marquis yan doesn't show up that often in nirvana in fire but pretty much all the bits he takes part in are just so good:
1) decides to guy fawkes the emperor on new years with absolutely no follow through plan or end goal other than killing him in the most dramatic way possible. just fuck this guy in particular yolo. and he was right to say so
2) when he shows up to rescue yujin from The Birthday Party Of Despair the marquis of ning is like you can't come in i have a handwritten plaque from the emperor that says no one is allowed to be mean to me :) and marquis yan just turns and looks at it in silent contempt and is like 'okay...anyway...' and keeps walking up the stairs while two small armies cower around him
3) the scene where mcs is like wanna join my big plot to put my bf on the throne and he's like this has zero personal benefit for me and will ruin my comfortable retirement but i really fucking hate the emperor so sign me up lol
4) when he stalls xia jiang during the prison break thing he waits until enough time has passed and then just gets up and is like fuck this fuck you i'm out and walks off immediately. the pure contempt rolling off him is inspiring. then he gets a heartwarming father&son moment to watch xia jiang run through the woods on foot because yujin stole the horses
5) in the running to be the only good dad in the show, which like, yes, he did neglect his son for 20+ years but he's trying now and the bar is really THAT low
6) in the hunting lodge siege when everyone is freaking out he's the one who takes control and is like listen bitches if the enemy comes through the door we are going to stab the shit out of them so everyone had better grow a pair real fast... this is mostly aimed at the emperor and also 100% gets things back under control
7) was the backup for reading the letter at the end which, okay i wouldn't change how it actually went down for anything, but man he would have enjoyed that so much. i bet they didn't even have to get halfway through asking him to be the backup before he was like fuck yes i want to ruin that man's birthday party so hard
10/10 i hope to one day give as few fucks as this man
