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merinnan · 4 years

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DMBJ Explore with the Note Ep 6

Current counts -

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 2 for Wu Xie, 3 for protagonists, 4 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Season 2 Evil Hair Count: 4

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 12 for Wu Xie, 18 for protagonists, 19 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

Since it's been suggested I add in a hallucination count, I'm combining that with dreams for a dream/hallucination count -

Season 2 Dream/Hallucination Count: 2

Cumulative Dream/Hallucination Count: 3

- Ah yes, we're in the little tunnel that is large enough for three people to walk almost straight in that apparently Xie Lianhuan managed to dig in under half a day.

- Oooh, bb!Wu Xie so mad at Xiaoge suggesting Sanshu did bad things

- Oh, another flashback

- Sanshu and Xie Lianhuan, looks like

- Hm, don't remember seeing this cauldron thing before. At least, not one in a tiny sideroom

- SO MANY COBWEBS. The mysterious underwater spider colony has really been working hard

- Whistle Coffin. Okay.

- Also, Xie Lianhuan, you are a Xie. Why are you acting like this?

- Yeah, we all no what happens any time someone in this show says 'don't touch it'

- JFC, Xie Lianhuan, you are an idiot

- OMG that idiot had alcohol in his water bottle, didn't he?

- Yeeep

- Oh. My. Fucking. God.

- He didn't

- *headdesk*

- Why are you so pleased with yourself, you brat?

- Same, Sanshu

- I repeat: You are a Xie, how are you this clueless?

- Wheee, undead skeleton hand!

- God, XLH is such a fucking idiot

- lol, Pangzi

- I love that the drama can never make up its mind if they're tomb robbers or brave archaeologists protecting artefacts

- Oooh, who's this, then?

- Oh, that's not good

- ...Wu Xie, why are you smiling, that is not a cute and adorable childhood story

- Ahahaha, trollge

- So many looks

- Lol, that smirk

- ...did they actually use actual lotion in the show?

- I just remember what it was in the book

- I still refuse to believe that XLH dug this tunnel

- Evil Hair Count: 5

- ...Wu Xie, I know everyone said be quiet, but I think you can make an exception here

- Dream/hallucination Count: 3

- lol @ Pangzi again

- Evil Hair Count: 6

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 4 for protagonists

- I love how they're all trolling each other this season

- Ahahah, so that's where that tarnished chastity line comes from

- Walking through tunnels appears to be the swimming in murky water of this set of episodes

- And Wu Xie is in danger again

- Hahah, I love Xiaoge using Pangzi as a stepping stool like that

- Oh, ouch

- I'm not gonna lie, I've been both surprised and annoyed at how long it's taken for Wu Xie to be in danger and need to be rescued. Prior to this episode was a definite drought of it

- Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 3 for Wu Xie

- Aww, good friend Pangzi

- Even if that wasn't that helpful

- Is Xiaoge and a monster chasing each other in circles around a pillar also a common thing in DMBJ? Because this is the second time I've seen this happen

- Xiaoge, where is your sword? Why are you just punching it?

- Smart move, Pangzi

- Oh hi, A-Ning. Nice to see you. Because whenever you're is around, I know that more Xiaoge rescuing Wu Xie scenes aren't far behind

- I don't recall these cobwebs all over the Heavenly Palace model in the flashback, so the underwater spider colony is obviously still alive and kicking, to have been working hard these past twenty years

- I want to know what kind of model collection Pangzi has now

- Yeah, that mummy definitely wasn't covered in dust and cobwebs before

- Wait, why is the bell tree down here?

- Ah, the villains are giving us an exposition dump

- Whee, more monsters, or something

- And more murals

- I think this is the first mention of Changbai mountain in the show

- Oh, so now you're an archaeologist, huh, Pangzi?

- Hahah, and as soon as I say that, so does Wu Xie

- I love Wu Xie's grin here as he roasts Pangzi

- And we end with Xiaoge still staring at the tunnel entrance

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 3 for Wu Xie, 4 for protagonists, 7 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Season 2 Evil Hair Count: 6

Season 2 Dream/Hallucination Count: 3

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 13 for Wu Xie, 19 for protagonists, 21 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

Cumulative Dream/Hallucination Count: 4

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mejomonster · 3 years

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(1) twenty minutes into this show and wu xie has already been saved i love him

wu xie is the only damsel hero i have been able to stand

#replies #@keyhsahla #the lost tomb 2 #that is probably Not true i just cant remember other damnsel heroes #i can say tho wu xie really has to be rescued #like hes spider georg an outlier and should not have been counted #to be fair to him MONSTERS SEEM ATTRACTED TO HIM LIKE CATNIP #so like #his danger ratio in life is SO much higher than the average person #theory: as a child he was cursed to attract magical monsters #so his family SWORE to never let him into the tomb raiding life and risk more danger #but wu xie wanted to go so bad #and lo and behold he goes #and immediately its mosnter city after him #but hes also unintentionally attracted 'monster' xiaoge and #that benefit evens things out #technically.... i cant disprove that theory yet....#and Time Raiders movie... idk may have been implying this that movie still Perplexes me

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merinnan · 4 years

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DMBJ Explore with the Note Ep 2

Okay, I wasn't sure if I'd get to ep 2 today, but I need Iron Triangle shenanigans to cheer me up after the feels fest that was Train to Busan

So here we go! DMBJ S2 Ep 2!

The counts at the start of ep 2!

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 1 for Wu Xie, 1 for protagonists, 2 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 11 for Wu Xie, 16 for protagonists, 18 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

- Opening with Wu Xie wandering around somewhere, so I'm guessing this is another dream/nightmare

- 'Somewhere' turns out to be a sunken ship

- Minus all the water

- I'm expecting a jump scare any moment now

- Not as bad a one as I expected, but still

- a wild Sanshu suddenly appears!

- This dream Sanshu being just as creepy as the dream Sanshu in the previous ep

- And just as murderous

- And now he wakes up thanks to Pangzi, and it's daytime now

- Looks like the storm is over, too

- OMG Pangzi that is not how you're supposed to meditate

- lol @ Wu Xie's confused reaction to it

- Hahah, A-Ning was not successful in hiding the booze from Pangzi

- Wu Xie, baby, I love your confidence here about there being no complicated traps, but it's entirely misplaced

- He definitely has to suspect that that's Xiaoge after the whole ghost ship thing, he wouldn't be giving that cute little smile otherwise

- Oh god, the English dubbing is so bad. The words and lips don't sync at all

- And it looks like her boss is a foreigner this time?

- This water is so murky

- This swimming around underwater making exaggerated gestures bit could have been much shorter than it is

- Like seriously

- It wouldn't be quite as bad if the water wasn't just this constant murky green so that you could actually see properly

- But as it is I'm mostly just looking at this dirty green screen with some shapes moving past sometimes

- I get padding out an episode, but it's been almost five minutes of this now

- Oh, at least now we're at least getting little flashes of Wu Xie recognising this stuff from his grandfather's notebook

- But still

- HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET TO THE TOMB

- 5 1/2 mins before something even marginally interesting happens >.<

- Because apparently now the statue is opening its eyes. Maybe.

- Wait no, I counted wrong

- 7 1/2 MINS

- 8 1/2 mins before they get to any breaking and entering

- 8 1/2 mins to do what should have taken 2

- It wasn't even marginally interesting filler >.<

- Just....dirty green screen with some dark shapes, and the occasional close up on faces or wrist notepads

- And this knife is cutting through the mortar holding these bricks together suspiciously easily

- Oh, the evil hair is making its first appearance

- Evil Hair Count: 1

- Yes, touching it is a great idea! Well done!

- Oh, it scared it away this time

- Apparently, the evil hair being scared away is what triggers the brick door to automatically open for them

- Oh, I like this shot of the wetsuit hood almost looking like a hoodie hood. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but I still like it.

- SUDDEN CORPSE APPEARANCE

- Oh, sudden thing swimming real fast into/around them

- Most of this episode has just been...murky green

- Like. They've been in the water for 10 minutes so far. And the only important/interesting things that have happened have been finding Sanshu's stick, finding the statues that reminded Wu Xie of shit in the notebook, Wu Xie thinking the statue eyes opened, the appearance of the evil hair, the door opening, the corpse appearing, and now this thing swimming by them. All of which could have been done in, like, a third of the time.

- Since they all took only a few seconds each

- Oh, it was evil hair lady, who is now swimming away super fast when Pangzi shot at her.

- I'm amazed he could see clearly enough in the murk to even aim, tbh

- Oooh, dramatic music

- It would be nice if I could see clearly enough to know the reason for the dramatic music

- PANGZI. WU XIE. YOU HAVE NOTEPADS ON YOUR WRISTS.

- YOU DO NOT NEED TO TAKE OUT YOUR OXYGEN MOUTHPIECES TO TRY TO TALK UNDERWATER

- YOU ARE WASTING YOUR OXYGEN

- OH HI EVIL HAIR LADY

- I will make that Evil Hair Count: 2, because it was a lovely shot of her hair as well

- Oh, they've made that maelstrom-like tunnel the entrance to the tomb in the drama

- Oh god, the greenscreen

- I think Chongqi is the only one I've seen so far that does greenscreen even halfway well

- It took them 11 1/2 mins to get into the tomb

- An entire quarter of the episode was just them fucking around underwater where the viewer could barely see what was happening at the best of times

- Since the ep is 45 mins including opening and ending credits

- Oh, they've come out into the room with the pots, except it has a pool in it this time

- Sigh. Of course they gave A-Ning pink-accented gear.

- They all have a different colour on their goggles to tell them apart, but in the underwater stuff it was too dark to tell what colours she and Xiaoge had. Now that they're out of the water, I can see that hers is pink.

- And I'm like

- WHY

- PLEASE

- STOP

- Why are there spiderwebs in the underwater tomb?

- The babby zombie footprints!

- Yes, Pangzi, those tiny little footprints are Sanshu's

- Hahah, I love little shit Wu Xie

- Apparently spiders even have to be built into underwater ones. Either that, or spiders can now dive

- Maybe when they built the tomb, they made sure to have spiders in there. Which also means they had to ensure there was spider food in there.

- Oh, hey, in the drama they actually think to look inside the jar! But babby zombie is not in there this time.

- Oh, it was in one of the other jars instead

- Okay, time to follow the baby in the jar

- Oh, this hallway

- A-Ning is about to be a very bad girl

- Also, so many cobwebs

- So many

- I think that lends credence to the 'spiders were put here when the tomb was built and so have lived here for thousands of spider generations'

- WHY ARE ALL THE CANDLES LIT

- WHO LIT THEM SO RECENTLY THAT THEY'RE STILL BURNING

- I still can't get over them subbing 'Sanshu' as 'Uncle San'

- And random English because why not

- I was about to say the traps are stupidly obvious in this hall, then I remembered the Starfinder adventure I ran where the trigger was a giant mosaic on the floor that practically screamed 'trap' & the PCs just walked over it. And then were surprised when the trap triggered.

- Oh, here we go, A-Ning's about to do the thing

- Complete with evil villain smirk as she does so

- I wish there was better lighting in this hallway, because A-Ning's moves are amazing and I would like to be able to see them better

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 2 for Wu Xie, 2 for protagonists, 3 for everyone

- Those are some wuxia-esque spinny moves from A-Ning there

- Nooooo, Xiaoge, don't leave Wu Xie there without you!

