fic rec time - i've reread twice just this week. if you're a fan of weilan derivatives and/or either of these two, and Especially if you loved 人生大事、 you gotta read this. it's so good, i promise
second grace
(28015 words) by lunarriviera
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 人生大事 | Lighting Up the Stars (2022), 开始推理吧 | The Truth (TV 2022)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mo Sanmei/Bai Sanwan, Mo Sanmei & Wu Xiaowen
Characters: Mo Sanmei, Bai Sanwan, Wu Xiaowen, Wang Jianren, Liu Xailai
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Kid Fic, Wuhan - Freeform, Found Family, noodle stalls, Funeral Parlors, mo sanmei's canonical impulsiveness, Men Crying, Absent Parents, bai sanwan's sketchy past, wu xiaowen speaks only truth, listen to her san-ge, zylby48
Summary:
Mo Sanmei scrubs at his head out of habit, but his hair’s grown out now, uneven and falling into his eyes, and it feels unexpectedly soft to the touch. Xiaowen’s left alone too often, he thinks, but he can’t do much about it, and anyway she’s always been fiercely self-sufficient. He should get married, probably. It would be more decent for Xiaowen to have a woman in the house—a real mother, since Wu Haifei left. He thinks about women he knows, but none of them seem right.
In which San-ge, already grateful for the miracle of Wu Xiaowen, stumbles onto another in the shape of local noodle-stall owner Bai Sanwan. And it's just as hard for him to accept this one, at first, until he lets Xiao Bai into his life.
LYN livestream 2022.18.07, talking about The Truth/ 开始推理吧:
LYN(reading a comment in the chat): Someone just said “Ning Ge, you just admitted that your show is scripted.” *squints at camera* (…) What are you saying? (…) Of course our show is scripted. It’s literally a murder mystery, friends, a murder mystery with escape room elements. A murder mystery without a mystery??….. That’s just murder, then.
T/N: in mandarin, murder mystery is called “剧本杀”, (ju(4) ben(3) sha(1)) and 剧本 literally means ‘script’, while 杀 means ‘kill’。i.e 剧本杀 =“script-murder” or a “scripted murder”
So what he said was literally “ A scripted murder without a script? So, pure murder.”
Haven’t posted about ZS in awhile but wanted to share what he posted in weibo :
Translation :
Today, Zhou Biao Biao (周嫑嫑)can finally be introduced! !
In fact, Zhou Keke (周可可) and Zhou Biao Biao are the characters that the director team and I co-created according to an actual real life situation! !
In life, many people must be like Ke Ke. In order to "not cause trouble", they are "forced" to hide their emotions, dare not reject others, and are afraid of "offending" people. And Zhou Biao Biao is the voice that can bravely express his inner thoughts on behalf of Zhou Keke and bravely "reject"! In my heart, 嫑嫑 is Zhou Keke's inner Peter Pan [pan also means pot] [If you are very similar to Coco(可可), then I hope that the 嫑嫑 in your heart will become more and more powerful! protect yourself! ! [Coco has actually been protecting 嫑嫑! ! 【】I also hope that we can all protect the "嫑嫑" in our hearts. Maybe it doesn't appear often, but you have to know that the "嫑嫑" is always there! !
Context :
Zhou Keke is Zhou Shen’s character (sorta roleplay I guess?) in the tv show The Truth. Biao biao is like this pot with a face pic below 👇🏻
Their job is to protect Zhou Keke and say the things that Zhou Keke is not willing to say because of the fear of offending someone.
Zhou Biao biao is actually the first pot of chocolate made by Zhou Keke’s mom and before Zhou Keke’s mom passed away, she asked Zhou Biao biao to protect Zhou Keke. Zhou Keke’s father was not present during his childhood, and Zhou Keke was raised by his aunt until she too passed away when he was 10(I think?). And from then on Zhou Keke was put in an orphanage and Zhou Biao Biao was the only one who could protect Zhou Keke from the bullying.
嫑 is also made from the hanzi 不要 combined which means no!
I’ll attach the clip whenever its on YT alrd I can’t find it rn, also tell me if I said anything wrongly this is just what I know from the few clips in weibo <3
I might create a zhou shen sideblog just to post about shen shen hmm we’ll see
Sure, it seems like a weird thing to say, but everyone who knew my dad well agrees that him dying a week before the anniversary of my mom's death to compete with her for attention is just very on brand for him.