#li xiangyi

[mlundart]

Yet another silly alternate ending to Mysterious Lotus Casebook cuz . . . I'm not over it, ha ha!

Enjoy!

#mysterious lotus casebook fan comic #mysterious lotus casebook spoiler #Mysterious Lotus Casebook #ink illustration #mlundart #li xiangyi #fang duobing #di feisheng #li lianhua #wuxia cdrama inspired #ink and digital illustration

[peridot-tears]

Reminder to MLC Lian Hua Lou fans:

Shenyi: "miracle doctor." Applies only to Li Lianhua because of his reputation.

Daifu: "doctor." People would call Li Lianhua "Li-daifu" when seeking his services.

Yisheng: "doctor," but in modern contexts, so you can use it in your modern AUs.

Xiansheng: "mister" (sometimes "teacher") "Li-xiansheng" is what most people would call him, including Fang Duobing's mom.

Mengzhu: *Alliance* leader. "Meng" means "alliance." Hence Di Feisheng being the leader of the Jinyuan Alliance. Di Feisheng would be "Di-mengzhu."

Menzhu: *Sect* leader. "Men" means "sect" (same character as "gate"). Li Xiangyi is the leader of Sigu Sect. Li Xiangyi would be "Li-menzhu."

Incorrect spellings I've seen in the fandom: - Li-mengzhu - Di-menzhu - Li-shengyi

#lhl #mlc #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #fanfic #wuxia #cdrama #li lianhua #li xiangyi #di feisheng #fang duobing #he xiaohui #tears falling like peridots #莲花楼 #李莲花 #李相夷 #笛飞声 #放多病 #fdb #llh #lxy #dfs

[where-the-water-flows]

AND ANOTHER THING, I say, coming back into the tag with an unrelated question for the fine minds here in MLC fandom: how the fuck did baby li xiangyi afford to even found the sigu sect. He's like seventeen! max!! shan gudao presumably has built up a cushion of funds from fucking about on his lonesome in the jianghu for (mumble) years and probably doing some sketchy shit while unsupervised (and also fathering fang doubing, because the timeline of MLC is even more nonsense otherwise), and, I assume, the other people of sigu sect helped bankroll it, but still!

li xiangyi is seventeen? max?? somewhere between fifteen and seventeen?? and sigu sect is fucking big. that is a lot of very fancy land and buildings, and also a lot of very fancy stuff in general, where did this orphan street rat raised on the side of a mountain get the money for that? I assume he was sent out with like. some money to Not Starve, but I don't think he was sent out with 'found a rich ass sect' money.

like I guess bounties? rewards from grateful people he saved??? very explicitly not the imperial court, I think, given he's like 'we have nothing to do with them we cannot compromise our ethics' argument with shan gudao, so...???

I know it's Not That Deep, but also, blease, things cost money, how do you afford your fancy boy hair crown and robes.

#waters words #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #look I wish I was not like this but unfortunately #I am. all the time. #how does li xianyi even afford to be a spendthrift. where is he getting that money from #is he straight up looting the bandits et al he deals with?? like legit but also. that feels. off. #like I guess the simple answer is everyone else is Hella Rich and bankrolling him. but. why then. #like yes yes charismatic strong idealist etc etc but also #the money. that is so much money.

[recapitulation]

Cheng Yi as Li Lianhua and Li Xiangyi in Mysterious Lotus Casebook // 莲花楼 (2023)

[ID: gifs of the characters Li Lianhua and Li Xiangyi from the series "Mysterious Lotus Casebook." They show, in order: Li Lianhua smirking after getting thrown across a table, him wearing a mask saying "It's true, I never lie," a disheveled Li Xiangyi looking at Wu Liao tiredly, Li Lianhua taking a bite of watermelon serenely, turning his head solemnly, looking darkly at Jiao Liqiao, pointing pettily at Di Feisheng while he's meditating, looking mierably after a retreating Di Feisheng after he promises to kill Fang Duobing, saying to Qiao Wanmian "I'm tired. I just want to be free," and smiling gently at Di Feisheng after he loses his memory. /end ID]

#dangles him in front of you #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #li lianhua #cdramaedit #莲花楼 #cdramasource #my gifs #mlcbedit

