#Shu-Wei Chang

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Wo han wo de sai che lao ba (2023) #ShuWeiChang #ShenghaoWen #ShaoHuiChen #JackTan #ChangChien #YuJenLiu Mehr auf:

我和我的赛车老爸 / See You At The Rally Jahr: 2023 Genre: Drama / Sport Regie: Shu-Wei Chang Hauptrollen: Sheng-hao Wen, Shao-Hui Chen, Jack Tan, Chang Chien, Yu-Jen Liu, Yu-Wei Shao, Sean Sun, Kuang Tian, Sara Yu … Filmbeschreibung: Dies ist die Geschichte über die Beziehung zwischen Chou Ta Long und seinem Sohn Dong, über die Transformation und das Wachstum von des dekadenten Lebensstils des…

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#Chang Chien #Jack Tan #Shao-Hui Chen #Sheng-hao Wen #Shu-Wei Chang

[chineseredcarpet]

Movie If You Are the One 3’s director Feng Xiaogang and cast members Ge You, Shu Qi, Fan Wei, Li Chengru, Yue Yunpeng, Chang Yuan & Esther Yu Shuxin for GQ China

#feng xiaogang #ge you #shu qi #fan wei #li chengru #yue yunpeng #chang yuan #esther yu #yu shuxin #fashion #if you are the one #if you are the one 3 #gq china

[chinesehanfu]

【Historical Reference Artifacts】:

China Tang Dynasty Lotus Crown Female Figurines,Collection of Xi'an Museum

China Tang Dynasty Murals from Prince of Ning Li Xian（李憲）Tomb Mural (742)

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty(618–907AD) Traditional Clothing Hanfu & Hairstyle Reference to Tang Dynasty Figurines

【History Note】

Wearing a lotus crown is a symbol of Taoism.Until now, Taoists still wear lotus crowns when performing Rituals and only high-level Taoist priests can wear lotus crowns.

Generally, the Taoist priests we see are all male, so many people will misunderstand that Taoist priests can only be male, but this is a wrong statement.

As early as the Jin Dynasty(266–420), the first female Taoist priest appeared: 【Wei Huacun 魏华存】。

Wei was born in 252 in Jining, Shandong in the former county of Rencheng (任城). Her father, Wei Shu (魏舒), was a government official. From an early age she displayed a propensity for studying the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and practising Daoist methods of cultivation.

At the age of 24, she was married to Liu Wen (劉文) against her will by her parents and had two sons. After they grew up, she resumed her Daoist practices. At some point she became a libationer in the priesthood of the Celestial Masters sect of Daoism.

Except Wei Huacun, one of the four beauties in China, Tang Dynasty beauty: [Yang Guifei杨贵妃/Yang Yuhuan杨玉环] also used to be a Taoist priest for a while.Her Taoist nun name is Taizhen (太真).

Therefore, it is speculated that she was also wearing a lotus crown when she was a Taoist priest.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, lotus crowns were not only worn by female Taoist priests, but ordinary women also liked to wear them. Until the Song Dynasty, the crown worn by women were not limited to the shape of the lotus, and even the material changed, such as: ivory, jade,and so on.

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👗Hanfu:@墨名堂的箱掌柜

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[yueqingyuan]

Yelling about this again since it's a big pet peeve of mine but please be aware!!! that "kill the wolf" is not!! a valid translation of Sha Po Lang!! it's not even a "literal translation" it's just MTL gibberish trying to make sense of a term with no English translation

pasting the explanation I gave on twt below the cut-

杀破狼/sha po lang corresponds to three different stars 七杀/qi sha ('seven killings'), 破军/po jun ('vanquisher of armies'), and 贪狼/tan lang ('greedy wolf'), which are significant in a system of Chinese astrology called 紫微斗数/zi wei dou shu

when these three stars appear in certain positions in a natal star chart, they compose the 'sha po lang' star formation, which foretells change and revolution, a turbulent fate which could lead to one making a name for oneself in chaotic times, or ending up destitute

famous generals are often born under this star formation as well - as you can see, there are a lot of ties with the themes of the novel itself

but, however, it doesn't really have a proper english translation, hence why i'm in favor of the 'stars of chaos' version of the title

if you want to look at the actual stars (look closer at the vol 1 cover for a little easter egg!)

qi sha = polis/mu sagittarii

po jun = alkaid/eta ursae majoris

tan lang = dubhe/alpha ursae majoris

thank you minirant complete

#sha po lang #spl #shapolang #stars of chaos #priest #danmei #7s is using stars of chaos for a reason yall

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

Xie Wei's greatest fear, the possibility of losing Xue Ning, comes true, and it utterly wrecks him. Her announcing her plans to leave the capital triggers his abandonment issues, because all the lovesick man is hearing is "I'm leaving YOU'.

He doesn't say it out loud, but you know he's offering to put more people on his hit list, especially if they make Xue Ning want to leave him and make her suffer.

He is so desperate not to lose her, he PLEADS with her, not begging for her love or affection, but so she would stay with his; her closeness being enough for him; and promises her anything from keeping her entertained to the extermination/torture of Xue Shu.

This is such a "I like you the way you are" moment a la Mark Darcy. Xue Ning never ceases misjudging and underestimating Xie Wei's feelings for her, thinking that pointing out all the ways she has "burdened" him with what she thinks he considers her flaws - her stubbornness, unruliness, and free spirit - would push him away, but it turns out all the things others have criticized her for, he likes about her; for once, here is someone who doesn't want her to change in any way.

The way he clings onto her, holding her back from running away, and never letting her go the whole time!

Xie Wei trying to convince Xue Ning to stay reminds me of a game of go, he's desperate not lose, but no matter what strategy he uses, he ends up losing (her) more and more. When promising her his protection and punishment of people who hurt her don't work, he uses her love for the people around her to keep her with him. It's heartbreaking how he not only puts himself as the last person that matters, but also that he defines himself as her teacher (partly to hide his true feelings), but mostly because it suggest that among all the people he mentions, he is not her friend nor her family, just a teacher, the only one Xue Ning does not love and the one furthest away from her.

When she pushes him away, refusing to be close to him, the only thing he ever asked of her, it makes his heart shatter.

At this point, Xie Wei throws all his pride out of the window and uses Xue Ning's "ex" and presumably the only man she has ever loved to make her stay, even low-key threating her he would off him if she were to leave. He is so deliciously need and pathetic, so frantic to do anything to keep her by his side.

#story of kunning palace #zhang ling he #bai lu #cdrama

[robininthelabyrinth]

The Other Mountain - ao3 - Chapter 16

Pairing: Lan Qiren/Wen Ruohan

Warning Tags on Ao3

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“Come on kids!” Cangse Sanren called. “Dinner time!”

Jiang Cheng was learning to be very wary of those words.

He hadn’t thought that was possible. It was just dinner, right? Dinner was a good thing, a normal thing. You went, you sat, you ate. No big deal.

Well.

That was before Jiang Cheng started having dinner with Cangse Sanren, her husband Wei Cangze, their son Wei Ying, and the two Lan heirs, Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji.

(And Jiejie, of course, but she didn’t count. Jiang Cheng was used to her being around! She was always there for dinner back at home…and also, unlike everyone else, she was normal.)

They’d been on the road together for a whole bunch of days, maybe six or seven, and they’d already had multiple showdowns over dinner. Unnecessarily dramatic showdowns, in Jiang Cheng’s personal never-spoken-aloud but fervently held opinion.

The first time, the showdown had been the evening after they’d met up with Wei Changze and Wei Ying. Cangse Sanren had decided, as a celebration of their first night on the road with everyone all together, to serve them all dessert for dinner. Wei Ying (who was pretty cool) had been thrilled, Jiejie had been smiling politely the way she usually did when she found things funny but a little silly, Lan Xichen had exactly the same type of smile (maybe it was an older sibling thing), and even Jiang Cheng thought it was pretty cool, actually; he’d never before had a grown-up be the one to suggest, much less implement, dessert for dinner. To be honest, he thought that most of what Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze did was incredibly cool – not that he’d ever admit it. He certainly wouldn’t admit to being a little jealous of Wei Ying, who got to be with two such cool people all the time.

(Two cool people that actually seemed to like each other, no less, the way married couples did in stories. The way Jiang Cheng was pretty sure married couples were supposed to like each other, rather than the way his parents did, or thought they did, or pretended they did, but didn’t really seem to.

Except he was never going to admit any of that either. Ever. To anyone!)

Unfortunately, Lan Wangji did not think it was cool.

“Dinner is dinner,” he insisted, his round little face creased with a great big scowl and his hands clenched into fists. “Not dessert. You cannot have dessert for dinner! It’s against the rules!”

It had been the most he’d said all day. All trip, at that point.

Cangse Sanren had tried to talk him into it, but he’d stubbornly refused, and whenever anyone else tried to reach for their bowl he glared death at them until they stopped. Not that his glares were all that scary – nothing was scary when your face was that round, as Jiang Cheng knew to his own regret, because certainly any time he tried it everyone older than him would just pat his cheeks and make little cooing sounds at him, even Jiejie – but by this point Lan Wangji had already had three giant screaming temper tantrums because things had changed too quickly, so no one wanted to risk triggering another one.

Also, he bit people. Mercilessly.

(Lan Xichen said that Lan Wangji had been having a very hard time of it recently and that they should please try to take it easy on him. Jiang Cheng hadn’t entirely understood what he meant, but Lan Xichen had looked so tired and sad while he said it that he couldn’t bring himself to ask.)

