#qiao wanmian

[fanghuas]

When people in the martial arts world talk about beauties, we're tied. Tell me. Between us, who is prettier?

#mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #qiao wanmian #jiao liqiao #look mom I made a gif

[eirenical]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook | Lian Hua Lou | 莲花楼 | Episodes 19 (left) and 21 (right)

Both Fang Duobing and A-Fei independently deciding that Li Lianhua has zero game and desperately needs their help to get the woman he's so obviously in love with. Both Fang Duobing and A-Fei also having so little game themselves that they independently decide that kidnapping is the only obvious way to go about this. *smdh* Boys, PLEASE.

I feel like we don't talk about this particular parallel enough. XD

#mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #莲花楼 #fang duobing #di feisheng #a fei #li lianhua #qiao wanmian #fanghua #feihua #parallels #eirenical.meta #eirenical.photosets #fang duobing & li lianhua #di feisheng & li lianhua

[jianghushenanigans]

If you like Mysterious Lotus Casebook, why not try The Blood of Youth? We have...

Jaded protagonist who has lost all his martial arts and claims to just be a humble member of the jianghu, lying constantly about his prestigious background and the fact he's extremely famous:

(Here he is again but dressed like a woman this time for Plot Reasons):

His new sidekick: a puppy in the form of a teenager with floofy hair. Enjoyer of food, kicker of ass:

The leader of the demon sect who gets constantly nerfed by the narrative because if he was at full power all the time there wouldn't really be much of a plot:

The three of them eating together! Bonding! Bickering!:

Other key characters include:

Woman with chronic illness:

Women getting cool action shots:

This distinctive wig worn by the Purple Guy:

A man, I swear:

One actor who's in one of the tumblr famous cdramas that will make you go 'hey, isn't that that guy from the more tumblr famous cdrama!'

This actor playing a guy in love with an older woman:

These two actors playing Bros:

... hang on this is like half the supporting cast?? well anyway if you enjoying looking at actors and going 'hmmmm i swear i've seen them before' then This is the show for you:

This boat! I'm like 75% its the same boat but its difficult to tell with the lighting:

ANYWAY the acting is great the costumes are great the wigs are great I cried for two days straight please watch the blood of youth

#me (lying): yes these shows are very similar #(they're not they're totally different genres but you should watch both anyway!) #mysterious lotus casebook #the blood of youth #li lianhua #li xiangyi #fang duobing #di feisheng #xiao se #xiao chuhe #lei wujie #wu xin #qiao wanmian #ye ruoyi #shi shui #sikong qianluo #yan biqiu #tang lian #ok i'm not tagging all the characters that can be it

[qpjianghu]

...the world doesn't need this kind of Sigu Sect.

Qiao Wanmian 🖤 Mysterious Lotus Casebook

+ bonus:

#your honor I would die for her #qiao wanmian #mysterious lotus casebook #lhl #legit obsessed with this speech #it's honestly so powerful and so poignant and so!!!! #my mlc gifs

[dramagifs]

Since you came back. why didn't you tell us?

#mysterious lotus casebook #dailyasiandramas #cdramasource #dramasource #cheng yi #li lianhua #chen duling #qiao wanmian #mygifs #just with a couple of simple words my heart is crush into a million pieces asdfg aaaaah #m:mysterious lotus casebook #m:li xiangyi #m:cheng yi #m:qiao wanmian #m:chen duling

[miaoyincourt]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook 6/?

MLC 1 | MLC 2 | MLC 3 | MLC 4 | MLC 5 LLH 1 | LLH 2 | LLH 3 FDB 1 | FDB2 DFS 1 | DFS 2 JLQ 1 JLQ 2 FEIHUA 1 | FEIHUA 2 | FEIHUA 3 | FEIHUA 4 | FEIHUA 5 | FEIHUA 6 OT3

#li lianhua #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #di feisheng #fang duobing #jiao liqiao #qiao wanmian #xiao zijin #mlc #my posts

[difeisheng]

someone shared some pages from the mlc design book on xiaohongshu, and so we now have canon present-day ages for some of the characters!

li lianhua: 29

fang duobing: 20

di feisheng: 32

qiao wanmian: 27

jiao liqiao: 27

#feeling extremely validated by knowing dfs is older than llh #but also im going to screech at qwm and jlq only being 27 what the fuck #raising a toast to everyone who like me just had their entire mental timeline for this show shattered #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #fang duobing #di feisheng #qiao wanmian #jiao liqiao #ashton originals #wish these pages were clearer i wanna see the details

[lyselkatz]

29th day of the second month: Happy birthday XiàngYí! Many happy returns HuaHua!!!

