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what gets me the most every time is that li lianhua remembers the day li xiangyi and fang duobing met as kids, too. fdb is not alone in reminiscing their first meeting.

in the script, more background information is given: it was on a day when lxy was eighteen, and sigu sect was bustling in preparation for their next selection of new recruits, that their young leader decided to take a stroll to the edge of the mountains away from the chatter alone. in the secluded peace and quiet, he stumbled upon and gave a ten-year-old boy arduously practicing swordsmanship by himself his word, and that boy saw the glimpse of a smile as clear and pure as spring waters he would remember forever and follow into the jianghu when he grew up.

zeng shunxi said in an interview that lxy had taught ten-year-old fdb equality then. so what if fdb used a wheelchair and needed more time than others? granted, lxy never came with the intention of changing someone's life, just that it was engrained in his values to treat all he cared for as intrinsically worthy of being equals. that was the meaning of the name he had given his sect: 四顧 (sigu) means to consider and take care of everyone in your surroundings. having a disability should not disqualify one from getting to dream to become a hero, too.

diving further into how the gifted wooden sword came about, lxy would not just happen to have a wooden sword from his childhood carried on his body. logically, he must have seen fdb training alone more than once and chosen to return to his chambers to his chest of belongings to have come back with a sword personally engraved with his name, "xiangyi," to give to him.

sigu sect had countless disciples they would select year after year, but lxy was never known for wanting to take one of his own. except for one — fdb was lxy's exception and forever would be lxy's one and only personal disciple.

moreover, within lxy's last words to fdb then was a notable line: "come and find me." when lxy died and was reborn as llh, no one in sigu sect, no one from his past was capable of finding him. this flashback is the one instance of lxy asking for someone to find him in a story where llh doesn't want to be found by the world.

lxy had asked fdb to find him, and here fdb is ten years later, at his heels and then side by side, together under the full moon, that classic symbol of reunion. this is the first of many full moons the show uses to depict llh and fdb.

as well, this is the first of many parallels and contrasts drawn by the show between llh's relationships with fdb and qiao wanmian. in this flashback, we hear the soundtrack titled 阿娩的月光 ("a-mian's moonlight") play in the background in its first rendering. related is the term 白月光 (white moonlight), often used to describe one's first love, for better or for worse because your white moonlight is often one you would hold your future relationships up in comparison to (sometimes perhaps a bit unfairly).

as people say, those who have departed will always be more beautiful in memory. fdb and qwm are indeed paralleled in that lxy occupies an irreplaceable spot in their hearts, but they are also contrasted in the same breath because when fdb gets to meet lxy again, it is ten years later as his partner-in-crime(solving) llh he can have fun with and mess with to his heart's content.

in addition, we get the first shot of lxy secretly eating candy, an image and motif that will keep coming up. as we will see in front of lxy's portrait, fdb bridges the gap to the white moonlight everyone had viewed as an unattainable goal they wanted to chase, compare to, and surpass. people forget how young lxy was back then. he was a kid who loved sweets. he is the moonlight twenty-year-old fdb wants to warm.

to conclude, mysterious lotus casebook is a story about the realisms of interpersonal relationships, of their trials and tribulations, and of endings and new beginnings.

you could have a group of comrades around you fighting for seemingly the same goal only to have them give up your ideals the moment trouble arises and then slander you relentlessly in public. you could be in a relationship with someone for ten years and accept their family engagement heirloom yet not know them at all. one instance could brew envy in a moment of vulnerability and lead to utter contempt you had no inkling of was just sleeping in the bed next to yours.

so then, how beautiful and hopeful is fanghua thematically because at the same time elsewhere where one action and one word could spark an endless battle and storm of hate, one action and one word could also be the light in someone else's life and they would in return remind you ten years later that you did do something great. lxy may not have been able to save the world as he had strived, but he protected ten-year-old fdb's dreams, and to fdb, that had meant the world.

