes xiaoge and thinks his feelings are unrequited. so their way of thanking him for his services is to curse him into taking the form of a snake, because we love irony and also because wu xie's zodiac animal is the snake (fire). and he can't turn back until "his heart becomes clear", or more like when he realizes xiaoge likes him back

wu xie thinks it's punishment coming for him because of what he did during sha hai because of course he does, but he slithers home anyway to try and find a solution. and he could have probably found a way to let xiaoge and pangzi know, but wu xie being wu xie, curosity gets the better of him and he waits to see how xiaoge reacts to him going missing. and the answer is it's not noticeable at first (to wu xie), but xiaoge spends more and more time in the mountains searching, and over time seems like he's troubled, like he's losing sleep, etc, and eventually wu xie realizes that xiaoge misses him and is visibly worried what did you expect wu xie really

meanwhile xiaoge takes notice of a snake that starts lingering in the trees and bushes around the house, and because it never seems aggressive he lets it be, and even lets it approach him during the increasingly rarer times he's at home, and eventually somehow i haven't figured that out yet realizes the snake is likely connected to wu xie. and somehow this winds up with snake!wu xie and xiaoge confessing to each other and that leads to wu xie becoming human again. don't ask for details i don't have them maybe one day🏃‍♀️

the only "snippet" i have in the doc is "吴邪，我带你回家。" (which is supposed to echo when xiaoge tells wu xie "take me home" in book 7 and then storms out of huo nainai's house we're also ignoring if that's grammatically correct i have one (1) fear) and "snake kisses! forehead snake kisses!" make of that what you will

[lunarriviera]

dmbj ficrecs: a pingxie diptych

a winding path, an empty page, a silhouette (2519 words) i think of loss and i can only think of you (2643 words) by: A (mumblemutter) [@programmedradly] fandom: 终极笔记 | Ultimate Note, 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei pairing: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling rating: T, M warnings: no archive warnings apply characters: Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi tags: amnesia, kissing, sharing a bed, episode related, post-episode 15, episode 31 summary: Xiaoge finds his way back, and makes new memories.

am i biased in loving these two fics, since the author graciously gifted them to me? possibly. should you read them anyway? DEFINITELY. her xiaoge pov is so quiet and subtle yet tensile and strong, like spun silk. and wu xie is just—i don’t have words, really. always the brightest thing in any room, to xiaoge. i feel a very normal way about them. and the sword-giving scene, and huo nainai separating them—this fic so deftly fills in all of the interstices of xiaoge slowly coming back to himself after the jade cavern, remembering and reconnecting, and starting over again where he can’t mend. yes. so good. you will be glad you read them.

[pangzi]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei, 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling Characters: Wu Erbai, Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi, Zhang Qiling Additional Tags: Cooking, Bad Cooking Summary:

Wu Erbai is coming over and Wu Xie has decided to cook his grandmother's secret recipe.

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Because there are So Many Characters, I've taken a page from E. Danglar's book and sorted them by region.

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[mengyan]

love the #1 wu-nainai hater to defender pipeline that taohong took 🫶

[ao3feed-daomubiji]

by bimingjue

Wu Erbai is coming over and Wu Xie has decided to cook his grandmother's secret recipe.

Words: 1189, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei, 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: Wu Erbai, Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi, Zhang Qiling

Relationships: Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling

Additional Tags: Cooking, Bad Cooking

March 20, 2023 at 06:47PM via AO3 works tagged '盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei'

[epicwalrus]

Oops, I fell asleep before I could share the link to the latest chapter.

Wu Xie is a police detective who likes to act first and think later.

Zhang Qiling is the head of the Zhangs, the oldest and most powerful organised crime family in Changsha.

When strangers scurrying deep within the shadows of their city threaten the delicate balance of power that has maintained peace between the nine most powerful families of Changsha, the two must work together to find answers...while protecting secrets of their own.

