#mini diary

Sometimes, we forget how different we are from each other when we've been masking our true selves for so long. It's time like these where one of us doesn't follow our typical masking pattern and needs help to figure out what's wrong. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's hard. But at least we're still willing to help each other, which I think is beautiful.

So my journey was a bit weird, I was going through a phase of reading BL manga during covid lockdown (which I haven’t really done since Uni) and just filtered by most popular BL and lo and behold, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation popped up. I didn’t read it. Not at least until a few weeks later when it just kept appearing, you know like once you know about something you keep on noticing more? (psych 101 whispers: Baader-Meinhof phenomenon)

Anyway ok, decided to read it, blazed through it also because it’s not finished yet and got obsessed. So I did what the next sane person would do. I watched the donghua. And interestingly enough the manhua and donghua follow a slightly different sequence so I was uncovering more of the story. But then. The manhua isn’t finished either... so there I went to the novel.

The novel took a while to finish, I hadn’t read translated works for quite a while and there was always a sense of discomfort reading a Chinese work translated into English as someone who understands Chinese but probably couldn’t read a 100+ Chinese book in the original language - so there was always the sense of “hmm what word did they use in the original” because mandarin is so nuanced and idk I just wanted to know haha but anyway powered through that.

And at the same time, I was concurrently watching The Untamed on Netflix and slowly falling in love with Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo and yeaaaaa that’s probably where everything came together and exploded.

So yes, I have consumed all forms of 魔道祖师 adaptations and didn’t regret a single one because every iteration had its slight nuances and I love them all (but not equally haha). Just that it went from manhua > donghua > novel > live action.

今日、あたしわ彼氏の家に行きました。

Today, I went to my boyfriend's house。

彼もとてもかわいいです。私わ、彼を愛しています　❤