#{ & i: li hua; }

[xinyuehui]

Li Lianhua • Lotus Li's Lotus Hairpins

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #cdramasource #dailyasiandramas #asiandramasource #dramasource #chineseartistsinc #cdramanet #chinesemedia #cdramaedit #cdramagifs #chinese drama #cdrama #caps #li lianhua #cheng yi #i wonder if he eats lotus too we have not seen that so far 😂😂🪷🪷🪷 #ive been paying close attention to his hairpins since i realised the lotus pods #his hairpins are all nature coded theres one thats 2 square twigs #in the most recent ep the one he wears is like a tree branch with tiny flowers

[mutantfactor]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook | pov: there are only 2 beds

#sharing is caring Happy Valentine's Day! 💕🪷🛕💕 #(btw i have the lotus tower model and this is what it feels lke building it) #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #莲花楼 #li lianhua #li xiangyi #di feisheng #fang duobing #cheng yi #zeng shunxi #xiao shunyao #my:gif #mf mlc #cdrama

[my-otp-list]

Recent Chinese dramas with a nonchalant MC who just wants to slack off (but fails), gorgeous men being best bros, marvellous fighting scenes, and a heck lot of chaos: A comparison.

#yes i intentionally pick a headshot where each of them is coughing up blood #because why not #mysterious lotus casebook #the blood of youth #word of honor #lian hua lou #shao nian ge xing #shan he ling #li lianhua #xiao se #zhou zishu #莲花楼 #少年歌行 #山河令

[sojutrait]

chu hua was enjoying taking care of her sweet baby and the universe said okay bet how about another

#ts4 #s #*soju save #*chu hua gen #WHEN I TELL U I WAS SICK. #SICK TO MY STOMACH. #ALL BC MY DUMBASS FORGOT TO BUY HER SOME MORE RUBBERS #id be lying if i said i wasnt tempted to just mcc delete but alas. we play it where it lies

[kitsalami]

he’s fun to design

#hua cheng #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #mxtx #made it just in time for my monthly art post #see you guys next month #kit art #<— sorry i lied

[pastelcheckereddreams]

Sooo, I bought the Lotus Tower model kit and, of course, I went overboard making it as accurate as possible to the show. To no one's surprise, I'm guessing? 😅

For reference, this is what the completed model (sans horses) looks like without most* of my alterations:

*The awning material and decoration is my only alteration at this point, as I didn't like the fabric they included with the kit.

I had so much fun with this model! It is well-made, has moving parts, and is actually fairly easy to put together, with most parts just clicking into place. It even has furniture details inside!

Let me know what you think! Have you got the kit? How are you finding the building process to be? If you want to hear a more detailed review of it and see my progress shots and details of my own creative additions, click below:

First, unboxing!

This is how the box arrives. I ordered it from CPOP Universe and it arrived well-packaged and undamaged within a matter of weeks.

Along with the kit itself - which as you can see consists of a stack of laser-cut sheets coded from A-Q, and numbers detailing the specific parts - you receive a coaster (ceramic, backed with cork, and very pretty), little standees of difanghua, a letter styled after the ones difang recieve from Li Lianhua, and a replica of the booklet of yangzhouman techniques.

The process:

The first floor came together pretty quickly:

Glue is provided, but isn't necessary for a lot of the pieces, as I found the measurements for a lot of the joints to be pretty snug and able to hold together themselves. Glue is necessary for some parts, though, particularly for areas such as the step up to the rear sleeping area. Strong glue. Here is what the fist floor looks like:

Fitting on the ceiling turned out to be the hardest part of most of the build. All of the holes on the second floor had to line up with every joint on top of the walls and doors.

The next big step I encountered was a curiosity. How to make the rear wall work? There was a curious piece clearly meant to anchor the rope, and a round hole that - much like the doors - meant that this piece was supposed to rotate - and even lock. But I received no instructions on how to achieve that. I found this puzzle (which I like to think was an intentional challenge, given the gadget-orientated FDB) to be a fun challenge. So I won't show you the inner workings and spoil it, but I'll show you the working product:

Next was the rather fiddly job of creating the sail awning. I imagine this will be quite difficult for some as there's no clear indication of how to fix the material in place.

