#luo yiguo

[ivyithink]

so i’ve finished “mo du”

so, i’ve read “mo du” and it finished me

fei du’s mug! (a gift from luo wenzhou, obviously)

#my art #my doodles #mo du #silent reading #luo wenzhou #fei du #zhoudu #luo yiguo #fei qian #YES KITTIES GET TAGGED THEY ARE THE CHILDREN C’MON #should probably also tag #justice in the dark #the adaptation we will probably never get in full…. and it had such a fun start; they made some real interesting choices; and acting?? GOOD #BUT THE NOVEL #it’s been some time since I last had the feeling of ‘I NEED to read all of this RIGHT NOW #but also I desperately don’t want this book to end’ #this one was such a ride and I loved every second of it #goddamn priest did it again #she got me good with guardian and word of honor (although I’ve only watched those for now) #AND THEN THIS!?! #she’s insane I love her #and I love these two well technically four #you can’t forget the cats #especially when one of them is legit a proper character #I swear I’ve seen/read actual human characters — some of them main ones — that had less personality than that cat #and yes I did choke on air upon witnessing with my own eyes fei du’s ‘I’m the abyss’ speech #WHO ARE YOU? #KANG YOHAN??? #these dramatic bithes honestly #would die for them

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WN Non-Sapient Animal Upper Bracket

["Anti-Propaganda" is NOT allowed. Please be courteous and only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

Luo Yiguo from Silent Reading / Mo Du 

Type of Animal: cat

No propaganda submitted

Carrd Link

Hua Cheng's Deathly Spirit Butterflies from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

Submission: The goodest little guys. They're so cute, but they've got the gods shaking in their boots, and rightfully so.

Wiki Link

Fairy from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / MDZS

Type of Animal: dog

Wiki Link

#luo yiguo #silent reading #mo du #priest #deathly spirit butterflies #tgcf #fairy #mdzs #mxtx #polls #nonsapient upper round 2 #nonsapient wn animal bracket #nonsapient upper bracket #webnovel animal tournament #queue

[biipbop]

Cat Dad

#biipart #mo du #silent reading #justice in the dark #damian priest #fei du #luo yiguo #My hyperfixation made e do it #the level of relief I feel after finishing this is as good as a cigarette after years of quitting

[evilvillainapologist]

Luo Yiguo, though. 

Obviously he is the best cat, but let's talk about his significance to Fei Du. 

So, it's not subtle that in a way he signifies the part of Fei Du that was mistreated by his father. 

Not only does his father expect Fei Du to treat the cat the same way he treats his son, but not killing Luo Yiguo and giving it back to Tao Ran was Fei Du's first rebellion, the realisation that he could maybe one day escape his father's abuse, just like he had helped Luo Yiguo escape. 

It's not hard to understand why he would identify with a defenseless little cat that could be crushed so easily by a cruel and violent man like Fei Chengyu. 

And then, years later, he learns that Tao Ran entrusted it to Luo Wenzhou. The way he learns it? Seeing the scratches on Luo Wenzhou's hand. 

Could you imagine what a man like Fei Chengyu would do to a creature he considers beneath himself, should it have the audacity to scatch him? 

And yet, Luo Wenzhou, he might talk big about how he is going to turn the cat into stew, but the fact remains that the cat is now seven years old, fat, the boss of the household, and the consequences of scratching its litter-box attendant? None. He is forgiven, because Luo Wenzhou does not let out his rage on defenseless creatures. 

Now the cat, the cat that Fei Du identifies with, has found a home the way Fei Du has always wanted one: a safe space with a person who will take care of him no matter what, who will feed him and not punish him for being the way he is, who will come home every night to keep him company and comfort him. 

Fei Du sees the cat he identifies with in the home it feels most comfortable in and realises that could be him. 

Apart from the game console, Luo Yiguo is the one big realisation Fei Du has that makes him want to be with Luo Wenzhou. It just takes him a little while to admit that to himself. 

