#hao jia/zhao fangru

[hotaruyy]

Without her conscious input, Li Wei’s eyes flicker towards the corners of the ceiling. Empty. Yuan Ying catches her doing it, and something flits across her face even as she smiles gently.

“No, I… I’m not here to do business with you,” Yuan Ying says, uncharacteristically hesitant. “I just thought we should talk. In private.”

A girl group elimination reality tv show AU.

shoutout to @moonraccoon for beta-ing!

#卿卿日常 #new life begins #yuan ying/li wei #hao jia/zhao fangru #li wei #yuan ying #hao jia #zhao fangru #yin zheng #fan writing #fanfic #my writing #writing #modern au #mutual pining #hotaruyy

[xinyuehui]

Her name will be Changle. It means long-lasting peace and happiness.

#卿卿日常 #new life begins #qing qing ri chang #asiandramasource #chineseartistsinc #dailyasiandramas #chinesemedia #cdramaedit #cdramanet #cdramagifs #chinese drama #cdrama #caps #hao jia #chen xiaoyun #chen zihan #zhao fangru #ep24 #i love that they are not fighting like the typical jealous women trope 😭😭 and instead look after each other #this scene broke me and made me cry 😭 to the mothers in this world you're amazing #and her baby taking her surname instead!!! (it totally makes sense for babies to take the mother's surname tbh bc she birthed them!!

[monroeknoxwrites]

hao jia expands on her crossdresser marketing tactic to openly marry zhao fangru and raise her baby together.

They could take care of her together as women but thoughts of gender fuckery hao jia extremely good.

#new life begins #hao jia #zhao fangru #maybe that's the ficlet I'll write👀

[heavenhellandhumanity]

Finally catching up with New Life Begins and I sort of feel sorry for Second Prince? Like his crying mother and brother really got me and I do like this whole thing of 'villains will still have ones they love too'. It could also partly be the whole thing about showing that exile is still a punishment for him, even compared to prison or execution.

But I absolutely adore how Hao Jia and Zhao Fangru do not feel sorry for him in the least and this is shown as right. And yes, we see Yin Zheng torn over his brother but Li Wei only knows him as the man who abused her friend and tried to get the guy she liked thrown in prison so her feelings about wanting the guy dead are shown as rational.

I really love shows having villains as not completely horrible to everyone in their life but they still deserve punishment for the wrongs they did do.

#new life begins #yes I'm catching up #i just really love this show #and hao jia and zhao fangru are one of the most surprising relationships to me

[avani008]

Dear Yuletide Writer 2023

Here are some things I think are rad: snark. friendships. sneaky twisty endings. stories with bite. characters with personalities. stories that make their writers happy. mythology. humor. stories that dig into and expand on the canon, whether that’s backstory or minor characters or worldbuilding. brown paper packages tied up with string.

Stuff I’m not so keen on: rape, incest, mentions of RL pandemics/quarantines or cancer? more into het and femslash than slash. no modern AUs for the fandoms I’ve selected this year, as I’m interested in the canon settings; AUs that preserve the canon setting (either canon divergence or trope-based [soulmate, daemons, fantasy elements in non-fantasy canons]) are not just fine but would be much adored!

Treat Policy: Yes, please!

Fandoms Requested: Kandukondain Kandukondain… (2000), New Life Begins (TV), Spymaster series- Joanna Bourne

Kandukondain Kandukondain…

Characters: Any

Where To Find Source: Available on Amazon/Youtube/video streaming source of your choice!

This movie is such comfort-film fuel, with characters who are genuinely kind, clever, and funny. I also love how the original JA characters and plot and transplanted so cleverly, with clear love for the original source, but more importantly, that captures Austen’s talent for satire. I laughed out loud at the film industry parody, and the other small town scenes (the cat wedding at the beginning! what a delightful detail)

*Soumya and Manohar, after. I love gentle, established relationships in fiction–and the contrast between Manohar’s flashy film background and Soumya’s snark and steady competence is great. Tell me about the years that came after, or different ways they might have met and fell in love!

* Kamala (who wants to grow up and marry C.V.Raman! My favorite version of Margaret Dashwood!) futurefic? What amazing future does she have? How are her relationships with her sisters/brothers-in-law?

* A crossover with any other Austen couple, similarly transported to this setting? Or, if you want to work this into Kamala and Nandini Varma-centric fic, that would be superb!

*Or, if you just want to celebrate and tell me the filmography/backstory/general awesomeness of Nandini Varma, LADY SUPERSTAR, ACTION HERO, be my guest!

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New Life Begins (TV)

Characters Requested: Any

Where To Find Source Material: Available with subs for free on Youtube, HERE! (40 episodes x ~40-45 min each)

This series is a fun, frothy delight built around a solid foundation of feminism, and I love the gentle humor that nevertheless never forgets the actual darkness of the world these characters live in. I love exploring all these characters and the worldbuilding (the different kingdoms! their cultural differences and values! What would the subtle differences be in a shared legend or myth found in this world depending on the biases of each state? I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW.) but honestly I would be delighted with anything that captures the tone of canon.

Ensemble fic with the characters solving a political problem, or mystery, or carrying off the zaniest of heists--essentially, anything that requires our leads to show off their individual strengths and talents would be amazing.

Or, if you are a fan of AUs, what havoc would a soulmate or daemon AU of any sort cause in this universe? Particularly with the different states' approaches to marriage and society, worldbuilding further would be extremely fun to read! How different is say, Xin State's explanation for a daemon as compared to Dan's? Does every state have a different soulmark/soulmate identification trope, and does this cause even more chaos to their respective relationships?

