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Xiao Zhan's 3 favorite songs! I really like Yu Jian (遇见) and Ban Dao Tie He (半岛铁盒) too.
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I read the book and was craving more LWJ/WWX scenes, so I'm slowly working my way through the huge amount of fanfiction out there. Here's a couple modern day setting LWJ/WWX stories that I liked. No graphic stuff but it's got the feels!
Summary:
Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are sort-of-friends with benefits, and that's all there is to it.
(It isn't.)
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In which Wei Wuxian decides that the best way to deal with being in love with Lan Wangji is to pretend to date him for three weeks.
It goes about as well as can be expected.
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I thought this was a really interesting analysis of WWX's feelings toward LWJ. See link to original post and more stuff here: https://wangxianyizhan.tumblr.com.
Wei Wuxian - On Loving Lan Wangji
One of the most charming things about CQL!Wei Wuxian is this: up to the end, I don’t think he has realized that he is in love with Lan Wangji.
I mean, we know. The world around them knows. Heck, I think even Lan Wangji knows, because bless this boy, I think he resolved his own 'I am in love with Wei Wuxian’ arc even before the show’s half-way point.
Wei Wuxian, though? I don’t think so. Funny enough, in CQL-verse, there were already hints of something promising between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji even before Wei Wuxian’s death, unlike in the novel where Wei Wuxian was completely in the dark and only developed feelings for Lan Wangji in his second life. CQL-verse though gave them that foundation of them being two people who were drawn to one another from the start, who became friends and even established a bond so close they can consider thenselves as soulmates. Again, all these before Wei Wuxian even died.
I would like to once again send my heartfelt gratitude to Xiao Zhan for all those interviews that gave us a glimpse of his headspace as Wei Wuxian. In a few of these interviews, Xiao Zhan mentioned how part of Wei Wuxian’s next life involved having to resolve things in the last one, and this actually included his learning to trust Lan Wangji again.
In his old life, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji had to struggle with a beautiful relationship on the verge of collapse, brought by Wei Wuxian’s seeming refusal to let go of his ghost cultivation path, and Lan Wangji’s conviction that Wei Wuxian had to return to sword cultivation because any other path would harm him. The tragedy of it all was that they were both in the right—Wei Wuxian required an alternative path to fight for what he believed was right despite having lost his golden core, and Lan Wangji (who did not yet know about Wei Wuxian’s core) was also correct in that ghost cultivation was affecting Wei Wuxian’s psyche. All these came to a head at Nightless City, with Wei Wuxian, heartbroken over having lost the people he fought so hard for, went against the whole cultivation world. In that state, he also saw that Lan Wangji was still against him, tried to stop him, even though Lan Wangji himself was still conflicted though his heart was still with Wei Wuxian in the end.
Now, this time it would be Wei Wuxian’s character song that makes things interesting. His character song seems to be set while he was in that space between his two lives, looking back at a life that strayed so far away from where his good intentions would have wanted it to go. He recounts his life, but interestingly and heartbreakingly, when we reach the chorus, although the words are actually never the same, the lines are nonetheless about the same single thing:
Chorus 1:
I have tried to take a jar of liquor with a smile
And once fought with the most beautiful person in Gusu
Chorus 2 (here, the lines dedicated to the subject are even longer):
I was once stunned by someone
And teased the cloud patterns with my fingertips
The sudden vibrations of a zither
I wonder why I am remembering these deep in my dream
Chorus 3:
I also once had someone in the mortal world
To love and to long for
The chorus always starts talking about Lan Wangji—and yet, it doesn’t really sound like Wei Wuxian fully realizes how much this person means to him. He looks at it from a distance, perhaps because it was a life that was already over and he was regretful about how things had ended. The feelings are bittersweet—and just wow, those lines where Wei Wuxian calls Lan Wangji as “the most beautiful person in Gusu” are just too powerful for my poor, weak heart. Note though that with Wei Wuxian, this could mean either he did think of Lan Wangji as the most beautiful person in Gusu, or he just took it for granted that Lan Wangji was known as the most beautiful person in Gusu. Or it could be a bit of both, with not a lot of overthinking because… ah, Wei Ying, Wei Ying.