#mo du #silent reading #fei du #luo wenzhou #zhoudu #luo yiguo #priest

[xmomokai]

Family 💙💜

#fei du #Luo Wenzhou #Luo yiguo #MoDu #silent reading #the light in the night #Zhoudu #priest

[zhouszishu]

– You’re fussier than my cat.

JUSTICE IN THE DARK 【光·渊】 (2023): EPISODE 03

#光·渊 #justice in the dark #guang yuan #asiandramanet #asiandramasource #dailyasiandramas #cdramasource #cdramaedit #cdrama #zhang xincheng #fu xinbo #mine* #mine*gif #when will they release the rest of the eps #so i can finally get my fei du x luo yiguo interactions!!

[neuxue]

Luo Wenzhou and/or some poor unsuspecting member of his team: Fei Du any theories?

Fei Du: Well hypothetically speaking.

Fei Du: If I were hypothetically doing crime as well as being gay.

Fei Du: *describes what it feels like to strangle someone*

Fei Du: *outlines three steps to perfect skin psychological torture*

Fei Du: *explains how to get a child who thinks they're a monster to show their bloody hands*

Fei Du: *correctly surmises with one try the existence and location of a blackmail file in a place no one else would think to check*

Fei Du: *suggests in detail how to hide a body, or how to make sure if it is found it's not traced back to you*

Fei Du: hypothetically.

#whenever Fei Du says some form of 'if it were me...' you know you're in for a good time #and by good I mean entirely unhinged and perhaps not altogether hypothetical #hey Fei Du quick question what side of the subject/object divide did you learn this on. hypothetically. #(can't wait for LWZ's 'if you ever decided to break the law' comment to come back to bite him harder than Luo Yiguo ever has) #默读 #neuxue reads mo du

[captainluosstuffedcat]

Y’all I’m very concerned about the 🍳🐈‍⬛

Luo Yiguo offers another perspective in the novel and his progression with fei du is so damn sweet ?

But it looks like they won’t be doing a lot of cat scenes for budgeting reasons 🥸

#justice in the dark #the abyss #mo du #默读 #fei du #pei su #give me back my luo yiguo #he’s literally fuckin styrofoam

[ivyithink]

been thinking ‘bout them again

(＋posting tiny doodle on its own, because it's a bit too adorable for how cramped it is)

#my art #my doodles #mo du #silent reading #justice in the dark #??? i guess #yeah why not #luo wenzhou #fei du #zhoudu #luo yiguo #fei qian #listening to the mo du live readalong right now so clearly THE PERFECT time to post some more of these fools #big hello to anyone who might come here to see this specifically from the live!!! #and if someone doesn't know: go check out jeanet henning's readalongs of mo du on youtube! and just her channel in general - it's great!!!

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WN Non-Sapient Animal Upper Bracket

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The Victimized Geese Turned Messenger Birds from Golden Stage

Submission: VICTIMS OF UNJUST WORK CONDITIONS. Fu Shen shoots them down (but doesn't kill them), heals them and gets them working as messenger geese cuz he wants to send a message to Yan Xiaohan during wartime and there were no phones in Ancient China. Good birds who Deserve Better.

Luo Yiguo from Silent Reading / Mo Du 

Type of Animal: cat

No propaganda submitted

Carrd Link

#victimized geese #golden stage #golden terrace #luo yiguo #silent reading #mo du #priest #polls #nonsapient upper round 1 #nonsapient wn animal bracket #nonsapient upper bracket #webnovel animal tournament #queue

[biipbop]

I've been itching to make this since I started vol 4.