- I wondered how they were going to have Wu Xie get hit by them since Xiaoge stopped him from being hit by the initial shots

- Dammit, A-Ning

- I appreciate that Pangzi's first reaction is to run to check on Wu Xie

- Even though that got him shot himself

- lol, these two dummies sitting there screaming once they notice all the arrows that they hadn't noticed before

- Good Pangzi, showing off that you're actually smart by realising Something Is Up with these arrows

- "Does it feel this good to be shot to death?"

"I've never died before, I have no idea"

- Hahahah, waving the arrow to see it that would attract more firing

- Then oh so carefully peeking up over the edge

- Ah, finally Xiaoge reveals himself properly!

- That face mask is just ridiculous

- lol, Wu Xie's reaction

- Those wide puppy eyes

- lol, Xiaoge's little smirk at Wu Xie

- And again. THEY'RE SO CUTE I CAN'T

- Here we are at the first chamber switcheroo

- I wish they'd subtitle at least the important parts of Wenjin's notebook when Wu Xie reads it and gets clues

- They were good with subtitling the wrist notepads when they were aimlessly swimming around for 11 mins

- But nothing else

- "Do you have Alzheimers" OMFG, Pangzi

- Pangzi gonna Pangzi

- I seem to say something along those lines about all of the Iron Triangle

- But it's true

- Ahahah, Wu Xie's facial expressions when he's brushing off Pangzi here

- It's little shit Wu Xie all over

- Look, okay, flashbacks are fine and all, but does it have to be a flashback to the FUCKING GREEN MURKY WATER

- Okay, at least that part wasn't too long

- That container is not sealed, that paper should not have been dry

- Certainly not so dry that exposure to air made it crumble and blow away

- Professor Zhang?

- HOW WERE THE IMPRINT OF WORDS LEFT BEHIND IN THE DUST?!

- IDK why they needed two archaeological teams in this flashback

- Also, hi, flashback Xiaoge

- Hey, it's the copper snek fishy

- Oh, that was a good cliffhanger to leave this episode on!

- Xiaoge remembering that he has been there before

So! Ep 2 ends with:

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 2 for Wu Xie, 2 for protagonists, 3 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Season 2 Evil Hair Count: 2

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 12 for Wu Xie, 17 for protagonists, 18 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

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merinnan · 4 years

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DMBJ Explore with the Note Ep 5

Okay, now that my workshop is finished, time for DMBJ Explore with the Note ep 5! Otherwise I will spend the entire afternoon just fucking around in WoW instead (one day I will show you screenshots of my Iron Triangle-as-WoW-toons).

We start ep 5 with the usual counts

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 2 for Wu Xie, 2 for protagonists, 3 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Season 2 Evil Hair Count: 3

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 12 for Wu Xie, 17 for protagonists, 18 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

- It's been a few eps since we had updates to the rescue or swoon counts, so here's hoping for Ep 5

- Ah, yes, the baby archaeologists just discovered the heavenly palace

- At least this girl is marginally less annoying than she was in the novel

- ...okay, I take it back

- Sweetie, it's a fucking tomb, why are you upset that there's a corpse in there?

- Those are some impressive fingernails

- lol, and they were all so distracted by the girl that no-one noticed 'Xiao Zhang' going all Zhang Qiling to get up there to check out what freaked her out

- I am disappoint that they didn't keep the present time crew in form-fitting wetsuits for the whole underwater tomb investigation like they did with the flashback crew

- OMG the look on Wenjin's face, I love it

- I think she's starting to realise that he knows what he's doing

-Very good questions, Wenjin

- Oh, so that wasn't just better set lighting, the tomb was actually fully lit somehow? The better question in this case is not 'why is it suddenly so dark' but 'how the fuck was this underwater tomb so well lit?'

- THEN you can follow it up with 'why has the mysterious lighting suddenly gone out?'

- WHY would you bring such a group of easily scared kids on an archaeological expedition to EXPLORE THROUGH TOMBS?

- That seems like a bad idea even if you didn't think anything weird would go on

- ISTG, Sanxing, Wenjin, and Xiaoge are the only level-headed ones of the bunch

- A mural. They were in hysterics over a mural.

- I mean, yeah, there's a lot of high mountains, so not surprising you can't tell which one it is

- I was gonna say she's super judgey for an archaeologist but...nah, yeah, that tracks for academia, speaking from experience XD

- This episode has been taunting me with potential rescues that never quite get there, so it better actually pay off with one of them this episode

- Oooh, bitty shadow

- Wonder if it's the baby corpse from the jar earlier

- ...oh, right, Sanshu's still running around in some weird trance

- Awww, the lights go out in the heavenly palace room, and the entire set lighting goes from lovely and well-lit so you can actually see what's on screen, to super dark and shadowy, even outside that room

- Sorry, sanmei, I know I said I’d stop talking about lighting, but...I live in eternal hope of good lighting. The flashbacks here were actually GOOD up until now. So I am sad they've gone back to bad lighting.

- I'm embarrassed to say that it's taken me the entirety of Guardian, Granting You A Dreamlike Life, DMBJ 1, and now partway through ep 2 of DMBJ 2 before I've realised that I can pause Viki playbacks by hitting my space bar.

- OMFG, how many rooms are there in this tomb with a set of porcelain vases arranged in a particular order?

- Smart, Wenjin, conserving flashlight batteries like that.

- I know that this Wenjin must be older than the Wenjin in the Chongqi flashbacks, but why couldn't we have had this Wenjin in those flashbacks as well?

- Chongqi Wenjin is ok, but this one's more level-headed and competent. And much better at de-escalating semi-hysterical girls.

- Then again, I suppose if Chongqi Wenjin had this Wenjin's skills, they wouldn't have been able to have had that dumb ~DRAAMAA~ with the love triangle

- Tunnel floor is suddenly wet again instead of dry. Wish they'd make up their mind

- Evil Hair Count: 4

- This time creeping on random guy at the back of the party

- Who is mildly disturbed that he's suddenly got water down the back of his neck. Don't blame him

- Judging by the way Xiaoge just clapped a hand over his mouth and nose, I'm guessing that they all just got gassed.

- And it must be a REALLY FAST acting gas if they all collapsed like 5 seconds after Xiaoge covered his nose and mouth, and he seems to be fine

- Oh, no, spoke to soon, down he goes

- Okay, Sanshu. A) That's creepy, and b) why aren't you also affected?

- ...something that takes down Xiaoge for long enough that he wakes up in a hospital bed concerns me

- I do not blame him one bit for looking so perturbed

- OMG, that GRRM roast, that's fantastic

- I hope Xiaoge is just leaving out all of the unnecessary family stuff that he doesn't think Wu Xie and Pangzi need to do, otherwise he just implied that the Zhangs have just, like, misplaced him for 20 or so years and not looked for him?

- Wu Xie is always so desperate to believe the best of Sanshu, it's really cute

- Ah, I see we're back to the requisite pingxie staring for the episode. Excellent

- Here's the clearest sign yet that S2 does not follow on from S1 at all, as it completely ignores changes that S1 made to the plot and instead is referencing novel events that did not happen in the drama.

- I would have been SO FUCKING CONFUSED if I hadn't read the first novel

- lol, Xiaoge. Giving a tiny almost-smile and clapping someone on the shoulder after dropping a bombshell like that on them is NOT how you're supposed to talk to your crush

- And it looks like we're now back to Wu Xie's nightmares from the first ep

- ...is that last one supposed to be Xiaoge? It's hard to tell with the angle and (yes, sorry, sanmei) the lighting

- Way to ruin the moment, Pangzi

- ...omg Pangzi

- I'm kinda cringing now

- Hahah, the look on Wu Xie's face. Like, same

- Those are good points, Pangzi, but wouldn't you still have the problem of being underwater without oxygen tanks? That tomb is pretty far down and mostly buried in the sea bed, after all

- ...Wu Xie that maths made no sense at all

- Rude. Pangzi has said useful things before now!

- LOL at all the "don't touch anything" "i mean it" "also" "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING"

- Because we all know that Pangzi is gonna touch stuff and try to steal at least one thing

- Oh, there you are, A-Ning

- How did you get in there?

- This is an unnecessarily long sequence of Xiaoge running his fingers over the door and Pangzi messing with his hair, set to super annoying BGM. Was it really necessary to have a full 1 minute 40 seconds of that?

- That should have been done in, like, 30 seconds tops.

- I do like how excited this Wu Xie is to see the cool architectural stuff like the moving doors in here

- After that first hallway, they all seem so unconcerned about traps

- Tombs are usually, quiet, Wu Xie. Hence the saying 'quiet as the tomb'

- Xiaoge's tiny smiles at Wu Xie and Pangzi's banter are just adorable

- OMG THEIR FACES

- But guys, you really should have looked for traps first

- Before the walls started trying to squish you like pancakes

- "Start climbing", says Xiaoge, as he just fucking leaps up the sides of the walls

- Good thing these walls are conveniently not smooth and straight, with regular hand and footholds

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 3 for protagonists

- Not quite the dramatic rescue I was hoping for, but I'll take it since it's been so long

- The closed walls has now made them a cute little tunnel to crawl through

- Oh, wait, annoying girl was from one of the Nine Gate families?

- Which one? I'll have to look her up later, I've completely forgotten her name.

- Xie Lianhuan is talking Sanshu into taking him along on the original expedition. Honestly, dude, you dying is all your fault, you weren't even supposed to be there

- Oh, Qiu Dekao was involved in the 20 year ago bullshit as well. Why am I not surprised?

- And with the tomb from S1, too, also 20 years ago

- Wait, if Wenjin was the leader the whole time, how come she kept deferring to Sanshu?

- Dramatic bgm! Dramatic reused footage!

- Oh yeah, the looks on their faces, I know exactly who just popped into mind for Pangzi and Wu Xie at that

- Because who else could have done it?

- ...okay, except Sanshu, point

- Oh noooooo, more fucking underwater diving scenes

- This show is instilling in me a visceral loathing of underwater diving scenes. They're awful

- Like, seriously, after 5 eps they've already shown enough underwater goddamn diving scenes to fill up a full half of an episode

- An entire quarter of one episode was made up of them

- Oh my GOD that bgm. That was...something

- Okay, Xie Lianhuan was supposed to have dug this passage? Seriously?

- He was only missing for a day before they found his body, how the fuck was he supposed to dig a loooooong passage, high enough for a fully grown adult to walk crouched, in less than a day?

- Ah, and that's ep 5.

Count updates:

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 2 for Wu Xie, 3 for protagonists, 4 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Season 2 Evil Hair Count: 4

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 12 for Wu Xie, 18 for protagonists, 19 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

Season 2 is decidedly lacking in swoons so far. It better up its game.

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merinnan · 4 years

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DMBJ Ep 6

I’ve been a bit behind putting these up on Tumblr, so I’m afraid you’re about to get a dump of the remainder of Season 1, plus the first two eps of Explore with the Note! (not all in one post, of course - 1 ep per post as usual)

So! Episode 6!

The Xiaoge Rescue Count at the start of ep 6 stands at 9 for Wu Xie, 12 for the protagonists, 13 for everyone.

