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#二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉
mochipong · 24 days
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You are my sweetest downfall
My art for the Timeless: 2024 ranwan calender zine on Twitter
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violetdisasterzone · 10 months
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VOLUME 3 COVER ‼️
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veggiebunbuntmlr · 4 months
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Ch.113
“Without a word, he solemnly brought Chu Wanning’s hand to press against his own chest.”
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xmitchxx · 11 months
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Barbie trend (Jiang Yexue / Taxian-jun)
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emara · 10 months
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Chu Wanning has known only one thing more intimately than his own love for Mo Ran: Mo Ran’s rejection of it.
last year's bitter loving must remain ranwan | 25k | explicit | canon divergence
a post rebirth AU following chu wanning as he wakes up from the five year seclusion and finds a lot changed. especially mo ran, who seems to be both ignoring him and wanting to be as close to him as possible in parts.
written for @ciaran, cool art by @qsoda
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angieloveshua · 10 months
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I'm this close )( to ending myself.
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gaywaren · 10 months
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FOURTH VOLUME OF 2HA SIMPLIFIED CN EDITION IS HOME ♡
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weishenmewwx · 2 years
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My Danmei 耽美 Literary Adventure
Seven Seas Chinese Danmei novels, Notes Masterlist
Some of my favorite books, especially, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Stars of Chaos, and Guardian, are now officially in English! Thank you, Seven Seas.
These notes are here to help friends who may not speak Chinese or have enough Chinese cultural background to understand the nuances presented in these works, or are just getting confused with all the different terms of address.
Please forgive me if I have missed anything, and dm or comment if you have anything to add!
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魔道祖师 Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
by MXTX
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二哈和他的白猫师尊 The Husky and His White Cat ShiZun
by Meatbun 肉包不吃肉 (Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou)
Usage of the word "Master" vs "Teacher"
How to pronounce people's names (bc it does NOT follow the rules of English pronunciation)
Book Annotations
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杀破狼 Stars of Chaos
by Priest
Volume 1 is up now!
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镇魂 Guardian
by Priest
Coming eventually :)
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bbulka · 1 year
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Shizun and his white cat)
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natsugami-mari · 1 year
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Mo Ran ❤️
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limedumplr · 1 month
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A fanfic book cover for @devilsoupe’s fic “When I Let the Water Take Me”
One of the best five I’ve read last year!! It’s a oneshot and absolutely worth the read! Here’s the link: https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/94918129
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quesophiladelphia · 7 months
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My piece for the Erha Reverse Bang! by @2ha-events
accompanied by this amazing fic by PeacefulDiscord!
a story about mob boss Taxian-jun, his little daughter and our favorite detective Chu Wanning! go read it go go go!!
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princexael · 7 months
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“Pretty gege, would you be so kind as to accept an offering?” 🌸
I joined the @2ha_events reverse bang & ended up pairing up with @ariwrote who wrote an absolutely amazing fic to go along with my art! It’s so good!!
Check it out!
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veggiebunbuntmlr · 1 year
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Hopelessly devoted to you
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xmitchxx · 7 months
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First time drawing Jiang Xi (milf🦚)
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emara · 10 months
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2HA/DUMB HUSKY AND HIS WHITE CAT SHIZUN PRIMER
i'm making this for a quick reference whenever my friends ask me what 2ha is bc i realised i've been repeating myself ceaselessly every single time i try to explain it. this will contain two parts, both with spoilers and without. the without spoilers part comes first. before anything else though, if you plan to check 2ha out do check out the content warnings and if you aren't comfortable w any of it, even a little, i'd suggest you stop rn. i'm serious. if you need an elaboration on the content warnings then you can text me! but please don't ignore any of it and head into it blindly.
this contains:
SYNOPSIS
BASIC WORLDBUILDING
CHARACTER LIST
TIMELINES ft bonus rockstar taxian jun
FINAL THOUGHTS
there are spoilers timeline onwards, the rest is spoiler-free [or mildly-spoilery but i tried my best to keep spoilers out!]
