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梦见 - In Dreams

A phoenix among peonies depicted on white walls topped by tiles; west of the manor, crab-apple blossoms paint all in the crimson of the setting sun. Far away, some wanderer quietly hums a song. Who sniffs at the faint fragrance in the wind?

We parted ways at dusk; how can we ever return together to our hometown? The times we shared in that old house are still entwined in my thoughts. Holding red thread in hand, who is that with their hopes and wishes? And who gathers the scraps of memories others have cast away?

The line between gentleman and petty man has always been fine. Brought together by fate, we separate at its end, helpless against the sorrow of our parting. Would that our lives be but a dream! Twilight at the crossroads - who lingers there with an air of melancholy?

We dream, wake and dream again, reliving the old days in an instant; past and future become wonderful, impossible fantasies. But in this moment with you by my side, a decade ahead of us and dreams distant, why should I fear the transience of our lives?

We bind our hair in marriage, sharing bed and pillow, yet cannot walk this path to its end. I do not know your thoughts, so how could I know of the world’s vicissitudes? The red lotus in full bloom is a warm, comforting swaddle cloth. Who listens to those folk songs sung of the black and the white?

From fingertips flow life’s ink-dark portents; freeze framed scenes capturing old friends and their small smiles. Each tick-tock of the clock adds a layer to the chaos of space-time. Who still looks back upon the days of our youth?

Spirits and Gods and the Human Heart, is there any who sees them clear? Within the cycle of karma and rebirth, how do we bear the long journey to Hell? Would that our lives be as carefree as stories tell! At midnight, a dim lantern lights a lonesome path over the bridge of no return.

The curtain rose as the audience arrived, revealing plains burned to the ground. The music has ended, listeners gone, (but) my heart beats only for one. And in this moment in your embrace, I dream: ten years have flown past and together, our hair has turned white.

We dream, wake and dream again, reliving the old days in an instant; past and future become wonderful, impossible fantasies. But in this moment with you by my side, a decade ahead of us and dreams distant, why should I fear the transience of our lives?

Even if this exhausting night has yet to pass, with you by my side, I shall sleep well tonight.

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#cpop #music #just saw a wenzhou fanedit with this song and it's stuck in my head now

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Ummmmmm!

Ummmmmmmmmm!

I peeked at ep 60 (aka the end of the first season) and HOLY HELL DID I SOMEHOW FALL THROUGH A PORTAL INTO ROYAL NIRVANA SOMEHOW?!

I mean, where I am at (ep 11), everything is cute and fun and kind of fluffy romcom vibe and Li Chu’s Dad being a sane and decent dad with whom he has a loving relationship and here we have Li Chu getting beaten almost to death on the orders of his royal father who keeps telling the eunuchs to continue (and would have probably killed him if head eunuch was like “OMG this is the wrong country for Ivan the Terrible set-up, also pls stop as the limit of sons you can kill within  a 24 hour period is one.”) Li Chu’s fault? DADDY HAS GIVEN ORDERS TO KILL HIS OTHER SON, LI CHU’S BROTHER and Li Chu is begging to spare his brother’s life and refuses to take the request back, saying he can keep company to his brother in the netherworld!!!!

Like, the HELL!!!!

The fact that Li Chu refuses to budge is OMG (when he says “it’s painful” and Daddy dives in for the kill, clearly needing Li Chu to admit he was wrong, and Li Chu instead says it’s painful to be in the royal family omg.)

Yeah, no. Daddy is determined to kill Tan’er and has Li Chu dragged out. (PS yes, Tan’er dies shortly.)

And the Empress orchestrated it basically to hurt Li Chu and gloats. Lovely family.

Also, God, all these people are idiots. First of all, Daddy is totally acting towards Li Chu the same his father acted towards him. Nice to see trauma going from generation to generation. But at least that’s just evil, not dumb. The Empress is dumb as hell. Unless she magically manages to get a contender for the throne somewhere who’s strong enough to take Li Chu on, at some point her husband is gonna die and Li Chu is gonna be in charge. Now, he obviously is not beheading her or anything but he can make her life really really lovely until she dies of mysterious illness.

“Why did you father beat you so horribly?” “Ummm, because it’s a day ending in Y in a cdrama imperial family.” OK, joking aside, she must really love him by now because I’d rather run away than be a daughter in law of that family.