“I’m pretty sure your rules only say that you can’t eat more than three bowls,” Cangse Sanren eventually said, throwing up her hands into the air. This turned out to be a tactical mistake, because Lan Wangji’s face lit up and he started very enthusiastically reciting a whole bunch of rules right back at her.

This had gone on for nearly an incense stick, when finally Cangse Sanren said with a faint sigh and a smile that seemed genuinely fond, “You know, you remind me of your shufu when he was younger.”

That had shut Lan Wangji right up. He’d blinked at her owlishly.

“…really?” he said. “You mean it?”

He looked pleased.

(“You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone get Wangji to stop reciting rules in under a half-shichen before, not once he really gets into the swing of things,” Lan Xichen had remarked later, looking impressed, which was…a little worrying. To Jiang Cheng, anyway, everyone else just sort of nodded along and then tried their best not to mention the Lan sect rules anymore.)

Eventually Cangse Sanren had yielded the argument and given them all plain buns to have for actual dinner first, which they all had to eat before they started in on their dessert – Lan Wangji meticulously checked each of their plates to be sure – but after that he’d given in, however begrudgingly, and they could eat.

That had only been the first notable dinner.

The next time had involved them stopping at an inn, with Wei Changze clapping his hands together in excitement and announcing to all of them that they’d found a place that did real Yunmeng food, nice and spicy. Jiang Cheng had been glad to hear it, since he was starting to get tired of travel food even if it had only been a couple of days, and also because discussion conferences held at the Lotus Pier apparently meant that all the food for everyone got really boring for a couple of days as a courtesy to their guests, some of whom apparently lacked tastebuds. Jiejie had cheered outright, clapping her hands, and Wei Ying had been over the moon, turning cartwheels on the grass.

Lan Xichen had, very politely, asked, “What does it mean that the food is ‘spicy’?”

Jiang Cheng had thought he was joking.

Lan Xichen was not joking.

Also, neither he nor Lan Wangji had any spice tolerance.

On the very first bite, they both turned as red as chili sauce, even though they’d ordered the mildest possible dish with only a few chilis peeking through. Poor Lan Xichen been crying, or maybe not since he kept denying it, though he’d certainly been sniffling very hard and wiping at his eyes a lot. Jiang Cheng had felt so absolutely awful about it that he couldn’t even enjoy his own food properly, though Wei Ying hadn’t had that issue. He’d been sympathetic, but he’s still continued munching along rather mindlessly while watching the two Lan boys shovel plain food into their mouths in a desperate effort to make it stop burning.

Jiang Cheng wished he could be that cool.

And then, the time after that, they’d shared a campfire with a nice traveling family that said they were from the far northwest. They’d shared some of their home-cooking, with recipes and ingredients all brought straight from their homeland.

It was delicious, but Jiang Cheng turned out to be allergic. Or, well, not quite allergic, but he’d spent the rest of the evening in the dug-out privy next to the nearby river and everyone had to wait for him before hitting the road again and it had been the most humiliating event of his life.

In short: he was not looking forward to dinner. Even if he was a little bit hungry, it just wasn’t worth it!

“Normal dinner!” Cangse Sanren chirped when no one came running over, not even Wei Ying. “I swear!”

“I’m not sure I believe her,” Jiejie said to Lan Xichen, who hid his smile behind his sleeve.

Jiang Cheng hadn’t quite decided what he’d thought of the two adults that were supposedly taking care of them, but he thought Lan Xichen must be pretty nice, especially since Jiejie seemed to like him. They’d bonded over being ancient (they were both nine years old, so they’d had to do some comparisons to see who was technically older – it turned out that Jiejie was born in the spring and Lan Xichen only in the fall, so she was the older one, so hah!) and over having cute little brothers, which meant that both Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji had had to put up with listening to them tell all the horrible embarrassing stories that they could think of about them. Lan Wangji had very properly covered his face with his hands, his cheeks bright red, and Jiang Cheng had thought that was a very good idea and promptly joined him in doing so. Oddly enough, Wei Ying had spent the whole humiliating experience looking on longingly and complaining that it wasn’t fair that he didn’t have a big sibling of his own to do the same, but that was because Wei Ying was a complete weirdo.

Jiang Cheng was pretty sure he and Lan Wangji agreed on that much, at least. Sure, Wei Ying was now their weirdo, and he was a really cool weirdo, but he was definitely a weirdo.

Lan Xichen and Jiejie also talked about other stuff, though that was only late at night when everyone was supposed to be asleep except for whoever was driving the carriage. Jiang Cheng had woken up once when they’d driven over a hole in the road, and he’d heard them whispering to each other. They’d been talking about their parents, of all strange things.

(“I know that you’re supposed to honor and respect them. They just make it hard, sometimes. I love them! I do! But they fight, and they’re angry, and sometimes it just makes me want to scream…”

“I know what you mean. I never saw my father at all before recently. He was in seclusion…I think I wish he’d stayed in seclusion. Is that a terrible thing to say?”

“Not so terrible. You still honor the one who raised you, though, don’t you? Your shufu? That counts.”

“Thank you.”

“What about your mother?”

“We only saw her once a month…she was always very kind to Wangji, always trying to be cheerful.”

“To Wangji? What about you?”

“…well, she used to be. But about a year ago, she stopped looking at me because I looked too much like my father. Then Shufu yelled at her, and she got better about it, but I was still…I was upset with her about it for a while. Or, not a while, since she’s dead… I guess I understand why it was a problem, though, now that I’ve met him. I do look a lot like him. What if I turn out to be like him?”

“You won’t. You won’t, because you know you don’t want to. That’s all you need in order to be different…I mean, look at me. I’m not going to be anything like either of my parents. Attempt the impossible!”)

“Oh come on,” Cangse Sanren complained, though she had started giggling. “It’s just dinner. Don’t any of you trust me? Little monkey, how about you?”

“Sorry, a-Niang,” Wei Ying said solemnly. “Lan Zhan says I can’t commit to dinner until we know what’s in it.”

Jiang Cheng looked at Lan Wangji, who hadn’t said anything, but who nodded firmly.

Lan Wangji, to be clear, was also a weirdo. Unlike Wei Ying, who was the liveliest person Jiang Cheng had ever met – he was always talking, or bouncing around, or doing something, it was like he never got tired – Lan Wangji was usually pretty quiet, except of course for the times when he wasn’t. Those times included, firstly, any time someone asked him about the rules (he wouldn’t stop talking), and secondly, any time he got overwhelmed, because then he would throw himself to the ground and start screaming and kicking and punching. It had been a little scary at first, but then Lan Xichen explained that Lan Wangji couldn’t help himself and they could best help him by keeping him safe until he managed to get himself back under control. Wei Ying had immediately declared himself and Jiang Cheng to be Lan Wangji’s protectors, which Jiang Cheng thought sounded pretty cool, so that made it all right.

Also, on the first day of the trip when Jiang Cheng had been the one getting overwhelmed (because he’d noticed, a little belatedly, that their mother hadn’t been there to see them off, and he’d known there would be trouble as a result) and Cangse Sanren had tried to pat him on the head to tell him not to worry, Lan Wangji had tried to bite her in Jiang Cheng’s defense.

No one had ever tried to bite someone in Jiang Cheng’s defense before.

That meant Lan Wangji was cool, end of story.

Not as cool as Wei Ying, of course. Wei Ying was basically a dog in human form, always running up to everyone and absolutely certain that they were going to be best friends, all three of them, and not taking no for an answer. And since dogs were the best, that meant that Wei Ying was the best, too. Jiang Cheng had always had trouble connecting with other kids his own age, mostly because of his tendency to overthink everything, and Wei Ying just skated right on past that and declared them to be friends. And now they were friends! All three of them!

So Wei Ying was cool, too, and more than likely the coolest out of all three of them. Even if he was a weirdo, and tended to live almost entirely in his own imagination.

(“Now that we’re friends, we can be sworn brothers and defend the cultivation world together! We’re all going to be rogue cultivators, traveling with only a donkey and sword to our names – ”

“We can’t all be rogue cultivators,” Jiang Cheng pointed out. “I’m the heir of a Great Sect. I’m going to be a Great Sect leader in the future.”

“That’s fine! We’ll all be great sect leaders in the future!”

“That’s not what that means…”

“I will not be a sect leader,” Lan Wangji interjected, very firmly. “Xiongzhang gets the sect.”

“You two are no fun sometimes!” Wei Ying complained. “Fine! We’ll all go to my mother’s master’s celestial mountain and be immortals!”

“No. Shufu would miss me.”

“Yeah, my parents would be really angry…”

“Jiang Cheng! Lan Zhan! Work with me here!”

Lan Wangji reached out and patted him on the shoulder sympathetically. “We can still night-hunt together.”

“Oh yeah, that’s right!” Wei Ying beamed, immediately appeased. “Let’s do that, then!”)

Back on the subject of dinner, Cangse Sanren decided that the best way to deal with their resistance was to throw herself dramatically at her husband, who caught her, laughing.

“No one loves me,” she lamented. She was still giggling. “Nobody wants the food I worked so hard on, the food I slaved over – ”

“She bought noodles down in the town,” Wei Changze told the rest of them. “Totally normal noodles with a little meat in it, completely standard. But as you can see, it was very hard, bringing them all the way back here, it being such a long and hard way – ”

It wasn’t long and hard at all. The town wasn’t far away at all.

“– and after all that effort she put in, now none of you want any?”

“I could eat noodles,” Jiang Cheng said, deeply relieved. “Normal noodles, you said?”

The noodles were fine, to everyone’s profound relief.

