#yan bingyun

[xiaozhanhub]

Yan Bingyun | Joy of Life

[xiaozhan-appreciation]

Xiao Zhan | Major characters: first appearance

[rainbowsky]

[vyther16]

Hi!! I was the one who commented on your ao3! Is it possible for you to write an au where shen wan’er actually dies after getting stabbed by her brother? And how yan bingyun copes/regrets?

hello! this has absolutely not been sitting in my inbox for over a month, and i am absolutely not writing this directly into tumblr like a maniac when i should be working on homework.

anyway!

I'm going to be completely honest, my whole schtick is saving minor women from death so I'm going to modify this a little bit right off the bat by saying she's not actually dead, just faking her death and Yan Bingyun is not in on it. This has no real effect on YBY's side of things but it does mean that whoever saved her (Fan Xian probably) is real shifty by the end of the timeline. (This modification has the added bonus of my romantic shipper heart being satisfied at the end).

okay so. We're at the battle, right? And Shen-xiaojie is on the sidelines, watching the two men she loves most in the world trying to kill each other. And then her brother has her beloved knocked down and is about to stab him. So she does what any self-respecting minor character's love interest does in a cdrama--- she throws herself in front of the sword, taking the wound for herself and stopping the battle in its tracks. Yadda yadda yadda, canon plot happens. Fan Xian goes and saves her and they start back for Qing.

Here's where things diverge. (rest under the cut bc this got long)

So, this could go a few different ways, but the following is my favorite: Shen Wan'er wakes up, finds herself in a carriage on its way to Qing and comes to the completely reasonable conclusion that she is to be a hostage and summarily tortured for information she may have received from her brother. She decides "fuck that shit, I'm outta here" and sneaks away in the middle of the night. She has somehow timed this perfectly with Xie Bi'an's cornering of Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun, so the two of them are too distracted to notice that she's gone until they have bigger things to worry about. Thus, she is given up for dead.

(She is not dead--- she spends the rest of the fic wandering around future fantasy china, eventually ending up in Danzhou, where she meets Grandma Fan and learns to have some self-respect. After all the shenanigans in the capital have passed, Grandma Fan makes a visit and Shen-xiaojie meets YBY as a woman confident in herself)

Back to YBY. He's just had to help fake Fan Xian's death (bc until s2 comes out and tells us otherwise, he was working with Fan Xian). And then suddenly the girl he's not allowing himself to like is gone. She was badly injured (because of him), surrounded by foreign men (because of him), and in an unknown location (because of him).

His reaction at first is to put in a box with the rest of the emotions he's not allowing himself to feel (read: all of them). But throughout the fic, as YBY is bullied into caring about himself by Teng-furen and Fan Xian (bc he still takes FX to the Teng Family Farm and Hospital bc how can I not have my bamf Wen Yinhong in any au lbr), he starts to allow himself to think about the fact that he did, actually, like Shen Wan'er. Grief is not an emotion he is used to--- he would also be realizing that he maybe kinda sorta also cared for Teng Zijing. But by the end of the fic, he's maybe reached a sort of equilibrium in that he's not actively repressing everything anymore, but he's also not emotionally healthy, because Fan Xian and Wen Yinhong are many things but licensed therapists they are not.

(And then the end is the two of them reuniting and getting to restart their relationship on much more even footing for the both of them)

Anyway, I'm not sure if this was quite what you were asking, but I do Not have to time to write a full-fledged fic like this at the moment, so enjoy this ramble-y and un-edited plot summary!

[spookykingdomstarlight]

every once in a while i'm reminded of joy of life and how upsetting it is to me personally that fan xian/yan bingyun isn't a huge ship

[sereiaxz]

Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun are in fact, murder husbands

[jiannguo]

The enigmatic Yan Bingyun! ❤️

[aro-ace-from-outer-space]

Finished Joy of Life and I'm literally crying. That cliffhanger !!!! >:((((

[p-h03n1-x]

Xiao Zhan’s behind the scenes as Yan Bingyun for Joy of Life, posted by Joy of Life Douyin, Dec 2019

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed : Yan

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgot anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

[jaggedcliffs]

I was reading through my old notes on Joy of Life after reblogging this gifset, and I came across this paragraph:

“But then it turned out Yan Bingyun is actually in love with [Shen Zhong’s sister] and is trying to protect her, and decides the way to hurt her the least is to make her hate him, so that she doesn’t have choose between him and her brother and won’t put her own life in danger when they fight? AKA a trope that when done well causes me angst and pain in the best ways????“

And I was like, as yes, that’s why Love Between Fairy and Devil really gets me, cause they that do that shit right not once, but twice for all that lovely, lovely pain

[xiaozhan-appreciation]

Xiao Zhan | Yan Bingyun moments | E39

[vyther15]

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ty for the tag amya! (@toppingjeffsatur​)

three ships

1. yan bingyun/shen-xiaojie because i am nothing if not predictable

2. vegaspete because i am still a predictable bitch and also they got me to seriously consider writing a/b/o so like, they make me insane.

