#fengcui

[helenkordart]

Summary of Peerless by Meng Xishi

#Peerless #meng xishi #无双 #wushuang #fengcui #cui buqu #feng xiao #danmei #i love them your honor #theyre just so #clenches fist #bastard 4 bastard

[qiulangjun]

*gasp* two carrds in one day??

also i made this because i was having a hard time finding these, and i wanted to help my fellow qian qiu enthusiasts

#danmei #qian qiu #thousand autumns #yanshen #yan wushi #shen qiao #wushuang #fengcui #cui buqu #feng xiao

[beholding-moth]

Ququ, is that a blush I see?

these sillies are on my brain 24/7 and you can thank @tedkordisanasshole for that :']

#Peerless #Wushuang #无双 #FengCui #feng xiao #cui buqu #wushuang (peerless) #what can i say.... they cater to me in every aspect #also dont let ququs blush fool you. he is annoyed about the manhandling and is planning the next pit for feng-er #this is just smth sketchy but i rly needed that agjdks #one fengcuis a day keep the sad thoughts at bay #my art #elly art

[akatsuki-shin]

PRIEST'S "LIU YAO" AND MENG XISHI'S "WU SHUANG (PEERLESS) ARE GETTING OFFICIAL ENGLISH VERSIONS IN 2024

"Liu Yao" will be getting a physical book by indie publisher ROSMEI from Singapore. You can check their Twitter @/Rosmeihey for information regarding their distributors and GOs for non-Singaporean buyers.

"Wu Shuang (Peerless)" will be published by Seven Seas Danmei, so we'll be getting both physical books and e-books.

#Liu Yao #The Revitalization of Fu Yao Sect #Yan Zhengming #Cheng Qian #MingQian #Priest #Wu Shuang #Peerless #Feng Xiao #Cui Buqu #FengCui #Meng Xishi #Danmei

[drawulan]

“Shutting you up” kiss 😘

#wushuang #peerless #fengcui #feng xiao #cui buqu #meng xi shi #danmei novels #danmei fanart #danmei recs #无双

[bellaroles]

I think I made the list before but I can't find it. So I made a new one since I just finished reading Beidou/the Plough

Meng Xi Shi's books signature

The Slow Burn romance is really slow but I love every single little bits of relationship development in every ship so far. Also the payoff is so good! I also love the banter in every one of her books. Very satisfying to read!

Tsundere shou! ( Not always but I think Shen Qiao, Tang Fan, Cui Buqu are these types and also Ling Shu to a certain degree) Though they're under the same category, they're portrayed as very different in personalities and I can't get enough of them. Their respective gong are also very unique and cunning in their own way when it comes to making the shou admit their feelings!

Cross dressings! Hilarity ensues!

Solving mysteries! be it crime investigation, treasure hunting, political machinations, unmasking evil cult or even ruining evil cultivators plan to rule the world etc.

Strong women side characters. Also if they're among the very beautiful then they usually are either evil and end up dead or they find a way out of their predicament on their own.

Spoiler alert: the betrayal! We need at least one scene of either true betrayal (looking at you, Yan Wushi!) or it was just an act (Peerless, the Plough) or qi deviation (Shen Shang)

The last few chapters at least one or both of the main characters fight to the brink of death and yeah their love for each other is reaffirmed because of this but...that's not the true ending though! Go read that in the extras!

I've read 5 series of hers so far and I like them all very much.

Thousand Autumns

14th year of Chenghua

Peerless

Estranged

The Plough

Have Bu Tian Gang on my shelf already. Might start on that next, or All under heaven.

#i wish people read more of her works other than thousand autumns which is already popular #her books are a keeper #meng xi shi #highly recommend #thousand autumns #qian qiu #peerless #wu shuang #the fourteenth year of chenghua #estranged #shenshang #the plough #北斗 #梦溪石 #无双 #成化十四年 #参商 #yanshen #fengcui #well i didn't mean that all of them fit all of these but they all has a lot of these in common

[spockandawe]

Okay, I think I'm ready to start chewing on and articulating some Peerless/Wushuang thoughts at least, because I'm deep in the parts of the book where this starts becoming more relevant.

Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu are VERY alike. This is an asshole4asshole relationship, they're both leading secret police bureaus, they're both ruthless and calculating and VERY smart. But they're also so different in some crucial ways. Yeah, Feng Xiao is one of the strongest martial artists alive, while Cui Buqu's health is so fragile that everyone is amazed he's still alive, which is delightful, but i do think the differences in personality are even more more interesting

Like, a thing I've said before (maybe not on here?) is that one of the things that makes Yan Wushi so compelling despite being such a jackass is that he's VERY true to himself, in a considered, deliberate, intelligent way. Part of what drives him to try to break Shen Qiao is his conviction that everyone who clings to ethics and morality is just putting on a self-serving facade and it won't take much hardship to shatter that. Feng Xiao doesn't have an internal conviction like that driving him, or, he sort of does. But his core driving force is pure unadulterated self-love.

