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Being bridal carried by Zhang Linghe POV

#i blushed #zhang linghe

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special request from anony <3

STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023)  EPISODE 36

#they have been living rent free in my head #its been a month ?? #two month ??? #and I think of THEM #sokp

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#Fun fact I never finished watching that show but I remember watching the scene with those screencaps tho

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From now on, let me teach you instead. I'll teach you how to love someone properly. Jiang Xuening... I'm yours.

Story of Kunning Palace (2023)

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You know I was minding my business, scrolling on tik tok and all of a sudden there is a post about like cdrama actors and their birth date..

Normal, chill.

And THEN

This dude shows up ??

And I thought of yeah Zhang Zhe of SOKP, he must be from like 1997-1998 ?

No.

He was born in 2002. 5 March 2002. He is currently 21 yo.

Shocked to my core.

#LIKE WDYM WE ARE THE SAME AGE ???? #WDYM WE WERE BORN THE SAME YEAR ???? #TEARS #cdrama #sokp #story of kunning palace #story of kunning palace cdrama #wang xingyue #zhang zhe

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"Story of Kunning Palace" + Tumblr text posts (part 1)

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Zhang Linghe kiss like his life is depending on it.

And its a blessing

Some actors kiss like it’s their job, some like it’s a chore, and some like it’s a hobby. And don’t tell me you don’t know which is better and which is worse.

#zhang linghe

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STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023)  EPISODE 38

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Bwahahaha she is all, sure I banged you, but marriage...I don't know. The gender reversal is delightful!

I will always be amused that he has to almost die in her arms for her to realize she wants to make an honest man out of him.

Love that Xie Wei, the crazy dude, it totally going "worth it!" And I love that she's the one who proposes, heeeee. (Side note, Yan Lin is so amused at all of this. He's totally accepted she never sees him this way and I love that his attitude seems to be "my awesome but insane cousin and Ning'er have the weirdest thing going on but it works for them, so free circus for me!"

I love that we got to see what happened to life 1 Xie Wei and it's his burning his books, digging his own grave and slitting his throat clutching her hairpin. Her rebirth saved more than just her...

And it ends up happy with their friends and kids and a cat and Xie Wei not minding the snow but still being a weird dysfunctional man (who is honestly not the most amazing father; he's as petty as his kids) but it's the best of all possible worlds they could have and I love it.

It's not my fave cdrama this year, that was LYF1 followed by The Ingenuous One, but it's def completing my top 3.

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WeiNing: *kissing in front of everyone's salad*

Yan Lin, Dao Qin and the Yan army: i-isn't the weather lovely today?

Zhang Zhe: goodbye goodbye goodbye you were bigger than the whole sky

Jian Shu: *happy shipping noises*

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The fact that he is close to cry in between the kiss... He literally is living in heaven cuz yes as much as it sounds cliche or whatever ( to certain media consumers) IT STILL IS THE BEST DISH SEVERD

AND I ALWAYS EAT IT UP. FINGER LICKIN GOOD... JUST MY BOY XEI WEI IS DOING IT HERE

Like Xei wei is all gangsta until he is having a gentle mouth wrestling with his Ning'er .

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Jiang Xue Ning, the delusional and dense queen of Denial Land.

Oh, but he has a heart, with a wall greater than the Great Wall of China and more guarded than Alcatraz, it's a ice-cold wasteland, but it now only beats for her, because she has managed to sneak into it little by little, overcoming all of Xie Wei's defences.

Xie Wei basically served his heart on a silver platter to her, begged her, tried to get promises of never leaving, and this is the conclusion she arrives at?! Wasn't she supposed to be good at business, why can't she put one and one together and get two?! If he really were afraid of you jeopardizing his plans, you would have been long dead and buried; it would only take snapping his fingers, nothing would be easier for him. Doesn't she realise he has been jeopardizing his iineffable revenge plan for Xue Ning for quite some time now? He was even willing to pull of that insane princess abduction/swap plan.