- And we start back with Chengcheng and High Jr. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS SUBPLOT, MAKE IT GO AWAY AND BRING BACK XIAOGE AND WU XIE.

- Why is Chengcheng calling her kidnapper dage? I don't like her or trust her. She is annoying and shady

- Oh, good, now we are back to Wu Xie being a good boy

- That is a lot of guns and explosives Sanshu has recovered

- I am annoyed at how they all seem to think that A-Ning needs to be shielded from everything unpleasant because she's a girl. She's a goddamn mercenary leader. I think she can take knowing these things - and it's better to let her know as it's found out so that she can adjust to the news properly, instead of springing it on her when it can't be concealed anymore, like what happened when the blood zombie showed up.

- On a completely different tangent, Wu Xie's neck dressing has stayed astonishingly clear for running around in a tomb, crawling through tight tunnels, falling off of ledges and being dramatically rescued, fighting bugs, and fainting all over floors.

- Wu Xie is so sweetly optimistic

- LOL, sure Pangzi, you're here for archeological study

- ....Wu Xie, you are disturbingly knowledgeable about guns for a college student

- Now that I've read the first novel between having watched ep 5 and now, my mind is slightly reeling from how innocent and babie drama Wu Xie is compared to novel Wu Xie

- Awww. Doesn't matter which Wu Xie it is, babie with gun always looks kinda adorable.

- Also, I appreciate Wu Xie's trigger discipline. So often shows have such terrible trigger discipline.

- Oooh, it's like a carved thing on the dais that got his attention. I thought it was like a computer drive or something at first, because it looked kinda like that.

- OH NO, THE LIVING VINES ARE HERE AND SNEAKING UP ON THEM

- ...and pushing the button made them retreat

- ...phew?

- I am still concerned

- The music signifies that something creepy is coming

- lol, babie. Looking so innocent even though He Knows What He Did

- I don't know what that sound is, but that's not a good sound

- ...earthquake? That's a bad thing to happen when you're in the middle of an evil cave.

- WU FAMILY, WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY ONES TRYING TO STAY ON YOUR FEET WITHOUT HOLDING ONTO ANYTHING?!

- So fucking stubborn

- This is where Wu Xie gets it from, if Erbai is wondering

- A-Ning is the smartest one, staying sitting down

- The tree opens up like a fucking security vault and ejects a coffin. Because of course if fucking does.

- Oooh, yeah, that's that shot from the opening credits

- "I can't read any of this, but it says this is the guy we're looking for"

- "His story recorded here is the same as what we know" WU XIE YOU JUST SAID YOU CAN'T READ IT

- Come on. Earlier in the show you said "yes I can read this" and read it. And in the novel, you puzzle it out from being able to read bits. This part, you flat out said he couldn't read it, and now are telling everyone what it says

- I love continuity, but dramas really don't

- The music now is similar enough to the Harry Potter music that I almost expect an owl to go flying past

- The owner of a coffin wanting the coffin to be opened hundreds or thousands of years later seems like it should be something more worrying than how everyone is reacting

- I wanna know how Sanshu knows the coffin has been there for 3000 years. Wu Xie can't read the dates on it, and the Warring States Period was 1500 years ago, not 3000

- JESUS CHRIST, SANSHU, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SENSIBLE ONE!

- Why are you suggesting you open the chained shut coffin in order to see if there's somehow something alive (or alive-ish) in there?

- Awwww! Wu Xie going "no, don't do that, Pokerface told us not to touch anything"

- Like. Not, "no uncle, that seems like a bad idea"

- But "Xiaoge told us not to, and we should do what he says"

- I have the feeling that if this Pangzi is agreeing with something, then you all should not be doing that thing. Because this version of Pangzi is an idiot

- HOW THE FUCK IS THE MOVING COFFIN GOING TO SECRETLY HAVE THE EXIT INSIDE IT, PANGZI

- THAT MAKES THE LEAST SENSE OUT OF EVERYTHING SO FAR

- Pan Zi's "WTF do you think you're doing" look

- This Pangzi is so bad

- I even like Chengcheng better than him. And I wish they had taken her into the tomb and used her as bait.

- I'm glad he's better in other adaptations. Like, I love the Pangzi in Chongqi. I am so glad that he was my intro to Pangzi, not this one

- DON'T MAKE THE BABIE SAD BY BEING DUMB

- A-Ning really should not be just standing there with her leg injury. I've had a muscle biopsy before where they took it from the thigh, which is a similar 'injury' to what she's got, and you do not get on your feet unless you absolutely have to for days afterwards.

- At least they have her limp when she's walking, and it's kinda sad that I'm glad they do that!

- And Pan Zi should not be doing hard physical labour with a fucking gut wound

- But I think I'm more annoyed by A-Ning, because I have personal experience with her kind of injury so know first-hand what kind of pain she's causing herself by standing and walking

- HUMAN BRAIN LOGIC GO

- Pangzi you fucking dick, just standing there watching. You should be pushing instead of Pan Zi

- Hahahah, after all his shittalk and boasting, and he can't do it

- Oh, there, finally

- I know that inside lid is supposed to be jade, but it looks so terribly fake. Oh my god. It's awful

- It looks like a bad Photoshop of one of those Windows 98 default backgrounds

- I love the looks everyone gives Pangzi every time he slips up and talks about getting money from the stuff in the tomb

- LOL, that's not a carving, that's a couple of translucent green plastic discs stuck on top of Windows Background Photoshop cover

- ...I'm kinda waiting for someone to suddenly shout BOO! really loudly while they're all carefully trying to listen for any sounds in the coffin

- They're almost at the end of the first novel in terms of plot, and there's still 4 and a half eps to go

- Wow, I think that's the first time I've seen Sanshu actually worried

- lol, and now Pangzi says he believes him, rather than get his ear that close to the coffin himself

- PANGZI DON'T STARTLE SOMEONE WHO HAS THEIR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER OF A GUN & DEFINITELY DON'T SMACK THE GUN

- Wu Xie has a lot of control to have not accidentally shot right then

- LOL, after all their declarations how they're archaeologists, not tomb robbers, & how they're here to protect cultural artefacts from robbers, etc - they go make references to the northern and southern schools of tomb raiding

- Just without actually saying exactly what the 'Southern School' being referred to actually is.

- ....and now Pangzi jumps in front of the pointed gun as he grabs it. Do you have a fucking death wish, dude?

- And now we see the infamous bronze armour! Jade armour. Whatever

- You'd think they'd have learned to fucking take all of A-Ning's guns away from her after last time she held one of them at gunpoint

- OMG, the face on the helmet is so fucking ridiculous, I can't - It's not even properly positioned over his face

- Aaaaah, Sanshu called him tianzhen I'm so happy at being able to identify that word now it's ridiclous

- That...that is not what peeled skin looks like

- Pangzi comes right out and admits he's a tomb robber

- And for the first time, no-one calls him on it

- Or correct him for calling them tomb robbers

- Ah, there you are, Xiaoge. I was wondering how long it would take for you to be back

- I see looking for people in a tomb requires no shirt XD

- Better shots of shirtless Xiaoge

- Like, same, Wu Xie. Same.

- Look, I have two braincells, and one is for Xiaoge and one is for pingxie

- YOU ACTING LIKE THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS, PANGZI

- Oooh, this is a goood shot of the tattoo. And of who the tattoo is on

- I don't have a Xiaoge problem. It's the opposite of a problem.

- Seriously, Pangzi is so fucking lucky that Xiaoge didn't kill him a dozen times over during their first meetings here

- Also, now that Xiaoge has explained why he threw a knife at Pangzi, I believe it's time to update the Xiaoge Rescue Count to 9 for Wu Xie, 13 for the protagonists, 14 for everyone.

- Although maybe I should have also been keeping a People Eyerolling At Pangzi Count given how often it's been happening

- More Xiaoge pics, feat. emotions that are not 'worrying about Wu Xie'

- Also, did he throw the corpse off the platform after he broke it's neck, or did it yeet itself off somehow?

- I mean, I too wanna know how Xiaoge knows all this stuff if this was all put here 3000 years ago

- I do love that Wu Xie is already about the only person who Xiaoge will actually look at instead of staring down or straight ahead

- LOL, Wu Xie won't even let Pangzi so much as touch this.

- I honestly appreciate that Xiaoge appears to travel lightly enough that he doesn't have a spare shirt

- EVERYTHING makes Wu Xie better than everyone else (except Xiaoge), Pangzi

- lol, Sanshu, yes. You tell him.

- Hahahah, and Wu Xie playing along with Sanshu, the little adorable shit

- THE LOOK ON HIS FACE

- KJFDHKJDAFHFKASDJHFKJASDLHGFSKLJ

- AND DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE THAT SMIRK, WU XIE

- There is absolutely not enough of little shit!Wu Xie in S1

- Loooool, his little nod at Sanshu now that they got their way and made Pangzi promise to stfu for the time being

- And that is the first time I've seen that style of carriage roll like a car

- Those skull ballistae were a cool aesthetic, though

- THAT CARRIAGE WAS ROLLING LIKE A FUCKING CAR, HOW IS IT BACK UPRIGHT AND ROLLING ALONG THE GROUND TO THE CLIFF

- HOW TF IS IT ROLLING ANYWHERE WITH A SMASHED WHEEL

- HOW TF IS HE ABLE TO HOLD IT FOR EVEN A SECOND, ESPECIALLY WITH ONE HAND

- A thin as fuck flagpole is going to give you jack shit in terms of something to brace with when it comes to that much weight

- THE SCRIPTWRITER OF THIS SCENE IS BAD AND SHOULD FEEL BAD

- *cries in physics minor*

- I can suspend disbelief for aliens, zombies, everything about Xiaoge, logic holes, and plot pits. Apparently my line is a non-cultivator breaking the laws of physics.

- Aaaah, here come the zombies

- So this dude is not the zombie dude

- He is the emperor, I think?

- OH MY GOD THAT GREENSCREEN IS JUST THE WORST

- I thought the one on the river was bad. The one of her falling as he dives off the cliff to save her is actively painful

- Oh, now it looks like we're gonna have a dumb love triangle in the flashback. Yay. *waves tiny flag*

- Bitch, be a bit more grateful. Yes, your ex-lover caught you as you were falling & did so by basically flying, but that's just standard wuxia defiance of physics. Your husband held a FUCKING CARRIAGE with ONE HAND for AT LEAST TWO WHOLE MINUTES to keep you alive before your ex finally showed up

- "Were you really frightened?" Your majesty, what kind of a stupid question is that?

- The emperor's armour is really pretty, I gotta say

- Uuuugh, this stupid love story hurts in a bad way

- I'm just gonna fast forward through it

- ...and there's the end of the episode.

- That love triangle is going to make me scream, I know it

- But that does explain how they're going to pad out the episodes a bit more with how far through the plot they are already

- None of them are even really that pretty to make up for the boring, trite, love triangle plot

- How do they expect to keep my attention through it if I don't even have eye candy?!?!

- I will be seriously headdesking if this flashback goes on for more than the next ep!

- Oh well, there we are. The end of ep 6

The Xiaoge Rescue Count at the end of ep 6 stands at 9 for Wu Xie, 13 for the protagonists, 14 for everyone.