3. the couple from Reset that I am forgetting the names of because i bingewatched 6 eps las tsunday and then paused so i could stay on track with the groupwatch but they are adorable and I love them

first ever ship: the first ship in my ao3 history is ZoSan but i don’t think that’s actually my first ever ship lol

last song: Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

last movie: Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader because i am insane about edmund

currently watching: Snow Sword Stride (groupwatch) and Reset (groupwatch)

currently reading: technically 2ha (take 2 lol), technically Jane Eyre (for class), technically Moby Dick (whale weekly), technically Frankenstein (frankenstein daily), and technically Sherlock Holmes (sherlock holmes weekly) but all of those are with the caveat of I haven’t opened any of them in a week or more and i’m not liable to open them any time soon

currently consuming: ginger ale?

currently craving: pizza and also no homework

tagging: @myhamartiaishubris, @marzaid, @princesswithabraidedcrown, @peridot-tears, and @starfire889

[vyther16]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 庆余年 | Joy of Life (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fan Xian & Yan Bingyun Characters: Yan Bingyun, Fan Xian (Joy of Life) Additional Tags: Birthday, Introspection, Character Study, (Ish) - Freeform, Minor Angst, Cupcakes, Triple Drabble Series: Part 22 of V's Character Studies Summary:

A few days after he is rescued, however, Fan Xian hands him a strange, small cake with fluffy topping and a small stick of incense stuck through the top. “You missed your birthday,” he says in explanation.

Yan Bingyun blinks at it, trying to decide if Fan Xian is trying to poison him.

 (Or, Yan Bingyun, celebrating his birthday)

[marlo-noni]

Cdramas lately

After I finished watching The Starry Love, which was fun and hilarious with a somewhat unsatisfying ending, nothing new was appealing to me, so I rewatched all of Joy of Life again. It's definitely a drama that rewards rewatching, because of all the complex plot twists and the huge cast of characters. Unusually, I feel like the best episode is quite late in the series - the one where Xiao En reveals his secrets to Fan Xian, and you learn that Xiao En is really just a pawn, as is Fan Xian, and you hear the tragic backstory of Yan Bingyun and all about Fan Xian's mother. Xiao En's death made me cry a bunch the first time I watched the series, and I cried again this time, too. There really is no other cdrama like Joy of Life. The only thing I dislike about it is Xiao Zhan's dubbing - the show was filmed before his huge explosion in popularity from The Untamed. I hope a season 2 does eventually come out, and that we get to hear Xiao Laoshi's voice this time!

As I was finishing Joy of Life, I discovered that Ao Rui Peng just came out with a new historical/fantasy romantic comedy, Love is Written in the Stars.

Ao Rui Peng played my favourite character in Blood of Youth, the ridiculous himbo, Lei Wujie. So I was ready to follow him into another comedic leading role. I'm up to episode 4, and the show is exceedingly silly. The female lead, Qi Yan Di, is definitely styled to be a Zhao Lusi stand-in - the hair, the costuming, the attitude - but I think she holds her own really well. (The guy who plays Su Mu in Romance of Tiger and Rose is also in it, so there's another Zhao Lusi tangential connection.) Ao Rui Peng's character isn't dumb like Lei Wujie, but he is good at martial arts and is constantly ending up in comedically awkward situations. The show is often riding the line of being so ridiculous that's it's cringey (it's also a pretty horny show, at least in Cdrama terms!), so we'll have to see how it progresses. Ao Rui Peng is keeping me there for now.

I also started watching Nothing But You, since the trailer looked good. I'm also only up to episode 4. My main observation is that Tu Song Yan is truly in 95% of the contemporary Cdramas I've seen!

Honestly, nobody works more than this guy! He's fantastic, so I have no complaints about it. He would be so interesting to talk to if you wanted to know what it is like to work with basically every young idol actor in Cdramaland. As for the drama itself, the pacing is good, and the story is engaging - I just haven't been as enthusiastic about contemporary stuff lately. Wu Lei and Zhou Yu Tong are both good actors, and I do love an older woman-younger man romance. Tragically, Wu Lei does absolutely nothing for me, looks-wise. It's also funny seeing flashbacks of his character being played by a younger actor, because we all know what he actually looked like when he was young because of Nirvana in Fire (the 2nd Cdrama I ever watched).

[sereiaxz]

If they ever film Joy of Life ss2 please IM BEGGING for Xiao Zhan as Yan Bingyun again