so if you're here and have decided to keep reading, here's the first half of the primer [no spoilers]
SYNOPSIS
Emperor of the cultivation world Mo Weiyu deceived elders and slaughtered ancestors, and committed all crimes and sins known to man. After ending his own life, he was reborn and transmigrated to the year he first became a disciple. In the shell of a boy held an old and weary soul. After coming back to life, truth after truth that had been hidden below the surface in the previous life floated to the top and broke through the waters one after the other. Of all revelations, the one that stunned him the most was that the Shizun he had hated to the bone in his previous life had always been protecting him from the shadows... The heart of a man can change; even demons and monsters can become compassionate and do good. Only, he had sinned deeply. Can the blood on his hands ever be cleansed?
via 2ha wikia
Yet, after having died and reborn, after having lived two lives, the one he hauled back each time to his den in the end was always the one he couldn’t stand at first: that snow-white kitty shizun.
adding the last bit of the novelupdates summary because it's very important to know that the one mo ran always ends up hauling back to his apparent den [this summary is ripe with dog and cat metaphors] is the one who he very passionately hates, chu wanning.
tldr; taxian jun-- aka mo ran, mo weiyu, emperor of the cultivation world-- fucks shit up, is the reason why the word "tyrant" was coined, commits every crime known to man and then kills himself when he knows he's going to be invaded bc he has no will left in himself to live or fight back. and then the world doesn't let him die because he wakes up again in the body of the little boy he used to be when he was first accepted as a disciple at sisheng peak, under chu wanning's tutelage, as a 15yo again. he finds newer more creative ways to fuck shit up, and alongside that, also finds out things he didn't know to be true in his last lifetime. for example: that chu wanning loved him, apparently, and had maybe not deserved to be the subject of his ceaseless violence in his last lifetime.
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BASIC WORLDBUILDING
this bit is for my non-danmei enjoyer buddies, for those who aren't familiar with the genre: here's literally everything you want to know about it. it's a very brief intro to most concepts and worth just skimming through even if not actively reading. i am not chinese and i am not an expert so i won't pretend to be one and explain all of this. moving onto the setting of the novel:
CULTIVATION WORLD
Cultivation World is the broad community of cultivators and their sects. It's divided into upper cultivation world and lower cultivation world.
re: the wikia
upper cultivation world: is near the coastal halves apparently, and is overflowing with spiritual energy. most of the great sects in this cultivation world are here, notably (from the novel): rufeng sect, taxue palace, guyue'ye, wubei temple, jiangdong hall, shangqing pavilion, etc -- these are all the important players and they're all here.
lower cultivation world: this area is routinely plundered by ghosts/demonic invasions because of it's proximity to the ghost city. no major sect is mentioned to be a part of it except for sisheng peak, the main setting, home to mo ran and chu wanning, who have taken up the job of guarding the barrier between the living world and the ghost city that lies there.
there is absolutely no difference in ability across the sects around the cultivation world, as sometimes mistakenly implied by the terms "upper" and "lower."
fengdu ghost city is the ghost city mentioned above that lies in the lower ghost realm.
sisheng peak: a major cultivation sect in the lower cultivation world. scenic and among the mountains, it is a main setting in the novel. it's a cultivation sect known to be passionate about helping people, especially those who cannot afford it. this has made them heroic in the eyes of the common people but a subject to ridicule among the other sects of the upper cultivation world. this sect is headed by xue zhengyong, the sect leader who is to be succeeded by his only son, xue meng (xue ziming).
the elders among sisheng peak are the masters that xue zhengyong went out to look for after laying down the foundation for the sect himself along with his brother and he didn't care for personality or achievements, only just willingness to teach and talent and assigned them their places. they were free to accept disciples on their own and disciples were also free to choose whichever elder they wanted to learn under. this gave the masters a specific title, apparently terms coined from the stars of the big dipper or other constellations, for ex, chu wanning is titled yuheng elder (also: yuheng of the night sky.)