Snippet:

Wu Xie stood at the gates of his family’s compound, waiting impatiently for the towering wooden gateway to open. Finally, after several minutes, his grandmother's face appeared before him, and he smiled. “Xiao Xie! What a surprise! No one told me you were visiting today,” she said, smiling widely, the creases around her kind eyes deepening. Even now, his grandmother radiated warmth, forgoing severe makeup and the tight curls many women her age preferred. Her shawl was frayed from her stubborn, continued use, and Wu Xie knew from his days sitting in her lap as a child that her rose-scented perfume clung to it like warmth clung to a stone in summer.  Wu Xie accepted her offered hug and joined her inside the old off-white walls. “I was hoping to talk to you or Ershu or Sanshu about something he said.” “Ah, your Ershu is in a meeting right now, but he should be finished soon,” she said, patting his hand and leading him through the familiar maze of corridors and courtyards.  Their trip ended in the living room, the cosiest room in the building. Wu Xie settled in an overstuffed cream sofa, watching as his grandmother hurried through the door that led to the kitchen with a promise of snacks and tea. Wu Xie smiled as he watched her go, still a whirlwind of energy and life even as she approached ninety. Settling into the corner of the sofa, Wu Xie breathed deeply, the familiar scents of childhood settling into his bones and chasing away the worries that had shadowed him since his meeting with Chief Dong.  He folded his legs, hugging a pillow to his stomach as he waited, looking around. The room hadn’t changed in twenty-four years except for the progressively newer televisions and gaming consoles that had replaced one another over the years. The antiques remained in the exact same places they had always been, the bronze incense burner still sitting in the centre of the coffee table, the Tang dynasty figurines on either side of the window, and the ethereal ink paintings of peaceful landscapes still holding court from their places on the walls.  The paintings, in particular, had always calmed Wu Xie, the soft colours and gentle clouds a refreshing peacefulness among the unending clamour of the city.  “The paintings were my favourite gifts, too.” Wu Xie jumped as his grandmother sat next to him, setting a tray of tea and sweets on the low table in front of them.  “They were all gifts from grandfather, right?” Wu Xie asked, picking up a cup and taking a sip. “Every one of them. I’d never been courted quite like that before,” she laughed.  Wu Xie stood, turning on the PlayStation before allowing the sofa to engulf him once again. He played while he waited for his uncle, catching up with his grandmother as the minutes ticked by.  Finally, Wu  Erbai arrived in the living room, and Wu Xie tossed him the second controller.  “Has our guest left?” Wu Nainai asked. “He’s looking through the files,” Wu Erbai said, his eyes now focused on the game. “I’ll see him out, then,” Wu Nainai said, standing and vanishing out of the room.

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[thelaithlyworm]

For the fic writer asks:

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

24. Are there any easter eggs in [hm literally any of your dmbj fic I think has lots of easter eggs I've missed and would like to learn about, but to choose something, Detective Wu], and if so, what are they?

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

Film Noir AU. The sharp, sharp fashions, the flawed, multilayered characters, the bittersweetness of everyday life... Any story, ever, is just waiting for the Raymond Chandler treatment, as far as I'm concerned.

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

Hmm. Most recently:

The glorious character descriptions (how they look, how they act, how other people feel about them), the deft way @scherzanda fills in the relationships between Bai Haotian and Huo Daofu, and Liu Sang, and Wu Xie, and Huo Daofu's own interiority... it felt both highly coloured and very, very real.

24. Are there any easter eggs in [hm literally any of your dmbj fic I think has lots of easter eggs I've missed and would like to learn about, but to choose something, Detective Wu], and if so, what are they?

... Not exactly an Easter Egg (oddly, most of the text is in the foreground in that one), but I made A-Ning's dress blue in particular because there was a new dye, indothrene, that was very popular at the time, according to this delightful history resource:

[ID Painting of a woman in a 1930s, figure-hugging qipao, made of lustrous silk and in a soft blue shade. Her hair is curlingly sculpted; she half-reclines with her elbow on a carved chest indicating that all will be right with the world, especially if you buy whatever she's selling. End ID]

As a bonus, from a fic for the same exchange: at the time I wrote The Sweetness and the Savour I was only guessing that Granddad Wu could read snake pheromones.

And I dearly, dearly wanted to write the scene where Wu-nainai finds The Zhang Patriarch on her doorstep, early one dewy morning... asking for her family recipe book. She looks like a lady who is not often completely lost for words and it would have been A Moment.

[scaredysap]

not me getting emotional about Wu Nainai loving her nephew so much, seeing him suffer so much, and just wanting someone to know him beyond the sad and angry man that he has become

I'm gonna cry

[intheyellowandgreen]

said the mouse to the king , 

DMBJ. PingXie. Words: 28431. Established Relationship, Royalty AU, Shifter AU. 

Treat for @epicwalrus​ for the 2022 PingXie Exchange

check out Walrus’s amazing fics at: UtterlyClueless on AO3.