🎂🍜

二月廿九 - 花花生辰快樂!

...☕?/commission

#mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #li xiangyi #di feisheng #fang duobing #huli jing #qiao wanmian #su xiaoyong #he xiaofeng #princess zhaoling #qin po #zhan yunfei #cdrama #fanart #cnovelartreblogs #lyselkatzcreations

[nutcasewithaknife]

Do you ever think about Qiao Wanmian? Who is one of the earliest, founding members of the Sigu Sect, but known to most as the Jianghu's most beautiful woman, as Li Xiangyi's bereaved fiancé? Do you think she spent years and years trying to be good enough for the one she loved, to catch up and prove her worth? That it never felt enough anyways? Do you wonder at the strength it must have taken to see that the one you love will always belong to the world first, that he cannot give you what you want, cannot meet you halfway, and then choose to step away? Can you imagine what it's like to spend a decade pulling yourself together and going on with your life, but never letting go of the hope and grief? Can you imagine knowing that your partner of years, the one you've come to rely on, may have just been seeing you as a conquest all along, a way to one-up someone who has long left your lives? Can you imagine how much she must have grown into herself over these years to be able to step up in a crisis and take over as the Sect Leader of the Sigu Sect? How, despite all her grief and hurt and regrets, she stands tall and strong and alone at the end?

#qiao wanmian #aaaahhhhh she's just. i love her im increasingly obsessed with her with each passing day #mysterious lotus casebook #meta

[qiaowanmian]

now all i'm saying is that had qiao wanmian just found herself a nice younger man boytoy in li xiangyi's ten year absence. well im not sure if she still would have gotten over him in a particularly healthier manner but at least she wouldn't have to suffer the sheer cringe of being in a ten year long situationship with mister wet tissue

#mysterious lotus casebook #shut up ness #the boytoy is fang duob-- #for legal purposes this is a joke #it's past midnight and i'm on my qiaofang bullshit sorry everyone #i hope i'm not just a fanghua shipper or a difang shipper or a difanghua shipper to you but also a qiaofang shipper #qiao wanmian #one of these days i'm gonna explain why but for now i am too lazy and really ought to be headed to bed !

[jiaoliqiao]

―Margaret Atwood, November

#userdramas #mysterious lotus casebook #cdramaedit #cdramasource #mlcedit #qiao wanmian #fang duobing #di feisheng #li lianhua #*mine #useryd #lextag #uservivs #userginpotts #userhanyi #roserayne #tuserjade #swiftletinthecloud #usergooseras #mlc spoilers #don't mind me having a normal one

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook 蓮花樓

Chén DuLíng 陳都靈 as Qiáo WânMiân 喬婉娩

In costume for the 2023.09.16 concert

#mysterious lotus casebook #qiao wanmian #chen duling #cdrama #hanfu #drama costumes #chinese actresses #mysterious lotus casebook concert #huafu

[eirenical]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook | Lian Hua Lou | 莲花楼 | Episodes 3 & 9 - The Letter

There is so much we don't know about what happened ten years ago between Sigumen and Jinyuanmeng.  A lot of it gets unraveled as the show goes on, but one thing remains true: there is a hell of a lot of unreliable narration to pick through to get to the truth.  And when it comes to the particular truths of what happened between the individual people involved, that becomes even more true.

And one of the little mysteries that always bothered me was this letter that Qiao Wanmian wrote to Li Xiangyi to break up with him.  Because I absolutely could not figure out when he actually got that letter.  Anyway, I finally caught a few details that helped me to tease that apart and my first realization was that he fucking LEFT HER ON 'READ' for about a month (Li XIangyi, PLEASE OTZ) and the second realization was that we get two different versions of these events YET AGAIN, but this time both from Li Xiangyi's POV in flashbacks, and I'm CHEWING GLASS OVER IT, so naturally I have to share.

So the first time we get this particular flashback is in episode 3.  Li Lianhua is remembering the aftermath of the Donghai Battle, how he fell into the ocean and washed up on the shore... a husk of what he had once been.

He wakes up and makes his way into town and to Sigumen's steps, overhearing all this terrible news as he walks.  People injured, homes destroyed, people killed, and so much of the blame being placed on all the sects, and on Sigumen in particular.  And as he walks, you can see it all starting to weigh him down, until he's literally bent over from the weight of it on his back.