Fast forward now to after Wei Wuxian’s resurrection. We know he and Lan Wangji were not in a good place because Wei Wuxian hid from him at first. He got anxious when he heard the juniors talking about Hanguang-jun, and actually discouraged them from calling him over. This was the man he once called his soulmate! How bad of a fall-out had theirs been for things to change so drastically. It definitely took some time for Wei Wuxian to feel comfortable around Lan Wangji again.
Two things, I think, softened Wei Wuxian. First, Lan Wangji’s drunken confession in CQL-verse was that he regretted the events leading to Wei Wuxian’s death. It made Wei Wuxian realize why Lan Wangji was looking for him in the first place, all this time. He sought to comfort Lan Wangji and explained that he was not to blame. We can see Wei Wuxian was moved by how gently he took care of Lan Wangji that night, drunk as he was.
Second was Lan Xichen telling Wei Wuxian about the events after his death, what punishments Lan Wangji endured and how he retained his faith and conviction about Wei Wuxian even after all of that. Even the story about their mother was telling; it was a glimpse of how strongly and stubbornly Lan Wangji loves someone, and how deeply that love goes, even if he does not say anything in words. Lan Xichen reminded Wei Wuxian of how adamant and persistent Lan Wangji had been about saving Wei Wuxian in his past life. Wei Wuxian said that it was unnecessary for Lan Wangji to have done these things, to suffer through his loyalty to Wei Wuxian especially when Wei Wuxian was already dead. But somehow it must have proven something to him, too, and gave him a sense of security with Lan Wangji.
After these things, love (or at the very least, trust and attachment) just seemed to develop naturally from there. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are good together especially as “partners-in-crime”, so to speak. They are a very effective team, and while this goes to show how naturally compatible they are, the adventures they go through just also strengthen the bond between them. What finally cemented their relationship in this second life, resolving any other doubts Wei Wuxian might have had with Lan Wangji, was that face-off at Lanling, where Lan Wangji had the opportunity to deny Wei Wuxian again in order to retain his respected status in the cultivation world. Lan Wangji refused, announced that he knew it was Wei Wuxian from the start, and told Wei Wuxian that it wasn’t so bad, walking in this path of his.
They were noticeably inseparable from there. What makes my heart sing about this is that this time, Wei Wuxian is more actively sticking to Lan Wangji. He needs no one else other than Lan Wangji, has complete faith in him. Back in Yi City, we saw how confident he was that Lan Wangji would win against Xue Yang, he was not even worried when he took the kids to safety. Then at the Burial Mounds, when he drew the spirit attraction enchantment on himself to drive away the corpses, he refused any other help, saying Lan Wangji was enough to protect him.
There were many other instances. In Lotus Pier, he was constantly with Lan Wangji, and even presented him to his family. He accepted insults about himself from Jiang Cheng, but not even his guilt towards Jiang Cheng would allow him to let his brother insult Lan Wangji. Even his asking Lan Wangji to take him away from Lotus Pier after the confrontation with Jiang Cheng was telling, because Wei Wuxian used to be self-sufficient and was uncomfortable asking for help. But he was doing so freely with Lan Wangji.
Even before entering the Guanyin Temple, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji had a conversation about Wen Ning—another staple in Wei Wuxian’s life—needing to find a life for himself. Interestingly, the thought that Lan Wangji (who was about as attached to him as Wen Ning was) similarly needed a life free from him did not even occur to Wei Wuxian. He would let Wen Ning go, but Lan Wangji stays.
Then, at the Guanyin Temple, when he found out that everyone seemed to know about his losing his golden core, Wei Wuxian checked with Lan Wangji first, asking, “So do you also know?” By this point, Lan Wangji had become a far first in his mind, far from everyone else. Wei Wuxian looks to him first, and before facing anything else that remained against him, he has to check first that things between him and Lan Wangji were okay.
This is also why the last episode is so heartbreaking. After the events at the temple, Wei Wuxian whisks Lan Wangji away and makes a run for it. Escaping did seem to be his intention, too, because when Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui—the most harmless, loyal people to them both—caught up to them, Wei Wuxian looked disappointed that they were caught.