Cangse Sanren made a few more jokes over dinner, eliciting mostly groans, and then Wei Changze decided to have mercy on them all by telling them a long and complicated anecdote that had them all laughing to the point of tears. They were both extraordinarily charming, though Jiang Cheng sometimes felt weird about liking them so much and thinking they were so cool – maybe because he knew that his own parents weren’t like that, not even when they were alone. He knew Jiejie also seemed to feel weird about it, or at least she did with Cangse Sanren, since she seemed to like Wei Changze even if she did seem to blush a lot when she was around him, but he had a feeling that her reasoning was somehow different from his.

(“So you’re that woman,” she’d said when they first drove away from the Lotus Pier, before they’d even found out about Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji hiding in the storage compartments. “I’ve heard about you.”

“Terrible things, I hope,” Cangse Sanren replied, making a strange sort of grimace. “And…from your mother? Please tell me you’ve heard about me from your mother.”

“Does it make a difference?”

“It does to me.” A long sigh. “I like having friends. Changze does, too…especially poor Changze. He grew up with your father, you know.”

“…yes, I know.” Jiejie had been silent for a moment, then asked, hesitantly, “Does – is that why you never come to visit the Lotus Pier together?”

Jiang Cheng hadn’t understood why she’d asked that, or what relevance it had. But Cangse Sanren seemed to get it.

“Oh, no, we’re not afraid or anything,” she said with a laugh. “Your father’s a sweetheart, and we’re as daring as you can get! But our little Wei Ying doesn’t deserve to be stuck having to deal with all that awkwardness. All those endless expectations… You’re a good girl. Thank you for coming on the trip, even if you won’t ever like me.”

“Who says I did it for you?” Jiejie said mysteriously, with a somewhat sad smile. “Maybe I just wanted to see the world.”)

When dinner was done, Wei Changze cleared his throat.

“Children,” he said, and they all looked at him. “We’re going night-hunting this evening.”

“Are you leaving us here?” Wei Ying pouted at once. He was apparently used to things like that. “Couldn’t we have at least stayed at the inn in town, then? Or maybe somewhere back next to the reservoir? I don’t want to wait by a campfire…”

“We’re not leaving you at a campfire next to a potentially haunted mine, little monkey,” Cangse Sanren said, ruffling his hair. “We’re taking you with us!”

Jiang Cheng’s mouth dropped open. “You are? Is that – a good idea?”

It didn’t sound like a good idea. They didn’t even have swords!

“It’s the best idea!” Wei Ying shouted, jumping up and down in his excitement. Sometimes Jiang Cheng could really tell where the “little monkey” nickname had come from. He grabbed a branch from the ground and started waving it around. “We’re going to get them like this and like that and we’re going to blow them all up into a thousand pieces – ka-boom – ”

“What have you been telling our son about night-hunting?” Wei Changze asked his wife, his cheeks quivering with suppressed laughter.

“Nothing inaccurate,” Cangse Sanren replied, looking equally amused. “I am a paragon of honesty and straightforwardness.”

“Mm, yes. I remember how straightforward you were when you went out for ‘a quick look around’ and came back from the Lotus Pier with the Jiang children.”

“I was straightforward! I told you right off that I needed them for a cover-up!”

“Yes, to cover up your kidnapping of the Lan children.”

“Lan Qiren said it was all right.”

“Well, if Lan Qiren said it was all right.” Wei Changze rolled his eyes and kissed her on the temple. “You really can’t use a man you’ve barely met since you were sixteen as your moral guide to the world, you know.”

“Yes, she can,” Lan Xichen interjected. “If it’s Shufu, that is.”

Both adults startled and nearly jumped, as if they’d forgotten that any of the children were even there – they did that, sometimes. Usually when they were talking with each other.

They talked with each other a lot.

(“I’m just worried that my dad didn’t tell my mom about where we were going,” Jiang Cheng explained to Wei Ying back on that first day. “And then she’ll be angry. At him, but maybe also at us, and I don’t want her to be mad at us.”

“Why wouldn’t he tell her?” Wei Ying asked, wrinkling his nose. “My parents tell each other everything. And I mean everything. Sometimes they don’t stop talking for days and days – ”

“I can hear you back there, little monkey!” his mother shouted from the front of the carriage.

“You’re supposed to!” he shouted back, grinning, and that was why Wei Ying was the coolest, even cooler than Lan Wangji. Jiang Cheng would never in a million years talk back to his mother like that. “You can tell me if I’m wrong, though!”

“…scram, you brat!”

Wei Ying giggled.)

“Are you really taking us night-hunting?” Jiang Cheng asked, shaking his head and trying to focus. He often got distracted thinking too much about things – his head was always full of things, most of which were usually worries – which Lan Xichen said was a little bit similar to Lan Wangji, just not as bad and a little sideways. Jiang Cheng wasn’t sure about that, but he’d tried out a few of the routines Lan Wangji used to focus and calm down and they weren’t bad. “Isn’t that really dangerous?”

“Not…really dangerous,” Cangse Sanren said, glancing over at her husband with a frown. “Within normal human levels of danger. I think?”

(“What does she mean, ‘human’?” Jiejie asked Lan Xichen in an undertone, but he just shrugged.)

“That’s a very good question, Jiang Cheng,” Wei Changze said, seemingly ignoring the strange half-question his wife had just lobbed at him. “You’re right: night-hunts are dangerous. But the rumors here are pretty mild – just a few specters sighted around the mine, nothing that’s actually gone and hurt anyone yet, maybe one person who thinks they might’ve seen a fierce corpse…really, it’s no big deal. Cangse and I are experienced; we could do a case like this with our eyes closed. So there’s no need to worry.”

Jiang Cheng took comfort from the confidence in his tone.

He took a lot less comfort from the way both Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren stopped dead about five steps into the spooky old former mine, which had been boarded up with creaky old boards before Wei Changze had knocked it down with his sword so that they could go inside with only some lanterns and the evening sun to light up the place.

“Huh,” Wei Changze said.

“That’s interesting,” Cangse Sanren said.

“Yeah. Interesting. That’s the word.”

“I mean, it is interesting. Wouldn’t you say?”

“I’d say…unexpected.”

“Oh, it’s that, too. No denying it.”

“No, indeed you can’t. How many do you think there are?”

“We can feel it all the way out here by the entrance. How many do you think?”

“Hmm.”

“Yeah, about that many.” Cangse Sanren pulled out her horsetail whisk and drew her sword. “This is going to be fun!”

“Jiejie,” Jiang Cheng hissed, tugging on his sister’s sleeve urgently. “I think when she says fun, she really means dangerous.”

Jiejie patted him on the head. “Senior Wei?” she said, raising her voice a little and reaching out to grab Wei Ying by the collar before he threw himself any further into the mine. Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji were both politely waiting for permission to go forward, of course, so there was no need to worry about them. “What exactly have you noticed? Something unusual?”

“Lesson time,” Wei Changze announced. “I want all of you to try to perceive spiritual energy. Can you do that?”

Of course they could do that. They weren’t babies, and perceiving spiritual energy was practically the first thing you learned when you were going to be a cultivator. It would have been pretty hard to cultivate if you couldn’t even sense things that had spiritual energy!

Jiang Cheng obediently closed his eyes and tried it out, then frowned, opening his eyes. There was something weird.

“What’s that noise?” Wei Ying asked, cracking open his own eyes. “Can anyone else hear it? It’s like…buzzing.”

“I can hear it,” Lan Xichen said, and Jiang Yanli nodded as well. “What is it?”

“That’s the sound – or rather, the feeling, which sometimes comes across as a sound – of spiritual energy laid down in a series of arrays,” Wei Changze said. He hadn’t drawn his sword the way Cangse Sanren had, but he had his hand on the hilt. “A great deal of spiritual energy.”

“In a great deal of arrays,” Cangse Sanren murmured. “Husband mine, you don’t put down this sort of thing for a few specters and a handful of hopping corpses, do you?”

Hopping corpses? Jiang Cheng was appalled. They hadn’t said anything about there being bloodsucking jiangshi here!

“No, you don’t,” Wei Changze replied, then turned back to them. “All right, children, do any of you know the situations where a cultivator would put down a lot of arrays in a single location?”

Yeah, sure, Jiang Cheng thought bitterly to himself. A really bad one!

Not that anyone else would admit that, since that would mean defying the adults.

“A really bad one!” Wei Ying announced. Jiang Cheng turned to stare at him.

“That’s right, little monkey,” Cangse Sanren said, patting his head.

Jiang Cheng pouted. He’d thought it first!

“It is likely to be in a place where a great number of people died under unjust circumstances,” Lan Xichen volunteered. “Any place with a great deal of death will generate resentful energy and draw in evil, but in most cases, cultivators will seek to liberate rather than suppress. Only where a great injustice has occurred, without plausible remedy, will it be necessary to implement long-lasting suppression arrays on a large scale.”

“It’s not just death, though, is it?” Jiejie asked. “Can’t it be any type of injustice?”

“Well, yes, but typically there is more resentful energy released upon death than upon suffering absent death – ”

“Also, we’re in a mine,” Jiejie interrupted. “Couldn’t the resentment just come from them having died at all? They could have been unwilling to go – say, if there was a mine collapse – ”

“If it was a mine collapse, you wouldn’t need what must have been an entire clan setting up arrays,” Lan Xichen said, his face going fixed and neutrally pleasant in a way that everyone had by now learned meant that he was getting annoyed but trying his absolute best not to show it. “Not to mention just leaving them here for ages and ages – ”

“You’re both right,” Wei Changze interrupted. “Jiang Yanli is right that particularly sudden mine collapse could generate the necessary resentful energy, if there were enough people – ”

Jiejie beamed.

