#legit hats off to cheng yi's portrayal he is the main thing selling it to me here but also..

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watching the last 10 eps of mlc with the novel still rattling around in your head is truly just an extended experience in alternating between *chinhands* and (overwhelmingly) *head in hands*

#on the one hand i finally have context for various posts #on the other hand it is truly just. *gesturing wildly* why was this necessary. like i get diff formats etc etc but also. Why #legit hats off to cheng yi's portrayal he is the main thing selling it to me here but also.. #surely there has to have been some less 狗血 way to spice it up for screen???? #anyway congrats to sgd's wholeass existence and plotline for singlehandedly winning the Changes I Really Don't Care For At All list #with the fun secondary effect (probably) of pushing lxy's portrayal into legit 傲慢 territory in service of that narrative like #i desperately need a slower reread but novel!lxy never to my recall does the whole 没有李相夷不行 thing but welp #here we are and. once again with feeling. why #(necessary clarification that i don't dislike the drama per se it's probably better treated fairly as its own thing but also #every now and then you see the bones of the novel poking through – albeit rendered slightly hypocritical in the sense that drama!llh is #very much not zen and understandably so given this backstory edition – and thus the copious head in hands-ing) #*strums guitar while yelling into the void.mp3* #ramble tag #mysterious lotus casebook #edit to add: DISSONANT the damn word i wanted was dissonant