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DMBJ Ep 5

We start episode 5 with the Xiaoge Rescue Count at 6 for Wu Xie, and 7 total.

- Pangzi just sitting there eating while they go to dig an evil bug out of A-Ning

- A-Ning is luckier than Pan Zi, though, having it in her leg rather than in her gut

- Should I consider this part of the Xiaoge Rescue Count? Technically he is saving A-Ning here, but does she count?

- Fuck it. There's now 3 Xiaoge Rescue Count categories: Wu Xie, the protagonists as a whole, and everyone

- So the count is now 6 for Wu Xie, 7 for the protagonists, and 8 for everyone

- That was a relatively painless bug removal. Probably helped that A-Ning was unconscious

- That's a large hole left in her thigh. Speaking from experience, standing & walking are not going to be fun for her for a LONG time.

- But this is a cdrama, so she'll be fine within an ep or two

- lol, I've never seen an unconscious person with this level of muscle control

- Wu Xie, you don't just wrap a bandage around a wound like that! Dress it first!

- But, again, it's a TV show, so a bandage will be fine

- JESUS CHRIST PANGZI

- LOL, yes, shhhh, Pangzi. Shhhh.

- Pan Zi's looking a lot better this ep

- ...what's wrong, Wu Xie?

- Aaaand he just passed out.

- Xiaoge actually looks mildly disturbed. I think this is the second most amount of emotion we've seen from him so far

- That looks like a nasty bite

- Oh, we're just gonna...feed him blood. That's what we're going.

- And it woke him up

- Okay, so Xiaoge Rescue Count is now 7 for Wu Xie, 8 for the protagonists, and 9 for everyone

- Fortunately, Xiaoge hasn't lost as much blood as he did last time he used it for magic rescue purposes. Last thing they'd want is a comatose Xiaoge down here

- Everyone is just so chill whenever Xiaoge does weird stuff, it's great

- Aaah, I was wondering how he'd been bitten, since I didn't remember a bug biting him. I forgot that A-Ning did

- That's some odd poison if it got into her saliva just because she had a bug in her leg

- GDI Pangzi

- Of course the cure is in the tomb, and of course Xiaoge knows about it

- LOL, there's a vaccine against the poison gas

- Oooh, I was wondering when the dudes in the trees were gonna make their move. Poor Wu Xie's friend. He really would have been safer in the tomb, huh

- Hahah, why are the bad guys treating Wu Xie like the leader when he's just a uni student?

- Ooh, who did that?

- Oh, Wu Xie's friend. Good boy. I mean, it was dumb, but brave. Now they can't use you against your friends.

- Poor Wu Xie is so woozy he's not sure what happened

- Yeah, figured it was some more of A-Ning's friends

- YOU LOSE CONTACT, & YOU LOSE CONTACT, & EVERYONE LOSES CONTACT! YAAAAY!

- Get out before nightfall. Isn't that what Xiaoge said, too?

- Yeah, abandoned in a forest at night doesn't sound like fun

- She should NOT be walking that well, although at least it is showing her limping and in pain instead of just okay

- God, Pangzi, that was a dick move

- And that was even more of one

- Wow. I...don't really like this Pangzi. Those things he just did were actively cruel, even if she is an antagonist

- It's blocked? Yeah, ya think?

- Oh, STFU Pangzi

- Pan Zi looking at him like "I really regret not shooting you properly when I had the chance"

- Xiaoge doing this "stab fingers STRAIGHT INTO MORTAR and remove the brick" trick again

- The look on Pangzi's face is pure gold

- Had to pause watching for a sec to think about why I'm so mad at this Pangzi and more forgiving of Liu Sang in Chongqi. I think it's because Liu Sang intended to pull a prank. A mean prank, but he lacked the experience to understand that it was actively harmful and dangerous. It went wrong, and then he freaked because of that lack of experience and didn't know what to do/say until Xiaoge pushed him. And then he tried to help make up for it. Whereas this Pangzi did things that he knew would cause real physical pain to A-Ning and potentially worsen her injury just because he doesn't like her, and he doesn't seem to care or even give that a second thought, let alone look like he's going to apologise or try to make up for it.

- OK, mini-rant over, back to the episode.

- Gratuitous Xiaoge side-profile pic just because

- And now Pangzi is gonna embarrass himself by trying & failing to be Xiaoge

- YEAH CHENGCHENG I WONDER HOW THEY KNOW YOUR NAMES

- Okay, I gotta stop to look up his name. I can't keep calling him Wu Xie's friend all the time

- High Shao. There we go

- High Shao is a good kid

- A-Ning's eyeroll at Pangzi is my entire mood with his antics right now

- Eyeroll from Wu Xie

- Can't see Pan Zi's face, but his whole posture is basically an eye roll

- Oh. Well. Huh. I did not expect Pangzi to actually manage to break the wall

- Judging by everyone's expressions, no-one else did, either

- Oooh, something bad must be coming, Xiaoge is going on guard

- Yep. Zombie dude is on his way

- Yes, send the woman with the serious leg injury to go crawling through a tiny cave tunnel first. Brilliant idea, Wu Xie

- OK, I should stop being so hard on bb!Wu Xie, this is his first time in a tomb after all

- Y'know, guys, I really think it would have been a better idea to let Pan Zi go before Pangzi, given that he's also injured and all. Get your most injured people to safety first.

- How the fuck is that zombie deflecting Xiaoge's sword with his HAND?!

- WHY IS IT MAKING TINGING NOISES AS IF IT'S METAL HITTING METAL?!

- Oh, NICE, Xiaoge!

- I am very disappointed that I could not get a good screencap of that awesome, smooth, and effortless slide he did through the tunnel

- Things I discovered when I went to YouTube to see if I could get a good screencap of it by slowing down the playback (which I can't do on Viki)

- the eps on YT and the eps on Viki are edited differently. I'm gonna have to watch this again on YT once I'm done with the Viki one

- At a guess, the YT ones have a bunch of stuff cut, because where I'm up to in ep 5 on Viki is in ep 4 on YT

- For instance, XIAOGE'S AWESOME SLIDE THROUGH THE TUNNEL JUST THEN is not in the YT one?!

- Wow, I'm going on a lot of tangents tonight. OK, back to the ep.

- Xiaoge holding the zombie at swordpoint until it gives up and backs away

- So these zombies have some intelligence

- ngl, though, if I was on my hands and knees in front of a hot guy holding a sword on me, backing away would be like the last thing I would be doing

- Why the fuck is there a giant, chained up tree deep in the middle of an underground tomb?

- And ivy all over the cave walls?

- WHERE ARE YOU GETTING SUNLIGHT FROM DOWN HERE?! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?!

- I'm glad you're just as confused as I am, Pan Zi

- OK, some sunlight is getting in, since there are two bodies laying in a conveniently positioned sunbeam

- Sure, what the fuck are you gonna do to him, Pangzi? He's dead. He doesn't care.

- Unless he's another zombie who's gonna rise from the grave, but still don't think he cares

- Yes, Pangzi, tomb robbers don't end well

- Love Wu Xie's cute suspicious face

- Lucky grab there

- Oh, there you are, Sanshu

- Do all the tunnels in this place empty out at this tree?

- LOL, I love that Sanshu immediately doesn't take any of Pangzi's shit

- That was a bad place to faint

- Good thing Xiaoge is right there!

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 8 for Wu Xie, 9 for the protagonists, 10 for everyone

- I love how often Wu Xie is the damsel in distress

- Don't worry, Sanshu, Xiaoge will definitely look after his future bf

- Looks like Pangzi is about to fall. Again

- Pangzi, if you had HELD ON to that vine, it wouldn't have been as bad

- Wait for him to realise he's laying between two corpses in 3, 2, 1...

- Uh...I hope they're just stuck to him and not actually sitting up under their own power

- These are remarkably well-preserved corpses

- THERE'S that realisation

- And there's the freakout

- They did get just get caught

- They're not gonna have kids, Pangzi, they're dead

- Pangzi, what are you doing? Leave the corpses alone now

- Wake them? I don't like the sound of that, Sanshu

- Also, how do you know that?

- Cute pingxie shots just because

- In her mouth?

- Oh, a key, thank goodness. I thought it was gonna be an evil bug

- Pangzi, stop appraising her necklace, didn't you say you're not a tomb robber?

- There's fucking what now?

- HOW?!

- THERE'S A WHAT IN HER ASS?!

- Hahah, well that certainly stopped Pangzi from checking out the valuables on her

- JFC

- That got Xiaoge's attention

- Oooh, he's noticed something in the tree

- Sorry not sorry for more gratuitous Xiaoge shots

- That's a pretty looking key

- ...and now her corpse is undergoing rapid decay? How the fuck was the key preventing the corpse from decaying?

- That explanation makes no logical sense, Sanshu

- Maybe that box the other corpse is holding, Wu Xie?

- Pangzi thought of that, too

- What were those flashes? Were those just for the viewer, or was one of the characters getting them?

- That seemed to be the unnaturally bright green-eyed man from the opening credits

- Leave the sword alone, Pangzi

- Although I do understand the desire to pick it up

- Uh...what

- No shadow is NEVER a good thing

- WTF?

- Sanshu, I never wanna play poker with you

- This doppelganger has done a damn good job of acting like Pangzi this whole time

- When did it replace him?

- Maybe it was the doppelganger who was so cruel to A-Ning? We'll see.

- That's a very solid ghost

- And that's kinda creepy

- Uh...isn't she already dead?

- Sanshu just going straight for the tackle

- Clever boy, Wu Xie

- Though, Xiaoge, where were you? Were you just gonna let Pangzi strangle Sanshu, or did you figure Sanshu had it handled?

- (he did not have it handled)

- (pretty sure if that had been Wu Xie you'd've jumped in the moment Pangzi's hands went around his throat, if not before)

- *sigh* Pangzi, pls

- The Green Eyed Fox?

- Was that the dude in the fox mask?

- Probably (also?) the opening credits guy

- How the fuck has it taken me 3 hours to get through half an ep?

- Oh yeah, I keep going off on tangents and pausing to take pretty screenshots of Xiaoge

- So we're doing fox demons, are we?

- Don't touch anything. Yeah, like that sword you had casually slung over your shoulder.

- Storytime!

- Suuure, Pangzi

- Xiaoge really seems to know everything

- Don't rattle it, Wu Xie

- Oh, that interested A-Ning

- I wonder if this is the thing that's supposed to cure Wu Xie

- Sanshu thinks it's a bad idea, but doesn't want anyone other than Wu Xie to know

- Or, more to the point, doesn't want Pangzi and A-Ning to know

- Good excuse, Wu Xie

- I wonder if Pangzi is still supposed to be a doppelganger, or if that was part of the hallucination

- Yeah, suuure you're not going to steal relics, Liu Tai

- Have they set up a new camp at the digsite, or did they take Chengcheng and High Shao back to their original camp?

- I think he does legit want A-Ning to be ok, though

- Looks like I was right, all the tunnels lead to the tree

- Which means I expect zombie guy to show up any minute

- Don't think A-Ning will be happy they kept what happened to her friend from her when that happens

- Xiaoge back into 'something is coming' mode

- Oh, how was that for timing? Less than a minute after I said it, zombie dude is on his way

- And it goes straight for Pangzi

- Maybe he knew Pangzi was a dick to his friend

- GDI A-Ning

- That's a strong zombie

- XIAOGEEEEEEE!