[murderedbyhomework]

Liansanjiao x the song 我是來揍你的 (I'm here to beat you up)

Like the lyrics are so liansanjiao tho

Eng translations are all my own

一拳一掌一招一式 (one fist one strike one move one set)

一身正氣全不怕 (a body filled with righteousness and lacking fear)

一言一行一步一影 (one sentence one action one step one shadow)

一段傳奇走天下 (a story of a legend travals the world)

我不是來當英雄的 我是來揍你的 (I'm not here to be a hero, I'm here to beat you up)

我只想做一個低調的習武之人 (I only want to be a low profile practisioner of martial arts)

你可能誤解了 (you might be misunderstood)

低調才欺人太甚 (being discreet is the way to easily besting everyone)

我武德是為仁 (my martial conduct is compassion)

所以要低調的教你學做人 (so I'm teaching you how to be a person discreetly)

我練武為傳承 (I practise martial arts to pass them on)

為守護重要的人 (to protect those important to me)

五千年的武魂不耍 (the martial spirit spanning 5000 years doesn't play around)

狠氣吞乾坤 (to ruthlessly swallow heaven and earth)

若犯我的自尊 (if you cross my self respect)

以詠春教你尊重是什麼 (I'll use Yongchun* to teach you what respect is) *Yongchun is a way to refer to martial arts skills

Link to the song below because the vocals of the song are the key here

#mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #li xiangyi #lian hua lou #di feisheng #fang duobing #liansanjiao #Difanghua #No i will not do further elaboration #Youtube

[jiaoliqiao]

Fanghua + Calling for A-Fei (and the one time it wasn't needed)

#userdramas #mysterious lotus casebook #cdramaedit #cdramasource #mlcedit #fang duobing #di feisheng #li lianhua #li xiangyi #*mine #useryd #lextag #uservivs #userginpotts #userhanyi #roserayne #tuserjade #swiftletinthecloud #usergooseras #flashing cw #i think some people are starting to move on already but my brainrot is just getting started #i hope everyone is ready

[mutantfactor]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

#just a compilation of llh being a funny little shit in the very first episode #mysterious lotus casebook #lian hua lou #莲花楼 #li lianhua #li xiangyi #cheng yi #my:gif #mf mlc #cdrama

[carduelis-art]

Commission for @the-wintry-mizzenmast

#mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #di feisheng #lian hua lou #li lianhua #illustration #feihua #dihua

[difeisheng]

#he's just some silly little guy!!!!! #guy of all time even!!!!! #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #li lianhua #ashton's text post memes #ashton originals #you can always tell when i'm procrastinating something because that's only ever when i make text post memes

[homiehopper4life]

#mysterious lotus casebook #I am sorry I just needed to get these off my chest #I think I’m so funny I’m sorry #fang xiaobao #fang Duobing #li Lianhua #li Xiangyi #fanghua #dihua #Di Feisheng #feihua #memes #my post #funny #long ish post? #photos #pictures #mlc #Chinese drama #c drama

[zishuge]

Di Feisheng taking every opportunity to roast Li Xiangyi; Li Lianhua is only amused Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

#mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #li lianhua #li xiangyi #di feisheng #cheng yi #xiao shunyao #cdrama #cdramaedit #cdramasource #mlcedit #*gifs:mine #there's probably more but these are the ones i could think of immediately #i feel like 10 years ago li xiangyi would've been BIG mad #but li lianhua is just *amused eyeroll* oh you #big divorced energy #in that second one llh was more amused at fang duobing's reaction but i think it still counts #and by the end dfs wasn't even seriously trying to make a jab it's just pure habit #激 is such a hard word to translate really

[night-rider-lily]

I keep seeing new behind the scenes pics of dramas i really love and i just wanna share them all-

#mysterious lotus casebook #cdrama #chinese drama #cheng yi #iqiyi #xiao shunyao #li xiangyi #li lianhua #joseph zheng #zeng shunxi #di feisheng #fang duobing #rain wang #jiao liqiao #mysterious lotus casebook cast #behind the scenes #mysterious lotus casebook bts #傅诗淇 #莲花楼 #mlc bts #lian hua lou