#fanghua #fang duobing #li lianhua #mysterious lotus casebook #my heart 🥹 #Omg this post is so lovely #Ugh I love them 😭 #They're truly the best of besties 😭🤍

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恨君不似江樓月，只有相隨無別離。 i lament you are not like the moon who can accompany me wherever i go. 恨君卻似江樓月，待得團圓是幾時？ i lament you are indeed like the moon, when will we be reunited at last?

cinematography: fanghua + full moon, symbol of reunion

from their first meeting becoming unexpected reunion, imagining a future by each other's side, sharing yangzhouman to fulfill their childhood promise of 10 years ago, waiting to have a late dinner together, to spending their final night and goodbye.

hulijing, i can no longer make delicious food for you, but you have to stay here and wait for fang duobing to come back, alright? tomorrow is the day. hulijing, do you think he will come?

#brb sobbing #li lianhua #fang duobing #fanghua #mysterious lotus casebook #WHY OMG I WAS HAVING A GOOD DAY #THEN I'M SAD ABOUT THEM ALL OVER AGAIN 😭😭 #*sighs and opens laptop* fine I'll rewatch mysterious lotus casebook

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The evil grin, the glow-up transformation, the strut. I love it all.

#kdrama #tale of the nine tailed #lee rang #🫠

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❤️🦊🦊❤️

#🥹 #tale of the nine tailed 1938 #lee dong wook #kim beom

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So Li Lianhua's lunar calendar birthday is 29th February but by gregorian calendar it's apparently 7th April.

So happy birthday you beautiful avoidant hack doctor.

李蓮花長命百歲！！！

#li lianhua #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #li xiangyi #So you're telling me I missed his bday by a week?? 😭😭 #:((( #*sighs* #I miss him 🥺

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Wu Xie and Pangzi chatting while watching the rain in the Restart Comic (x)

#dmbj #dmbj manhua #my heart 🥹 #their friendship is so cute #iltsm #🫶 #But where's Xiaoge 😭

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THE MANDALORIAN (2019–) 2.07 • "The Believer"

#din djarin #the mandalorian #It's missing din hours ☹️

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sect? in ruins. hair? a mess. girlfriend? divorced. older brother? murdered. blood? splattered. nemesis? assumed dead. pride? destroyed.

hotel? trivago

all 👏 in 👏 one 👏 look 👏

#cheng yi #li xiangyi #mysterious lotus casebook #sir your hair is very pretty 🥺 #do you... Need someone to brush it for you?

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I now present to you: Li Lianhua being cuter than the baby he's holding, and a jealous annoyed Fang Xiaobao ~

[link to chapter here]

#Omg I love these two #Fang Xiaobao is so sassy in the book I love it 😂 #This book is so full of scenes that we were robbed of in the drama #I mean I still love the drama but just #Imagine seeing llh holding A BABY #my heart would burst 🥹 #Mysterious lotus casebook #Auspicious Pattern Lotus House #Novel #Cdrama #Cheng yi #Zeng Shunxi #Li Lianhua's #Fang Duobing

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Must not be late to shan gudao funeral

#may this silly little doodle bring you a laugh today #Omg I love this sm 🤣❤️ #They are my fave boys 🥰 #Mysterious lotus casebook #(don't worry iron triangle u guys are my faves also ❤️😘)

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Waist is tiny.

#cheng yi #cheng yi's waist #mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #ilh 🥹

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#dmbj #Wu Xie is jellyyyy #I love them sm lol #Also #It's Wu Xie's b-day 🥳🥰❤️

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Mysterious Lotus Casebook

#Just my fave llh moments from ep 1 #He's such a dork omg 🫶🥲 #mysterious lotus casebook #cheng yi #li lianhua

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not nearly enough gifs of XIAO HUA (2/∞)

(id: three gifs of xie yuchen from episode nine of the lost tomb 2. in the first gif he is seen coming through a door, opening his mouth to speak. in the second he comes to a stop and raises his chin in greeting while talking, and in the third he's smiling. end id)

#Xiao Hua: 🐰🐇🥰❤️😘🫶 #dmbj

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Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) | Ep. 13

#mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #fang duobing #zeng shunxi #xiaobao is just too adorable 🥹

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the lost tomb reboot | wu xie on the brink of death

#pingxie #Daomu Biji #*screams eternally into the abyss*

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the lost tomb reboot | a cute pangxie moment

#dmbj #the lost tomb #the best of besties 🥰💗 #pangxie