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 8 for Wu Xie, 10 for the protagonists, 11 for everyone

- Yes, Pangzi, Xiaoge IS amazing

- lol, Pangzi making so much noise cheering for Xiaoge that he got the zombie's attention back

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 8 for Wu Xie, 11 for the protagonists, 12 for everyone

- This is apparently the Xiaoge Rescues EVERYONE ep

- I'm not surprised you fell, A-Ning, with that wound

- That was a heavy fall. Ouch

- Come on, A-Ning, you seemed more level headed than this so far

- And the zombie knocks away the easier/closer target, Wu Xie, to target A-Ning

- Wonder if there's a reason for it, or just dramatics

- And then he stops trying to bite her to kick her away & go back to fighting Xiaoge?

- Those are some very nice moves from Xiaoge

- And now the zombie is...launching himself at Wu Xie and the others?

- Wu Xie being the hero and pushing everyone else out the way

- Pangzi to the rescue?

- No - A-Ning!

- Poor A-Ning

- Oh yeah, better pull Pangzi out the tree

- Zombie spitting up blood as he's dying

- No, Pangzi, he's not gonna be fine. A-Ning shot him like 4 or 5 times in the chest

- Aaah, zombie is lucid now

- Wu Xie ain't doing too good right now

- Those are some nasty bruises. Caused by the poison gas/blood, I'm guessing

- WTF made you think drinking the water in a tomb chamber was a good idea?

- Xiaoge's shown emotion a total of 3 times in 5 eps, and 2 of those have been worry for Wu Xie

- Whatcha looking for, Xiaoge?

- Huh, no-one even thought to look under there, just assumed the box was all that was interesting

- Kirin blood?!

- And how did A-Ning know what it was, esp from that distance?

- Pan Zi, you are like the second most badass person here next to Xiaoge

- Also, I am no longer feeling sorry for A-Ning

- You owe these people your life, A-Ning, and this is how you repay them?

- Xiaoge isn't too impressed. After all Pan Zi ain't Wu Xie

- Oh, that seems like a fair deal.

- I am pleased with the amount of Xiaoge in this ep

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 9 for Wu Xie, 12 for the protagonists, 13 for everyone

- Not gonna count his offer to A-Ning as a rescue, since he didn't bother waiting to see if she'd accept before he went ahead and saved his future bf

- This is the softest I've seen him look all show

- Pan Zi is much nicer than I would have been. I would have probably punched her

- Then again, they've made a fuss a few times about treating her differently because she's a woman, ugh

- Hahah, Xiaoge just getting up and walking off without any explanation for poor Wu Xie

- Wu Xie seemed so concerned, like he thought he'd done something wrong

- Then all worried, aww

- Hahah, Xiaoge not even gonna wait for A-Ning, just gonna go find her guys all by himself

- Several *thousand*? No wonder Wu Xie's gagging

- Oh, eating super old kirin blood is what made Xiaoge's blood magical? Does that mean Wu Xie's blood is also magic now?

- Just Chengcheng in danger, Sanshu? What about High Shao?

- What about climbing the tree?

- XD XD XD

- Sanshu saying exactly what I just did

- There's sunlight already coming through, will you even need to dig a hole? That sunbeam on the corpses was pretty big

- Pan Zi like "of course I can climb all the way up there with a hole in my gut and several other injuries"

- Of course Wu Xie is gonna worry about A-Ning getting out as well. He wouldn't be Wu Xie if he didn't

- Wu Xie is such a nice boy

- Pan Zi is also pretty forgiving

- Pangzi, you just can't take people being sincere with you yet, can you?

- That's some depressed fatalism there

- Sanshu now doing his part to convince A-Ning by appealing to her sense of responsibility for her men

And there we go for ep 5! It only took me...5 hours for a 40 minute ep

We end with Xiaoge Rescue Count at 9 for Wu Xie, 12 for the protagonists, 13 for everyone

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DMBJ Explore with the Note Ep 3

Okay! Recap post for DMBJ season 2 (Explore with the Note), Ep 3!

Current counts:

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 2 for Wu Xie, 2 for protagonists, 3 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Season 2 Evil Hair Count: 2

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 12 for Wu Xie, 17 for protagonists, 18 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

- Hopefully this ep has less snorkelling scenes

- But to be honest

- It would be hard to have MORE snorkelling scenes than ep 2 and still have plot

- Oh yeah, they've just had the first switcheroo of the side chambers and Wu Xie is Very Confused

- And Xiaoge just realised he's been here before, and is admitting he has memory problems

- You are still such a bad liar at this point, Wu Xie.

- Oh my god, Pangzi, you can't just ask people if they inject Botox or have a radiation-caused genetic mutation

- Also, yes, I am already on my bullshit with the soft looks Xiaoge gives Wu Xie

- Well. The looks. Because this Xiaoge looks at people who are not Wu Xie about the same amount as Yang Yang's Xiaoge did

- It is very convenient how the flashbacks in this one are colour coded with that soft yellow lighting

- It's taken these guys from 20 years ago a lot longer to get out here than it's taken Wu Xie and co. in the present time

- Like. I'm kinda wondering if this past Xiaoge was just straight up watching the idiot Xie accidentally kill himself.

- I mean, I wouldn't blame him, tbh

- Going out diving by yourself without telling anyone is borderline suicidal without adding sneaking into an underwater tomb without adequate preparation to it

- It's nice to have better lighting in the flashbacks, though

- There's a snek-browed fishy, and past!Xiaoge is shook

- Also, that Xie guy looks like he was boiled or roasted down there

- Oh, is past!Xiaoge remembering something about snek-fishies?

- Wu Xie coming in with some epic side-eye as Xiaoge tells the story

- Why does the flashback get a much more clear and visible snorkelling scene?!

- You can actually see things! - Are they trying to make a low-key accidental statement about water pollution?

- Okay, this episode's snorkelling scene starts 6 minutes in

- Let's see how long it goes for

- Hopefully it will end before the 17 minute mark

- That's the bar it has to beat here

- Surely it can't be that hard

- Oh, I spoke too soon on the water clarity

- Hey, if Sanshu and Wenjin could properly communicate underwater without arm notepads and without pulling out their fucking snorkles to try to literally talk underwater, WU XIE AND PANGZI, then why couldn't people in the present timeline do the same?

- Not looking at anyone in particular

- At all

- Especially not ones named Wu Xie and Pangzi

- The sea monkey that Sanshu chased off looks like baby compared to the one on the ghost ship

- Wow. Snorkelling took less than a minute and a half, with almost twice the number of people

- Obviously A-Ning needed more people on her expedition

- Then they wouldn't have had to swim around aimlessly for eleven fucking minutes before getting into the tomb

- Hahah, a perfume tomb

- Sure it is

- Don't you think that should make you suspicious, Sanshu?

- There's always gotta be a big, interesting mural. Let's see what exposition this one will trigger.

- Ofc Pangzi goes sniffing for perfume after hearing about it being there 20 years ago

- In a different room in the tomb

- After people had traipsed through it with their stinky diving equipment

- And ofc he doesn't smell it and then complains that it can't have been there in the first place

- Xiaoge's expression just says everything

- See, Wu Xie is the smart boy with the logical suggestions of why that might be, Pangzi

- This guy who wants to leave is like the only genre-savvy one of the lot of them

- Smart suggestions from past!Sanshu that yes, everyone should listen to

- They're not gonna listen to him

- Yep, taking a nap is never a good idea in these situations

- Which is why he's gonna do it

- After DMBJ 1 Pangzi, it's so nice to have a Pangzi who's smart and competent straight off the bat, instead of having to take like 4/5 of the season to get to that point

- And ofc you were a hooligan as a kid, Pangzi. I am totally unsurprised by this news

- I'd wondered why he jumped straight to aroma hypnosis, but him having come across it before when he was younger explains it

- This Wu Xie has some fantastic facial expressions

- For instance, this one is wondering if Pangzi is bullshitting him

- He doesn't even need to say it. It's right there on his face

- Oh yeah, Xiaoge recognises that

- And I was wondering how they'd intro that in without Wu Xie's disreputable antique store contacts telling him about it

- Pangzi is ofc the logical choice for it

- Hahah, yes, Wu Xie, you're right and you should say it

- Wu Xie: There's no such thing as ghosts

- Xiaoge's expression: You might want to reconsider that

- Oooh, Wu Xie has heard about it, too.

- Like almost 20 years ago, judging by how young he is in these flashbacks. And that this one looks like it takes place not long after Sanshu got into trouble from Grandpa Wu

- But like, Sanshu, why are you telling a five year old about this? Or maybe he's six. BUT STILL

- Sanshu, do not recommend evil, possibly-ghosty, nightmare-inducing perfumed bone to your baby nephew as a sleep aid

- Who tf let you near children?

- Ah, now time for the Sanshu-POV flashback. Which is happening within Wu Xie's flashback

- Flashback-ception!

- See, Sanshu, told you sleeping was a bad idea

- None of them listened to you

- Because you fell asleep and couldn't tell them no

- He can see surprisingly well for a man left in a sideroom of an underwater tomb with no light sources

- It looks like they took all his diving gear as well as their own

- How rude of them

- OH GOOD, it's not just me who was thinking that this room looked really empty

- I thought I was imagining things, or mixing up the room they were in earlier with the room that Wu Xie and the rest were in last ep

- Are those...claw marks where the mural used to be?

- OH WAIT NOW I REMEMBER WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HIM

- If this is following the book as closely as it seems for this bit, anyway

- I am less confused now

- Weird flash of light and sudden coffin appears

- Which Sanshu can still see without a light source

- Remember, kids, eat all your carrots like Sanshu obviously does!

- Do they just paint the same mural in every side chamber that has a mural? Because that looks just like the one from the other room.

- Oh no, I can see some differences in it now

- Yeah, that's not a good sign

- WTF Sanshu don't touch the creepy coffin that's suddenly pouring dark liquid out of it

- Is that another sea monkey?

- Apparently diving equipment is only necessary to get down to the tomb, not to get back up. You won't even swallow much water, you'll get back perfectly safely, just a bit out of breath

- And tired enough to pass out on the beach, but that might be from fighting a sea monkey first

- JFC, Sanshu, why are you telling all this to a five year old?

- You really think this is gonna dissuade him from this when he grows up? No. You are planting the early seeds of encouragement.

- Also the early seeds of lifelong nightmares

- You know, I still haven't worked out how Sanshu didn't recognise Xiaoge in DMBJ 1 - both drama and book. I mean, drama can be explained by them only adapting the first book that time, but book? Unless it gets explained later on

- Or I somehow skipped the explanation, which is also possible - I'll go back and reread them another time

- lol, Pangzi

- And look, more spiderwebs

- The undersea spider colony here really works hard

- Aaaah, Wu Xie's figuring it out already

- Pangzi seems to be serving the purpose of giving all the hints and little plot points that book Wu Xie already had before he stepped foot in the tomb

- Hahahah, 'can you please speak human'

- Pangzi with the major concerns. Who cares about running out of oxygen if the food is gone?! Not Pangzi!