[atsukunaritai]

and then the show proceeds to cut to the next scene where they've changed clothes

#can't make this shit up i laughed so hard at this it's just too freaking convenient #i mean sure they might've changed clothes cus they were dank and sweaty and bloody and gross but hey this still kindA... #also just the long-needed sweetness and lightness of this interaction i will also Cry. on top of the laughing #mysterious lotus casebook #feihua #li lianhua #di feisheng #li xiangyi #mlc #mine #but seriously especially llh's reaction to dfs saying that gay gay homosexual gay like DON'T SMILE LIKE THAT #What exactly are you thinking about llh looking down and away and smiling like that and DON'T JUST NOD AT HIM #this is ep 38!

[shijiujun]

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH 莲花楼 MYSTERIOUS LOTUS CASEBOOK

Guess I’m back for another rec, you know I’m there when I get minimum two bromance dudes and historical and OOMPH if you liked The Blood of Youth this might be up your lane!! Slightly similar main character premise but super good, the trope never gets old!!

TL;DR

- Stupid disciple + his (unknowing) shifu - Enemy bros “where is my shixiong’s remains?!” + “defeat me and find out” vibes who have to work together and form their deep friendship and get past misunderstanding and mystery blah blah love it - All-powerful legendary swordsman losing all his powers and becoming a legendary physician - Everything is about dead shixiong we don’t even know how the man looks like - Investigations and jianghu shenanigans, cases!!!  - Uwu puppy dog and good in martial arts disciple and his sickly, ex-legendary and still cool shifu who doesn’t know he’s a shifu LMAO - Yes uwu bromance, especially cuz shifu is DYING and he is WEAK and he gonna spit out blood and faint everywhere as they find cure for him 

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AIRING DEETS

Total episodes: 40

Premiered on: July 23

VIP ends: August 18

Can be watched from iQiyi

Airing schedule: 6 episodes on the first day, 2 episodes everyday after for 6 days, then 8 episodes a week except for the last week, that has 6 episodes with finale

SUMMARY

Ten years ago, Li Xiangyi who was master of Sigu Sect, challenged Di Feisheng, master of the Jinyuan Alliance, to a fight on the seas, where they both end up critically hurt as Li Xiangyi tries to find out where his shixiong’s (Shan Gu Dao) corpse and bones went - his sect was attacked on the same day, and when he returns to the sect, critically injured, he sees some of his deputies blaming him for the attack, and instead of going in, he disappears after that.

Ten years later, Li Xiangyi is now Li Lianhua (Lotus Li LMAO) and he’s an eccentric but skilled doctor who has his eyes on earning money. By chance, he meets Fang Duobing (Fang Many Illness LMAO), a young, aspiring detective who’s super skilled in martial arts, but he’s been unable to enrol in Bai Chuan Yuan (the past Sigu Sect), a sort-of sect that plays an enforcer role in the pugilistic world and helps to solve cases, arrest wrongdoers, and the like. Fang Duobing’s dream is to get in, but as he’s the only son of two powerful people who’ve been refusing to let him be part of Bai Chuan Yuan, he’s failed the test 3 times despite being the most-skilled one there. On his third try, however, he tells the four masters of Bai Chuan Yuan that his shifu is Li Xiangyi, a Li Xiangyi who used to be a part of Bai Chuan Yuan and is still greatly missed by the four masters. They agree to it, but only if FDB solve three cases with arrests.

His first case leads him to meet LXY who’s now known as Li Lianhua, and their meeting doesn’t go off to a great start; FDB is idealistic and a rich, wealthy young master at heart who’s never suffered much hardship, and LLH drugs him after and scolds him for being too trusting of people and being too obvious, going around with two servants. LLH leaves him with parting words, only to meet him again later at the scene of the crime.

They solve cases together from there; LLH is still looking for his shixiong’s body ten years later, and decides to solve cases with FDB as a guise to get closer to the truth, making use of FDB slightly. Later, Di Feisheng recognises him, and the three of them are forced to become allies/friends to uncover a greater conspiracy. The clock is ticking for them as well, as Li Xiangyi was poisoned and injured ten years ago, and was given only ten more years to live. The story begins in the year that he’s meant to die.

