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Which one is the real him? Which one is just a mask? The Dragon God? Ji Ling?

#wooow #op this is incredible #veil of shadows #ji ling #fanart

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sharkapology

People do not give us (Brasil) enough credit for:

Our fucked up dolphins

Our fucked up porcupines

Our fucked up snakes

This

celestial-seasonings427

What the fuck is that

sharkapology

can u be nice

#excuse me put some respect on my buddy tuiuiú #he's done nothing wrong #also op you forgot the anta

hheartsdramas

i cannot be fooled. a guy who seems this irrelevant but is always so close to the action is up to sketchy shit.

#when we learned he wasn't married it convinced me the he's going to be important #uncles who aren't married are more likely to be up to plot-relevant shenanigans #(no evidence to back up this claim just vibes)#the first jasmine

Two relationships that I am deeply interested in:

Dowager Consort and Marquis Muyang

She went to his house to have a conversation with him about the precarity of his political position with the Dowager Empress and as interested as I am in the actual content of that conversation and all the implications therein I am even more fascinated by the way that conversation was carried out. The Dowager Consort snuck out of the palace in the middle of the night to go visit a prominent courtier in secret and when they started talking they both immediately dropped all formalities and started raising voices. That suggests a level of intimacy and long-term acquaintance and possibly the idea that they are working together in some way. Whatever the case may be I need to know more.

Marquis Muyang's son and his guard

We get introduced to this guard as someone indispensable to Marquis Muyang's plans but somehow this other advisor of his doesn't know that he existed. His son knows him though, and they're apparently well acquainted enough for him to go get up close and invade his personal space. My first thought was that looks gay. My second thought while they showed us the guard longingly looking at Marquis Muyang interacting with his son was that perhaps he's an illegitimate son. My third thought when the whole fish thing was happening was that whatever's going on it is at least deeply toxic. Either way I am seated. Give me more.

I think they are trying to bring Marquis Muyang back into the plot to get it moving more and are using his family to do this. It's working. I am successfully hooked.

#the first jasmine

dangermousie

This sequence is just for meeeeeeeeeee

#even her healing his legs is so domestic and gentle #the first jasmine

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xishimonz

Yes. Let's hate on him together.

She's is right for this line tho!

Why drag an innocent girl into your drama?

#justice for ye ying #she's an idiot but no one deserves her shit husband #the first jasmine

dangermousie

Oh, that hurt so much. His anger totally makes sense and is fully justified but my heart breaks for her and just aaaaa (this of course went so much harder/worse because her initial plan went off-kilter so in the original plan, he'd not have freaked out about her for days etc but still.)

And then he brings up his brother's death (and oofff, it's gonna worse later at some point because it looks like the person the brother handed the edict was her mom and it was taken from her by force so - ooooof!)

OH GIRL OH GIRL OH MY GIRL

The way she flinches when he throws the papers as if she expects to be hit MY HEART

And later at night, seeking comfort in the hallucination ooooof

From being held by an actual living being back to being held by a ghost...

#oof #what a perfectly designed speech to hit her exactly where it hurts #(not that he knows it)#the first jasmine

fake-married-my-dead-fiance

This scene was so good! He understands why she faked her own kidnapping but he still feels so betrayed.

This is reminding me a lot of Kdrama The Forbidden Marriage where the female lead also lies to the male lead so that he'll finally accept help. I loved them being so cute at the start of this episode but this is really good too. But I hope they get back together soon...

Also her maid showing back up after being gone for the last few episodes. Tragic.

#the first jasmine

nemsilei

Going in from this:

To this in the span of one episode

I was no ready, and I will not be ready for what's to come

And the music, the music is so beautiful, I hope I can find the whole osts online

#rollercoaster of an episode #the first jasmine

dangermousie

The lines up two sets of shoes, the coziness of her being with a real person this time, the two lonely people being together and not alone, and the fact that she talks about being warm when she complained about being cold on the mountain...

That just shows how lonely she was!

This is SO lovely...

Something I love - she starts calling him A-Yao and it's the first time since his brother's death (since he says his parents, brother and sister in law used to call him that, and now all of them are dead except the sister in law and I don't think she calls him that any more?) Something I love in an angsty way - during their fight at the end of the ep, she still calls him A-Yao, but he's reverted to calling her "wangfei." Oooof.

But also this is SO adorable!!!!

#she's so silly #he pretend he's annoyed but he finds it so endearing #the first jasmine

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dangermousie

Awww. The way she keeps calling him A-Yao now.

Yes, like MURDER

So true but not all of it.

Ohhhh but also his face and his eyes get tears in them. It's such a contrast to the bitterness of the end of the ep.

#cheng lei is so good #he looks so blissfully happy #the first jasmine

dangermousie

The way she's clearly built an alternate reality in her head but the more and more time goes on, cracks begin to show.

