...why is he there, though?
How did Xiao Xingchen come so quickly?
There are a few things to consider in this fight. One is that Song Lan can’t have ambushed Xue Yang anywhere near the yizhuang (nor other people, for that matter), otherwise their shouting and clashing of swords would have attracted XXC’s attention way earlier. Another is that, since we have dialogue to “measure up” time, not a long time passes from the corpse poisoning to him arriving at the scene. The only moment when this could have been dragged out is when Song Lan lashes out after having his tongue cut, but I think this last bit of the fight can’t last very long, with the state he was in.
Therefore, how did Xiao Xingchen get to that relatively remote location in such a short amount of time? We-ell, consider this possibility: he didn’t come because he detected a walking corpse...
...he came because he detected Jiangzai.
Not that he’d know it, he doesn’t have laser-focus detection powers like that. He just sensed something was amiss at the very beginning of the fight, but could only follow in the general direction until he was close enough (in time and location) for the poisoning to begin and the “fierce corpse” to be easily detectable. But do you remember what he said afterwards?
(How did Xue Yang manage to refrain from making a blind joke here is beyond me, btw)
But there it is! Shuanghua behaved strangely. It may have detected Jiangzai’s resentful energy, but by the time he got there, there was a target much more relevant that masked the presence of Xue Yang’s sword. And if you’re wondering how did he never detect his sword before in the years they were together, I’d argue that Xue Yang was wise enough not to swing his sword around daozhang too obviously, or getting hold of another blade for when they night hunted, or even just get by using talismans. He managed to hide so much more from him, his sword is just one more piece in this puzzle.
BY THE WAY, going by novel/manhua standards here. I don’t know what they were thinking in the cql drama, beyond making the most of each set, but to have them fighting right in front of their house is beyond stupid. Daozhang literally jumped out the door to meet them. He was probably listening to heavy metal throughout the fight -_-
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I'm fascinated by the people who think JC (he of the "one of my most important people is more alive now than months ago" and of the "my sect is now the most stable and most powerful") is the worst off by the end of the novel in a list that contains both LXC and JL
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MDZS AU in which Lan Jingyi is a transmigrator but nothing changes about canon except the fact that one day WWX dons the Dead Anime Mom Hairstyle™️ and LJY goes up to him in a barely concealed panic and says "Wei-qianbei you need to change your hairstyle immediately!!"
Option 1: WWX is confused and a little hurt "I thought I looked nice like this :( Lan Zhan said it suits me... but if you insist..."
Option 2: WWX is also a transmigrator but it slips right out of his mouth that "I already died before, little one, the dead mom hair curse won't affect me anymore" and accidentally gives himself away
Option 3: LWJ is also a transmigrator and the moment he saw WWX with that hairstyle he got cold chills all over but he didn't have the heart to tell WWX (who was so excited about his new look) to change... so he spent the whole day prickly and panicked about whether WWX would die again
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Idk if posting a spruced up piece is in the full spirit of Repostober but it's low energy so I'm going for it. I will never be able to top this robe shading probably
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How about a crossover?
Ive been watching adventure time with my wife, so imma blame that.
Fun fact, Lan Zhan is mint gum rather than chewing gum.
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I just love the intro and expectation we get for Jin Ling in the beginning of the donghua, like he’s flying through the air with his bow shooting 3 arrows at once like an expert marksman, hopping from tree branch to tree branch with his hair majestically blowing in the wind and then for literally the rest of the show, he’s either passed out on the floor or being rescued from a ✨situation✨ ?????
my boy got princess coded SO hard
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