#ren ruyi

[shijiujun]

In which it takes the whole damn village to help Boss Ning kiss his girl, and it pays to have friends like Yu Shisan (most of the time)

A JOURNEY TO LOVE 一念关山 (2023) | EP 12

#a journey to love #一念关山 #yngs #ajtl #liu yuning #ning yuanzhou #liu shishi #ren xin #ren ruyi #fang yilun #alen fang #yu shisan #yang ying #yuan lu #qian zhao #sun lang #cdrama #cdrama edit #I LOVED THIS STUPID SHIT

[jiaoliqiao]

A Journey To Love 一念关山 | Episode 24

#userdramas #cdramasource #a journey to love #cdramaedit #liu yuning #liu shishi #ren ruyi #ning yuanzhou #ajourneytoloveedit #*mine #while i was watching i kept thinking wow i need to make gifs #and now that i have files i forgot everything i wanted to gif #anyway i love them so much i'm going to explode

[ladynamie]

Ren Ruyi in A Journey to Love 一念关山 | 1x04

#ren ruyi #a journey to love #liu shishi #gif set #cdrama #liu shi shi #gifs #* #一念关山 #cdramaedits #ren ru yi

[difeisheng]

love at first sight is OUT, love at first bite is IN

#a journey to love #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #liveblogging #ashton originals

[peachblossomdream]

I'm the Right emissary now, while you're alone. Even if you are the best assassin in the history of the Scarlet guards, I'll wear you down today. Why are you smiling? She's smiling because you guessed incorrectly.

#a journey to love #一念关山 #yi nian guan shan #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #liu yuning #liu shishi #cdramaedit #asiandramaedit #cdrama #myedit

[01432853]

You are my weakness. You've learned a lot from Yu Shisan.

A Journey to Love (2023) • EP 23

#a journey to love #cdramaedit #asiandramanet #cdramasource #dailyasiandramas #dramasource #asiandramasource #cdrama #liu yuning #liu shishi #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #asiandramaedit #mer gifs

[ultimateshixiongfuckertournament]

Canonicals Tournament Round 1, Match 3

Match 3 is between Luo Binghe from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (shizun: Shen Qingqiu) and Li Tongguang from A Journey to Love (shifu: Ren Xin / Ren Ruyi)

Propaganda under the cut! (Warning: Propaganda may include spoilers about the characters and their media)

Luo Binghe:

Luo Binghe's shizun Shen Qingqiu caused his sexual awakening and they lived together with Luo Binghe acting similar to a housewife.

Even after being betayed, stabbed, and pushed into the Endless Abyss, Luo Binghe still loved Shen Qingqiu and wanted answers instead of revenge. Instead he had to repeatedly suffer his shizun dying in his arms and assumed abandonment. Which makes him absolutely lose it, made even worse by his evil sword Xin Mo which worsens all of his negative emotions and destroys its hosts, along with additional trauma over the course of the story.

He reused the sword that his shizun sacrificed himself to free him from, cuddles the corpse every night for five years to preserve it, he creates dreams of their happy years together but never made a Shen Qingqiu that would speak to him, he kidnapped and destroyed cultivators' cores so he could feed xin mo and preserve sqq's corpse, he rebuilds their house in his demonic palace, he spent years fixing sqq's destroyed cultivation and trying to revive him, he forces Shen Qingqiu live in that new house, he rescues and repeatedly puts himself in harms way to protect sqq, he tries to destroy the world so Shen Qingqiu can only love him (due to being driven mad by Xin Mo and his believed abandonment by sqq). He tries to kill himself after Shen Qingqiu dies for him again. He would do absolutely ANYTHING for Shen Qingqiu! He's increadibly jealous of everyone Shen Qingqiu gives attention to, including stairsweeps he smiles at. Luo Binghe has sooo much wrong with him and it makes him so lovable. He's so incredibly traumatized, driven by love and desperation for a majority of the story. He loves Shen Qingqiu so much and can't bear to live without him.

