It's so funny to see Fang Duobing hunt Li Lianhua down after the first Big Breakup after the opal skull drama. He's trying so hard to get petty revenge for being abandoned and called a useless rich brat but the Li Lianhua Defence Squad is just too damn big. The first thing he does is attempt to half-assedly publicly discredit him as a quack, only for the foremost of doctors to show up and say Li Lianhua's prescriptions are good, actually. And then his own aunt shows up and scolds him for trying to kick Li Lianhua out of the inn he's booked out. Nobody is letting him be petty in peace :(
It's Li Lianhua's birthday, the third after he was found on the East Sea beach, alive. Everybody is there, drinks tea and has sweets. 1K. That's it, that's the fic.
Inspired by this lovely drawing by @lyselkatz
A loose sequel to my fic "Actually..." Li Lianhua is alive, has lost his martial arts and regained his allergies, and lives in the Lotus Lodge with Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng. Everything is fluffy and nothing hurts. Well, almost nothing.
I'm still thinking about the way episode 32 put these scenes together, directly contrasting Jiao Liqiao's obsession with Di Feisheng (Above: "Even though he's disinterested in me-") with He Xiaofeng's crush on Li Lianhua (Above: "She [He Xiaofeng] still can't let go of Mr. Li"). And how He Xiaofeng then proceeds to have a very Twelfth Night marriage with lesbian subtext, and ends up with a twink version of Di Feisheng (who may have also had a crush on Li Lianhua) - and I'm NOT meant to read that as suggestion Jiao Liqiao should be a lesbian?
mlc accidental lesbian marriage has not left my brain since i watched that episode and i've been having thoughts about fdb's aunt xiaofeng having a bisexual awakening thanks to (accidentally) marrying lianyi xianzi and realizing she would have been very happy to have a wife instead of a husband had lianyi survived
in conjunction with this, i think it would be very funny if for some reason sxy came to tianji manor to deliver something, then began helping with further research into nanyin (derogatory) and she and xiaofeng started growing closer and it turned into something. bonus points for when fdb returns home with llh and gets huffy over the new development and sxy now being something like a cousin(?). also imagining him maybe protesting the age difference only to be reminded it's basically the same between him and llh (which he also gets huffy about)
not sure I really see them as something long term but seems like a fun, slightly wild pairing that's my contribution to the mlc rare pair agenda or whatever
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before but when Di Feisheng took He Xiaofeng "hostage" she wasn't really in any immediate danger (as far as I can see):
He does not display any outward intention to maim her or restrain her, and when Shan Gudao goes on to stab her he immediately rebukes him for that.
Afterwards, when Shan Gudao demands for the other heavenly ice shard, his expression also looks as if he's urging them to give in.
Though, if it wasn't in his plans to hurt HXF in order to get the shards from them I do wonder how DFS planned to get them from FDB? (If SGD hadn't shown up).