- lol, looking at each other when they think Pangzi's being silly or unreasonable is already their go-to response

- lol, and Xiaoge doesn't agree until Wu Xie nods

- Ah, first thing they come across is the coffin from one of the other rooms, and Pangzi is showing off that this time around he actually knows things! Yay!

- Okay, this little smile and nod from Xiaoge to Wu Xie is just too adorable for words

- And in they go to investigate the coffin

- I do have to say that it's a very pretty coffin, though

- Yes, Xiaoge, that look is the appropriate look to give to Pangzi for saying that XD

- WTF is that

- lol, I like this troll Wu Xie

- Well. That was dramatic.

- IDK how the coffin lid when flying off like that though, there doesn't seem to be a sea monkey hiding in there this time

- Ew, that's a little gruesome

- Wu Xie is appropriately horrified by this

- It does still amuse me how Pangzi isn't even pretending not to be a tomb robber this time. He's so refreshingly honest about it.

- Hahaha. "Are you a Virgo? You're so picky" because Wu Xie is more interested in looking at the vases than in just grabbing a few to bail water with

- But hey, Wu Xie is a Pisces, nice to know

- You're just gonna walk over the top of that coffin lid like that, huh, Pangzi? Weren't you the one talking about how valuable the coffin was? And how you needed to do the proper rituals to show respect before opening it?

- And Wu Xie is back in the other room happily playing with vases and looking at the stories painted on them

- Alone

- Nothing bad could possibly come of this

- It's not like Wu Xie has a tendency to get into danger without even realising it

- Not at all

- But he's so happy! Like a cute little puppy

- lol, you really were so wrapped up in the vases that you didn't notice him leaving, huh, Wu Xie?

- Oops, looks like you stayed there a bit too long, Wu Xie. The entrance to the other room isn't there anymore

- Hahah, Xiaoge is so delicately scooping out water with the bowl compared to Pangzi just fucking going for it with that huge vase

- Aww, Xiaoge is worried about Wu Xie.

- But, y'know, guys, maybe you should turn around and realise that there's no entrance anymore

- Although that body is pretty creepy and attention-grabbing

- Yeah, I don't think that's gonna help, Wu Xie

- You're so adorable, though

- WTF how is there a live cat there

- Yeah, I don't blame you for pulling a gun, Pangzi

- Now back to poor, worried Wu Xie

- WTF does the theory of relativity have to do with the current situation?

- Awww, he's talking himself down from panic again. And it seems to be working.

- ...or not

- Ooh, the cat corpse is gone

- Xiaoge doesn't seem that concerned. More interested in the human corpse

- And they STILL haven't noticed that the entrance is gone I thought you had better situational awareness than this, Xiaoge

- Oh, that's not a good sign

- Ah, finally, NOW you notice

- As always, Xiaoge takes this the most calmly out of all of them

- I think it's a little late for not getting anxious, Wu Xie, when you were practically panicking earlier

- Uh-oh

- Here's the sea monkey, and Xiaoge is trapped in another room with no way of knowing

- Even though he does seem to have a sixth sense solely dedicated to Wu Xie being in trouble

- Run, Wu Xie, run!

- Lose your balance on those arrows! Throw those priceless vases as ineffective weapons!

- Ah, a side chamber which conveniently as a door that closes and locks

- GDI, Wu Xie, don't taunt the monster that's chasing you

- lol, his, 'wait, did that actually work' face

- Oh, so it's just gonna...dig through those stones. Fantastic.

- Why is there no blood on his knife? There really should be blood on his knife after stabbing that deeply.

- Hahah, Pangzi says that Wu Xie's guess was wrong, and Xiaoge just gives this lovely 'bitch please' look

- That's a hairy hairy hand right there

- I don't think Xiaoge so much as flinched

- Even when Pangzi's dart almost hit him

- Oh, okay, he seems vaguely concerned about the mark on his wrist now

- Oh, and now he's worried

- Yeah, when Xiaoge is worried and yells at you to run, it's time to fucking book it

- Guess he's a bit too distracted for his Wu Xie Is In Danger sense to be tingling right now

- That's a weird looking coffin

- And on Wu Xie considering anachronistic elements of this tomb that he's now noticing, Ep 3 comes to an end.

- And with no updates to the Rescue Count, the Swoon Count, or the Evil Hair Count.

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DMBJ Explore with the Note Ep 1

Explore with the Note (S2), Ep 1!

We begin with the counts:

Season 2 Xiaoge Rescue Count: 0

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 10 for Wu Xie, 15 for protagonists, 16 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

- I like these title credits. The music is nice

- Having read the books in question this time, I can look at scenes in the title credits & go "I know where that's from!"

- So we start with mysterious people in a mysterious tomb and...one just cut another guys throat. Okay then.

- So he's just casually ganking them one by one and no-one seems to be noticing before they're the next victim

- Oh, it was a nightmare

- Wu Xie, this is what you get for falling asleep on top of old books like that

- Oh, this isn't picking up from S1

- They cast such a different Sanshu! It's so weird how much older this one looks

- Much less dapper, too, in terms of his wardrobe

- Sanshu had some very dapper outfits in S1, esp when at home

- This Sanshu is like...an ugly t-shirt and a blingy neckchain

- Oh, another nightmare

- Ugh, these subtitles They're subbing 'Sanshu' as 'Uncle San'

- Whyyyyyyy

- Oh, somehow I only just realised that the murderer in Wu Xie's first nightmare was Sanshu

- Ah well. I can live with bad subs. I'll just mock them.

- OH

- HELLO

- He didn't look like much when he was wearing clothes, but suddenly topless and covered with sweat it seems there is something to that body after all

- FML

- That close up on his neck as he swallowed was entirely unnecessary

- WU XIE

- There are glasses right there!

- But tbh, after those nightmares, I don't blame him for wanting a drink of something strong

- Look, much as I appreciate a sweaty, shirtless Wu Xie, he's been up and wandering around long enough now that the sweat should have dried instead of still trickling down his skin.

- It's weird how little things like that can throw me

- This is throwing us into things very quickly given this is 40 episodes long

- But sure, let's get along to the docks so we can start the sea adventure!

- Did...did he bring one of his throw cushions with him?

- Hmmm, I don't think driving at that speed while having flashbacks to nightmares and what appear to be childhood memories is a good idea, Wu Xie

- That is a really pretty ocean view road

- THE TOP OF THE STAIRS ARE NOT A PARKING SPOT, WU XIE

- I am guessing that this is A-Ning approaching on the speedboat

- Why is she called Sanshu 'Sanshu' as well?

- Hm, so Sanshu and Qiu Dekao are friends. Explains Sanshu's reaction in S1.

- I'm sure we'll find out why Sanshu approached them for help

- Wu Xie has packed super lightly if that little backpack is all he has with him

- This is...I'm assuming this is Pangzi?

- Judging from how happy he and Wu Xie are to see each other

- They're more open about being tomb raiders in this one than they were in S1

- Ah, there we are. Yes, it's definitely Pangzi.

- lol, she was listening to them the whole time, was she?

- Oh hi, Consultant Zhang! I know who you are!

- It amuses me how he won't let go of Wu Xie's hand

- Wouldn't be using this as an excuse to do so, would we?

- Why would you have the passengers up on deck in this storm this instead of in their cabin, out of the way?

- It's a bit too late to try going around the storm when you're in the middle of it, A-Ning

- Wu Xie almost gets washed overboard, because of course he does

- Oh fuck it, there's no point being coy about this, is there?

- We all know who Consultant Zhang is

- So! Xiaoge Rescue Count: 1 for Wu Xie

- NOW you tell them to get inside the cabin

- Don't sound so pleased about the prospect of imminent death, Pangzi

- Aww, I like how 'Consultant Zhang' is just grabbing Wu Xie, trying to make sure he gets safely to the cabins

- Yeah, you deserved that for being a dumbass, Panzi

- Mmm, ghost ship, ominous

- What were you trying to shoot, Pangzi? You couldn't hit those hands without hitting A-Ning

- And of course Wu Xie is all ready to jump overboard and swim across to the ghost ship to get A-Ning

- Because he's Wu Xie

- 'Consultant Zhang' to the rescue tying the boats together, and Pangzi making sure the rope doesn't get cut while Wu Xie goes over there

- Wu Xie, leaping onto the rope like that was dangerously unnecessary when you could have walked like three steps to where it was tied and climbed onto it from there

- SOMEONE looking very concerned, AS HE SHOULD BE

- YOU KNOW WHAT WU XIE IS LIKE, 'CONSULTANT ZHANG'!

- Those spooky hands are ridiculously strong

- Ouch, that's a hard fall even without having fallen through broken decking

- He saved you because he's Wu Xie, A-Ning

- You should know this

- It's not the first time he's done it

- Random convenient items in the cupboard

- Almost like it's an RPG videogame

- Oooh, it's Chen Wenjin's notebook

- Ah, the evil spooky hands are back

- So this is what a sea monkey looks like

- Yeah, you're not getting up those stairs any time soon, Wu Xie

- Especially not with an unconscious A-Ning and a creepy sea monster hunting you

- And THAT got the sea monkey's attention

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 1 for just Wu Xie, 1 for the protagonists, 2 for everyone

- Since in this instance he's rescuing A-Ning as well

- Honestly, idk how Wu Xie didn't figure out here who 'Consultant Zhang' is, given that entrance & those moves

- Like hell an aging academic moves like that

- I suppose the gun throws him off

- Also the whole look & voice

- BUT STILL

- AH-HAH

- YES

- HE'S SEEING IT

- It's too dark and fast to get a proper screenshot, unfortunately

- BUT HE'S SEEING IT

- There, a better one

- And sea monkey has fled, for it knows it's no match for Xiaoge

- XIAOGE!

- USING WU XIE AS A STEPSTOOL LIKE THAT

- Wu Xie looked so shocked - And then that eyeroll and shaking his head as Xiaoge leans down and offers his hand to pull him up

- Oh, ship being gone is not a good thing

- Pangzi, what did you do?

- At least those stairs are still solid enough to take Wu Xie's weight

- And back on the non-evil ship

- That thing on the back of A-Ning's neck is even more disgusting that it was described in the book

- Wu Xie is so forgiving. He's such a good boy.

- Now he has the proof that a Zhang Qiling was there

- That was a really cute little flashback

- There's the photo

- Another adorable flashback

- This greenscreen is obvious enough to be annoying, but not so bad that I can mock it

- Oh, and that's the end of it

- That seemed to go really fast

- Probably because I didn't have a cute, shirtless Xiaoge to screenshot every few minutes

So, at the end of Episode 1 Season 2

Xiaoge Rescue Count: 1 for Wu Xie, 1 for protagonists, 2 for everyone

Season 2 Wu Xie Swoon Count: 0

Cumulative Xiaoge Rescue Count: 11 for Wu Xie, 16 for protagonists, 18 for everyone

Cumulative Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

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DMBJ Ep 8

The Xiaoge Rescue Count at the start of ep 8 remains at 9 for Wu Xie, 13 for the protagonists, 14 for everyone.

The newly added Wu Xie Swoon Count remains at 4, since he didn't faint on the tree, he just lost his grip.