And then the final betrayal.  His people, his friends, want to disband the sect.  They want to walk away.  They blame him and his hubris for this disaster.  And the coup-de-grace is Xiao Zijin asking Qiao Wanmian... "You don't like this place either, right?"

And the sad look on Qiao Wanmian's face finally breaks Li XIangyi of his paralysis and he turns away, back to the scene unfolding on those steps and drifts back to the shore, where he ultimately collapses.

And that's all we get.

We know he returned to Sigumen.  We know he overheard them wanting to disband the sect.  We know he left without a word.  And that's the end of the story as far as Episode 3 is concerned.

But this makes sense.  Li LIanhua is mid-Bicha attack and has just left Fang Duobing on the side of the road when this flashback comes on.  He's fighting his own body in a desperate bid for survival to complete the one task he's set himself and Fang Duobing has just dredged up all this stuff and gone off on a tear about how he's Li Xiangyi's disciple.  A road Li Xiangyi never got a chance to walk.  Another person he failed along the way.  And so he's focused on all the ways in which he is a failure in that moment, all the ways he doesn't live up to Fang Duobing's hero, Li XIangyi, all the ways that he is no longer that man.  So he zeroes in on the moment he lost it all: his reputation, his sect, his health, his power.  So that's the part of the flashback that we get.

But in Episode 9, we have an entirely different set of circumstances.  He's just saved his A-mian.  He's focused on helping her let go of the man he thinks she still loves.  He's putting himself aside to focus solely on her (or so he thinks—that's honestly a question for later, but bear with me, we'll get there ;D) and what she needs.  And we get dumped into this flashback again.

Only this time it doesn't start on the beach.  It starts here:

It starts with Li Xiangyi seeing his sect disbanded again.  Only this time, he remembers the words that come from Xiao Zijin differently:

There's no speaking out load of "you hate it here too, don't you?" or any similar sentiment.  Because at this point, Li Lianhua knows this isn't true.  She can't hate it there.  She lives there.  She didn't leave.  And she doesn't hate him because she very obviously misses him and mourns him.  So in his mind, he gives this moment a little less abrasiveness.  A little less fierceness.  But because he's so focused on A-Mian in this memory, we finally find out that there is an entire piece to this incident that we haven't gotten until now.

A-Mian's grief.

A-Mian's recognition that he was there.

And the letter.

The letter she wrote a month ago.

A letter Li Xiangyi NEVER READ.

We get to see A-Mian's regret.  We get to see her grief: both for her own sense of shame at being unable to keep up with the man she loved, and her sense of loss over her own innocence and the opportunities that they'll never have now to make amends.  And we get to see her break from her grief for just a moment to rush down those stairs because some instinct in her just won't quit.

Li Xiangyi had returned.

And she knew.

But it was too late.  She no longer trusted herself.  And Li Xiangyi, having heard her outpouring of grief, had already decided that he owed it to her and to everyone else to just… walk out of their lives for good. 

And he did. 

But he owed her one last thing first.

He owed it to her to read the letter that she'd written him a month ago and he'd never opened.

So before he goes back to that beach, he returns to his rooms in Sigumen to retrieve that unopened letter and read it.

On first watch, I had assumed this was after his healing with Monk Wuliao.  That he was RE-reading that letter, not reading it for the first time.  But these are clearly his rooms in Sigumen.  The desk he conducts business from is at the bottom right and the table he confronts Shand Gudao from is on the left. But unlike when we usually see these rooms, brightly lit during the day, they're now mostly in darkness, the sun clearly setting given the angle of the light coming into the room. This is the sunset of Li Xiangyi. The last moments of his life, in a way.

And the letter is very VERY obviously unopened when he first takes it out:

And reading that letter is the final nail in Li Xiangyi's coffin, I think.  Final proof that he'd failed in every aspect of his life: being a brother, being a lover, being a sect leader, being a friend, being a student.  After this, he leaves Sigumen and goes back to that beach to lay down where he washed back up initially, ready to let the death he temporarily escaped take him away.  And when the monk saves his life anyway, he still manages to kill off the part of him that was Li Xiangyi.  Li Xiangyi is dead, he insists over and over and over again, until he believes it himself.