Sorry it got very lazy in the end, I have to actually do work today. Enjoy domestic cat dads

#biipart #silent reading #mo du #luo wenzhou #fei du #justice in the dark #luo yiguo #can you tell i love drawing cats? #I took a break from cat commissions to draw more cats

[evilvillainapologist]

Luo Cheng has two beloved sons (Luo Yiguo and Fei Du) and one brat he happened to pick off the street (Luo Wenzhou) 

#mo du #silent reading #fei du #luo wenzhou #luo yiguo #priest

[grassbreads]

I can't believe I just read a scene whose entire point is that Luo Wenzhou's cat trying and failing to get into the treat cabinet is a parallel for Fei Du trying and failing to get into his own subconscious. That's so incredible oh my god

#the two best characters in this book: fei du and luo yiguo #I love when fei du gets compared to the cat lmao #but this was just too much #I was sitting there thinking. like. why are we spending so much time on lyg in the middle of such an important sequence #and then I Realized #andie reads silently

[danmeiarchive]

Silent Reading / Mo Du by Priest -- a brief review (no spoilers)

Novel length: 180 chapters + 5 extras

My Rating: ★★★★★ / 5

This series has to be one of my top fave books / series of all time. I legitimately think I could and would enjoy writing a lengthy thesis about it. It's a series that I enjoyed so much that I put off reading the last volume for MONTHS because I didn't want the series to end.

Check for content warnings under the cut.

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What kind of story is Silent Reading?

First and foremost this is a detective story. It involves police and politics, corruption and manipulation, wealthy overpowering the poor, and the list of potential trigger warnings for it is quite lengthy. There are some genuinely gruesome and upsetting content in the cases though most of it is seen afterwards and not experienced by the reader-- for example there's a scene where a girl encounters a killer but we don't see what happens and only find out about the aftermath as you read on.

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This is also a story about love, friendship, trust, family, and relationships. The special investigation squad really feels like a found family and it is lovely to see them all working so hard to protect each other especially in the last volume when shit really hits the fan. There's positive and negative relationships of just about every kind. Some characters are close to their family and have a loving relationship while others despise or have trauma with theirs.

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Finally it is a story covered and intertwined with theming and allusions. One of my favorite things about this series is how each book / volume is named after and related to another work of literature. I have not personally read all of them before but I admit I am curious to do so and return to Silent Reading and see how that changes my impression of things. Real quick here's a list of the novels in case you would like to look into them before starting Silent Reading;

The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1871)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

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Who are the main characters?

Without going into details here's a little bit about our main squad:

Fei Du - a rich young man with a traumatic past who is interested in psychology and has a keen analytical mind. He is incredibly intelligent and determined to figure everything out (from the cases to his repressed memories) with all he has even if it hurts himself in the process. He acts cold and calculating and is determined not to trust or let others too close.

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Luo Wenzhou - the head of the special investigation squad, he appears carefree and lighthearted but cares so deeply. He wants to protect his little family of investigators no matter what. (He also has a cat named Luo Yiguo who is hilarious every time he shows up).

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Tao Ran - deputy captain of the squad, he has strong big brother vibes. He's serious and kind and a good foil to the flippant and brash Luo Wenzhou. He's constantly shaking his head and hoping everyone can get along (at least for a little while).

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Lang Qiao - part of the special investigation squad, she may not be as quick on analyzing the clues but she makes up for it by being decisive and taking action. (I really appreciated her not being fridged or a damsel -- in fact she often would rush into action and saved Xiao Haiyang a few times).

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Xiao Haiyang -he starts out in another unit but gets transferred into the special investigation squad in the second book after having worked with them closely during the first book. He's new and has a lot to learn but his incredible memory helps him pick up on some clues that others have missed. His sense of righteousness is strong but his self preservation is weak.

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What is the plot of Silent Reading?

Each volume revolves around a certain case that the special investigation squad and Fei Du find themselves wrapped up in. The characters and cases that they work on are complicated and nuanced, I felt a little like a detective myself as I would take notes while reading and try to piece together clues. This includes not only the current case but the little tidbits we would get about the main character's dark past and puzzling how it has affected him into who he is today as well as hints at a large scale conspiracy manipulated by some shadowy force that was directing the characters around to their whim. After reading each volume I would have a list of questions that I had generated that still remained and I hoped I would get more clues to in the next volume.