red lotus pavilion: chu wanning's home on sisheng peak
loyalty hall: the main hall of sisheng peak, that you can only reach by climbing 3799 steps >:)
mengpo hall: dining hall adjunct
heaven piercing tower: this is where chu wanning and mo ran meet for the first time, the place where taxian jun chooses to kill himself in the past lifetime, and where most ghosts/spirits/demons are locked up after being captured by the sect
butterfly boned beauty feast: a race of half-demons, half-humans that are said to be the descendants of gouchen, a butterfly-boned demon who aided fuxi, the creation god, in trying to save humans against the swaths of demons that pillaged the human realm. they are said to be extremely beautiful but defenseless as a result of the demon realm casting them out after gouchen's betrayal and as a result, horrifically mistreated across the cultivation world. for ex: guyue'ye had created a secret formula on how to "refine" a bbbf for human consumption in order to achieve better cultivation. they are considered sub-human and hunted and trafficked.
thats all for main body. i think.
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CHARACTER LIST
this is not an exhaustive list of all major characters that appear but a list of the major characters that i consider important in non-spoilery terms! [all art embedded is official]
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MO RAN/TAXIAN JUN: on the left is mo ran, as a disciple, and on the right is mo ran as taxian jun, the first emperor of the cultivation world.
mo ran is described to be hot-tempered and kind, best understood only by the description he uses for himself-- a dog. his repetitive character traits across both lifetimes of his is that he is the type of person who will never forget kindness or cruelty if bestowed upon him once and he doesn't care about nuances. if people are good, they're good. if they aren't, they aren't. he'll always remember the hands that fed him and those that beat him.
taxian-jun is described to be a violent and mad emperor with little to no sense of self left in him. he has conquered the entirety of the cultivation world ruthlessly by what can best be described as hostile takeover and merciless slaughter. he has nothing left inside him that can call back to the kind child he used to be and is absolutely a miserable shell of a man. he dies in the beginning of the book and is transported back into the body of the boy he used to be, however, and that is the beginning of his reckoning.
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CHU WANNING: in both of mo ran's lifetimes, chu wanning is described to be a cold, unfeeling man with a ridiculously ironclad spine for justice. he is suggested to be the stickler for rules type but he isn't, clearly evident by how he would rather choose what is good over what is in accord with process/protocol repeatedly in the text. he is among one of the most powerful men in the world, in terms of cultivation prowess, and owns three holy weapons (which is no ordinary feat). he is known to be among one of the most respected elders in sisheng peak, if also the most distant, and extremely selective when it comes to accepting disciples, having only three.
he has such crippling self esteem that at some point you hear his inner narration and go "i need to wrap him up in a heavy blanket and tell him to take a long nap"
hes an inventor! hes an engineer! hes made many little robot adjacent spiritual envoys that protect poor towns free of cost/little to no cost against ghosts and demons called holy night guardians!
he can't organise to save his life. the first time mo ran visits his room he's literally like "damn bitch u live like this" bc red lotus pavilion appears to not have seen a broom in like. months
this tweet is a canon part of his characterisation to ME. in the words of @ciaran "he is so millions autisms" and also:
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ciaran, a modern day prophet
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SHI MEI: is one of chu wanning's disciples and a close friend of xue meng and mo ran. mo ran is head over heels in love with him becuase he is one of the few who have shown him unconditional kindness. he is described to be incomparably beautiful and elegant and gentle to match. despite his low spiritual prowess, he is said to be exemplary re: his chosen path of medical practise.
he wrote to chu wanning asking to be his disciple after chu wanning had once found him buried under a stack of books in the rain and offered to walk him back, holding an umbrella over both of them. shi mei then noticed that chu wanning had been holding the umbrella in a certain way to protect him from the rain while his own shoulder was drenched. he was particularly moved by this act of kindness as he hadn't been on the receiving end of much of it, if ever.