Also, let's not forget the tiny detail he's been engaging in a silent cold war with her father and scaring off all her potential suitors, who he thinks are utterly unsuitable for her, keeping the spot of her future husband vacant.

Of course, he has loved her all along, twice to be exact. Taking aside their past in the previous life, with her experience with marriage and love, or lack thereof, it actually makes sense she would fail to recognize his feelings for her. Her (ex) husband was too meek and soft, while Zhang Zhe has been cold, compose and untouchable, so she has never been loved with this all-consuming intensity and urgency Xie Wei does.

Her complete rejection of him, as he takes even the smallest hope that she cares for him away! He would say and do anything to bind Xue Ning to himself, even accepting the pretense that he owes heras long as she wouldn't leave him, but everything fails.

OMG! Xue Ning has finally managed to break Xie Wei, even after all the suffering, trauma and loss he's been through, he's held it together all the time, but the moments she runs of his life, he begins literally falling apart at his seams, as if he lost his anchor - she kept him grounded. He doesn't even dare to look at her leaving like he usually does, otherwise he would have collapsed right then and there.

The man is single-handedly redefining the word "lovesick". I said it once and I will say it again, he should really become BBFs with Tantai Jin and get drunk over their fucked-up existence (without any fault of their own) and miserable love lives.

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"You're meant to be mine."

STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023) → EPISODE 32

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The guard : sir... Again.. How about you deal with those unresolved feelings ? Xie Wei : ... get out

xie wei: do you like zhang zhe? ning'er: what- xie wei: if you like someone, don't tell them. don't tell anyone. especially don't tell me. keep it buried in a tiny little box inside of you. forever. until he dies alone. until you die alone. xie wei: now if you'll excuse me, i need to go home and get my body guard to stalk him because we don't have social media yet

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YALL. everyone go watch story of kunning palace i swear it’s worth it im still riding an insane high after i finished it last night.

it’s a very good solid drama for 30 episodes kinda slow burn but well written with good characters and decent plots.

and then in the last 8 episodes, the guy’s sidekick tells him “maybe you should show her how you really feel. show her the real you” and he proceeds to go batshit feral insane. which after watching her pine after and then reject the most morally upright guy ever it fucking WORKS ON HER because she is ALSO insane!!

after that it’s just 8 episodes of him being sloppy desperate for her and begging her to give him an answer while she’s just there buffering because she has to readjust her whole worldview with this news that he’s liked her all along?? she went out to meet her former crush and when she got home he sat her down and made her eat a dinner he made. that was drowning in vinegar. because if he had to drink vinegar then SO SHOULD SHE. and after she doesn’t eat much at dinner he plops down a tray of her favourite cake. that he had given her before earlier in the drama. announces that he made it with his own hands. and she’s like :0 “you made it for me even back then?? but back then we were only….” and he’s immediately like “only? only what? what were we back then? what about now? is it different now? what are we?” and she’s just like .

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Great character analysis

A good coworker but not a good husband

Sorry study partners, but I do not see the attraction of Zhang Zhe. If you want to spend hours staring at a beautiful, unmoving, uncompromising embodiment of virtue you can hang out with the bodhisattvas at the temple. Marriage to that guy will be an absolute snoozefest; you'll never see him because he's busy working unpaid overtime. He will spend exactly five minutes in your bed once a fortnight until you're pregnant, possibly less if it looks like you're enjoying yourself. He doesn't have the money to buy you jewellery and wouldn't even if he did. He will never call you pretty because evaluating the merit of something on its surface appearance is meaningless. He won't even approve of you having an affair no matter how discreet you were about it. Your only hobbies will be balancing the frankly dire household budget, mending your one nice outfit for the umpteenth time, and going slowly insane.

Anyway, great character, very compelling, completely unfuckable. 10/10, do not marry.

#“Marriage to that guy will be an absolute snoozefest”