My instinct was to sew it as that is also a craft I have practice in, though granted not everyone who buys this kit will be as comfortable with a sewing needle. The two swatches of fabric provided is also quite prone to fraying, and is quite thick and canvas-like. So, knowing that the awning is a big feature of Lotus Tower, I decided I could do better:

On the left is the provided fabric, and on the right is my own material (an old blouse that I never wore, with patches dyed with my promarker pens).

After that, things should've been an easy home run, as all I had to do was affix the wheels to their axis points and put the horses together. However, quite unfortunately, one of the wheels hadn't been cut out in my kit. I had to cut it out myself with a coping saw, a Stanley knife and much patience😅

It came out looking rough, but nothing a little sanding and a touch up with my promarkers couldn't fix. I also eventually glued the wheel caps to the axis to prevent the wheels popping off every time I touched it, and they all still spin fine (minus the one I had to cut myself, that one's a little sticky😅). Then came the horses, and I was done!

Or so I thought. "Don't you think it looks a little too brown?" said my detail-obsessed brain. "We could do... more...."

And so I did.

My additions:

I used scraps coloured by my blue marker to create the beams of the house, and later coloured the fence posts red.

I made a second sail to hand under the stairs.

I created a second planter box (again, from the scraps and coloured with promarkers - two sets of flowers were included in the kit, so I could put one in each planter.)

And I even created a rain chain using old earring backs, jewellery findings and a chain, spray painted matte black and then painted blue-grey.

To colour the roofs, I likewise painted them a light blue-grey (/brown for Hulijing's kennel), then used a darker blue promarker to roughly add in texture.

I painted the weather vane, and used scraps to add in its missing two cardinal points.

And then finally, I made a winch for the rear wall! It's also easy to turn with the roof on, so I'm very pleased even though it's a little rough looking 😅

Had to gif my video clip because tumblr said boo no to more than one :(

And that's it, that's my latest build! I found this kit very fun, loved the process and seeing Lotus Tower come to life. I also loved adding in all the details to make it just that bit more accurate to the show. My only true criticisms are 1) small design oversights with the base wood colour being a tad too dark imo; the missing arms on the weather vane; and no second flowerbed (although I may be being a tad too pedantic about it 😅). 2) The fact that one of the wheels in my kit didn't get cut out properly (a quality check issue).

Obviously, I made the choice to use a different material than the fabric included so I can't speak to how satisfactory it is. However, if I were ever in the position to give IQiYi direct feedback, I'd suggest they include thinner fabric, and paint (or paint suggestions, as I know model paints aren't usually allowed through customs in these kinds of kits) for the roofs, because (by way of how they're constructed) they're just raw edges of the reinforced card parts - completely uncoloured, despite being a very visual element of the piece.

Thank you for reading this far lol Keep an eye out for more art and craft posts! (I have a Siji Manor set update coming shortly 👀)

#mysterious lotus casebook #lotus tower #莲花楼 #lian hua lou #model kit #model building #my builds #nikkidraws #iqiyi merch #mlc merch #mysterious lotus casebook merch #arts and crafts #li lianhua #li xiangyi #lian hua lou merch #lhl merch #now where do i keep this thing

[carduelis-art]

#mysterious lotus casebook #di feisheng #li xiangyi #li lianhua #feihua #illustration #mlc fanart #莲花楼 #lian hua lou #cdrama #fanart #sketch #I'm back #Illness and work don't give me time to draw #but I hope to finish some more in December #Drawing dumb sketches for pictures is my new favorite thing ♪(´▽｀)

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook 蓮花樓

Chéng Yì 成毅 and Xiao ShùnYáo 肖順堯 as Lî XiàngYí 李相夷 Dí FeiSheng 笛飛聲.

#mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #cheng yi #xiao shunyao #li xiangyi #di feisheng #li lianhua #cdrama #chinese actors #THEM!!! #whump #i I love their costume fitting shoots so much!!! #YáoYao's eyelashes... I am ENVIOUS!

