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shark vs the universe
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Three Goblin Art
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Love Begins

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@more-firewood
In reality, Xu Youcai had nothing to worry about, though ofc from his perspective being stuck with Qiu Shenji must’ve been terrifying. If the general wanted to kill him with his own hands, he would’ve done that a long time ago. Killing a tiny frail old man like Xu Youcai would’ve been as easy as snapping fingers for Qiu Shenji, but his goal was keeping his hands clean.Â
Wearing Zhou Xing-centric goggles feels great cuz when you look at the court intrigue through them, the messy knot unravels into a neat straight thread and the headache is no more. The conspiracy against Qiu Shenji in particular is astoundingly simple because it’s just the Empress and Zhou Xing (with his clique and his student as tools) destroying a young man who happened to serve the wrong family at the wrong time and associate with Yi Zhihua.
The contrast between their faces in the manhua makes me so ill
Zhou Xing’s legal background mentioned
The lion does not concern himself with the danger of turning his back to vengeful students and walking into obvious death traps.
The silly phoenix figure had to be sacrificed in s2 so that Wu Mingkong could have a more menacing aura
Both Li Bing and Wu Mingkong started out as justice-seeking idealists and both nearly died as a result of their attempts at standing up for others (Li Bing almost got sold to the Turks), yet they ended up as polar opposites.Â
I think a key factor is whether or not they had a safety net in their formative years. Li Bing had Qiu Shenji, who was clearly very dear to him and a positive influence, but Wu Mingkong had absolutely no one to lean on as far as we know. Add to this being a girl in a deeply patriarchal society and the picture turns even bleaker. Her father was a violent pos, so no wonder she descended into darkness so quickly. The lack of proper role models can also partially explain why she treats her children with such cruelty (tho it doesn’t justify her) and continues the cycle of parental abuse, on top of continuing the cycle of violence against people in general. She’s been alone for her entire life (unless we count Emperor Gaozong I guess? but he doesn’t seem that enthusiastic about her conquering the empire in that relationship chart, plus he’s dead), while Li Bing’s anchor after Qiu Shenji was forced to leave has been his found family and esp Chen Shi, whose support in the latest arc prevents him from succumbing to his feral side and becoming a monster like the Empress. As a side note, all villain officials in WCL seem to be like Wu Mingkong, alone and emotionally detached from others, with no real close relationships.
Yi Zhihua in my opinion is in a middle ground situation. He’s attached to Golden Mask, the only tie to his humanity, and while their relationship has been turbulent it has the potential to play a big role in the finale. Wu Mingkong is bound to be overthrown and lose her immortality sooner or later, right? I can see Golden Mask giving a helping hand to the protagonist team, since he’s in the capital and has already met Alibaba.
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Lai Junchen knows Zhou Xing’s refined gentleman persona is a performance, and in this moment he refuses to indulge it. Discussing fine arts would stroke his mentor’s ego.
And Zhou Xing knows he knows, hence the “I see what you’re trying to pull” look he gives him. On the surface it seems warm and gentle as he prefers to avoid direct confrontation, wanting to appear graceful in everything he does, but in reality it’s judgemental. Besides, Lai Junchen dodges the pine tree question in a humble way, giving himself plausible deniability, so Zhou Xing can’t exactly call him out.
Lai Junchen: “Please help. Qiu Shenji refuses to confess and I don’t know what to do”
Zhou Xing: “That sucks. Anyway, how do you like my pine tree?”
Peak master-apprentice exchange tbh
Season 2 ending is a montage of atmospheric shots and emotional scenes and then there’s Zhou Xing going “🤨”Â
He jumpscared me a little on my first watchÂ
You know a character is boned when she hits them with that unamused look
What the job ad for Lai Junchen and other torturers must’ve looked like:
Wu Mingkong’s first appearance in the manhua: spoiled but cute tyrant loli
Wu Mingkong’s first appearance in the donghua: floating eldritch abomination
What is my man reading
Wu Mingkong sure loves invading other people’s personal space to establish dominance.Â
In particular, Li Bing’s bed scene in s2ep1 is viscerally uncomfortable for me to watch because it starts out as a mildly unnerving post-waking up haze that turns into a nightmare real quick. The bed canopy offers the illusion of protection, however flimsy it may be, only for her to tear through it. It feels like some fever dream except for him it’s real life.Â
His nightmare from season 1 basically comes true in a milder form.Â