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XUE MENG: if you're a jiang cheng [mdzs]/mu qing [tgcf] enjoyer he's the most character ever for you. i'm one so i can attest to this. if you're a xie lian [tgcf] fan, then i have one for you too: as a young boy, xue meng was said to be "the darling of the heavens" (until of course, sense and reality was beat into him over and over again by the world, sometimes cruelly, sometimes helplessly). he is the young master of sisheng peak, xue zhengyong's son, and chu wanning's first disciple. he and mo ran are always at odds at the start even though xue meng considers him his brother and loves him still.
he calls mo ran his brother when drunk once and mo ran realises that oh, he's really loved here. he remembers the time he had first come to sisheng, freshly traumatised, and xue meng had brought him a box of sweets and despite his haughty nature and obnoxious voice he'd told him that those sweets were for him and him alone, no one else.
i think xue meng and mo ran can compete in a who loves shizun the most contest actually but xue meng will lose bc mo ran's a freak about cwn
ok that's it for the major characters. i could go on for days if you got me started about nangong si and ye wangxi but i won't. a brief list of other characters below:
xue zhengyong: the sect leader of sisheng peak
wang chuqing aka madam wang: xue meng's mother, former student of guyue'ye
nangong si: head disciple of rufeng sect
ye wangxi: .....a disciple of rufeng sect [im srs if i started talking abt them. i wouldnt ever stop]
song quitong: she rules actually. shes mo ran's lawfully wedded wife [the empress] in his last lifetime and shes meant to marry nangong si in this one. shes a bitch but shes so valid. go off king pull some more nails off their nailbeds! and bury thorns in them! cant a woman be violent around here for one...
idc enough about rufeng sect but another one of the main characters is nangong liu, sect leader of rufeng sect. theres also xu shuanglin. rufeng sect a sect made of assholes fr fr
jiang xi: sect leader of guyue'ye [a sect known for both it's abuse of the butterfly boned beauty feast people under the guise of medical research and for being the first medicine sect] [under jiang xi's tutelage the mistreatment of bbbf people is not known to continue, however, iirc]
mei hanxue: omg not to have a meatbun moment but i almost forgot to mention him, he's one of the main characters and the first disciple of taxue palace! he's supposedly a womaniser and has History w xue meng. across both lifetimes, he was among one of the only cultivators to side w him [in mo ran's first lifetime after becoming taxian jun, both xue meng and mei hanxue were constantly a pain in his ass about staging invasions having allied together against him]
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TIMELINES, AKA THE NOT SPOILER FREE PART OF THIS ESSAY
that's it for the characters! from this point on i cannot guarantee no spoilers because [cracks knuckles] here we go, the timeline of events across BOTH of mo ran's lifetimes.
a major, major event that must occur on the scale of svsss's cannon event, luo binghe Must Fall Into The Endless Abyss To Satisfy His Character Requirement, is the heavenly rift. it takes place across both of mo ran's lifetimes an in the first one, he loses shi mei-- the love of his life-- and is driven mad by grief, later becoming a man possessed by nothing but violence and hatred as emperor taxian jun of the cultivation world. in the second heavenly rift after his rebirth, however, [spoilers ahead] the person who dies is chu wanning. and that changes the course of his entire narrative.
the heavenly rift is basically a rift in space time, and its been a problem in this world forever. its like something that keeps happening, it tears open the skies and unleashes a swarm of ghosts and demons depending on which dimension lies beyond the rift.
more explanation on what the heavenly rift is how it played such a huge role in mo ran's character dichotomy coming up in lifetime #2 explanation. here's lifetime #1, to start off with
LIFETIME #1: taxian jun doesn't have a good day. or a good life.
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before heavenly rift:
mo ran, 15yo, joins sisheng peak after a series of events that leave him traumatised as fuck for probably. the rest of his life [note: his discomfort regarding the smell of incense that lingers throughout the novel and is explained in the end]
meets chu wanning and is ENDLESSLY fascinted by his almost untouchable grace and beauty, wants to take him as his master. chu wanning refuses
chu wanning finds him scooping earthworms one day when it rains and helping them onto the grass and when he asks, mo ran tells him that he didn't want them to get trampled and its a feat that moves him so much that he literally accepts him as a disciple the very next day
at some point, mo ran plucks a flower that was among one of the rarest blossoms in the cultivation world that madam wang had spent years trying to grow and chu wanning, not understanding why he'd done it, punishes him for it by whipping him with his tianwen. he did it because he thought the flower was a lot like chu wanning and wanted to give it to him but the way cwn punished him after left him inconsolable
all his love and admiration turns to hatred in the aftermath. he realises chu wanning is just as cruel, cold and callous as they all say. at some point, shi mei brings him wontons and it is only then that mo ran's horrible cycle of having locked himself in his room w his injuries curb. he falls in love with shi mei because he brings him wontons and sits next to him and hears him talk. he falls in love with shi mei because shi mei is kind.