“– but also Lan Xichen is right that the number of people that would have needed to be involved in a mine collapse on the scale that might justify suppression arrays of this magnitude is much, much greater. It wouldn’t just be the mine, it would probably have to encompass several of the towns at the base of the mountain, and maybe some further out that draw on the local reservoir, too – far, far too massive to be overlooked. No, it’s far more likely that Lan Xichen’s initial deduction is correct: this is more than likely the site of a massacre.”

“How did you know that the arrays have been here for ages?” Wei Ying asked Lan Xichen, who blinked. “My dad just said that there were a lot of them, not that they were old.”

Lan Xichen looked flustered. “I…I mean…actually…”

“Xiongzhang is right,” Lan Wangji announced, breaking his usual silence in defense of his brother. “It sounds like when they patched up the back gate at home.”

“He is right,” Cangse Sanren told Wei Changze. She was examining one of the walls of the mine with a frown. “He’s got good instincts, which is of course no surprise given who raised him. Not just about the age of the arrays – this sort of thing really does look a lot more like the concerted effort of an established cultivation clan layering arrays on top of each other than, say, the work of a passing rogue cultivator or even a whole mob of rogue cultivators. And it hasn’t been maintained for a while. Here, look.”

She pointed at the wall she’d been looking at, twisting her fingers into a hand seal. The array hidden there slowly lit up with a slightly eerie silvery light, rather than the usual gold that Jiang Cheng was used to seeing. It was a very large circle, with the usual sorts of inscriptions all around the edges, and there were five smaller circles layered on top of it in each of the cardinal directions and the center, each of them rotating slowly – and there might even be more circles layered onto the smaller circles, but Jiang Cheng couldn’t quite tell. It was very impressive.

“See? At least ten years old, and not one bit of upkeep since then. Look how ragged the edges are getting..!” She shook her head. “Why would a clan powerful enough to put down all of the arrays here in the first place not make a practice of coming back to check on it? It’s irresponsible.”

“Perhaps they moved?” Wei Changze suggested, though he seemed doubtful. “Or a tragedy, perhaps…either way, something must have happened to prevent their return.”

“No, I don’t think so. There are so many arrays here, and they’re so powerful! You’d be covered even if the entire mine had collapsed on an entire village’s worth of people – this is the result of painstaking effort. And for something to involve an entire cultivation clan…”

“Maybe it’s just a bunch of really powerful ones!” Wei Ying giggled. “Boom! Boom! Boom! Arrays everywhere!”

“That’s a good point,” Wei Changze said encouragingly, then glanced at Cangse Sanren. “It could be a smaller set of people if they were exceptionally powerful. A set of sect elders, for instance.”

“Maybe for one of the larger sects, I suppose.” Cangse Sanren didn’t seem convinced. “You’d still need a fair number of people involved. But then in that case, wouldn’t you be even more likely to see signs of maintenance? If there’s one thing I’ve figured out about sect elders, it’s that they love ordering other people around. They would have assigned some juniors to come back here to keep an eye on it.”

“Maybe they just didn’t want to come back,” Jiejie suggested. “Wouldn’t that explain the very large amount of power involved? If they knew at the beginning that they didn’t want to come back.”

“Hmm, another good point,” Cangse Sanren said, and Jiang Cheng pouted even more. Now he was the only one who hadn’t made a good point! He was falling behind! Even Lan Wangji had been right about something! “That could be it. Maybe it was a smaller group of people, putting in an extra-large amount of power because they know they’re not going to be maintaining it, or else finding a reason to want to not think about it after that. I still think it’s negligence, though.”

“There’s enough power here to last more than ten years without consistent repair,” Wei Changze disagreed. “That’s not negligence. Ten years is enough time to dissipate most of the things you encounter during a standard night-hunt.”

“If that was the case, we wouldn’t be here,” Cangse Sanren pointed out. “The townspeople wouldn’t be complaining about gui and worse haunting the hills. The only reason they’re complaining is because the suppression arrays are starting to fail to keep whatever is in here, here.”

Jiang Cheng wracked his brain to think of something clever to add in. He didn’t want to be the only one not contributing to the conversation. Everyone else had said something right – but if he opened his mouth and said something, he might be wrong, and then he’d be the only one who was wrong, and people would be disappointed in him and think he was stupid, and then they wouldn’t like him or want to be friends with him, and – and –

He was doing the bad thinking again, Jiang Cheng reminded himself. The bad thinking led to the screaming, or at least it did with Lan Wangji, and if he didn’t want to end up with the screaming, which he didn’t, he needed to pause, take a breath, and tell himself not to do the bad thinking if he could. It wasn’t a problem if he was wrong.

Anyway, he’d been right earlier, about the bad thing. Wei Ying had said exactly what he’d been thinking, and if he’d been the one to speak first, he would have been right.

He just needed to say something.

“Maybe it’s because of the door,” he blurted out. Everyone blinked at him. “I mean – we needed to use a sword to get in here – so – ”

What am I saying? Gui can go through doors, you idiot!

“You know, I didn’t think about that,” Wei Changze said slowly. “But you make an interesting point, Jiang Cheng.”

Jiang Cheng blinked. He had?

“Why was the mine boarded up?” he continued, turning to Cangse Sanren, who frowned. “Wouldn’t you want the local town to come here to leave offerings for their kinsmen? That would help alleviate their grievances and help liberate them faster, dissipate the resentful energy faster. Why keep them away?”

“Good question,” Lan Xichen whispered to Jiang Cheng, who felt his cheeks go hot and probably red. Jiejie nudged him and nodded at him approvingly, too, and even Wei Ying made a gesture of approval. So Jiang Cheng had been right, after all.

So cool.

“The town didn’t mention anything about doing rituals here,” Cangse Sanren said thoughtfully. “I wonder why – they just said there was a mine. Nothing about a massacre. A purposeful omission?”

“Not necessarily.”

“We should find out.”

“We should figure out what the arrays are doing and if there’s any chance they’ll break down,” Wei Changze objected. “If whatever is suppressed here hasn’t dissipated, then it could be a catastrophe if they ever got loose.”

“We won’t be able to figure that out if we don’t know what happened here originally,” Cangse Sanren replied, and – wait. Were they arguing?

It sort of looked like they were arguing, but it wasn’t the way Jiang Cheng’s parents argued. No yelling, no one was throwing anything, no glaring or angry gestures…

Jiang Cheng had thought that Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren were a perfect storybook couple, the type that really liked each other and were happy all the time and that meant that they didn’t fight. But apparently he was wrong, and they did fight? It was just that their type of fighting was…weird. Almost…cheerful. Friendly.

So weird.

“…I’ll take the older two to town to ask around,” Wei Changze finally conceded. “You stay here with the younger kids and investigate the arrays?”

Cangse Sanren kissed him on the cheek. “Have fun!”

“It’s not fair that the older kids get to do all the interesting things,” Wei Ying sulked to Jiang Cheng after Wei Changze had left with Lan Xichen and Jiejie, who both had looked very excited to have the chance to go question villagers rather than sit around and watch Cangse Sanren poke at the array on the wall with her really sharp and oddly red fingernails until it crackled with spiritual energy, which made her frown and poke some more. It had been interesting at first, but had lost its appeal quite a long while ago. It had already been ages and ages! Maybe even half a shichen! Or more! Yeah, lots more! “This can take all day, you know.”

Jiang Cheng made a face.

“It’s not fair, you know. I want to explore! I want to help!” Wei Ying complained with what Jiang Cheng personally considered to be a substantial exaggeration of his own abilities. “I could be so helpful!”

Make that a vast exaggeration.

“Lan Zhan, Lan Zhan!” Wei Ying turned to his faithful white shadow. “Can you convince my mom to let us go explore? You’re good at tricking people, aren’t you?”

Was he?

Lan Wangji thought about it for a couple of moments, then nodded. He climbed to his feet and walked over to where Cangse Sanren was still poking at the wall and mumbling to herself.

“Senior,” he said, sounding as serious as he ever did. “I have a question.”

He waited a few moments, then reached out and tugged her sleeve.

“Ah -? Oh, Lan Zhan, right, right,” Cangse Sanren said, and smiled down at him. “Did you say you had a question? What’s your question?”

Lan Wangji looked up at her and, with a completely straight face and big wide innocent eyes, said, “What’s a massacre?”

What a scammer.

Jiang Cheng was impressed.

Cangse Sanren’s face froze. “Uh,” she said. “What?”

“Senior Wei mentioned it earlier…? When Xiongzhang was talking about what happened here. I was hoping Senior could explain.”

“Oh, sure,” she said, reaching up and tapping her nails against her cheekbone. “I can explain, sure. Sure, sure.”

“Good,” Lan Wangji said peaceably. “Like Shufu says, never stop learning.”

“…on second thought, maybe you should go play,” Cangse Sanren said, wrinkling her nose. “Your shufu might want to explain big words like massacre using, uh, his own words, you know. Hey! Little monkey! Can you take Lan Zhan to go play?”

Wei Ying leaped to his feet like he’d been waiting his whole life for the chance. Jiang Cheng climbed up and brushed the dust off his butt, shaking his head in disbelief.

Were all grownups so easy to manipulate? Why hadn’t he known that?

(Also, for some reason, Cangse Sanren hid a laugh in her sleeve as she turned back to the array. What was that about?)

“Have fun, kids,” she said, already focused back on her array. “Don’t go far.”