And can I just add, I was VERY DISAPPOINTED to have an entire episode without a Xiaoge rescue

- And we start with a brief flashback? recap? redo? of the last few moments of ep 7

- In order to watch Wu Xie's oh so pretty fall from the tree, obvs

-Oooh, this time he's holding on to A-Ning for longer and hasn't fallen yet

- And over to Sanshu and Pan Zi

- Who have reached the surface

- Because apparently this cavern was just fully open to the surface the entire time

- And no-one noticed

- Okay, I just have to pause here because of how FUCKING RIDICULOUS the corpse-eaters look

- It looks like a fucking cartoon alien or something

- See?

- Okay, back to what's going on

- Wu Xie being cutely self-sacrificial to try to save A-Ning from having the evil bug munch on her, and for once, she's willing to risk herself/her people for him instead

- "Don't worry, I've been vaccinated" she says, as if that will stop the flesh eating bug from EATING HER

- NOW we get the oh-so-pretty fall

- With the wide eyed look of surprise

- That was a conveniently placed very large branch

- That could have been a much nastier fall

- Xiaoge's 'Wu Xie is in Danger' senses are tingling

- Go, Xiaoge, go! You know you want to!

- Your future bf is in danger!

- Angry face! Again, Wu Xie seems to bring out the most emotion in Xiaoge

- Time for some bloodletting again

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 10 for Wu Xie, 14 for the protagonists, 15 for everyone

- Off the evil bugs scatter, leaving Xiaoge to be Very Concerned about Wu Xie

- VERY

- CONCERNED

- Sanshu and Pan Zi watching and now can feel better that Wu Xie is gonna be okay

- Very convenient vine right there for Sanshu to throw down to A-Ning

- Okay, now I should probably rewind a bit and see what they were saying while I was being distracted by these very close poses

- Ah, okay, the blood repellent is wearing off. Yeah, getting out would be good

- But Wu Xie going no, no, I've been poisoned, leave me and go

- Dammit Wu Xie

- You just ate kirin blood

- It's probably still good for a bit

- I don't think you're going to die of poison anymore

- Hahahah, Pangzi, you said something to make me like you

- Sure, you all came together, so all get poisoned and die together

- Wu Xie managing to be partially sensible even while he's trying to sacrifice himself. Again.

- Okay, how come that vine has leaves on the surface, but no leaves in the cavern? It seems to magically get leaves once it gets hauled up.

- Man, this is really not good for Pan Zi, trying to help haul someone up when he's still got a roughly bandaged gut wound

- And now they've got A-Ning up.

- 3 out, 3 to go.

- Xiaoge standing there watching Wu Xie get hauled up towards the exit

- Is that the hint of a smile I see?

- And that is a someone is about to get their shit fucked up look

- And now they have Wu Xie out, and he looks like he's about to pass out again

- Sanshu finally remembers High Shao and Chengcheng and goes racing over to where they left them

- Okay, like, seriously, if they were THAT CLOSE to where they dug into the tomb, how did, like, no-one notice the HUGE FUCKING HOLE IN THE GROUND leading to a huge cavern filled with an underground tree?

- I can excuse the Wu party because they got distracted by the hole High Jr fell into and realising what that hole must be

- But A-Ning's people have been skulking around the forest

- They should have noticed the HUGE FUCKING HOLE leading to the UNDERGROUND CAVERN RIGHT WHERE THE TOMB THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IS

- Aaand A-Ning's guys apparently took High Jr, Chengcheng, & their computer equipment, but left behind the petrol cans that were taken from *their* camp

- As you do

- And now Pangzi is up

- That's a big tree and a lot of bugs. I'm not sure two cans of petrol is going to be enough to burn them all.

- Also, you guys remember that Xiaoge is still down there, right?

- ...you don't have a lighter or anything on you?

- Really?

- Pangzi to the rescue

- HOW THE FUCK did two cans of petrol create an explosion of that size?

- Dude pulling a gun on Chengcheng. Please. Shoot her. I'm begging you.

- ...and which ones are your friends, Chengcheng?

- I have my suspicions

- Oh, NOW you remember the guy who has saved your life 10 times, Wu Xie

- Awwww, Wu Xie is so worried about Xiaoge

- WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN WORRIED BEFORE YOU SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE, WU XIE?

- Oh, there you are, Xiaoge. Lurking behind a tree watching your future bf worry about you and yell out your name trying to find you

- You tell him, Chengcheng. For once you're actually right.

- Broken clock, twice a day, all that

- I still want him to just fucking shoot you, though

- Look, she even dared you to do it

- Please

- Do it

- Damn it, High Shao having to be the reasonable one and talk him down

- Awwww, he's so pleased to see A-Ning. The sheer delight on his face was just adorable.

- A bit blurry, but there we go

- So you're just going to leave your entire campsite behind and not take any of it with you

- At least A-Ning is doing the right thing & not trying to take Wu Xie & his friends prisoner.

- No, don't do that stupid romantic music while Wu Xie & A-Ning look at each other

- Boo hiss

- Wu Xie, did you really expect her to tell you? How many times has she told you she won't?

- Shut up, Chengcheng

- High Shao: "You look like you're going to faint"

Wu Xie: *faints*

High Shao: *surprised Pikachu face*

- Wu Xie Swoon Count: 5

- And he wakes up back in the village hostel in the most ridiculous pyjamas

- Covered in oranges, lemons, and bananas. And cherries?

- Oh, no, just a top

- Because he slept in jeans

- Dude

- Could no-one find him more comfortable pants to sleep in?

- Of fucking course Pan Zi's wound got infected, with how roughly it was bandaged and then how much dirt and blood and soot and bark he got dragged around in

- Yeah, someone yelling fire is never a good sign

- And there's a huge fire on the mountain

- Yes, Wu Xie, that huge explosion & fire you set off probably DID cause that

- You should have taken her into the tomb with you & thrown her at the bugs

- Either they'd have eaten her, or they'd have found her so awful that they'd have stayed away from her

- Either way, win win

- Pangzi first of all of them to be off helping out the fire effort. He's starting to make me hate him a little bit less

- Oh yeah, you don't want those bugs getting out at all

- Hahah, now they feel dumb

- This is why you ask the locals what you need to do instead of just haring off and trying to help while knowing shit all

- Okay, Pangzi has got MUCH better in this episode compared to the entire rest of the season beforehand

- Oh, is that what you were after, Chengcheng

- Wu Xie proving to Chengcheng that if you talk shit, you get hit

- Really, High Shao? Really?

- You are such a 20-something boy

- How do you know Xiaoge is a Zhang, Chengcheng?

- I'm pretty sure that hasn't been mentioned so far, especially not to you

- Trying to make Wu Xie suspicious of Xiaoge, I see

- And trying to get them to stay away from him

- Yeah, she knows Xiaoge is a threat to whatever she's up to

- Good boy, Wu Xie.

- Because yes

- Xiaoge saved your life a lot. Over 10 times, in fact.

- Heheh, already planning to meet him again. Don't know when, just that you will

- Dun dun dunnnn

- Something's happened that High Shao and Chengcheng aren't allowed to know

- Wow, THAT is Sanshu's house?

- Didn't get a good look at it in the first ep

- Mmm, good question

- Wu Xie, why do you immediately jump to Xiaoge?

- Yes, thank you, how?

- If you didn't find them suspicious, then maybe he's not suspicious?

- Since there were, y'know, a whole bunch of other people also running around the tomb

- Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the box Wu Xie put in his backpack

- It's the Harry Potter music again

- Wait, if the code was on the mercenary's belt buckle, then that would hint that they were looking for the box, & A-Ning saw Wu Xie take the box so why did she let him keep it?

- That was a lovely 'you idiot' look from Sanshu

- Noooo, don't throw the fake manuscript away, it would make a great costume prop!

- You are a good friend, High Shao

- You know waaaaaay too much, Chengcheng

- That's a good response to finding your nephew & his rando friends just chilling in your house without an invitation

- Sanshu knows you far too well, Wu Xie

- Oh, now we get the first mention of the Nine Families

- I'm guessing that's the three years of the torn out diary pages

- She is just echoing everything that Sanshu says

- Sanshu, surely you should know your nephew better than that

- Of course you do, bb. Of course you do

- And there is the end of ep 8

Episode 8 ends with the Xiaoge Rescue Count at 10 for Wu Xie, 14 for the protagonists, 15 for everyone

And the Wu Xie Swoon Count at 5

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DMBJ Ep 7

Okay, DMBJ episode 7!

The Xiaoge Rescue Count at the start of ep 7 stands at 9 for Wu Xie, 13 for the protagonists, 14 for everyone.

The newly added Wu Xie Swoon Count stands at 4 (I say swoon, but really, it's every time he's unconscious)

For reference, the Wu Xie Swoon Count so far is him getting knocked out in the river cave, passing out after A-Ning bit him, passing out at the cave entrance to the tree/tomb cavern, and passing out again on the floor of the cavern before Xiaoge fed him the kirin blood.

- We start the episode back in at the main plot, and not the flashback, thank fuck

- Pangzi, that is fucking ridiculous, really.

- What are you, five?

- "Why are you so weird?" Yes, Sanshu, I agree

- Look, at least he respects having his lips mimed zipped shut

- Because Iron-Masked Scholar isn't an ominous name, or anything

- And now we're back to the stupid-ass flashback that I'm gonna skim through because it's dumb and I hate it

- WAIT IS THAT THE SAME MASK THAT BB!YE ZUN WORE PRE-EATING THE REBEL LEADER IN GUARDIAN?!

- Because it looks almost identical

- I wonder if the Guardian props team managed to get it cheap from the DMBJ props team, or something

- jhkjsdfhklfjhfdg I think it is

- OMFG it is

- Oh, gotta stop skimming for a sec, here's greey eyed fox demon dude. This might actually be important

- Ominous neck cricking...? Really?

- Ironface...created the fox demon? Is that what that was implying?

- Oh, emperor dude just accidentally murdered his wife. Oops.

- Oh good, back to the real plot again.

- Ooooh, that's why that stone coffin owner is so pissed at everything

- I mean, so would I if I'd been peacefully sleeping in suspended animation so I wouldn't die, and then some asshole ripped me out of it and threw me in a stone box, too

- See, now that's a flashback I can appreciate, because it had Xiaoge in it

- No shit, Sanshu

- Back to a Lu flashback, but it's in the tomb, so I won't skim it because it seems it's actually plot relevant this time

- And some random girl comes running into the super secret tomb, because of course she does

- Oh, it's the maid come to tell him that the chick he was having an affair with is dead

- I mean, dude, I see you're upset, but you really brought this on you - and her - yourself

- Okay, back to skimming, I don't care about the fucking love triangle of like 1500 years ago

- Oh, wait, back to plot

- Ooooh, they're in a different tomb right now

- I don't get why they've changed getting the jadeite suit from "power hungry dude just wanted to be immortal" to "power hungry dude who had an affair with the emperor's consort that got her killed wanted to bring her back to life"

- It seems it was just an excuse to shoe-horn in that dumb love triangle bullshit

- Oh, fox demon guy is here and bewitching the guy

- And NOW we're in the actual tomb, before it was a tomb, and here is the evil tree

- Oh, no, it's a hallucination because the woman is here in the jadeite armour and this surprised him

- Back to the present, yay!

