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Warm pillow

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the best part of cailian manor arc and probably the whole series is that llh is immune to drowning. he puts on the wedding dress, falls into the corpse lotus lake, sinks for a bit but then simply swims back to the surface and gets out of the water. the reason he can do that isn’t that he is a man and therefore stronger than the all the brides that died there before him — he is a character whom the corpse lotus lake recognises as lotus, not body. the body is li xiangyi who has been narratively decomposing in the sea and nurturing li lianhua on the shore for the past decade. lianhua is the lotus grown from the dead body of xiangyi, so of course he floats

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i don’t think li lianhua is doomed by the narrative at all. you can be dead at the onset of the story and still not be doomed. just dead. he is however mortally offended by there being a narrative at all. he is walking backwards with a broom and erasing his footprints. he exits, pursued by the narrative, slams an invisible door in the last second and the narrative bounces off the horizon cartoonishly

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Mysterious lotus casebook as text posts. prev

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They said, you can hear the bonk from across the river

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tae-yi in glasses~

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Commission for @the-wintry-mizzenmast

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Must not be late to shan gudao funeral

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it's so maddening how fond Li Lianhua is with Di Feisheng. It's the most consistent emotion he shows towards Di Feisheng and nearly every instance of it is when no one's looking. We talk a lot about how clingy Di Feisheng is sure but Li Lianhua, who allows himself like one (1) honest display of emotion towards other people every year, keeps looking at him like that and I'm supposed to be sane about it?!

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李歌洋 LI GE YANG as ZHUO LAN JIANG China, 2024 花间令 IN BLOSSOM

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Liu Xue Yi as Pan Yue In Blossom 花间令 (2024) – Ep. 18

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In Blossom 花间令 (2024) Dir. Zhong Qing – Ep. 11

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Fucking around and finding out in the Xianle royal tomb…

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I swear all that comes out of li lianhua's mouth is blood and lies. and tea.

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Moon in the Day Text posts, 1/? (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)

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going to paste this on my forehead for the next time i feel like a clown, top ten wu xie wisdom quotes

(from Queen of the West's Ghost Banquet, Ch. 30)