“Sure, of course,” Wei Ying said, and promptly took off running in the other direction. Jiang Cheng followed him, happy to have a distraction – he’d stopped being afraid of the mine and started being bored quite a while back at this point. Anyway, there weren’t that many places to go in here, what with the entrance to the deeper parts of the mine thoroughly blocked off by a rockfall that Cangse Sanren had deemed to be caused by cultivator swords and everything else mostly just being a few twists and turns and big stalagmites, all of which eventually led back to the main area where Cangse Sanren was standing.

Wei Ying didn’t seem to care about any of that, though. He charged forward happily, leading them this way and that, nattering on and on about how he was going to fight any ghosts he met because he was such a great cultivator, and also how they could make friends with them, too, because he was so nice, and how they would show them where there was a great big old treasure…

“I’m pretty sure the only treasure in this mine is whatever they were mining,” Jiang Cheng said doubtfully. “Or maybe the arrays? I don’t know. Are arrays valuable?”

“Long term arrays are often anchored in place with treasures,” Lan Wangji volunteered, and just like that, it was decided: they were going on a treasure hunt.

Wei Ying provided the background music himself, as if they were in an opera. Sometimes it even had lyrics. Unfortunately.

“Anyway, Jiang Cheng, I was thinking,” he said cheerfully as they checked behind yet another stalagmite without success. “What if your big sister marries Lan Zhan’s big brother? Then you’d be brothers – ”

“No,” Lan Wangji said. “No marriage.”

“Your brother has to get married eventually – ”

“No more change.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Jiang Cheng interjected. “Jiejie’s already engaged, so it wouldn’t work.”

“Oh, well. Don’t worry, Lan Zhan, it was just a thought.”

“Watch where you are going,” Lan Wangji said, which Jiang Cheng made a lot of sense – Wei Ying had turned around and was walking backwards so that he could talk to them.

“Don’t worry, Lan Zhan!” Wei Ying said with all of his parents’ confidence. “Even if I walk into something, the worst that’ll happen is that I’ll trip and – ”

He tripped and fell.

“Wei Ying!”

“I’m okay, I’m okay!” Wei Ying waved them away. He did in fact seem to be okay. “I told you, it wouldn’t be that…”

His voice trailed away as the ground under all their feet started glowing.

“Mm,” Lan Wangji said, voice still calm. “We seem to have found another array.”

“Not just that,” Jiang Cheng said, watching a hazy mostly see-through figure that rose up from the ground through the very thin crack in the array that had been created when Wei Ying’s foot had hit the rock that he’d tripped over. “I think we found a ghost. Run!”

“Ghoooooooost!” Wei Ying hollered, and they all bolted.

Jiang Cheng looked over his shoulder: the ghost seemed disoriented at first, but then shook itself, solidified a bit, and then….started chasing them.

“Oh no,” he said, horrified. This was why kids their age shouldn’t night-hunt! “Split up, split up!”

They split up.

The ghost veered off to go after Lan Wangji, which was pretty lucky – Lan Wangji was probably the most agile of the whole lot of them, as they’d determined through a series of races much earlier. Wei Ying was technically faster, but he could also be a little clumsy; sometimes he ran into things, or bounced off things, and that slowed him down. Lan Wangji, on the other hand, had the sort of footwork that came from having sincerely done his training twice a day every day for years and years, and he demonstrated it now.

“Let’s go distract it and give Lan Zhan a break,” Wei Ying said, and Jiang Cheng nodded. “Me first, then you?”

“No, you go second,” Jiang Cheng said, even though his heart was in his mouth. He didn’t want to get captured by the ghost, but he didn’t want Lan Wangji to get captured, either. Anyway, in all the stories, things like this always turned out fine for the heroes, so he was…probably going to be fine. “You’re faster, you’ll be able to keep away longer. All right – three, two, one – go!”

He dashed forward, barreling forward until he passed right in front of the ghost, intent on getting its attention and drawing it away from where it was chasing Lan Wangji round and round the bottom of a set of very pointy stalactites.

Jiang Cheng did manage to get the ghost’s attention successfully, but the rest of the plan didn’t work.

The ghost stopped for a moment before shaking itself and chasing Lan Wangji again.

“My turn!” Wei Ying shouted, and threw himself forward – way closer to the ghost than Jiang Cheng had dared to go, which probably made sense. That would work better!

It didn’t.

“Okay, this isn’t fair,” Wei Ying said, except he wasn’t complaining; he was biting his lower lip in worry. Lan Wangji was starting to breathe hard and he was still running. “We need to stop that ghost before it gets Lan Zhan! Maybe we try to attack it?”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“What else can we do?”

Jiang Cheng wasn’t sure. “Maybe we could – ”

“Call for help?”

“No, I don’t think that would work,” Jiang Cheng said, shaking his head.

“Yeah, I don’t think so either,” Wei Ying agreed.

Jiang Cheng was about to say something, then paused. If he hadn’t made the suggestion, and Wei Ying hadn’t made the suggestion, so that meant…behind…

He slowly turned around.

Cangse Sanren, standing behind them, cleared her throat pointedly. “No, I’m pre-tty sure that calling for help would’ve been the right choice here,” she said wryly, and waved her horsetail whisk at the ghost, which wailed as soft beams of spiritual energy wrapped around it and yanked it back away from Lan Wangji, then proceeded to pull tighter and tighter until the ghost just…disappeared.

“Good timing, Mom!”

“Thank you for your assistance, Senior,” Lan Wangji panted.

“We were doing fine,” Jiang Cheng mumbled, cheeks still red with embarrassment. “And – and anyway, you shouldn’t have brought us here in the first place! What were you thinking?! We nearly got eaten!”

“A little danger is good for the growing soul,” Cangse Sanren said dismissively. “But also you boys have definitely lost ‘going out to play’ privileges. Time to come back.”

Jiang Cheng sighed. Mostly with relief.

“It was so stupid! It was such a scary ghost, I can’t believe you let it anywhere near us,” he complained bitterly. “It was – it was fast! And it was going to eat Lan Wangji!”

“Pretty small, though,” Wei Ying said. “It was barely bigger than your jiejie, and she’s the tallest. Well, tallest among us kids, anyway.”

“That’s stupid, too,” Jiang Cheng grumbled, secretly relieved that everyone seemed to be just as accepting of his nervous scolding as they were of Lan Wangji’s temper tantrums. “Why would there be such a short ghost? It wasn’t very smart, either. It just kept chasing Lan Wangji by going straight after him, when it could go through rock – ”

“Ghosts resemble their former selves in life,” Cangse Sanren interjected. She was scowling, but in a thoughtful sort of way. “It’s quite common for gui to forget that they can go through walls now, particularly if they’ve lost their minds the way that ghost had.”

“Was it an especially short ghost in life, then?” Wei Ying wanted to know. “If it was resembling its former self…”

“Very short,” Cangse Sanren said. Her voice was very stiff for some reason. “But, you know, there’s a big variety in humans…oh, look at that, little monkey! Your father’s back! Just in time!”

“Just in time for what?” Wei Changze asked, blinking as he walked in, followed by Jiejie and Lan Xichen.

“Awkward question avoidance time! How was your trip to the village, husband mine? Successful?”

“No,” Jiejie said, pouting. “Nobody knew anything about the mine.”

“We asked lots of people,” Lan Xichen agreed. “Other than the fact that there is one, they didn’t know anything at all. None of their kinsmen worked here, nothing like that.”

“…well, isn’t that sure something,” Cangse Sanren said, with what seemed like an almost unusually wide smile. “As it happens, we’ve had some interesting developments here, too.”

“Oh?”

“Lan Wangji nearly got eaten by a really short ghost,” Jiang Cheng announced.

“He what?! Wangji!” Lan Xichen hurried forward to start checking Lan Wangji over, which Lan Wangji submitted to with an air of someone doing another person a tremendous favor.

“You nearly let one of the children get eaten by a ghost?” Wei Changze asked Cangse Sanren, arching his eyebrows. “I was gone for one shichen, and you nearly let someone get eaten?”

“They weren’t nearly eaten. Also, what our darling little Jiang Cheng actually means is that the very short, very crazy ghost went only after Lan Wangji.”

Cangse Sanren was stressing certain words very strangely.

Wei Changze frowned. “Only after Lan Wangji?”

“Yeah!” Wei Ying chimed in. “It was totally not fair. Even when Jiang Cheng and I jumped right front of it, it just kept chasing Lan Zhan – it didn’t pay attention to us at all!”

“…you’re right, little monkey. That seems very unfair.” Wei Changze nodded. “Very, very unfair. Normally you wouldn’t see that sort of single-mindedness in a ghost that’s lost its wits unless there were a very particular set of circumstances…like, say, a very deep grudge.”

“Yeah, how weird is that?” Cangse Sanren said brightly. “Especially with all of these very complicated arrays that must have been set up by some very powerful people from a very large cultivator clan. A very large, very nearby cultivation clan capable of sending a small group of people able to do something like this, because we know it couldn’t have been a whole clan working on it, not without the town having known about it. Since they apparently didn’t know anything. So weird!”

“…how short did you say the ghost was, dearest wife of mine?”

“She didn’t,” Jiang Cheng said with a huff. Were they flirting? Was that why they were being so weird?“And it was huge!”

“About the size of our little monkey, I’d say.”

“No, that’s wrong, it was at least as tall as Jiejie! Anyway, why do you ask? Does it matter?”

“I’m just wondering why a ghost of that age – uh, I mean, a ghost of that size would bear an implacable grudge like that.”