Love how her brain stutters for a bit but then the explanation that allows her to keep her delusion comes forth.

His face:

Or the whole thing with martial arts. I think btw she's not lying, I think just as he imagined she saw master whatever, the martial artist, rescue her when it was herself who did it, she genuinely blocked the memory of what she knows.

Once again, he notices the inconsistency.

And once again, her brain shields her.

This really will be horror for her once it clicks and her defense mechanisms fail.

PS Loved that little sad fact that he also used to have callouses (from saber) but it's been so long, they are gone now.

#she does it so seamlessly too #so used to lying to herself that she barely hesitates #the first jasmine

dangermousie

Yes, keep digging, I want to find out what happened on the mountain. But also, love that he's smart and now he doesn't trust her, his brain is going into overdrive.

#mo xiuyao better figure out what happened on that mountain cause I kinda doubt ye li even knows herself atp #we're not gonna get any information from her she's repressed it all too deep #the first jasmine

dangermousie

Previews for 15-16 aaaaaa

When her comfort personification of trauma says "I am scared" ahhhh

(so telling that the delusion is someone she needs to protect; at heart despite their differences, both she and her husband are protectors who find meaning through that.)

I don't know what's driven her to this state but oh my. SHE'S SO NOT OK

The bit where she says she missed sugar on the mountain...

If you think about it, she was only a young teen when the Lishan thing happened; her formative years were spent in THAT.

And the bit where he takes his first steps in eight years aaaa

The gazing!!!!

She kissed him first aaaaa

#I'm so glad that it looks like they're going to make up quickly #as much as their fight makes sense it would be annoying if it got dragged out unnecessarily #the first jasmine

We get another example in this episode of two different people recounting the same series of events and telling us different things, and once again what each one says is so revealing of each of their characters.

When Ye Li is telling Mo Xiuyao why she hates Mo Jingli, the emphasis is on the disciples of Lishan who were collateral damage in the imperial powers struggles that Mo Jingli is a victim of. She tells us personal information about them, and while she is sympathetic to Mo Jingli's suffering, her focus is on the lives that he took with his decision. What is interesting though is that although she says she can't forgive him for what he did, she also doesn't paint him as the villain. We get the sense that she knows that he was also a victim of circumstance, and maybe even feels sadness that this is what their lives led to, but ultimately she just wants to part ways with him so they can live their own lives.

Mo Jingli doesn't even mention the disciples of Lishan. He focuses so much on his relationship with Ye Li when he was studying there, and then paints their separation as one of the many injustices that the Empress Dowager did to him. Where Ye Li's story was a tragedy of two people driven apart by cruelties beyond either of their control, Mo Jingli's story has a wronged hero, a villain, and the prize at the end of the line. And this fantasy is entirely self-centered. Not only does he not mention the disciples, he also doesn't mention the confession they made him sign, and barely even mentions Ye Li. He's entirely focused on his own suffering and his image as the wronged prince.

But what is even more interesting to me are the discrepancies between the two stories. Where Ye Li pictures Mo Jingli being tortured in a dungeon, Mo Jingli places himself in one of the rooms of the imperial palace. Confined, sure, stripped of all autonomy, definitely, but hardly the level of severity that Ye Li imagines for him. And while his refusal to mention the confession may just be a refusal to share anything that could paint him as less than the ultimate victim, and there are plenty of ways to coerce a frightened teenager without even touching torture, the fact that he doesn't even allude to them coercing him to sign it is a massive red flag for me. Anything they could have done to him would have been the perfect outlet to milk sympathy points, so the fact that he completely glosses over the confession makes me feel like there's something he's hiding about it.

#the first jasmine #ye li #mo jingli

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fake-married-my-dead-fiance

I personally felt like it made sense for Mo Xiuyao to both trust his wife enough to have her treat his legs but also be suspicious of her and betrayed by her arranging her own kidnapping/assassination because he knows she's Chaotic Good but he just didn't calculate the full extent of the chaos

dangermousie

Yes!

I also think his reaction may have been less extreme if her plan didn’t go off kilter and made him freak out for days - if it was a couple of hours of a small scare where his men found him and then an hour later she’d have come back or “been found” and that’s all, it might have felt a little different.

background-character-341

It probably also doesn't help that this revelation comes right on the tail of the conversation where he's finding all of the holes in her backstory. He literally says to Feng Zhiyao to keep investigating and find out what else she's hiding. It's not just that she lied about the bandits, it's the fear of what else she might be lying about. A fear that is not unfounded, since we know that she's got quite a bit of secrets, even if some of them are unintentional (whatever repression she's got going on about things that happened on the mountain).

exhuastedpigeon

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

#did you guys know that sometimes you do this and then later get nice messages in your dms?#anyway yeah

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