Zhang Ping brought Lan Jue's favorite food in the prison for Xiao Lan (baby Lan). Of course, Lan Lan can't say no 😄😄😄
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Boyfriend material is right here 😆😆😆
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I'm reading League of Nobleman novel Zhāng Gōng Àn and loving DFGG's writing. It's pretty funny and I love all the humor and characterizations!
I'm also quite impressed at what the drama did. It is not a direct adaptation but nor it is a simple case of completely deviating from the novel or tweaking things here and there.
The drama actually rearranged the book. It reorganised certain arcs, sometimes used the context and backdrop in the novel but changed its timeline and purpose in the drama. That's actually pretty difficult to do.
JZM feels like a particularly clever fanfiction of ZGA, imo. If not for heavy editing and censorship and stuff, it could've been amazing on its own as well.
It is pretty amusing how the threesome happened in the book.
Lan Jue and Gu Qingzhang are boyfriends. Eventually GQZ gets tired with how pragmatic and not lit enough LJ is, and leaves LJ for a NEW and more woke guy called Liu Zhihui.
Wang Yan crashed to LJ's stall while GQZ and LZH were going on dates right in front of LJ's tea. And then GQZ was suddenly having a moment of protective and territorial instincts.
LJ is pouty and grumpy about this. Being dumped like this was actually adding to his embarrassment at scholarly gatherings, unlike in the drama where he was ignored first and GZQ grabbed that opportunity to get closer to LJ's lonely heart.
It was pretty funny lol
It just feels like LJ is the poor candy Female Lead of a Kdrama, and GQZ her not-bad, but not-good either PRECISELY because he's a half-assed person boyfriend, Liu Zhihui the "cooler" girlfriend he got that gave the FL severe inferiority complex, and Wang Yan the tsundere hero on steed who literally appeared out of nowhere to give FL the life she deserves.
And ofc the ex bf has a moment of "I'm telling this for your own good, don't associate with that new guy, he's bad news" and obviously the FL rebels out of spite like "What right do you think you have to tell me what to do?". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And then the ex dies and our FL has a wistful nostalgic moment of: "Aiyo, after all I did him dirty, he did care for me, he deserved better"
As a bonus LZH and LJ reminisce together about their old flame years later as well.
I don't know lady, what did you mean when you said this is not a BL😆
Looking at the comment sections of the novel people have been shipping YanLan ever since it was first published which is like 5 yrs now.
Yes Lan Jue has one and Wang Yan has like 5 kids but that doesn't make them any less shippable, Lan Jue drops of Lan Hui at Wang Yan’s for sleepovers too and Wang Yan is a loving dad and uncle. His wife (wives?) seem super content to just play mahjong by themselves lol.
Also Lan Jue and Lan Hui are the purest father/son duo ever�� We have been robbed of Young dad! Lan Jue in the drama.
Chen Chou has a girlfriend in the novel tho😂
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woooooo~~ finally something from my plan to watch list is airing !!!
new chinese bromance :D
i binge watched first 8 eps XD loving it~~ (thank goodness)
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Zhang Gong An (Cases of Judge Zhang) vs Jun Zi Meng (A League Of Nobleman)
Zhang Gong An is a 2 part (so far) novel series that was first published in 2011, the first book was completed in 2016, the first chapter of first book was published in 2017 and is STILL ongoing! That makes for more than 10 years.
You can find the raws of book 1 and book 2 here.
I have completed book 1 and started book 2, and I think I can safely conclude that ALON was loosely based on the first half of book 1 (upto chapter 69).
And I catalogued all the similarities and differences I noticed (because I love doing this kind of stuff! It's fun!) below and honestly it helped me appreciate both the drama and novel for their strengths.
BTW a weird thing I noticed was this initial poster that was put out when the drama was first announced, when it was titled "Society of Four Leaves" (I've seen some people wrongly assume this means a four leaf clover 🍀 but it just means an apricot fruit surrounded by 4 leaves just like in the poster). The thing is, this emblem is relevant to the Conspiracy arc I mentioned above that happened in the novel, which was replaced by the Gu Qingzhang’s switched at birth arc. So that emblem nor initial title has no business in the drama. I assume this means a major scriptwriting altering happened AFTER the drama has already been announced? That would explain why the title was changed later and the emblem was also removed from the promo material that came out later.
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