Shifts below:

Wu Xie: Harvest Mouse &  Xiao-Ge: Panther (melanistic jaguar)

PangZi: Brown Bear, Xiao Hua: Lilac-breasted Roller & Xiu Xiu: Arctic Fox

PanZi: Caracal & Hei XiaZi: Black Wolf

Wu NaiNai: Maine Coon

Wu YiQiong, Wu Erbai, Wu SanXing: Wolves

Zhang HaiKe: not mentioned but, vulture:

[amidalogicdive]

The Last Qilin Chapter 3

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Fandoms: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei盗墓笔记 | The Lost Tomb (TV 2015)

Relationship: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling

Characters: Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Zhang Qiling, Zhang Rishan, Luo Que (Tomb of the Sea), Wu Nainai, Liu Sang (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi, Wu Erbai, Wu Sanxing, More Characters Added As Needed - Character

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Strangers to Lovers, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Qilin, Huli Jing, Missing Persons, Friendship, Developing Relationship, Spies, Dangers, Mysteries, Kidnapping, Character Death, Main Character Death, Temporary Character Death, Found Family, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Emotions, Family Secrets, Questions, withheld information, Revenge, Protectiveness, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

The Last Qilin

By LogicDive

Two days had passed since they had left Changbai Mountain when the three men finally arrived at the gates of Wushanju, in Hangzhou. It had been close to fifty years since Zhang Rishan had last come to the Wu compound. Back then, there had only been a few buildings scattered close to a lovely lake, low walls marking the boundary of their property. He remembered finding it quite charming and welcoming.

What stood before him now was far from what he recalled.

The property seemed to have grown in size over the years. Tall white walls spanned at least two blocks on either side of a large metal gate, and were lined with bushes - ones that were extremely toxic if someone were stung by their barbs. The walls were topped by curved metal spikes to deter individuals from trying to scale them. If the lake still existed, it had been swallowed up by the size of the compound and walls that now concealed all of the buildings within. With how fortified it was, it was better to compare it to an Emperor's summer palace.

Which made Zhang Rishan wonder why they sought protection for themselves to such a level. However, it did explain why the Wang Clan had a hard time placing a spy within the family.

All the same, he never would have guessed the Wu Clan had grown in such ways since leaving the Jiumen Association, especially with what little he did know about the family. Last he'd heard, Wu Laogou and his wife had three sons. Only the eldest, Wu Yiqiong, had gotten married and bore a sole son, who, as far as he knew, had remained unmarried. To him, that signified a decline within the Wu, yet what he was seeing before him indicated the opposite. Regardless, he knew Wu were talented tomb raiders who either owned or possessed assets in almost every antique business in Hangzhou.

Luo Que pulled off the main road, stopping the van a few feet from the gates. He clearly wasn't surprised when they remained shut, looking out the front window at the large metal barrier that stood as tall as the walls on either side. Breathing out, he sat back and glanced at Zhang Rishan in the rearview mirror.

"I don't think they will be allowing us entry at this time."

Given that Zhang Rishan hadn't called ahead to inform the Wu of their arrival, he had no doubt that this was the case. In any case, the walls that made up the boundary of the property didn't exactly have a very welcoming appearance. Which, if the Wu had become as private as he'd heard over the years, then that wasn't a surprise either. It was obvious they didn't want people to feel comfortable or welcome.

Wu dogs, indeed.

Zhang Rishan could only hope they would allow them entry once they realized who he was. Patting Luo Que on the shoulder, he smiled. "Stay here with Xiaoge. I'll see if they will let us in." His eyes moved to meet his Patriarch's. "If anything happens, if you're in danger, I want you to leave with Luo Que." Without waiting for a response, he glanced back at Luo Que. "Don't hesitate, Xiaoge is your priority, understand?"

"Yes, President Zhang."

Patting the young man's shoulder one last time, he grabbed the door and slid it open. "I'll be right back." Exiting the vehicle, he glanced around for a moment as his eyes followed the lines of the arched metal gate. Off to the right side, he found what he was looking for. A small security camera was mounted on the tall wall and pointed down at the drive. He took a few steps towards it, bowing his head slightly out of respect.

"My name is Zhang Rishan, president of the Jiumen Association in Beijing. I would like to speak to the head of the Wu Clan, or any family member who might be available." He paused for a moment, waiting to see if he would receive a response. When nothing came, he breathed out and held up his hands. "I promise, I am unarmed." Needless to say, he couldn't speak for Xiaoge, or the three-foot-long black sword he carried.

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