he doesn't care abt chu wanning or pays any attention to his lessons, making him notoriously dumb despite his high cultivation prowess that later plays a role in him trying very hard to name the years of his reign across the cultivation role and even naming one of them "the year of cock and balls" -- accidentally, bc he was trying to be the cleverest he could get and made a horrible pun instead. hes the biggest joke in the entirety of this plain when it comes to intellect as taxian jun
heavenly rift:
heavenly rift occurs. when the rift opens basically in this cannon event of sorts: the responsibility to close it falls on chu wanning, and for chu wanning to be able to close it requires a lot of spiritual energy. this rift in particularly opens to infinite hells and unleashes a HORRIBLE SHITLOAD of demons that cut through and mutilate everything in its path.
when chu wanning manages to close it, closing it sends a whiplash of magic back in the form of those ghosts and demons that have already escaped and the wielder, basically, who has been closing it is targetted first in a single shot. like a bullet, imagine. in this lifetime, shi mei and chu wanning had been closing it so it affects both of them
mo ran finds shi mei in a pool of blood and sees chu wanning walk away and processes that as chu wanning abandoning them and it is this move that cements his dislike for chu wanning into full blown hatred and marks his descent into taxian jun.
taxian-jun era:
chu wanning watches him spiral and tries to make him wontons the way shi mei did and mo ran catches him in the act and is spews vitriol-filled bullshit when he upends the bowl of wontons and accuses chu wanning of being the reason shi mei died and of trying to take his place now [actually i don't remember if he accuses him for his death. but. shrugs]
he masters zhenlong chess formation [one of the three forbidden techniques because of how they can turn human beings into dead chess pieces vulnerable to manipulation] and uses it to be able to take over the entire cultivation world. then, he annihilates the entirety of sisheng peak and captures chu wanning
he humiliates chu wanning in every way possible: sexually, physically, verbally. the dubcon/noncon here is very... in another world, not like this, this is all that chu wanning has ever wanted. buuuut. it isn't. like that. in this one. he marries chu wanning and gives him the title of chu-fei (consort chu) and his obsession with him grows and grows and grows until it consumes everything.
he is said to be extremely unsettled after every uh.... advent outside [bloodbaths] and only crumbling into chu wanning's embrace [note: the man he apparently hates the most] consoles him then. here's a gorgeous art based on the line that i think deserves a spot in the louvre
what he holds over chu wanning, the reason for chu wanning's constant compliance to each one of his whims, is xue meng's life. when xue meng attempts an assassination that he almost succeeds in, taxian jun has finally had enough and then tells cwn he's going to kill him and cwn should stay put. cwn tells him that if he does go then cwn will kill himself in front of him. mo ran does not budge, he doesn't believe in the threat
cwn makes good on the threat and uses the final bit of his life force to summon his his second weapon, jiuge, stronger than tianwen [his chosen spiritual weapon] to break the effect of mo ran's zhenlong chess formation as he attacks taxue palace and xue meng, and then falls to his death
mo ran doesn't quite process it at first and is in disbelief. as cwn lays dying, he asks mo ran to forgive himself and mo ran doesn't quite know what to do with it. he ties cwn's body to his own spiritual energy and preserves it in red lotus pavilion as he goes off the last possible vestiges of his hinges that he didn't even know he was still hooked onto
at some point in bw, he spirals pretty badly and asks to wear his old disciple clothes that don't fit him anymore and has a breakdown about how he can't go back to the person he used to be.
he then decides to die at the forefront of an allied cultivation world marching into his stronghold by taking poison, ending his first lifetime for once and for all. he is 32, then.