After everything? He lets Shen Qingqiu go, wanting him to be happy even if it means sqq won't stay with him. But sqq wanted to stay together! He gets his man! There is in world porn written about them, they have weird kinky sex inspired by the porn, they get married! Luo Binghe cries regularly for sqq, so sqq can dote on him despite his thin face. Luo Binghe is shameless and adores sqq. Lbh got so nervous that he fell flat on his face when proposing! Lbh loves sqq so much and wants him to be happy more than anything else!

More on disciple era:

Luo Binghe's sexual awakening was his shizun tied up and shirtless. He fell in love after Shen Qingqiu got poisoned protecting him. He moved into his shizun's house and handled all of the cooking and cleaning, would regularly fake fall into Shen Qingqiu during training to get hugs. He got a boner from being forcibly cuddled to heal his injuries. And ran to jump into a lake after being spanked for struggling too much during the forced cuddling. Sqq still never noticed lbh's affections.

--

It took him like 3(three) interactions with nice shizun (transmigrator who replaced his old one) to fall irrevocably in love. baby boy was ready he had mommy issues daddy issues and honestly by that time shizun issues too... luckily his new shizun can fill all those roles and more!

Li Tongguang:

- built a whole secret room in his house to the shifu he thought was dead - this room has... so many portraits, a whole statue of his shifu, and even some of her old clothes - loses all rational thought when he thinks that there's a chance his shifu is still alive and is hiding under a secret identity; literally risks his whole political position to seek her out and take her away from her boyfriend - promised he would do anything his shifu asked if she just stayed by his side - claimed that even though he's only 22 years old, he could still be mature enough for her - is constantly kneeling to his shifu and is very subservient toward her - he often gets humiliated by his shifu (having tea poured on his face, verbally reprimanded/insulted in front of everyone) and is still adoring/infatuated with her and thinks it's deserved - god i just think getting dommed by his shifu would solve 99% of his problems. damn

#luo binghe #li tongguang #the scum villain's self saving system #svsss #a journey to love #shen qingqiu #ren xin #ren ruyi #bingqiu

[zishuge]

world's deadliest assassin accidentally kicks a puppy A Journey to Love (2023) | Ep. 17

#a journey to love #一念关山 #ren ruyi #yuan lu #chen youwei #liu shishi #cdrama #cdramaedit #cdramasource #asiandramasource #*gifs:mine #has the curse ended???? does this show up in the tag????? #anyway yuan lu and his ruyi-jie's relationship is so important to me i love them so much #their little interaction before this was one of my favorites #“awake? you've eaten? recovered?” “i'm awake! i've eaten. recovered!”

[melodious-tear]

Why did you change your mind? Because I fear loneliness. I fear even more that you would be lonely.

#🥺🥺🥺 i love themmmm #a journey to love #一念关山 #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #liu shishi #liu yuning #ep 15 #cdrama #gif #my edit

[thefeastandthefast]

After watching 29 episodes but having accidentally spoiled myself about what comes next, it makes me emotional thinking about Ruyi's names.

She started as 壬辛, two characters used as part of an ancient numbering system, characters used for the counting of days and hours. 壬 has no meaning other than to signify the ordinal ninth. 辛 is the ordinal eighth, with the additional meaning of hard labor, suffering, bitterness. 壬辛 - no surname, not a name for a person, but for an instrument of death.

Then, when Ruyi earned the right to rename herself after becoming Left Emissary, she chose to add the radical 人 (meaning human) to 壬, to become 任 (an actual surname and also a character meaning to shoulder, to take responsibility for, a duty).

Left Emissary 任辛 - One who shoulders the responsibility of bitterness

Then, 任辛 burns and rises anew as 如意 Ruyi, two characters meaning to be gratified as one wishes. It was the blessing spoken by both the Empress and Ning Yuanzhou, the two people she most loves. And in her dream state in episode 26 as she meditates on the crossroads of her vengeance, she hears her Empress call her 如意 Ruyi for the first time.