On which note: I am pretty open to most ships in this universe, actually! I find Yin Zheng/Li Wei too cute to break up entirely, and enjoy pretty much all the eventual canon couples, and would prefer no endgame ships with Crown Prince (though incorporating his canonical relationships with Hao Jia and Zhao Fangru is fine), but other than that, I don't have any hard preferences.

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Spymaster Series- Joanna Bourne

Characters Requested: Justine DeCabrillac, Adrian “Hawker” Hawkhurst

Where to Find Source Material: Your local library, bookstore, or ebook supplier!

The Spymaster series is all brilliant characterization and intrigue. The action plots are superbly paced, where the romance doesn’t take up too much from the main plot, and the limited perspective works so well–the Annique twist in the first book took me utterly by surprise, and then delighted me. 

So writer, if your long standing dream has been to write canon-typical plotfic, I would be so ecstatic! Couples working and bantering together is always one of my favorite things to read, and the espionage aspect of this series is a particular strength . While we see a lot of glimpses of the Adrian-Justine relationship, I think there’s always room for more, so whether you want to add a post-canon adventure, or invent one we didn’t see between flashbacks, it would be great!

I also love these characters, and their relationship–I love the pining in the face of duty, the very real tragedy* I love how it extends in bits and pieces of the years, I love how it’s frequently interpreted and misinterepreted through outsider POVs. Something that plays with outsider POVs would also be so fascinating, again, at any time during the series; or, what a happily ever after looks like for these two crazy kids.

*again, DNW caveat: it’s okay to acknowledge canon-accurate mentions of prior assault in this case, but I would really prefer that it be kept to a minimum, with no on-screen incidences.

I was lucky enough to get amazing Cami/Pax exchange fic for the prompt "5 ways they didn't meet and one way they did" and if you want to adapt that (or another 5+1 AU format) to Adrian and Justine's story, that would be great!

Finally, although I haven’t formally requested, Annique (and her irreverent narration) is always a delight. I love her instant platonic-soulmates friendship with Adrian, and I am intrigued by Joanna Bourne’s words on her blog on how Annique compares with Justine:

When I was writing Annique, I was making her the other side of the coin with Justine. They were both child spies, about the same age. Both raised by Lucille. One relatively protected, innocent, a child of the light, one who had not killed. The other abandoned and debauched, a child with little light inside her, a willing killer.

And they knew each other, of course, as they were growing up. They were more than a little jealous. When Annique makes the remark about the doppleganger, she’s thinking of Justine.

Adrian, in TSL, come fresh from one side of the coin to the other and neither Annique nor Adrian realize this.

This is such an amazing dynamic we never see on-screen, and I would love to dig into it further at both ends.

I hope at least some of these prompts help! Thank you in advance and have a wonderful Yuletide yourself:D

#yuletide 2023 #yuletide23 #kandukondain kanduokondain #spymaster series #new life begins

[xinyuehui]

They should team up and 🔪 the problematic man 🥺

#卿卿日常 #new life begins #qing qing ri chang #asiandramasource #chineseartistsinc #dailyasiandramas #chinesemedia #cdramaedit #cdramanet #cdramagifs #chinese drama #cdrama #caps #hao jia #chen xiaoyun #chen zihan #zhao fangru #ep16 #姐姐们给个姬会吧！！ #GIRLS HELP GIRLS!!!! zhao furen going its not like this food was made for you its just my leftovers humph 😤 #im glad they are becoming friends 😭😭 and no weird rivalry #love how haojia didnt even refer to him as husband he's just a problematic man

[heavenhellandhumanity]

My School President: I finally caved and watched the first four episodes of this. It is delightful. The friend group is the definition of one braincell and no one is using it, the romance is delightful, I love the POV switches between episodes and both the leads being stupid over each other is just what I like. It hasn’t quite hooked me like Bad Buddy, mostly because I need just a little extra conflict (external or internal), but the potential is definitely there.

Between Us: Mmmm, past trauma, literal sleeping together, all the friends being delightful and hilarious and we get to see Win’s heart break again in real time! Seriously that whole hallway scene is just an exercise in watching Win just go ‘screw fear, Team was hurting and I wasn’t there’. Five episodes left and I really hope they stick the landing, but so far I adore it.

GAP the series: God, this series is pretty. The clothes, the people, the surroundings. They really went colourful for everything and I adore it. I was not expecting Mon to also seemingly be oblivious to her growing feelings for Sam (Sam I absolutely expected). I continue to not like Nop at all and love how Mon stood up to him and how she didn’t apologise or make excuses. Also kiss!

On a small note, I do appreciate a series which gives an explanation on why they go to sleep with the light on.

New Life Begins: I’m on Ep 34 now and continue to love it. I suddenly found myself really shipping Hao Jia and Zhao Fangru so I was sad to see the latter go. Yuan Ying also left the main cast and so that was sad as well, though they gave her a delightful send-off (and continued to play it like Li Wei was the one both Yuan Ying and Yin Zheng were in love with). I still absolutely love this show and unless they do something drastic in the last six episodes, I think it’ll be a new favourite.

#my school president #between us #gap the series #new life begins #show updates #there were so many delightful moments #gun's flirting leaving tinn dizzy #win comforting team after everything #the lip biting in gap #hao jia watching zhao fangru walk away with tears in her eyes

[monroeknoxwrites]

what if after my comms. I write a short zhao fangru/hao jia ficlet👀

#new life begins #hao jia #zhao fangru

[heavenhellandhumanity]

Everything with Jin Song and Hao Jia is coming to a head and I really wish I could watch the next two episodes now. It looks like Jin Zheng and Zhao Fangru will shine particularly and I can’t wait to see Jin Song being brought down a peg. 

#new life begins #the whole thing with hao jia's mother was heartbreaking #but done so well #really emphasising that hao jia had a different upbringing #and doesn't come from that sure place the others do #i just really love this drama