Feng Xiao has lived his life with perfect cheerful conviction that Feng Xiao is the most beauitful, most capable, most clever boy in the whole world. Now. It doesn't take long for him to become VERY wary of Cui Buqu's intelligence, but the personal vanity doesn't falter. It's a delight to read, someone trying to suck up to him sends him the most beautiful woman he's ever seen trying to curry favor, and Feng Xiao has her clean his room. He's literally like 'buddy. pal. why would i sleep with someone less beautiful than i am?' He's capable of schemes and plotting, but when it comes to personality, he is a CHEERFULLY open reflection of his own inner self however rancid that inner self is lmao

Cui Buqu on the other hand. MY GOD. The man literally starts the book acting a fabricated role. This won't have been spoilers if you read the book summary, but Cui Buqu has a whole city convinced that he's a perfectly benevolent, kind, generous daoist priest, and meanwhile. When it comes to a contest of who's the most ruthless in this book, between Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu, i think Cui Buqu handily wins! Even once that initial act is peeled away, Cui Buqu has layers and LAYERS. Mister onion ogre man. The author even calls him out for being like this in the notes. It's extremely funny, but also makes for a delightful slow burn in terms of relationship development, it's very rewarding to read.

But as i do that actual reading now, I'm really taken by how subtly that tension between them really enriches the surrounding story. The arc I'm in now involves Cui Buqu's backstory, and he's simultaneously being revealed to be more vicious and more gentle than the prior story suggested. This is DEFINITELY weighted more towards the viciousness than gentleness, but without spoilers, that really makes the moments when he chooses to be kind hit so, so hard! And while Feng Xiao is strong, he's always been openly and bluntly strong, the way more and more of Cui Buqu is gradually brought to light underscores the depth and nature of HIS strength.

Both of these men are very beloved by their subordinates, so the story communicates well that they have good points, but it's fascinating how Cui Buqu's are revealed to readers by patiently peeling those layers away, while Feng Xiao, someone much more open, but with a very demanding personality, is rounded out in large part thanks to those reveals from Cui Buqu, and the way he reacts and how his behavior modifies.

Is that coherent? I can't tell anymore. But the depth of meng xi shi's character writing is something fascinating to me, and Peerless and Thousand Autumns give a LOT of narrative attention to who their main characters are, and the different seemingly-contradictory layers of characters like Yan Wushi and Cui Buqu. Shen Qiao and Feng Xiao are fascinating in the sense of however far down you dig, what you see is what you get, lmao. But the nuance and elaboration within that space, which might seem restrictive, still makes for a FASCINATING character, and a very engaging read

#peerless #wushuang #fengcui #feng xiao #cui buqu

[chicshinm]

fengcui and yanshen my beloved

everyone read wushuang and thousand autumns to experience meng xi shi’s beautiful boys

#every time yanshen cameo in wushuang I cheer wildly #thousand autumns #wushuang #yanshen #fengcui #yan wushi #shen qiao #feng xiao #cui buqu #qian qiu #peerless #千秋 #无双 #chic speaks

[yuziyou]

FengCui | Wushuang (无双) audio drama

#无双 #wushuang #fengcui #feng xiao #cui buqu #danmei

[xoxavery]

I love peerless everyone go read peerless and post about peerless and make peerless famous so they’ll make a peerless drama that I can watch.

#Peerless #meng xishi #无双 #wushuang #fengcui #cui buqu #feng xiao #danmei #my art #Spotify

[helenkordart]

"Helena what is this" only the most accurate Peerless fanart ever wdym? 🤨

(redraw of this meme)

#peerless #wushuang #meng xishi #fengcui #feng xiao #cui buqu #danmei #That slapping art is from the manhua btw. That's literally canon #Its not even his imagining he straight up does that #I adore him

[dathen]

One of the funnest things about reading Peerless is that by himself, Feng Xiao is a terrifyingly brilliant and cunning spymaster, but because he’s put next to Cui Buqu he comes across like an absolute himbo.

#peerless #wushang #fengcui #i dumped an essay on Helen for why Cui Buqu is the sherlock holmes and Feng Qiao is the poirot of the two #but a lot of that comes to scenes of ‘um you expect me to memorize millions of useless facts? esp when you can just tell me??’

[danhoemei]

POV: you either call him dad three times or you drop from the cliff

#i am not joking #peerless #wushuang #cui buqu #fengcui #god i love them they're so fun and constantly making trouble for each other #official art

[drawulan]

Troublemaking (and troublesolving) Husbands

#wushuang #fengcui #feng xiao #cui buqu #peerless #meng xi shi #danmei novels #danmei fanart #book illustration #fantasy art #art commissions #commission me

[bellaroles]

Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu. Well, if they stop digging holes for each other temporarily it’s because they’re both digging holes for other people to fall into lol.

#peerless #wu shuang #meng xi shi #danmei #i’m at chapter 50 and i love their dynamic so much #feng xiao #cui buqu #reference from the manhua #无双 #fengcui #the funniest meng xi shi's work I've ever read so far! #wushuang

[iceeckos12]

Summary: Cui Buqu was absolutely, 100% certain that he was above a midlife crisis. Therefore it was profoundly galling when he found himself tipping headfirst into one without so much as a by-your-leave.

(If asked, he would of course blame the whole thing on Feng Xiao. Because it was his fault.

Obviously.)

#peerless #wushuang #fengcui #my fic #iceeckos12 writes