Well, it’s nice to know that no matter how cheerily a Chinese period drama starts, unless it’s a bona fide romcom, it will always get to massive suffering eventually.

OK, back to the cuteness in ep 12. It’s the kind of whiplash I like.

PS I have always liked Allen Ren but he’s extra extra good in this drama.

PPS I always feel bad for the eunuchs in this set-up. They don’t have a choice but to wallop this guy because the Emperor orders but in the back of their minds is probably the thought that when in two years or w/e he becomes the next emperor, he is going to remember and gut them.

#the glory of tang dynasty #allen ren #大唐荣耀 #任嘉伦 #rjls acting in this scene kills me to think he was still a newbie then!!!!!!

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but now they can only stir up a storm in this vile hell on earth. 可是现在只能在这阴诡地狱里，搅弄风云了。

(ft. Hu Ge in The Young Warriors and The Legend of the Condor Heroes)

#ooooooof!!!! #Nirvana in Fire #琅琊榜 #Hu Ge #胡歌 #射雕英雄传 #少年杨家将

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across the ocean to see you's set up is so genius actually divorced and pregnant woman moves across the country for a fresh start and new job and ends up meeting just this really genuinely nice guy who is super dedicated to his job and is also a little dorky and they end up being neighbours but she's also his new boss??? who is super demanding and a perfectionist at work but outside she's a high maintenance shopaholic who doesn't know shit about chores so he's doing the cooking and cleaning and eventually he's raising her baby with her aand worrying about her nutrition intake and shit

#across the ocean to see you #漂洋过海来看你

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with you 最好的我们: episode 08

“Let’s always be seatmates.”

#with you #最好的我们 #liu haoran #tan songyun #BABIESSSSSSS #still my fave high school drama everrerree

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hello can I get the full sound for the intro for "the story of minglan"? I really love the intro and would like for it. Thanks if you do send it!

hello!!! sure thing! can you come off anon and drop me a DM either here/twitter so that i can send it to you?

#the story of ming lan #replies

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Hi! It seems like you've watched My Huckleberry Friends. To be honest I'm thinking of checking it out just to see Ji Li. Are you able to remember how much he actually appears in the show? I'll likely still watch but I want to have appropriate expectations, and maybe watch other things first if he's only in like one episode, which would be tragic, lol. Thank you so much!

hi!!! omo... you know... i didn’t even know ji li was in my huckleberry friends HAHA, and i realised why when I searched on weibo, i think he only appears in ep 16 or something LOL omg sorry to disappoint...

but even then, i really highly recommend the show regardless!!! it’s really one of the best youth dramas around!!!! 

#replies #my huckleberry friends #你好，旧时光

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go ahead 以家人之名:episode 03

“How aren’t we related? They’re both my brothers!”

#go ahead #以家人之名 #tan songyun #zhang xincheng #song weilong #<3<3

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been really neglecting tumblr lately (initially cos i was prepping for finals, then after that i just got lazy) and i miss this place!!!!!! and watching dramas, i've been so unmotivated when it comes to watching them... ohwell

shall just plop random photos of:

- osthmanthus oolong tea with milk foam that i made the other day

- back to (socially distanced) guqin lessons, yay!!!! i've really deconditioned these past 2 months

#personal #guqin #tea

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go ahead 以家人之名:episode 03

“I would like to make an announcement.”

#go ahead #以家人之名 #tan songyun #zhang xincheng #song weilong #shes so ridiculous asdfghjk

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go ahead 以家人之名: episode 02

“He Ziqiu, how many times have I told you? Don’t come use the bathroom when I’m brushing my teeth.”

#go ahead #以家人之名 #zhang xincheng #song weilong #张新成 #宋威龙 #they'reeee soooo cuteeeeeeeeeee #i've been in a drama slump lately (more my own inability to sit thru dramas rather than a lack of dramas to watch) #but i love these kidsss

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千户苗寨 thousand miao villages , xijiang, guizhou province.

#china #prettyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

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Omg there are actually people who watch Young Blood on tumblr!! Thank you so much for making young blood gifs (and subbing them too)♥️♥️♥️

aghhhh sorry this reply is so late!!!! i’ve been neglecting my tumblr lately oops

but YAYYYYYYYY helloooooo fellow young blood stan <3<3<3 you’re welcome!!! (they’re a pleasure to make anyway, and i really want to get around to making more!!!!!!!)