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I also appreciated that the cases seemed to become more complicated and tangled as the series continued. Suspects and victims were not mutually exclusive, What seemed simple at first glance would be revealed to be a cover-up and the characters would pursue the loose strings and uncover what really happened.

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Adaptations

Also there is a live action adaptation of the series called Justice in the Dark which is sadly caught up in legal issues. The first 8 episodes were aired and you can most likely find somewhere to watch them online just beware of malware when you search. The adaptation was actually the reason why I started reading the novels! I highly enjoyed the episodes that were released and while there are some differences between it and the source material it was honestly pretty minimal. I really liked the actors portrayals in particular that of Fei Du, Luo Wenzhou, and Tao Ran (even if the characters names were changed slightly).

(I believe there is also an audio drama and there was talk of a donghua in the works but I have not experienced either of them at this time.)

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Click 'keep reading' to see trigger warnings.

content warnings: please note that all of these warnings ALSO APPLY TOWARDS MINORS AND CHILDREN: sexual abuse and assault, brutal violence and physical abuse, mental and psychological abuse, animal abuse, death, murder, drug use, torture, dismemberment, neglect, human trafficking, cult-like brainwashing, manipulation, conspiracy, corruption, police, politics, trauma, cycle of abuse, social standing as an excuse to treat people as lesser (rich targeting the poor, strong targeting the weak, men targeting women, women targeting children, etc.)

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I'm not fully sure if this falls under trigger warnings but I'm going to put it here anyway. There's a few times where FD acts cheekily towards LWZ and LWZ alludes to 'punishing' FD with sex. I believe both characters are aware that this is meant as a form of teasing and play between them and if FD did not consent LWZ would not continue. They both know if FD teases LWZ to this extent that he's egging LWZ on purposefully and is consenting (sometimes this is an attempt to distract LWZ from asking FD questions that FD does not want to answer). Ultimately we know that LWZ wouldn't harm FD but I felt it was worth a mention.

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This series also unfortunately falls into the trope of one male character always tops and the other always bottoms -- to the extent that when the bottom complains or suggests switching roles the top acts offended or like he doesn't hear the other. It's like some bullshit pride thing that pops up from time to time in gay media that the bottom is less masculine because he's on the receiving end. Personally I think LWZ would thoroughly enjoy any type of act with FD as long as FD was doing it with him. And that's not to say a person can't have preferences-- I just get frustrated when the tops act insulted at the mere thought or implication of being the one on the receiving end.

#danmei recs #danmei reviews #danmei webnovels #silent reading #mo du #justice in the dark #priest danmei novels #danmei reading

[unforth]

Definitely favorite character so far:

a majestic beast

(Luo Wenzhou gets Luo Yiguo. Apparently this is the best Lin Jingheng can manage tho, lmao)

#unforth liveblogs #can ci pin liveblog

[skylerbluexd]

Physician-Patient Confidentiality

Omegaverse ZhouDu: beta police captain Luo Wenzhou X omega psychiatrist Fei Du

There was a sudden light from the corner of Fei Du’s eyes, it reflected onto his glasses, blinding him momentarily as if the sun had just risen over the horizon. Of course, this was impossible since the sun had just set a few hours ago. The movement was quicker than the sound, the impact was felt first rather than heard. Glass shattered and exploded onto Fei Du as he turned away from the light on instinct. Something cracked near him as the whole car jerked into a harsh spin by the force, stopping at a ninety-degree angle from its original position, tyres screeching from the friction. The airbags deployed, punching Fei Du from all sides. His head was flung backwards, hitting the headrest and turning his sight white. An engine came alive and coughed somewhere a bit further away, its roar closing in on him yet again. After that came the deafening sound of metal bending and windows blowing out as something big slammed into his side once more. The onslaught was too much for the human ear to take in at once, instead, everything turned into a ringing sound. Just before his consciousness left him the pain arrived, slowly covering his whole body like a blanket of sharp needles.