[yamsfan]

YANG YING & LI TONGGUANG A Journey to Love — Ep. 36

#a journey to love #一念关山 #cdrama #chang hua sen #he lan dou #cdramedit #cdramasource #asiandramasource #li tongguang #yang ying #lextag #um hiii my first cdrama gifs #i just really loved this scene #c #mp #its been 4 years since a gifset on this blog #thats how i know i love this drama

[murderedbyhomework]

fun fact there's a saying in cn, especially common in BE novels where one character is dying/will leave soon, where the couple will watch the snow together and have snow drift onto their hair, and then wonder if this counts as 白頭偕老 (to grow old and have white hair together)

anyways do you ever think about how Li Lianhua didn't make it to winter during canon so they can't even have that?

#OK I will see myself out #li lianhua #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #lian hua lou #Difanghua #Fanghua #Feihua #這次我真刀得狠 #都刀哭自己了 #挺好哭的 #不能白頭偕老，不能長相厮守，連自欺欺人的機會都沒有

[thedreamerstoryteller]

So, it's a Cheng Yi thing. 🤭

#I love when a character has some trait belonging to the actor who plays it #It makes the character more real and authentic #Like in this case #It's real that the devil is in the details #mysterious lotus casebook #chinese drama #cdrama #xiao shunyao #cheng yi #joseph zeng #li lianhua #li xiangyi #di feisheng #fang xiaobao #fang duobing #lian hua lou #It's December and I'm still obsessed with this drama #i love this drama #i love them

[xinyuehui]

I heard that to entertain Qiao Wanmian, he tied a long red ribbon around the hilt of that sword and played the 36 Drunken Moves on the roof of the House of Delights in Yangzhou. ⸺

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #cdramasource #dailyasiandramas #asiandramasource #dramasource #chineseartistsinc #cdramanet #chinesemedia #cdramaedit #cdramagifs #chinese drama #cdrama #caps #li xiangyi #cheng yi #ep9 #i adore this scene so much 💖💖意气风发的少年郎 #the only downside to this incredible wugong sequence is that it's so dark in the show!!! the bts looks 10x better

[movielosophy]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook |busy living a good life

#i agree #and everyone should learn basic life skills #mysterious lotus casebook #cdrama #cheng yi #character: li xiang yi #character: li lian hua #xiao shun yao #character: di fei sheng #DFS x LXY

[mx-myth]

Liansanjiao is so wild. One of them is a dom and also a pillow princess. Another one is a brat tamer and a submissive. The other one is a service top and a brat. They're all asexual. They're all horny all the time. They're all aromantic. They're all battle-sexual. They're all dating. They're all fighting. They're all in a qpr. They're all friends. They're all oh whoops you looked away for one moment now they're taking down the jianghu and they're going to remake it. Oh nevermind they're leaving.

#post partly inspired by the smut fic I just finished #I love them SO much #The dynamics are a little obvious but I left them blank because they could work for any of them #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #di feisheng #li lianhua #mlc #fang duobing #liansanjiao #difang #feihua #fanghua #difanghua #li xiangyi #The dynamics all connect. Do you see the vision

[shentunans]

“Where to hide? The most dangerous place is also the most safest place - the marriage chamber.” - Mysterious Lotus Casebook Behind The Scenes Shenanigans.

#chaos #xiao shunyao #cheng yi #di feisheng #li lianhua #Di FengSheng #A’Fei #Hua Hua #mysterious lotus casebook #how strong is Cheng Yi or how light is Xiao Shunyao XD #I don’t even ship FeiHua(?) but this was hilarious …nice try iqiyi but I ain’t falling for that anymore I learnt my lesson lmao

[solariene]

►Li Lianhua & Di Feisheng | Sacrifice

My contribution to this fandom!

#this drama and this ship deserve more hype #i love everything about it #i know they're not very the main relationship #i like the trouple vibe #and fang duobing #but feihua checked every trope I love 😂 #and they gave me enough inspiration to make a video #li lianhua #di feisheng #li lianhua x di feisheng #li xiangyi #mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #lian hua lou #cdrama #feihua #video edit #my edit #Youtube