任如意 - One who has the duty to be happy, as she wishes.

#a journey to love #一念关山 #cdrama #wuxia #ren ruyi #my commentary #chinese language #她的任务应该是称心如意地活着

[starcrossed591]

CDrama Year in Review 2023

I'm still very much a CDrama beginner--I just started watching them in the summer of 2022--but since this is the first year I got into them in earnest, I figured I might as well do a year in review a la @dangermousie (whose lists I have found incredibly helpful in deciding which CDramas I really, really need to go back and watch as part of my CDrama education--so thank you!). So, without further adieu, here is my ranking of 2023 CDramas, in order of least enjoyed to most enjoyed*.

(See also: KDrama Year in Review 2023)

*Disclaimer: *not* a measure of objective quality

10. Royal Rumours: This drama was not great? Meng Zi Yi and Jeremy Tsui were fun, but the story started out messy and got messier. For some reason I still finished it, I think because I had a lingering cold and it was all my brain could handle at the time *shrug*

9. Gone with the Rain: I actually really enjoyed this one! The pacing was inconsistent, but Zhang Nan was fun as the irreverent Mo Xi, and we love a grizzled general. Special shout to the teacher who was not actually evil, just a sad lesbian whose gf disappeared on her

8. Love You Seven Times: Intriguing concept, not a strong enough FL to carry it through. The reincarnation stuff really worked for me at first, especially in their first mortal tribulation (as people, not CGI animals), but I got tired of it pretty quickly. I admit, the gifs of Ding Yu Xi as a sexy cat demon *did* pull me back in, but not enough for me to actually finish the thing, alas

7. Destined/Chang Feng Du: Started out really strong, and then stalled out on me. I think I only got up to about episode 22 or so, after their epic desert crossing and new start in a new state--they lost all narrative momentum for me there. I stopped watching and then just...didn't start again. I do, however, remain a big Bai Jing Ting fan, and will be keeping on eye out for whatever he does next

6. Hidden Love: (Contemporary) Age gap romances are hit or miss for me, but Zhao Lu Si absolutely stole/carried the show for me in this one. Although more fun imo when the main couple are in the the will-they-won't-they phase than in the family melodrama after they get together, still the only contemporary CDrama to get me to give it a go this year--and I'm glad I did

5. My Journey to You: Featuring my favorite murder girlies Esther Yu as Yun Wei Shan and Lu Yu Xiao as Shanguan Qian! Gorgeous costumes and sets, sweeping cinematography, and plot that kept me on the edge of my seat. Full disclosure, I have not actually watched the last two episodes because I got busy and then saw weird chatter about them, so I have no comment on the allegedly weird ending

4. Till the End of the Moon: Look, I know the ending wasn't ideal, but for the majority of its run, this drama owned my entire soul. It also introduced me to Bai Lu as Li Su Su, who inspired my first actual tumblr post (that wasn't a reblog) because I was so obsessed with her. And everyone knows that Tantai Jin is the CDrama ML of the year. 10/10, no regrets at letting it take over my life (and the OST my Spotify) from April to May of this year

3. The Story of Kunning Palace: More Bai Lu is always a good thing, and she's extra fun here as the transmigrated former evil empress and totally-over-your-nonsense Xiang Xue Ning here. The reverse haremness of it all totally shows why Bai Lu is the chemistry queen, especially with the princess (Liu Xie Ning) and cranky, morally grey, would-fail-gym-class strategist Xie Wie (Zhang Ling He). So glad this drama made it out of the CDrama vault and didn't languish indefinitely in censorship hell