Because in that letter—a letter he left unread FOR A MONTH—Qiao Wanmian manages to show him that he never really saw her at all.  That he never saw one of his dearest loved ones in pain right in front of him—pain that he finally witnessed on the steps of Sigumen as she poured out her grief and regret in sending this letter to begin with.  How ironic then, that a letter she'd sent intending to set him free of her to fly up to the heights on his own, was the final arrow that brought him down.  I don't think that's what she would have wanted at all.

But I really feel for her.  I do.

Just imagine sending this letter and knowing that it's sitting in Li Xiangyi's mail pile somewhere… and assuming that he read it and that's what spurred him on to this last desperate fight.  Because in that outpouring on the steps that clearly what she thought she did.  She thought this letter sent him to his death.  And in that moment she's wrong, because HE NEVER READ IT.  Not until long after that.  Not until after this moment.  And fucking HELL, but that just hurts me.

Maybe it wouldn't have changed anything if he hadn't witnessed that moment.  Maybe it wouldn't have changed anything if he hadn't read that letter.  Maybe he still would have felt that he'd failed enough to warrant death of some kind.

But maybe not.

I guess we'll never know.

#mysterious lotus casebook #mlcb meta #eirenical.meta #eirenical.screencaps #li xiangyi #li lianhua #qiao wanmian #li xiangyi & qiao wanmian #the letter #mlcb episode 3 #mlcb episode 9 #unreliable narrators #long post #just in case #HI GUYS #CRYING IN THE CLUB OVER THIS TONIGHT #THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A SHORT LITTLE NOTHING #IT IS... VERY MUCH NOT THAT ANYMORE #...ENJOY? #XD #lianhua lou #lian hua lou #莲花楼

[lei-llustrations]

JIU ZAI JIANG HU ZHI SHANG, SHAO NIAN QING KUANG

This is a fucking shitpost that got OUT OF HAND

#i hope I’m contributing to the mlc community here #It’s supposed to funny but it looks so sincere lmao #feihua #whoever makes the difeisheng is woman coded post plz tag me there #mysterious lotus casebook #mlc fanart #莲花楼 #mlc #lhl #di feisheng #li xiangyi #li lianhua #qiao wanmian

[qpjianghu]

The women in Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Normally I feel like I have to turn off my feminism brain for some of these shows, but I was beyond pleasantly surprised at how deftly the main female characters in MLC were handled...

Qiao Wanmian: The perfect set-up for a female character only brought in to serve the main male character's emotional arc (usually by getting fridged), but she... gets her shit together, takes over the sect, and becomes a boss ass bitch?? SLAY. She respects both Li Lianhua and herself enough to recognize it's never going to happen between them and she needs to live her life on her terms. She also realizes Ye Baiyi Xiao Zijin is a piece of trash and she deserves better. -1 for excessive teary pining for Li Xiangyi, though tbh I can relate, because I too will be obsessively and excessively crying over Li Lianhua for 10+ years. Embarassing for both of us. Still, 14/10 for a self-respecting lady

Master He: THE mom of all time. Teases Fang Duobing for his obessesion with his boyfriend Li Lianhua. Pulls the "I'm not your biological mom but I raised you, bitch" shit and it works. Steps in, fists raised, whenever her son needs help in a fight. Loves torture devices. Meanwhile, you keep forgetting if Fang Duobing's dad is dead or if he's just on the couch playing duolingo like the dad in Barbie. But it's fine because mom carries the whole fam + family business anyway. 16/10 milf

The princess: Seemed more pissed than heartbroken that Fang Duobing ran away from their marriage, which neatly avoids the "spurned woman" trope. Is so freaking cute I wanna squish her cheeks. Acts like a realistic pouty teen but also wields her princess power like it's nobody's business. Understands Fang Duobing's desires at the end and respects them both enough to let him follow his heart. 15/10 would adopt

Jiao Liqiao: Batshit psycho. I love her. Unhinged and horny on main. Infinity/10

#mysterious lotus casebook #mlc meta #(sort of lol) #qiao wanmian #princess qian qian #jiao liqiao #he qiaohui #master he #fang duobing #li xiangyi

[ruiconteur]

mlc concert video + performance tracks

i've uploaded the files here! there are no english subtitles yet, nor will there be for the foreseeable future because i am not up to subbing a 2.5h concert right now. enjoy!

#mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #cheng yi #li xiangyi #li lianhua #zeng shunxi #fang duobing #xiao shunyao #di feisheng #wang herun #jiao liqiao #chen duling #qiao wanmian #chen yihan #su xiaoyong #he gang #shan gudao #lhl #rui rambles