[edit: btw i’m a super lazy hufflepuff too HAHAHAHA]

#young blood #大宋少年志 #dizi repliği #thelaziesthufflepuff

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⚡️self love time! tell me which one of YOUR edits you like the most then send to five other creators to do the same 💕 (i know you're busy with exams so if you want to!)

ahhh thank you so much for this hehe!!! <3

i answered viv’s ask with my hzgg gifset but apart from that if i could pick another!! it would be a tie between my zhang yuan gifset [because what’s better than a collection of baiyu’s smiles hehehe] or my glory of tang dynasty gifset because it really knifed me while i was making it lol

#replies #seventh-fantasy

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⚡️self love time! tell me which one of YOUR edits you like the most then send to five other creators to do the same 💕

thank you viv for this!!!

i think if i have to choose it’ll be my huan zhu ge ge gifset hehe :) though i think it could have been better but i think it was one that required a bit more effort/skill LOL and i love the scenes and the quotes that i gif-ed sm :D

#replies #jingyans

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i just finished "the romance of tiger and rose" and i have nothing to watch now :( do you have any cdrama recs?

hello!!!! sorry i got to this a week late my tumblr is like... neglected currently

anyway i’m so glad u enjoyed tiger and rose!!! i love it so much too :D for cdrama recs, omg it really depends on what u’re looking for!!!! i find it so hard to narrow down dramas that are my faves to recommend because i actually watch very little HAHA and i only watch to completion dramas that i really like anyway xD anyway i’ll just list a few that i’ve watched recently (meaning like... from mid 2019 till now) and really enjoyed!!!

period dramas:

- joy of life 庆余年 (2019): hard to describe this tonally because it’s v irreverant and hilarious yet moving and deep and suspenseful?! the first 15 episodes are fun and enjoyable but i think i really really truly got into it after that and became invested 100%. in my eyes it felt like a fervent love poem to life and the human condition especially towards the end. the characters are all very fascinating and there’s a lot of twisty plot twists. excellent acting and script writing. only caveat is that it’s the first season out of a planned 3 season series so it ends on a cliffhanger, and the female lead doesn’t really have as much agency compared to the other supporting female characters (mainly due to her circumstances and the role she plays i guess).

- young blood 大宋少年志 (2019): YOOO THIS is a huge lovelovelove for me, you have the most lovable squad consisting of 6 very different and generally lonely teenagers who get roped into this secret services thing where they deal with top secret government plots and stuff. and they start off all on the wrong foot and grow to LOVE EACH OTHER and RELY ON EACH OTHER and HAVE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. *sobs just thinking about it* has many supporting characters that are interesting and whom u also get invested in. It’s an original script written by Wang Juan 王倦 who also wrote the joy of life script, except young blood is 100% original and not adapted from a webnovel! just like tiger and rose’s script, which is also an original script written by Nan Zhen. this is SUPER SUPER rare nowadays in cdramaland which is why i stan these 2 dramas so hard hahaha. caveat: young blood also ends on a kind of cliffhanger/open ending, but it still felt like the arcs that the entire series covered in terms of character development were well completed so i was okay with it. plus there are lots of hints that there’s also gonna be a season 2, though I think Wang Juan is still writing the script for that.

- under the power 锦衣之下 (2019/2020): this is the drama that tiger and rose is sometimes compared to in terms of how it became so popular unexpectedly. i would wholeheartedly recommend this 100% solely for the OTP which is a Tsundere Embroidered Uniform Guard (Ming-dynasty secret police) ML x Bubbly/talkative/street smart Constable FL. they are SUPER SUPER cute and the leads (who are both my faves) play them super well and their romantic development is presented really organically. the outfits esp the male lead’s are A+++ also and make him look super super hot. i like the OST too. however everything else is quite mediocre lol especially the special effects and the meandering sideplots and there was a whole plot arc that didn’t really make much sense because a lot was edited out because of censorship. STILL VERY ADDICTIVE THO

- the story of ming lan 知否知否应是绿肥红瘦 (2018/2019): a very long drama (but quite normal by cdrama standards lol) basically about the ~journey~ and ~growth~ of our protagonist minglan, unfavoured daughter of a concubine of a relatively high ranking civil servant. it’s a very different vibe to a lot of other cdramas in that it’s very slice-of-life and slow paced, but i think it’s fascinating how it showcases how women deal and work with the internal dynamics of a household in a patriarchal society, and how that affects societal and political affairs as well. her OTP with an unfavoured son from another family (lol) is also very very delicious as it’s basically 2 people who have gone thru a lot of Trauma as children treasuring each other/learning that they too are treasured by the other and them building their own family and household against all odds and evil family members. it’s v long and slow paced as i mentioned earlier but it’s very very rewarding!! and i think many of my tumblr mutuals would agree it’s quite a favourite :D

modern dramas:

(i’ll admit that i’ve only had the brainspace the past 1 year for fluffy brainless modern dramas so all these are just for the FLUFF)

- skate into love 冰糖炖雪梨 (2020): uni drama where the FL re-picks up her true love speed skating after abandoning it for Reasons and gets back into it competitively. her OTP is her primary school deskmate who is an ice hockey player. the otp is very very fun!! the ML has a lot of resentment towards FL initially because FL was quite the bully in primary school but i really like how they resolved it and eventually the ML falls first and falls Really Really Hard and it is Delicious. the career aspects was quite well done also and i really rooted for the FL to rediscover her passion and pick it up again, and also for the ML to become better at his craft. caveat: i actually still have 10 episodes to go as i stalled because i know there’s a couple of episodes coming up that are going to be frustrating because of typical Misunderstanding and Miscommunication blablabla. but that’s pretty common lolol and overall it’s still a cute watch.

- the 致我们 series consisting of 3 dramas : 

1) a love so beautiful 致我们单纯的小美好 (2017): high school drama basically tsundere male lead x bubbly female lead, they’ve been classmates since young and are next door neighbours, female lead has a crush on him since forever

2) put your head on my shoulder 致我们暖暖的小时光 (2019): set in uni, female lead’s doing an internship far from her school, male lead is a physics student and his parents have a flat for him that is near female lead’s internship place, BAM THEY ARE FLATMATES!

3) the love equations 致我们甜甜的小美满 (2020): uni drama, female lead is a chinese language major who loves writing forensic novels online, male lead is a forensic science major.

all 3 are really cute lolol. i put these 3 because i just watched the third one two months ago and i feel like i have to mention it in the context of the first 2 haha. the first 2 were definitely hits both domestically and internationally. i feel the 3rd one kind of flopped? in terms of reception compared to the first 2 and a lot of my drama mutuals couldn’t get into it, and i can understand why because it did feel more unpolished? in terms of directorial choices/the editing/the acting/the script. but i still somehow really loved it for some reason, i think some parts of the ML’s life esp his relationship with his mum really resonated with me, and i loved FL and her friendships with her dormmates so so so so much. so i really rooted for the OTP.  i think objectively in terms of quality i would rate them 2 > 1 > 3, but in terms of feels... i loved them all. and it’s all just pure fluff anyway at the end of the day HAHA.

ok i’m running out of time writing this hehe but also a quick shoutout to my 2 favourite youth/high school dramas forever - With You 最好的我们 (2015) and My Huckleberry Friends 你好旧时光 (2017) which are sister dramas/set in the same universe and imo, are the pinnacle of youth dramas and what it means to capture the anxieties/stresses/mundane joys/pain/beauty of the Chinese/Asian high school experience. 

there are many others from before 2019 that i watched and enjoyed but i didn’t put them in hehe. and i’m sorry HAHA i actually don’t have much trust in my own taste LOL but i hope it helps!!

ohhhh and i’ve been trying to avoid starting on new dramas because of Exam Prep but there’s been SO MANY airing lately that i’ve been interested in:

The Bad Kids 隐秘的角落: apparently super well done suspense/thriller drama that’s receiving rave reviews everywhere!!

Love A Lifetime 暮白首: an original wuxia starring ren jialun (ML in under the power) whom i love so much and zhang huiwen

My Girl 99分女朋友: this is a modern day cdrama written by nan zhen!!! (who wrote tiger and rose) so i think it might be worth checking out :))

#recs #cdrama #joy of life #young blood #the story of Ming Lan #under the power #skate into love #a love so beautiful #Put Your Head On My Shoulder #the love equations #with you #my huckleberry friends #the bad kids #love a lifetime #my girl #mine #drama watching #replies

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The Romance of Tiger and Rose | Behind the scene moments

#the romance of tiger and rose #传闻中的陈芊芊 #zhao lusi #ding yuxi #they're so cute #they're both so dumb asdfhjk