2. A Journey to Love: Finished this one two days ago as of this writing and am still not normal about it. Ren Ruyi (Liu Shi Shi) and Ning Yuan Zhou (Liu Yu Ning) lead an exceptionally strong ensemble cast in this wuxia that explores the complicated relationships between love, duty, loyalty, loneliness, and companionship. Ruyi and Yuan Zhou are far and away one of my fave OTPs of the year, but just as compelling are the relationships between friends/brothers/fellow assassins Yu Shisan, Yuan Lu (ugh my heart), Qian Zhou, and Sun Lang. This drama definitely has one of the strongest ensemble casts of the year. And the character growth of Yang Ying from little princess abandoned in the cold palace to who she becomes by the end will stick with me for a long time. Plus another 10/10 OST!

1. Lost You Forever S1: I'm not normally a reverse harem girl, but the longing, loss, and hard resolve portrayed to perfection by Yang Zi as Xiao Yao really did it for me here. This whole drama struck an emotional chord for me, and where TTEOTM consumed my soul, LYF took over my heart. Xiao Yao's relationships with her power hungry, overprotective cousin Cang Xuan; hot snake demon Xiang Liu/playboy archery shufu Feng Feng Bei; and perfectly devoted Tushan Jing are all equally compelling to me, and while I may know who she ends up with in the end, who I *think* she should be with changes based on who's on screen at any given time. And A'Nian, my favorite bratty princess who really just needs some strong parenting, holds a special place in my heart. I know we may never get S2, and even if we do, censorship means it probably won't be what the drama makers are capable of, but I'm so glad for this little piece of absolute perfection. And, again, a top notch OST!

Fave Drama: Lost You Forever, by just a hair over A Journey to Love. See above.

Least Fave Drama: Royal Rumours--truly why did I finish this, what was past me thinking

Biggest Disappointment: 2023 is also the year I read Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir, my very first CNovel! But then I didn't even bother checking out its adaptation, Romance of a Twin Flower, because it got rid of everything that made the novel such an addicting read, including a brilliant, strategic, ice cold FL and an ML who actually kind of sucked at the beginning, only to grow on you very, very slowly over time. I'm grateful that the chatter around the drama is what brought the novel to my attention, but other than that, hard pass.

Favorite Male Character: Lots of good ones this year, but I'm gonna go with Cang Xuan (Zhang Wan Yi) from Lost You Forever. The conflict he faces between getting enough power to protect the people he loves the most and that power making him incompatible with those loved ones is so compelling, and his yearning for Xiao Yao even when she's right in front of him is wrenching. Full disclosure, I also just really love the sound of his voice

Favorite Female Character: This could easily have gone to Li Susu (TTEOTM), Xiao Yao (LYF), or Ren Ruyi (AJTL), but I'm gonna go with Bai Lu's Xiang Xue Ning in The Story of Kunning Palace. Something I really loved about this character was just how jaded Xue Ning really was, even in her second go round at life. Yeah, she wants to make amends for the harm done in her previous rise to power, but that has hardly turned her into a good--or even pleasant--person. Instead, she's incredibly skeptical and still plays most things ice cold, especially with her family. As a bonus, we got plenty of Bai Lu's fantastic side eye as she basically had to do high school all over again when she gets called into the palace despite her very best efforts not to be.

Favorite Ship: Ren Ruyi and Yuan Zhao from A Journey to Love have got to be it. They balance each other out so well, and over the course of the drama, learn to communicate effectively with each other whenever they have a problem. They also recognize that not all problems can be solved by ~love~, which makes their relationship even more compelling when they decide to prioritize each other in a way that respects what the other wants from life.

Favorite Secondary Ship: Little princess Yang Ying and Yuan Lu absolutely broke stole my heart in A Journey to Love. Doomed love even more than the main OTP, these two's youthful romance was such much fun to watch, especially as they egged their respective mentors on in their own romance. Yang Ying's recognition that her first love did not have to be her only love is also something I always love to see, even as it broke my heart that (spoiler) she and Yuan Lu never really had a chance at an HEA. Their relationship really exemplified a key theme of this drama: that you should love the people you love while they're still with you because tomorrow is never promised.