“Aren’t implacable grudges usually because the ghost is hunting down whoever murdered them?” Lan Xichen asked, wrinkling his nose. “But Wangji’s only six. It couldn’t be aimed at him. Didn’t you say the ghosts have been sealed here for at least ten years?”

“It’s possible that it just thought that your brother resembled the people it was actually looking for,” Wei Changze explained. “For instance, if he had something in common with them – the shape of his face, perhaps, or his white clothing – ”

“Or his bloodline,” Cangse Sanren muttered.

“It could be anything at all, really,” Wei Changze said loudly, and elbowed her. “Anyway, have you considered how lucky you are? You’re from Gusu Lan, that’s one of the most upstanding of sects, practically a byword for conservatism and orthodoxy – isn’t that right, my dear Cangse? Practically unquestionable, aren’t they…?”

“I said Lan Qiren was unquestionable. That’s not the same thing and you know it.”

“Anyway, you kids should be very relieved. Being raised in a big sect like that means that you’ll definitely have gotten all the soul-calming rituals that will make sure that you don’t get possessed. Isn’t that great?”

“Possessed!” Lan Xichen yelped. “Wangji!”

“I am fine,” Lan Wangji reminded his brother.

“Are you sure? Weren’t you scared?”

“It was fine,” Lan Wangji said firmly. “Shufu said I needed to get life experiences outside the Lan sect and then learn from them. He made it a rule, remember? This was a life experience. I am learning.”

“Uh-huh. And what exactly are you learning?”

“…mm. That adults can be very weird.”

“That’s what you learned?” Cangse Sanren said indignantly. “Don’t tell me you blame me for letting the ghost chase you a little! It was character-building!”

(“Since when does Wangji use the word ‘weird’?” Lan Xichen asked, though he didn’t seem to want an answer.)

“It was character-building,” Lan Wangji agreed. “But also irresponsible. Just like the time you tried to eat dessert before dinner.”

“Oh come on – ”

“Those aren’t exactly comparable circumstances, you know – ”

“Wangji…”

Lan Wangi didn’t seem convinced.

“Maybe we can have the tenth iteration of this argument somewhere else,” Wei Changze said, reaching out to put his hand on Lan Xichen’s shoulder and squeezing his shoulder. He was smiling. “Cangse, what do you think?”

“You make an excellent point, husband mine. All right, kids, everyone back outside where none of you are going to be prime targets for ghosts for as-of-yet unknown but probably highly suspect reasons that I am extremely sure that a particular stick-in-the-mud of our mutual acquaintance absolutely definitely didn’t know about and will probably be highly upset to find out about!”

“…see?” Lan Wangji said to Lan Xichen. “I told you adults were weird.”

Jiang Cheng found that he had to agree.

#mdzs #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #lan xichen #lan wangji #cangse sanren #wei changze #wei wuxian #my fic #my fics #megafic #credit to those of you that guessed this was coming :D

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Hi! Do you have any skin tone or clothing references for the ROs?

before you laugh at me just know that for some reason i didn't think i was going to be asked about clothing so i "designed" my own sect uniforms but i don't actually know how to draw clothing HAHAHAHA i'll put the skin tone references in the character introduction posts (which i need to finish up 🥲)

the clothing explanation got really long and only encompasses yul, jinwol, and the mc because it ended up getting LONG sjffsj

the time period in which tosahobi takes place (which is non-specific) is sometime between 300AD to ~590AD, and pieces from the three kingdoms period in china (220-289AD). so when thinking about the clothing i started out by looking at xianxia and muhyeop designs. cue me crying and opening up google and trying to put together a list of what i could research. (has anyone seen love between fairy and devil i need to yell over how cunty dongfang qingcang's costume design is with them PLEASEEEE)

and then i started my research via primary text (the samguk yusa and the wei shu), published papers, books, archeological discoveries, research conducted by experts, and tomb scans. and then i made my own conjectures from those! the clothing the characters wear is a bastardized version of hanfu and goguryeo clothing – so they're historically inaccurate but have some basis behind them. this is known as guzhuang, which is ancient-style clothing inspired by hanfu and most typically seen in dramas and plays. i've linked ziseviolet's blog for visuals of pieces but i suggest doing external research as well!

MOUNT HUA SECT:

located in shaanxi, the clothing the disciples (what the mc, yul, and jinwol start out wearing!) wear are a combination of what was popular amongst northern wei (386–535AD) nobility at the time (specifically a cinched waistline, flowing sleeves, and flared silhouette) and taoist clothing with some of the vibrant colors seen in goguryeo clothing. any combination of the following pieces work:

zhongyi (中衣) - underwear or undergarments consisting of form-fitting (usually lightweight) fabric in two pieces, the undershirt and underpants. either worn in black or white.

chang (裳) - a pleated skirt worn over the zhongyi

a lightweight inner robe (usually white, though disciples *cough* jinwol *cough* wear other colors at their own discretion. usually also usually made out of the same lightweight fabric as a zhongyi) with a jiaoling youren (交領右衽) an overlapping collar (crossed left over right).

banbi (半臂) - a half sleeve jacket in either black or white and embroidered with a plum-blossom in red, magenta, or even white thread. trimmed with bronze (third-rank disciple), silver (second-rank), or gold (first-rank)

bixi (蔽膝) - a decorative piece of hanging fabric that acts as a knee covering – this is typically plain and of a matching color to the main parts of the outfit, and is trimmed with colors according to the wearer's discretion.

belt/sash - either a wide strip of embroidered or plain (usually plain) fabric cinched around the waist. trimmed with similar precious threads denoting disciple rank. jinwol wears a finely wrought metal belt instead of the standard sash.

hair ribbon - self-explanatory. used to tie the hair, can be whatever color you get your hands on – jinwol and yul's hair ribbons are the colors the mc picks out for them (hehe)

xiaoguan (小冠) - lit; small crown, jinwol cycles between several intricately designed crowns in shades of silver (some have precious jewels embedded into them) and they denote his status as nobility.

robe very similar to a daopao (道袍) - lit; taoist's robe, the daopao is a traditional outer robe with long, flowing sleeves. disciples traditionally wear black or white trimmed with crimson, white, and precious metal colors. most wear the sect's motif on embroidered on the lapel, though the yeo family members have their clan motif embroidered instead. in some cases the elders will wear shades of grey.

#anon #ro: jinwol #ro: yul #ch: mc #world building #forgive me #lord knows if i can't draw any of this FJSJSF

[liberty-or-death]

Thousand Autumns Chapter 1 Explanation of Names, Historical Context and Possible Influences

THE WORLD BUILDING!! I could scream. I was so so so impressed with Thousand Autumns.

Aside from literary poetry devices, MXS also uses a lot of historical characters and places in her novels, which was probably why they changed a lot of names in the donghua lol. Personally, I find it really interesting and this was what drew me to this book.

Here’s a round up of Chapter 1! I apologise that it's lengthy and it's a a short history class. But you'll need to know or else you're going to get really confused later on lol. Anyway, it gets a lot better! I came across a few videos that were very helpful for my understanding so I've linked them below.

There are 3 demonic sects, and at least 5 righteous ones in the whole show. And that’s excluding the royalty members 😂 and the Tujue folks. I was so confused when I first started reading and I had to do a lot of historical research myself before I fully understood what was going on.

Locations

玄都 Xuandu - This is where immortals were rumoured to reside in. It was also the name of a Taoist temple (Xuandu Guan 玄都观). This temple is located on Mount Heng and was built in the Southern Qi Dynasty. I’m not sure if this temple was the inspiration behind Xuandu mountain, but it is pretty interesting! Also, incidentally, there is a pavilion named Half Mountain Pavilion that's situated on the same premises. Doesn't it sound a lot like Half Step Peak?

Political Climate/Characters - Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Chen Dynasty

Thousand Autumns takes place in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a period where China was split politically during the 420-589AD. During this period, there was the spread of Buddhism and Taoism. This period came to and end with unification by the Sui Dynasty. So lol, if you know your history, you’d know that Thousand Autumns would logically end with the establishment of the Sui Dynasty if the novels continues to the end of the Northern Southern Dynasties period. 😂

The video below explains the role of Yuwen Hu 宇文护 and Yuwen Yong 宇文邕 (Emperor Wu) and their impact on the Zhou Dynasty. MXS puts her own spin on it but it's good to read about it or else it'll get really confusing later on. (I personally feel that her world building is underrated and MXS should get more credit for this!) You can skip to 8:39 of the video if you just want to learn about Yuwen Hu and Yuwen Yong. I'd suggest to bookmark this video whenever you're confused with the timeline of events! The Zhou Empire storyline follows this!

Gao Wei 高纬 of Qi Dynasty - Yet another historical character. The same video talks about the decline of the Qi Dynasty around 32:10

Tujue - Here's a video explaining how the Tujue were a part of all of these.

Hulugu 狐鹿估 is a fictional character but his name is very similar to another Hulugu 狐鹿姑 (note that the pronunciation is exactly the same but the last character is different) who was the Chanyu (Supreme Ruler) of the Xiongnu Empire in 96BC.

Kunye 昆邪 is also a fictional character, but there was a King Kunye 昆邪王 (? - 116BC) in history. According to the historical records 史记, he was defeated by Hua Qubing's army and subsequently became a vassal under the Han Dynasty. After his surrender, he was granted the title of the Marquis of Luoyin (located in modern day Shandong Province). Interestingly, his descendant was called Hun Su 浑苏. (If you've read on, you'll probably know the significance of this haha.)

Other Notable Characters

凤阁 (Qi) Feng Ge - this either means a beautiful tower, or a government official position in the Tang Dynasty. It’s also the name of a star in Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese astrology. People who were born under this star were cultured and talented.

