愿得一心人 白头不相离

watching dramas by moonlight, lawyering by daylight.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[opafginger]

[sunderwight]

We need to put out periodic reminders in fandom that trying to argue in favor of the divine right of kings or defending wartime atrocities or rich people's entitlement to the deference of indentured servants or whatever is, in fact, way less compelling and far stupider than just going well, that character is hot and this is fiction so I've decided it's all good.

Wanting to fuck the evil demon king because he's gorgeous and tormented is far more respectable than trying to defend his actual policies. If someone accuses you of only liking him because you want to fuck him, you can just say yeah that's true, and then what? Either they kinkshame you or they leave. Checkmate.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Ah the promos! (I caved and watched 16/17) Before prison banging?

THIS! She asks why he's not over her:

And then she drugs him!

He is not going to take her leaving lying down (he will take other things lying down clearly)

[hyog-blog]

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Ren Susu is so mission driven but despite all of that, willing to die to protect Murong Qingyi. Like it's not even in her plans. It's her instinct. But when she comes to her senses she'll try to push him away again to protect him.

Their twisted sense of co-dependence.

(and yes, I'm aware that more angst will be coming, that (in)famous scene from the trailer of him pointing a gun at her hasn't shown up yet. Or him asking her to leave with him.)

(I actually have no idea where the plot is going AT ALL)

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Overdo it exactly my kind of "revenge" story because it's not really revenge, the harm is still very much ongoing and needs to be stopped. No wonder Ren Susu is on a suicidal rampage, she's still losing sisters. This isn't revenge served cold for something that happened years ago where I wish people would move on and live well.

Which is why EP 14 with a whole hoard of women and Murong Qingyi beating and slaughtering everyone in the bank was so satisfying. Yes, beat all the sex traffickers to death please. Do it more!

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Also, we remember why those women were trafficked in the first place. Yes, they can fight and they try to fight, but they can't necessarily outfight men with guns (and that's just a reality). AND (I love this part) -- they won and fought their way out, but they get taken to the police station to be questioned because of course they will (unlike MRQY, with his name and station and family protection).

[hyog-blog]

Da-ge must really really have some questions at this point XD Either that, or he's a saint)))

No biggie, just his fiancée found wounded with his shot brother in the midst of some human-trafficking conspiracy XD Just another day of the Murong family, ahah))

[dangermousie]

I am not being ironic when I say it's stuff like this for which I got into cdramas 20 years ago.

This has been scarce lately, but oh WE ARE SO BACK, BABY!

[dangermousie]

The way he stands there looking at his bloody hand, bloody because it was covering his side gunshot wound, then just shakes the blood on his hand off, breaks off a wine bottle and goes to town.

The way he fights a horde of men with axes and guns with a freaking wine bottle - he stabs someone in the abdomen with it! And then manages to get his hands on a machete and just killsssss!

I agree with @renewedmotionforjudgment - MRQY is more book Xie Zheng than the drama PoJ one ever was.

[dangermousie]

The gorgeousness of this scene!

And this bit omg! She is such an old school ML!

Yes, yes bask in your murder date going insanely codependent sun. Plssssss I live for this!

PS ahahaha

I need a fic where he calls her saosao in bed almost as much as the leads need therapy.

[hyog-blog]

Murong Qingyi is so complex, actually. He has low self-esteem and nearly absent survival instincts, but he'd go feral for the people he cares about, ruthless to a murderous and suicidal extent.

It seems that for him love = pain, in some variation. Either suffer for the people he loves, or by their hand, or, alternatively, simply because of them. He and Susu seem to be speaking a very similar love language. While she's at the point where she doesn't want him to get hurt, when he does - and for her - that actually comes through to her in ways no confessions ever could. Because he's doing all the bonkers stuff for her, even competing with her, who's more sacrificial. I think he's low-key trying to guilt-trip her into staying by his side, and while it never worked before, it just might at some point XD This is all a skewed example of 'see and be seen' by that other special person, just accompanied with a hefty amount of violence.

Da-ge never needed proof of Qingyi's love, I feel it's always been a more or less unconditional familial affection. And still, he was the one who sent Qingyi to prison (and Qingyi suffered his hand injury there because of his brother). And that moment in their teens when Da-ge was suffering to help Qingyi, experiencing quite literal physical pain, once again establishing the love = pain equation in Qingyi's mind.

He knew very little love, and the people who were supposed to take care of him while he was growing up - were either violent or abusive in some kind of way (the only type of love he actually knew before meeting Susu for the first time).

In all of the scenes we've seen since her coming back - he's selfless to the point of throwing his life away for other people. Either to prove/show his love (in Susu's case, and she does get the message), or to help his da-ge and his girlfriend (not because the Huos are despicable and need to be obliterated, but because they're hurting his people). He didn't go on a vendetta rampage mission for himself and what they did to him, but rushed into a fight headfirst without thinking - for all those other people that he cares about.

He's broken in so many ways, and it's so beautifully portrayed D: That man needs decades of therapy (but with the amount of men he's already finished off, that probably won't help at this point).

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Overdo proposes the most common sense way of healing emotional trauma: just do murder together.

[aysekira]

i'm not sure yet which one is which between the mains, but i'm the driver.

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Overdo proposes the most common sense way of healing emotional trauma: just do murder together.

[hheartsdramas]

this is the kind of grrl boss story i can get behind

let's go smash our traffickers' heads in together! girl power!

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Insane insane insane

(He’s all like she’s taunted me before for not pulling the trigger and gotta show her how insane I actually can be)

[luck-system-shenanigans]

i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????