LIFETIME #2: life drags mo ran back to his 15yo body and tells him to 'get another load of this shit'
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before heavenly rift:
everything from mo ran joining to shi mei's wontons happen in the same fashion prior to taxian jun waking up in his 15yo self.
this time he wakes up and is immediately punished by cwn, again, for being a miscreant
xue meng is still annoying
but best of all SHI MEI IS ALIVE<3
this time around, mo ran decides to actually use his foresight from his last life and pay attention-- making him notably smarter! surprise suprise when u do the reading... u grow up to be well read?!?!?-- and as he actually does something to help instead of just being a terrible student all the time, he gets closer to chu wanning too
he notes things he seems to have forgotten from his last life, including how chu wanning constantly puts himself in harm's way to protect his disciples and how rigid his sense of justice is [cwn literally whips the guy who pays him to exorcise the ghost in his house bc he talks to the ghost and finds out these people treated her horribly in life w no remorse whatsoever] [he then proceeds to take on whatever punishment need be, which is being disciplined by another fucking elder-- a humiliating feeling no doubt and no one is even forcing it on him, instead telling him he doesn't have to actually go through this because he's an elder and he's exempt to which he argues that if he holds his disciples to this standard then he will hold himself to it, too. he expresses no regret]
mo ran at first enjoys his punishment but he when he finds out that chu wanning had not informed anyone about the injuries he'd sustained from the mission he finds it so absurd he doesn't know what to do abt it
they have a hot/cold relationship and mo ran quickly grows to understand that ok, maybe he had judged chu wanning too harshly in his past lifetime
heavenly rift:
and then the heavenly rift occurs, which well, the premise is the same this time around. chu wanning needs to close it. but mo ran knows what happens and cant let shi mei die so he puts himself in shi mei's place and offers to help. and in doing that, he is the one who is levelled the killing blow alongside chu wanning
he begs chu wanning to turn one last time as he lies there dying but while he'd afforded shi mei at least one last look, he doesn't look back at mo ran as he leaves him behind. mo ran processes this in disbelief, concluding that no he wasn't partial in his assumption of chu wanning's character and that to him, chu wanning is even worse than a dog in terms of worth
i assume it is his higher cultivation prowess or chu wanning's panicked speed of wrapping the demon shit up but by the time cwn comes back to pick him out of the rubble, he still has some of his life force left in him and cwn channels the rest of his spiritual energy inside him to keep him alive. he takes him all the way back to sisheng peak and then climbs 3799 steps with mo ran on his back while being worse off than even an average human being in terms of ability, injured, bruised and bleeding from the same wounds that are currently killing mo ran and from more additional ones he sustained neutralising everything. when he can't climb, he crawls and crawls until his hands tear open and every single part of his visible skin is marred with cuts.
he reaches loyalty hall. mo ran is heaved off him and into safety.
chu wanning dies.
after heavenly rift aka reckoning:
mo ran wakes up and is at first filled with joy. he's alive! shi mei is alive! the crisis has been averted but why is it that no one looks happy? he makes an off-handed comment about cwn and xue meng loses it-- they have a fight and mo ran is like "why should i be nicer to chu wanning when he's done nothing for me!" unaware of what exactly chu wanning has done for him, and xue meng breaks down into sobs. he holds onto mo ran and tells him "shizun would be so sad if he heard you say that from down below" and mo ran momentarily does not know how to react [i keep thinking about him going soft and sober for a second, telling mo ran, "ge, we don't have a shizun anymore"]
it is like he is taxian jun again, holding the cwn's dead body in his arms as it turns increasingly cold, when he lashes out at xue meng in disbelief. he is told what chu wanning did for him and he is horrified. he is horrified. he cant grieve. he cant eat. he cant sleep.
it is two lifetime worth of a misunderstanding that catches up. he understands that the reason for his visceral hatred of chu wanning, the part he played in shi mei's death, could have never been avoided. and that chu wanning never abandoned them, abandoned him.
it is three days after chu wanning's death that mo ran cries and it's the scene again: shizun, won't you pay attention to me? and its heartbreaking. hes like i wont hate you anymore if you just nod once, just once, and chu wanning lies there unmoving. unhearing. unfeeling. like chu fei did, a lifetime ago, unmoving, unhearing, unfeeling-- cruel and cold as he always had been to mo ran. but he wasn't, mo ran knows now. he wasn't cruel to him ever, and back then he was just dead.