*Fang Duobing met Li Xiangyi when he was young and still sickly, and Li Xiangyi encouraged him, and Fang Duobing held onto his every word and suffered a lot to become healthy again and as skilled as he is today, all because Li Xiangyi said those words to him that year ;-;

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH

(1) Fight scenes are GREAT 

- Water water water

- All female sect?!

(2) Bromance, subtle for now, but greater later I assume - ZENG SHUNXI’S FACE HE SO PUPPY BLURBLUR AND SMILING?! AND CHENG YI SMIRKING?! Like Fang Duobing is just wagging his tail and running after a person he doesn’t know is truly his shifu as he claims LOL

(3) Shifu Li Xiangyi not knowing he was shifu to Fang Duobing

(4) Li Xiangyi being the reason for Fang Duobing to EXIST but Li Xiangyi ain’t around anymore (not) and he sad and Li Xiangyi can’t tell him who he is UWUUUU

(5) Familiar faces hehe if you are a SNGX/The Blood of Youth and SHL fan 

(6) CASES ARE INTERESTING!!!

#mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #lian hua lou #Zeng shunxi #cdrama #cheng yi #li xiangyi #fang duobing #cdrama rec

[recapitulation]

[ID: gifs from the 22nd episode of the series "Mysterious Lotus Casebook." Fang Duobing says to Li Lianhua, looking outraged, "You had a beautiful woman in your arms, so you forgot about our important moon-viewing date!" Li Lianhua shuts his eyes and taps between his eyebrows to soothe a headache. /end ID]

#the fact that he is literally so fucking outraged #mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #li xiangyi #fang duobing #fang xiaobao #my gifs #mlcbedit #you STOLE my fizzy lifting drinks !

[where-the-water-flows]

ok so I keep coming back to an au where like.

Instead of faking his death, Shan Gudao fakes Li Xiangyi's death, and still blames the Jinyuan alliance for it.

(and, because, y'know, what's the point of winning if you don't have anyone to see it, stashes poor Li Xiangyi in a convenient dungeon somewhere. if you don't start with your own captive audience, a shidi is fine.)

Shan Gudao thus becomes the head of the Sigu Sect, bc...like, he is second in command, and now he's got 1)prestige and 2)time to work on his ultimate goal of Becoming Emperor Of Everything Ever. Probably does the occasional 'expedition' to 'search' for his beloved shidi's 'missing body', by which I mean go and update poor captive Li Xiangyi on whatever new terrible step in the 'take over the world plan' he's up to, and/or do a bit of torture, psychological or otherwise.

Di Feisheng, on the other hand, is fully losing his shit trying to work out what in the actual fuck happened to Li Xiangyi, because someone has clearly murdered him. And on the one hand, he's now, kinda, the top of the jianghu, and on the other, he hasn't exactly earnt that, has he, and winning by default doesn't fucking count, that's not skill, that's random luck.

And sure, literally everyone in the damn world is out for his head because of the whole ' "murdered" Li Xiangyi' thing, but that's 1)more fights to test his skill in 2)not the point, he has to find out who Really murdered Li Xiangyi, if that means mowing through every idiot stupid enough to get in his way when he can't just lay low, so be it. (A surprising number of people are thrown off by a mask.)

all of which is to say: in this world the kinda sketchy and mysterious guy wandering the jianghu on a quest to find a corpse that Fang Duobing latches onto is Di Feisheng, who-- is initially tolerating this idiot in part because he's Li Xiangyi's disciple, which means he has just as much interest as Di Feisheng does in working out what the fuck actually happened a decade ago, and in part because --

well. ten years of looking for a dead man, let alone a famous dead man like Li Xiangyi, is an awful long time to find nothing at all. a suspiciously long time, really, like there's not actually a dead man to find.

like Li Xiangyi is still alive.

#mysterious lotus casebook #di feisheng #fang doubing #li xiangyi #also in the background saintess is FULLY losing her fucking mind #because like. li xiangyi is dead? and di feisheng is STILL?? IGNORING HER??? #has FULLY fucked off to do mysterious errands and has practically abdicated from the sect in favour of....looking for a CORPSE??? #anyway the number of AUs I am generating for this fandom is. uh #very a lot. it's very a lot.