青城山纯阳观易辟尘 Yi Bichen of Chunyang temple on Mount Qingchen - Mount Qingchen’s a sacred Taoist Mountain in Sichuan China. It’s greatly regarded as one of the birth places in Taoism. Chunyang Temple’s a real temple in Guangzhou that was first built in the Yuan Dynasty. (MXS is clearly mix and matching temples with locations 😂) Yi Bichen’s name can be broken down to 易 = Easy, 辟尘 = avoid the mortal world.

雪庭禅师 Zen Master Xue Ting - Xue Ting’s name likely comes from the renowned monk, Xue Ting Fu Yu in the Yuan Dynasty. Xue Ting was his monastic title. He was an abott in the Shaolin Monastery and was famous for inviting martial artists to gather in Shaolin Temple.

临川学宫的宫主汝鄢克惠 Ruyan Kehui, Gongzhu of the Linchuan Academy - Linchuan, located in Jiangxi, has always been known as the “Home of Talents 才子之乡” as many talented people came from Linchuan since the ancient times. The Xuegong/Academy 学宫 is a place of learning. This term has appeared since the Western Zhou Dynasty and was commonly associated with Confucianism. The 宫主 Gongzhu was the title that’s given to the one who was in charge of a Taoist temple. (Okay MXS might not be historically accurate here 😂😂)

Previously discussed topics

Half Step Peak

Regret Peak

Yu Shengyan

#thousand autumns meta #thousand autumns

[supernovaae]

List of all 144 Espers in Dislyte (alphabetized)

Abigail (Frigga)

Adrina (Chantico)

Ahmed (Geb)

Ain (Ptah)

Alexa (Aphrodite)

Alice (Gullveig)

Alolin (Pazuzu)

Anesidora (Pandora)

Anna (Persphone)

Arcana (Hermes)

Archibald (Mictlantecutli)

Asenath (Nefertem)

Ashley (Heimdall)

Aurelius (Ullr)

Bai Liuli (White Snake)

Bardon (Baldr)

Berenice (Bastet)

Biondina (Poseidon)

Bonnie (Eris)

Brewster (Garmr)

Brynn (Valkyrie)

Camille (Hati)

Cang Ji (Cang Jie)

Catherine (Hela)

Cecilia (Isis)

Celine (Siren)

Chalmers (Idun)

Chang Pu (Yao Ji)

Chloe (Medea)

Chu Yao (Tai Yi)

Clara (Hera)

Daniel (Charon)

David (Jason)

Daylon (Sobek)

Dhalia (Calypso)

Djoser (Atum)

Donar (Thor)

Drew (Anubis)

Eira (Freya)

Elaine (Nyx)

Elliot (Thoth)

Embla (Ymir)

Emma (Jade Rabbit)

Ethan (Pan)

Everett (Tyr)

Fabrice (Freyr)

Falken (Horus)

Farrah | Aminah (Tiamat | Abzu)

Fatum Sisters (Nornir)

Feng Nuxi (Nuwa)

Feng Xun (Fu Xi)

Freddy (Fenrir)

Fu Shi (Suan Ni)

Fumitsuki (Kaguya-hime)

Gabrielle (Njord)

Gaius (Zeus)

Ginny (Hestia)

Hailey (Hephaestus)

Hall (Hodur)

Helena (Helen)

Heng Yue (Chang’e)

Hilda (Hypnos)

Hyde (Hades)

Ife (Meretseger)

Ikki (Tsukuyomi)

Intisar (Kauket)

Jacob (Jormungand)

Javid (Shamash)

Jeanne (Gerd)

Jiang Jiuli (Chiyou)

Jiang Man (Meng Po)

Jin Qiu (Ru SHou)

Jin Yuyao (Queen Mother)

Jin-Hee (Dokkaebi)

Kara (Serket)

Kaylee (Anuket)

Koharu (Ame No Uzume)

Laura (Neith)

Lauren (Heket)

Layla (Medjed)

Leon (Vali)

Leora (Athena)

Lewis (Ares)

Li Ao (Tao Tie)

Li Guang (Vermilion Bird)

Li Ling (Nezha)

Liam (Xolotl)

Lian (Jiao Tu)

Lin Xiao (White Tiger)

Long Mian (Ao Bing)

Lucas (Apollo)

Luo Yan (Yanluo Wang)

Lu Yi (Dayi)

Lynn (Hathor)

Mateo (Prometheus)

Mavis (Mictecacihuatl)

Mei (Kaya-no-Hime)

Melanie (Medusa)

Meredith (Scylla)

Mona (Artemis)

Narmer (Ra)

Nick (Magni)

Nicole (Nephthys)

Norah (The Muses)

Odette (Skadi)

Ollie (Osiris)

Ophelia (Thanatos)

Parmi (Ninsun)

Pritzker (Mimir)

Q (Eros)

Raven (Odin)

Ren Si (Black Tortoise)

Sachiko (Hare of Inaba)

Sally (Sif)

Sander (Set)

Sienna (Gaia)

Stewart (Dionysus)

Su Jue (Daji)

Tang Xuan (Sun Wukong)

Tang Yun (Six-Eared Macaque)

Taylor (Hercules)

Tevor (Sphinx)

Tiye (Nut)

Toland (Tezcatlipoca)

Triki (Loki)

Uday (Sopdet)

Unas (Shu)

Unky Chai (Yue Lao)

Valeria (QUetzalcoatl)

Wu You (Dijiang)

Xiao Yin (Azure Dragon)

Xie Chuyi (Death Guard Hei)

Xie Yuzhi (Death Guard Bai)

Xuan Pin (Jiutian Xuannu)

Yalina (Mamitu)

Yamato (Izanagi)

Ye Suhua (Shao Siming)

Yu Ran (Bai Ze)

Yu Xu (Jing Wei)

Yun Chuan (Yang Jian)

Yuuhime (Izanami)

Zelmer (Sekhmet)

Zhong Nan (Zhong Kui)

Zora (Amunet)

#I’m excited for the popularity poll thing we have coming up #I’ll probably repost this list with less characters when the first elimination round ends #dislyte

[chinesehanfu]

【Historical Reference Artifacts】:  

・Eastern Jin Dynasty Female Pottery Figurines:

・ Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties “绯碧裙/Fēi bì qún / Fēi bì skirt”:

・ Eastern Jin Weapon Shape Gold Hairpin,unearthed from Eastern Jin Dynasty Tomb in Nanjing

・ Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties Female Figurines showing woman makeup at the time:

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420 AD) Traditional Clothing Hanfu & Hairstyle Based On Relics【东晋仕女装束】

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【History Note】

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the silhouette of clothing has gradually become a trend of "Top are closed-fit to the body, with full and wide shape in the bottom".

Until the Eastern Jin Dynasty, this style became more exaggerated, with fluffy and bulging skirts and higher waists;The tops are short and mostly have narrow sleeves, and the bottoms of the tops are often placed outside the skirts.

At the same time, the fashion of make-up and hairstyle has also changed,face makeup have become more colorful, like“花黄/额黄(forehead yellow makeup)” , "面靥(a makeup which on the dimples of the cheeks)”, and “XieHong/斜红( a special kind of face decoration in ancient times, is a red crescent is drawn on both sides of a woman’s face )” have become widely popular. 

For hairstyles, taller and big ring-shaped hairstyles are popular, and the hairstyle become more plumply,as recorded in "Book of Jin·Five Elements《晋书•五行志》": “太元中，公主妇女必缓鬓倾髻，以为盛饰。用发既多，不可恒戴，乃先于木及笼上装之，名曰假髻，或名假头。 mean "In Taiyuan, princesses and women hairstyle are sloping and seemingly loose hairstyles. This kind of hairstyle are difficult to comb with real hair and not easy keep this hairstyle, so requires the help of wig.

In the hair accessories, hairpins in the shape of knives, axes and weapons are popular, which look majestic. There is such a record in "Song Shu Wuxing Zhiyi/《宋书·五行志一》": " “晋惠帝元康中，妇人之饰有五兵佩，又以金、银、玳瑁之属为斧、钺、戈、戟，以当笄。”：

During the Yuankang period of Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty, women wore five weapons. They use gold, silver, Eretmochelys imbricata, horn, tortoise shell and other materials to make into axes, battle-axes, daggers, and halberds and use them as hairpins.

Such hairpins was unearthed from the Eastern Jin Dynasty tomb in Nanjing

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#Chinese Hanfu #Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420 AD) #Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties #Hanfu #“花黄/额黄(forehead yellow makeup) #面靥(a makeup which on the dimples of the cheeks) #XieHong/斜红( a special kind of face decoration in ancient times is a red crescent is drawn on both sides of a woman’s face #chinese historical fashion #historical makeup #historical hairstyles #Chinese Culture #recreation #hanfu history #chinese history #chinese art #Chinese Aesthetics #chinese fashion #东晋仕女装束 #Historical Artifacts #China #襦/ru #绯碧裙/Fēi bì qún / Fēi bì skirt” #鬟髻 #漢服 #汉服 #裝束复原 #桑纈 #Weapon Shape Gold Hairpin

[the-archlich]

Do you believe that Zhuge Liang indirectly contributed the downfall of Shu Han? Example: welcoming Jiang Wei's defection from Cao Wei, and relying on his colleagues from the Jing Political Faction etc. You dont have to answer in a long one, but rather short or maybe add top 3 or 5 reasons short based on your analysis.