Non-2023 Dramas that I Watched: Two non-2023 dramas I watched that deserve a special shout out are Love and Redemption and The Sword and the Brocade. Love and Redemption prepared me to really appreciate the big swings that Till the End of the Moon took, and The Sword and the Brocade went a little way to filling the Story of Ming Lan shaped hole in my heart. The Sword and the Brocade also had absolutely searing critique of the concubine system, even as it featured one of the most genuinely good-hearted FLs I've seen. Would recommend both!

Most Looking Forward To: Yes, I'm a sucker and the censors (not to mention the characters) will probably break my heart, but I'm still crossing my fingers that Lost You Forever S2 will live up to the promise of part one. See above: still a CDrama beginner, have not yet had all the optimism knocked out of me. Sue me.

#CDrama #year in review #Lost You Forever #A Journey to Love #The Story of Kunning Palace #My Journey to You #Hidden Love #Chang Feng Du #Destined CDrama #Till the End of the Moon #Love You Seven Times #Gone with the Rain #Ren Ruyi #Yang Ying #Yuan Lu #Bai Lu #Meta #CDrama Review

[shijiujun]

Yu Shisan 100% deserving to be beaten up after this

A Journey to Love 一念关山 (2023) | EP 08

#a journey to love #一念关山 #yngs #ajtl #cdrama #cdramaedit #asian drama #liu yuning #liu shishi #fang yilun #yu shisan #ning yuanzhou #ren xin #ren ruyi #lol yu shisan literally my fave #and i hate it when they make us love em and give us tragedy later

[pi-ying-xi]

This guy? This Li Tongguang? Has it bad, bad, bad for his shifu Ren Xin/Ren Ruyi. Look at him, his pathetic yearning, his puppy devotion to the person who saved him and made him.

I have such a soft spot for his brand of sharp-tongued arrogance.

And I can kinda tolerate his jealous alertness to anyone else's closeness to Ruyi - such as, Yuanzhou:

or "Li wang dianxia":

But - regardless of the craziness that followed his shifu's 'death' or whatever other reason - this is the unforgivable character flaw:

And Yuanzhou saying in the very next scene that he respects Ruyi's choices is exactly the difference between the two that we're meant to see.

Ruyi isn't presented with a choice between two men that she needs to make in the present, because she chose Yuanzhou a long time ago. It's a choice we, the audience, are invited to make between a tropey shifu-tudi romance, and one where two people are equal in ability, experience, expectations of each other, their peers and the world; and where they treat each other with respect and acknowledge when they've crossed boundaries they shouldn't have.

The crux is that, having been pawns in other peoples' games, they're their own person now. Anyone who wants them to be a possession, someone's to the exclusion of all else, to be used and deployed, is Wrong!

Look at how hot Yuanzhou is, telling Du daren that.

The couple that they are! 😍

Still hoping that Tongguang can redeem himself without necessarily dying. The stupid boy.

(Dammit I forgot to have sound on!)

#cdrama #a journey to love #ren ruyi #ning yuanzhou #li tongguang #一人之下万人之上

[ladynamie]

A Journey to Love 一念关山 | Yu Shisan being clingy

#a journey to love #yu shisan #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #一念关山 #cdrama #gifs #gif set #cdramaedits #ajtl episode 24

[palehorsemen]

#a journey to love #ajtl #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #yi nian guan shan #一念关山 #liudao #fanart #illustrations #cdramaart #cdrama #cnovel

[peachblossomdream]

You look amazing in red. When we get married in the future, you should be dressed like this too. Okay? No. Not in the future. We'll get married now, at once, right away. Okay.

#a journey to love #一念关山 #ning yuanzhou #ren ruyi #liu yuning #liu shishi #cdramaedit #asiandramaedit #cdrama #myedit