anyw, then master huaizui from wubei temple comes knocking at sisheng peak's gates when he hears of cwn's death and they all find out that he was huaizui's student. huaizui tells mo ran that he knows of a way to resurrect cwn but for that, they will have to gather all his souls, starting with his human soul that will return to fulfill the biggest regret he had in life on the seventh day after his death. he is handed a lantern, the light of which will allow him to see the soul and call it inside.
this is the first part of "everything comes to a full circle" of mo ran's journey. mo ran finds chu wanning's soul in mengpo hall, with no memory of anything but his regret, making wontons. he is blind, here, and is touching everything including the pot on the pyre with his hands alone to be able to tell where what should go. his robes are as white and bloodied as they were when he died. mo ran breaks down and falls to his knees in front of him when cwn senses his presence and thinks he is shi mei, calling him over to take those wontons to mo ran and help him feel better. he realises the one who made those wontons all along was chu wannning, not shi mei and remembers how he had thrown his wontons to the ground post shi mei's death in his last lifetime in a fit of fury as he considered him responsible for his death and trying to poorly imitate who he was. he remembers how chu wanning had picked them up, one by one, and thrown them away without saying anything.
he understands chu wanning's biggest regret in his life was not going to mo ran himself and apologising, which he believed was the reason behind mo ran's twisted and fervent hatred for him.
mo ran goes to the underworld. he brings him back from the dead. he spends 5 years in suffering as huaizui works to merge all of cwn's souls together with his body.
the rest of what happens, i will not continue. this is already far too long. but this much should clarify whats happening for those REALLY in doubt.
i am choosing not to mention some of the real spoilery parts, including chu fei/mo ran's rebirth and the [flower] shit. if you know you know! if you want to know, really desperately, my dms are open.
for further reference regarding the highlights in both those timelines, here is how mo ran's character is referred to across all the stages of his increasing understanding and awareness:
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bonus: rockstar taxian jun
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FINAL THOUGHTS:
2ha actually is one of the most wonderful things i've read in a long while. it asks an insane unhinged unwell question that takes "would you still love me if i were a worm" to newer, cosmical levels [metaphorically equivalent to "would you still love me if i were a sewer-dwelling rat"] and answers it with "yes" and then goes and to extreme lengths to justify that answer. i love it so much. i don't think i've ever read something i loved this much in a long, long while. i would never work this hard in a bout of insanity for a primer if i didn't love it, first of all, i'm notoriously lazy. i hate doing anything. xx
but yes. so recently i wrote a fic, in trying to write a tribute to how intentionally, how terribly, chu wanning loves mo ran [to the point of death and more] and i quoted the mary oliver excerpt from march, at the end, which i think surmises ranwan perfectly.
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TRANSCRIPT: There isn’t anything in this world but mad love. Not in this world. No tame love, calm love, mild love, no so-so love. And, of course, no reasonable love. [...] Something touched me, lightly, like a knife-blade. I felt I was bleeding, though just a little, a hint. Inside I flared hot, then cold. I thought of you. Whom I love, madly.   ― MARCH, mary oliver 
THERE ISN'T ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD BUT MAD LOVE, FORREAL. NO SO-SO LOVE. NO REASONABLE LOVE. and also, "I thought of you, whom I love, madly."
but another quote i think from salt is for curing by sonya vatomsky is also what i think of when i think of them
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TRANSCRIPT: The safest place to bury a body / is another body, / is in your own body.
girls when they are driven mad by horrific love, by undeniable love, by terrible, stubborn love across lifetimes (two lifetimes, they are both yours, no regrets) ok i'm so normal about them
if you actually have read until here u should a) talk to me about ranwan and b) listen to my ranwan playlist that (archie voice) i know holds all the secrets of this universe bro :)
ok i don't know what else to say. i've been writing this for four hours straight and its 3am. i'll do anything but actually write fic fr. anyw! talk to me! goodbye! i'm sorry for being insane about this!
this is actually what prompted this
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