Of course, he then learned that Lan Sizhui was none other than their beloved A-Yuan, and that was a heart-warming reunion all around. Eventually though, Lan Sizhui and Wen Ning said their goodbyes, and Wei Wuxian turned to Lan Wangji, wondering where they would go. He never thought to even ask Lan Wangji where he would go, never thought it would be anywhere Wei Wuxian wouldn’t be, because already he learned to be secure that Lan Wangji would never leave his side. In a way, he took it for granted that Lan Wangji would no longer leave him, but to be fair to Wei Wuxian, after everything that had happened and given his own feelings towards Lan Wangji, it was an easy assumption and mistake to make, to have that sense of security towards someone to whom one’s heart was so drawn to.
Somehow though, I do think their parting might have done Wei Wuxian some good. Again, Wei Wuxian is
a dense motherf*ckernot the type who digs deeply at his own mind and feelings (heck, the boy falls asleep during meditation, and never forget the 'Do you like Mianmian?’ incident), doesn’t label things and just rides those feelings out openly and freely. Time apart from Lan Wangji could have given him more space to assess what he was feeling for the guy, what it meant to miss him, how badly he was missing him, and so on. And we know he missed him badly, because who in their right mind would play their theme song atop a mountain, looking like they were about to cry? How afraid he was to look behind him and find that maybe Lan Wangji wasn’t really there, that it was all in his head… oh, Wei Ying.So, yes. We did not get the “I love you’s”
(nor “that night, I really wanted to sleep with you!” lmao)in the drama, but this also makes sense because Wei Wuxian probably also did not even know, or did not know what to call it, or whatever the heck they were. But spending those days (perhaps even months or years) away from Lan Wangji were clearly difficult for him, enough for us to know that their reunion would bring Wei Wuxian such relief, he likely would never let Lan Wangji go again. And maybe, just maybe, when they meet again, that’s when it all comes to Wei Wuxian, the feelings he isn’t able to keep anymore, and he would just burst out, “I miss you! I love you!”-
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Just for laughs.
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Lan Zhan is such a good BF... always giving Wei Ying presents... from livestock to snacks and drinks, then pets... and finally money.
The way they look at each other is literally
... at first sneaking glances and then fully .
The actors themselves seem have such a great relationship too, their off-screen hijinks are fun to watch. I like this interview (subbed) where Wang Yi Bo totally changed his answer about his first impression of Xiao Zhan from "no impression" to "very handsome."
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I thought these were pretty amusing.
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19 minutes ago, theonlyone88 said:
In terms of character of ZZR, I have strong hopes for the 19 version as I personally liked the actress but the way the character is being portrayed made her even worse than the novel or other versions. If you looked at the novel prior to the wedding, she gives a very pure, kind and compassionate vibe as she keeps her emotions and things under wraps probably because of her own internal turmoil. However, due to the nationalism plots in this version and character plot holes, she becomes one that points a sword at ZM, tell tales about ZM's identity to XX, shows attitude to ZWJ, squabbles with ZM, shakes and behaves in a domineering manner to Yin Li, stuff unimaginable in the novel.
I agree! ZZR to me has always been gentle and kind at least outwardly up until the moment she turned at the wedding. But this version of ZZR was barely hiding her claws even early on. And she never seemed to care much for ZWJ at the beginning (of their adult relationship), if anything I felt like she displayed much more emotion toward her teacher. Only after her teacher died, did ZZR start fawning over ZWJ, and it was only because she had to in order to get close to the saber/sword. The lovey-dovey conversations during and after Snake Island seemed weirdly out of place coming from her mouth. Maybe she truly fell in love on the island... but it seems equally feasible that this ZZR just wanted him because he was a good catch, being powerful and Ming leader and all. ZZR the character to me is supposed to have real strong feelings for ZWJ, but this version of her seems like she could take him or leave him... and would gladly trade him for her teacher back in a heartbeat.
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Count me in on the Yang Xiao fan club! I was actually pretty distracted by the odd make up during the Ji Xiao Fu episodes (were they trying to make him look younger with the excessive powder/eyeliner/lipstick)? But his charm was so strong! Love the perpetual smirk... and that voice!
I usually don't like the facial hair that apparently all men grow as they age (?!) in these dramas, but I gotta say, it's not a bad look on him!
Love his fight scenes too... so darn cool. Can't believe this is his first costume drama.... he should do more!
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Can someone help clarify for me... I know Chen Bi already had a kid before she got sent to the palace, but who was her husband before Qian Long?
... at first sneaking glances and then fully 
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