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Fei Du is a psychiatrist who works with people with temperamental and unpredictable behaviours. Most of his patients are alphas despite him being an omega, and this is due to the fact that he is considered less emotional than typical omegas. Everyone knows that omegas and alphas complement each other, because of this, Fei Du is often paired together with alphas who need the calmness of omegas. With Fei Du's personality, there is little risk for breach of boundaries due to emotional compatibility.

One of his more recent patients is a man named Zhou Haiying, an alpha who deals with childhood trauma from growing up in an unstable environment. Zhou Haiying has all kinds of problems, but his sessions with Fei Du seem to work wonders. With time, he becomes totally obsessed with his psychiatrist. Fei Du rejects him and suggests that they end their partnership. Zhou Haiying pleads with him and promises to keep everything professional going forward. Fei Du gives him one last chance, since Zhou Haiying has only ever shown progress while working with him.

While Fei Du continues to work with Zhou Haiying, a new lead on an on-going disappearence case emerges. The lead is connected to a famous nightclub in Yan City. Luo Wenzhou and the City Bureau team take over the investigation. Soon, the lead takes them to the doors of Zhou Haiying's little rental apartment. After learning who Zhou Haiying's psychiatrist is, Luo Wenzhou finally visits Fei Du. The last time they saw each other, Fei Du was one of the victims of a domestic abuse case, and Luo Wenzhou was the young officer carrying out the arrest of Fei Chengyu. Tao Ran had checked in on the kid a few times after that, but he himself had never really interacted with him after the case. It would be a lie to say that he wasn't surprised to see that Fei Du had become such a handsome young man.

As only betas were allowed to join the police force, Luo Wenzhou was actually lucky with his lot. He loved being a beta. What was there not to love? Betas were the most level-headed of all the subgenders. They were not affected by pheromones as much as the others, and they didn't have to deal with ruts or heats. And best of all, he got to be the sane and calm one when arrogant and hot-tempered alphas try everything to pull ranks with him during arrests. It doesn't matter that his father thinks Luo Yiguo is a better son just because the cat acts like the alpha of Luo Wenzhou's apartment. He loved being a beta, and he also loved being with other betas. Now, his physical traits gave him the looks of an alpha, and he had successfully pulled a few omegas — sometimes even alphas — into his dating life before because of this. The thing was, it simply didn't work because the omegas were never really satisfied with what they got, and Luo Wenzhou was fully prepared for that. Omegas and alphas were made to be with each other. Betas had to find partners in other betas, and he was totally okay with that. But, this Fei Du really was a pretty man. He just happened to be an omega.

Luo Wenzhou tries to focus on the case they are investigating and ignores the slight bitterness in his heart. As expected, Fei Du reveals nothing about Zhou Haiying without a court-ordered warrant. He does, however, flirt with Luo Wenzhou, seemingly not repulsed by the lack of alpha pheromones. Grabbing the opportunity of getting at least a one-night fling, Luo Wenzhou doesn't turn him down. They spend the night together, and Fei Du seems to enjoy it more than the other omegas Luo Wenzhou has been with before.

Shortly after that night, Fei Du is involved in a serious car accident. After reviewing the security cameras, it is revealed that a truck had rammed into Fei Du's car even though the wide road was completely empty. The incident becomes a police matter when the clear footage shows the truck deliberately ramming into Fei Du's car a second time after the initial hit.

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(I am a very slow writer and I am very busy at the moment, but I might turn this idea into a multi-chaptered fic at some point, and it will be on my Ao3 if I do.)

#mo du #justice in the dark #fei du #luo wenzhou #zhoudu #silent reading #priest novels #danmei #fanfiction #fanfic #fic prompt #omegaverse #luo wenzhou is a beta and he is proud of it #zhou haiying is an oc so don't mind him he is just there to add drama