As critical as I can be of Zhuge Liang I can't blame him for things that happened 30 years after his death. Liu Shan was the one with his hands on the wheel, after all, and could have made any policy changes he wanted at any time. Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, Dong He, Chen Zhi, Jiang Wei, Zhuge Zhan, and Huang Hao all had a ton of influence after Zhuge Liang's death and bear more direct responsibility than their predecessors. By the time Wei invaded in 263, Zhuge Liang's policies were no longer relevant.

[episodeoftv]

Round 1 of 8, Group 1 of 8

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

Code Geass: 2.25 Re;

Lelouch tries to persuade Nunnally into giving him the key of Damocles as the battle concludes.

Word of Honor: 1.34 Ep 34

Ye Bai Yi instructs Lao Wen to close down Ghost Valley forever and the crowd disperses peacefully. The victors have drinks where Lao Wen reveals how he had managed to convince everyone around him to get along with the plan. Zhou Zi Shu is happy for him, but in pain that he only had a few more days left to survive. Scorpion King has a talk with the now disabled Zhao Jing in which he reveals his true intentions and feelings about what he thought about him. A drunk Lao Wen elatedly describes that meeting Ah' Xu had changed him. He asks him to accompany him to his parents' old hometown for a proper burial and Ah' Xu tearfully agrees. At Ghost Valley, preparations for Ah' Xiang's wedding takes place. Aunt Luo tells her plan to stay at the valley forever with Qian Qiao, who had decided to drink the Water of Lethe and forget Yu Qiu Feng. Cao Wei Ning is increasingly nervous and confesses that he had always hoped that his wedding would be attended by his seniors and Masters. The Gentle Wind Sword Sect arrives and Mount Qingya and they are let in. Master Mo Huai Yang openly disrespects Ah' Xiang. (Source: MyDramaList)

(Spoilers) Look the emotional rollercoaster this episode is like Wen Kexing finally got his revenge and Ye Bayi is like just close down the ghost valley and we'll call it even and it's like yes!!!! No more bloodshed!!!! And everyone is having dinner together and Wen Kexing is literally having the best day of his life!!! But then Zhou Zishu is like dealing with all the turmoil and angst that WKX's little stunt put him through and that he's going to die in a few days but nobody knows and he doesn't want to bring down the mood and then there's heartbreaking scene where WKX is drunk and is so happy and cuddling ZZS and is like I'm so happy you're my soulmate and everything is great and we'll travel the world together this is amazing!!! And you can see the pain on ZZS's face because WKX doesn't KNOW!!!! And then there's the confrontation between Scorpion King and Zhao Jing which is !!!!!!!!!!!! And then they're preparing for Gu Xiang and Cao Weining's wedding!!!!! And it's so sweet because everyone is just so happy!!!! And like WKX is in full dad mode which is great. But it's just like an episode where the characters can just all love each other because there's no sign of immediate danger (well besides ZZS' stuff) but like it's so heartwarming and sad and tragic when you know what happens right after like !!!!!!!!!!!! It's also one of the highest rated episodes (on mydramalist) with a 9.3 so there's that too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zRSFzOfTc&t=1230s

#word of honor #code geass #poll #polls #round1 #r1g1

[arollingriver]

I finally redrew a clean version of my An Xiao fandesign! I need more people to understand that he looks like that and I'm right..

While my fandesigns are generally based on casual but modern fashion - my main idea for them being that that, inspired by Dreamtonics' wanted simplicity, they'd wear simple clothing so that users could easily change them out of it or add to it - with An Xiao I'm saying fuck you, Gakupo inspired.

(Pose reference courtesy of Fashionhanfu)

I tried to draft my design idea for Wei Shu, but it doesn't look very good with colours. Here's the version without colours so you can see my idea.......

#synthv #synthesizer v #synth v #synthv fandesign #an xiao #an xiao synthv #my art #digital sketch #colour sketch #vocal synth #vsynth #+ #wei shu #wei shu synthv

[the-monkey-ruler]

Lotus Lantern (2005) 宝莲灯

Director: Yu Mingsheng Screenwriter: Nine years Starring: Jun Cao / Shu Chang / Enjun / Jiao / Lin Xiangping Yuqiao / Liu Liu Liu Xiaoqing / Yan Danchen / Xie Ning / Wang Weiguo / Chen Chuang / Ding Jian / Xiaofeng Luo Wei / Pu Shiyan Zhang Zhichao / Tian Erxi / Wu Zhou Jie / Guohua You Benchang / Wang Yonggui / Li Baocheng Zhao / Shujun / Li Jianxun Zhu Yaying / Li Liu Jie / Jiayi Ye Yina / Ma Liqing / Yang Si / Wang Wensheng / Ma Jielin / Tian Xuemin / Zhao Qi / Zong Fengyan / Wan Luo Guangyue / Li Dou / Ying / Tang Nien / Liu Shuxing / Shi Liang / Cheng Sudong / Lu Bing / Wang Xiang / Yao Changjiang / Xi Xianfeng / Yuan Han / Shen Jie / Deng Jia / Guo Ye / Wang Jiayu / DuduMore Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Costume Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2005-10-04 (Mainland China) Number of episodes: 35 Single episode length: 46 minutes Also known as: New Lotus Lantern / 新宝莲灯 IMDb: tt4776994 Type: Reimagining

Summary:

Chen Xiang (played by Cao Jun), a young man in a small town, and his father Liu Yanchang (played by Liu Xiaofeng) have been living a peaceful life until one day, Chen Xiang accidentally discovers that he actually contains "magic power" in his body and could pass through walls effortlessly. After his father learned about it, he told Chen Xiang the fact that he had hidden for many years, that is, Chen Xiang's mother was actually the San Sheng Mu (played by Park Meixuan) in heaven. Because she violated the rules of heaven and married herself as a mortal, she was captured by heaven to an unknown destination. Chen Xiang was shocked to learn the truth and decided to overcome all difficulties to rescue his mother. Er Lang Shen (Jiao Enjun), who sees everything in his eyes, is Chen Xiang's uncle and decides to stop Chen Xiang's journey to save his mother. Thus, this difficult trip to save the mother kicked off with the interference of Erlang Shen. During the journey, Chen Xiang met many kind-hearted people and spirits, encountered various resistances, and even wanted to give up. But in the end, it was no match for his determination to save his mother...

Source: https://tv-1.chinesemov.com/tv/2005/Lotus%20Lantern

Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10scWhSJdfGojWzhbiYNBCM9KgZi1sk_

#Lotus Lantern #宝莲灯 #New Lotus Lantern #新宝莲灯 #jttw media #jtte television #television #live action #reimaging #reimagining #continuation #Erlang Shen #Yang Jian #Little Fox #Fox Demon #Chen Xiang #Eighth Dragon Prince of the East Sea #Liu Yanchang #Yang Chan #San Shengmu #Chang'e #Zhu Bajie #Sun Wukong #Bull Demon King #Nezha #Guanyin #Princess Iron Fan #Red Boy #Li Jing #Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King

[vodkassassin]

Hm

i wanna… draw all the peak lords in fancy dresses

Everyone immediately pls send me what dresses you think suits each peak lord best.

We have 12 fancy outfits to chose here:

1. Yue Qingyuan, M, sect leader and peak lord of Qiong Ding peak, the peak over general affairs and ruling.

2. Shen Qingqui, M, peak lord of Qing Jing peak and chief strategist of the sect. Qing Jing is the scholarly peak that focuses on teaches the Four Arts.

3. Wei Qingwei, NB (hc), swordmaster of the sect and peak lord of Wan Jian peak, which crafts swords and teaches the art of the sword and where all sect disciples go to obtain their spirit sword.

4. Shang Qinghua, M, lord of the logistics peak An Ding peak. All senior An Ding disciples live in houses called Leisure Houses. An Ding takes care of day to day functioning of the sect, like budgeting and agriculture and trade and etc.

5. Qi Qingqi, F, peak lord of Xian Shu peak, and all female-peak. Girls Only club, HC: this peak trains its disciple in espionage and information gathering. They work closely with An Ding for this reason.

Since QQQ is the only female peak lord she will be wearing a fancy suit (bc women in suits just hit me like 👌🏻 mmyeah )

6. Liu Qingge, M, peak lord of Bai Zhan peak, the war division of the sect that focuses on training its disciples in the martial arts.

7. Mu Qingfang, M, doctor and peak lord of the medical peak, Qian Cao. All disciples take a HC svsss version of the hippocratic oath and focus their skills on healing.

8. Kang Qingxiu, M, lord of the all-male Ku Xing peak. Boys Only club to Xian Shus’s Girls Only. It’s disciples live a monk-like lifestyle. Kind of like nuns, but male?

9. Shui Qingyu, M, peak lord of the brewery peak, Zui Xian. They brew the sect alcohol. HC: also creates disinfectants for Qian Cao... etc.

10. Chang Qingzhi, FtM, peak lord of the talisman and array production and research and development peak, Fa Ming. They produce most of the sects wares in terms of talismans and cultivation arrays, working closely with Qing Jing to also produce cultivation manuals.

11. Ju Qingsong, M, peak lord of Yang Shou (beast tamer peak). This peak is foremost on monster and creature knowledge, but also trains spirit animals such as dogs and cats and horses. They also rear cattle for produce, such as cows and sheep.

12. Rong Qingsheng, M, peak lord of Kong Tian, the agricultural peak. They produce most of the sect’s food and fiber (for weaving and paper making and what not), and sell their produce to the world for profit for the sect. They work closely with the beast taming peak for animal produce as well.

#svsss #scum villian self saving system #svsss peak lords #RESPOND #VOTE(?) #ur opinion is requested here