- ...Pangzi, I'm not sure you should be lounging on a coffin like that

- Always time for a gratuitous shirtless Xiaoge pic

- Oooooh

- Okay, those horribly plastic looking green rocks do have a kinda creepy glow to them

- Dude, you are sliiiiiiightly obsessed and it's rather disturbing

- She does look good in that white dress and jadeite armour, though

- Yeah, I wonder what will come first

- I'm going to take a wild guess that it's him dying

- Also, a little impressed that he managed to murder all his men without seeming to get a scratch on him

- Oh my. Ironface stabbed him in the back. I never saw that coming.

- Here is my surprised face

- That is a super fast death for where he got stabbed

- Oh, hi again fox face

- And...that's ominous

- Because I don't think they've actually dealt with fox face yet

- So he must be hanging around somewhere still

- Why does every cdrama & anime villain have the same laugh?

- Yes, THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW

- Wait, why was Ironface's autobiography in a completely different tomb?

- And WHY WOULD IRONFACE WRITE THAT SHIT DOWN?!

- And again, Wu Xie is the only person Xiaoge actually looks at

- Oh yeah, they have to get out before dark

- And what are you after, A-Ning?

- Pangzi, why are you so surprised that Wu Xie trusts A-Ning more than you right now?

- You're not very trustworthy so far

- I mean, neither is she, but at least she's honest about it?

- Sigh

- Oh, A-Ning's people have to leave the area by dark, too

- And they're not getting along with each other right now

- Wu Xie is such a good boy

- Do you guys really have time to be slowly taking the armour off of the corpse?

- You, Pangzi. He said you're a thief

- Because you are

- You said so yourself last episode

- At least they're showing a little bit of novel!Pangzi's abilities, even if they are making him be a fucking idiot about it

- And Xiaoge just being Xiaoge

- Looking pretty. Being quiet. Waiting for everyone else to stop being dumb.

- Wu Xie being a Good Boy again

- WAIT WHEN DID I MISS WU XIE STARTING TO CALL XIAOGE 'XIAOGE' INSTEAD OF 'MENYOUPING'?

- Uh oh

- Another evil bug, but this one's red

- Oh, the thing they beheaded was the fox face guy

- Yes, that is the correct response to Xiaoge telling you to run

- Oh, the boss corpse eater flies

- Wonderful

- And it's fast

- WTF is with that jaw full of ridiculous teeth, it looks like a super camp horror movie critter

- Jesus Christ Pangzi, SHUT UP

- Good hit, Wu Xie

- This is some very tense music and panning around to look at all the entrances to the cavern

- Thaaaaat's a lot of evil bugs

- There is not enough blood in one body to repel all those bugs, Pangzi, don't be dumb

- Wu Xie is a lot stronger than he looks, being able to lift A-Ning like that without much effort

- HOW ARE YOU GETTING VIDEO FROM THAT ANGLE

- AN EXPLOSION ON THE SCREEN SHOULD NOT SHAKE YOU LIKE THAT

- Oh, okay, they must be right above the cavern or something

- Still the explosion was very deep and didn't seem like it was so large as to shake around the people on the surface like that

- Is Wu Xie about to faint again?

- But didn't the kirin blood cure him?

- And dooown he goes

- I expect I'll be updating the Rescue Count in a moment

- It is a very pretty shot of him falling, though

- All wide-eyed with shock and surprise

And of course that's where the episode ends No updates to either the Rescue Count or the Swoon Count this time

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DMBJ Ep 4

We start off the episode with the Xiaoge Rescue Count at 5.

- Zombie troops. I'm sure that's not going to come up at all later on >.>

- Hahah, that was not a subtle deflection, Pan Zi. Just admit you haven't read the book

- Oh, a gun just left laying around a tomb. Either the bad guys are just that careless, or something bad happened

- Oh, looks like Wu Xie spotted something

- Or not

- Mmm, I think one of the coffins in the tomb of the Zombie Lord being open is a bad sign

- Well, I guess if it's already been scratched by spades, adding some more scratches isn't going to hurt much

- That looks nasty

- So did the bad guys just...decide to dump their friend's body inside on old coffin instead of taking it back out with them?

- And on top of the corpse that was already in there, too. That's just rude.

- Creeeepy

- SANSHU! Isn't that a bit of an overreaction?

- Wait, it was Pan Zi, not Sanshu

- Uhoh, if something's got Xiaoge visibly worried, that's BAD

- Hmm, someone also left their entire pack behind

- Did they just leave without telling him? Or is he hallucinating again?

- Mysterious booms and scraping sounds are NOT what you want to hear in a tomb

- Coffins sinking and opening by themselves is even less of what you want in a tomb

- I was expecting that jump scare and it STILL got me

- And I'd thought that was the coffin with the bad guy in it

- Good move, Wu Xie. Now is DEFINITELY when you run away & find somewhere to hide

- Oooh, that's what happened to the bad guy

- I'm not sure that's a good idea, Wu Xie

- Maybe you should stay where your friends are expecting you to be

- Isn't that where they came in?

- Those tunnels were definitely not dug recently

- Oh, a map, that's useful

- Wu Xie, I know you've got your friend on the line with you, but perhaps exploring a tomb - that might still have bad guys in it - BY YOURSELF is not your best idea

- This is why Pangzi will call you Tianzhen. You're never gonna grow out of this, are you?

- Sigh

- Was that a body?

- Yep, that's a body

- Oooh, evil bugs. Those are a staple

- I feel like we've seen that logo before but I can't remember where

- Clever boy, hiding your torchlight like that

- Looks like the bad guys are still here?

- Oh, it's Sanshu and Pan Zi

- No, just Pan Zi

- DON'T JUST RUN OUT LIKE THAT WU XIE

- ...Pangzi?

- What are you doing here, Pangzi?

- Oh, that's a lot of evil bugs

- Don't...don't roll around on the ground like that

- Was that dramatic roll through the bugs really necessary, Pan Zi?

- Come on, Pan Zi, you can get to that hole

- XIAOGE!

- Haha, the bugs know better than to mess with Xiaoge

- Xiaoge Rescue Count - 6 total, still 5 for Wu Xie

- I have a feeling we're about to find out who 'he' is

- The main coffin guy? Different coffin guy? Probably some kind of zombie

- I think that was the bad guy in the coffin. He's looking even worse now that he's out & can be seen properly

- Those are some vicious bugs

- A mercenary? I think he's a bit more than just a mercenary now, Xiaoge

- Oh, ew. Yeah, let's get that bug out of Pan Zi asap

- That is HIGHLY UNSANITARY, Xiaoge, but there aren't really any better options right now. Just better disinfect it asap

- You two were supposed to be holding him! Good thing he has enough self control not to flail around while Xiaoge dug the bug out

- Oh, good, it was already dead. And the little ones aren't poisonous. Because that would have been just what you needed right now

- I'm glad you realise the wound needs to be sterilised now, Xiaoge. I think everyone else forgot that

- Hahah, Pangzi bribing Pan Zi into living with the promise of food

- I guess the zombie mercenary is getting closer with the way Xiaoge is acting now

- ZOMBIE

- Xiaoge Rescue Count: 7 overall, 6 for Wu Xie

- Don't worry, Wu Xie, Xiaoge will be fine

- Haha, Pangzi clowning around

- Biting people? Huh, they really are zombies

- Huh. I think he's hinting at a pretty vast underground tunnel system

- That doesn't seem like a safe way of doing that, Pangzi

- Ah, so that's what happened to Pan Zi. Trap door in the coffin room. I guess that's also what happened to Sanshu?

- Oh, Xiaoge was the one who sent Pangzi down here. I expect we'll find out why later

- Wu Xie, stop being suspicious of your future boyfriend, who has already saved your life SIX TIMES

- Ah, there you are, Xiaoge

- Dismembered arm just laying there, chilling on the ground

- Haha, Pangzi seems personally offended by the bad guys being underprepared for this tomb

- What do you see, Wu Xie?

- Hi, A-Ning

- 'Are you acting in a TV drama?' 😂😂😂 Fourth wall? What fourth wall?

- Good move, Xiaoge

- Oh, there's a bug inside her, too. Lovely.

And there's the end credits.

Xiaoge Rescue Count at the end of ep 4 stands at 6 for Wu Xie, and 7 total.

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DMBJ Episode 10

Episode 10, the final episode for season 1!

We begin Episode 10 with the Xiaoge Rescue Count at 10 for Wu Xie, 14 for the protagonists, 15 for everyone

And the Wu Xie Swoon Count at 5

- We open back up on a slight recap of Wu Xie being a little shit, and it's delightful

- I love how when Wu Xie sits in the other chair, the lead boduguard dude is like surprised Pikachu face, Huo Xiuxiu is shocked, and Xie Yuchen is like, hmmm, interesting

- And Granny just closes her eyes with a brief sigh

- For she has triggered stubborn little shit Wu Xie

- And I think she knows it

- She's like, enough of this shit, and Pangzi is like, nope, my turn to stir it up

- Some subtle threats, a brief scuffle, and now what are you up to, Pangzi?

- Oh, they settled down a bit once he left, being the troublemaker. Or at least the over troublemaker

- And now Xie Yuchen playing a bit of a peacemaker

- Hmm, I wonder who the 'friend' in question is?

- Just stay sitting in the seat until half past four

- Simple tasks like that are never simple

- So now I'm super curious what's going to happen between now and 4:30

- Wu Xie is suspicious. Because he's smart like that.

- Oh, another fishy with sneks!

- And god, the auctioneer lady's wig is AWFUL

- Oooh, there's something important or weird about the left side seats in the upper floors.

- Let's see what happens here

- lol, the attendant's face when she came in and saw Wu Xie sitting in that chair

- There is apparently Some History with these chairs

- Xiaogeeeeee

- God, Chengcheng, food, and money. Can't she just like shut up about it for once?

- I feel like I'm missing something with this lantern here. I don't get why everyone is staring at it.

- Or why everyone is applauding once it's put up

- Yes, Xiaoge is definitely dressed like a staff member. And staring up where Wu Xie is.

- Pangzi's back, and evidently now knows about the seat

- Oh, so apparently the lantern is tied to Wu Xie sitting in the seat

- It's creating quite a stir

- Oh, Wu Xie now seems to realise what this is, I think?

- Huh, I thought it was just me thinking that using bells for bidding was odd, but no, Pangzi has confirmed that the auctioneer girl is pretty good to be able to tell which bell is which

- Her hearing used as a detection tool. Why am I now thinking of Liu Sang?

- Oh shit. That's what that means.

- And that's why Granny is so fucking smug about it.

- Ouch.

- It's okay, it's the last episode, so I'm sure it'll turn out fine.

- WOW her hearing is good to pick that up

- God damn it Pangzi

- Why do you always have to start shit like this?

- I think Xiaoge realises his Wu Xie is about to be in trouble

- I like these little hints we're seeing of early Xiao Sanye

- Lol, Pangzi pulls out a hidden baton, all the grey suits pull out batons, and he looks so shocked that he's not the only one with one

- Go, Pangzi, go!

- Oh, ouch

- Ahahah, thank you, Wu Xie. This is the Wu Xie I like to see.

- Oh, kicking a girl like that, tsk tsk

- Them trying to drag Wu Xie out his chair, and him clinging on for dear life

- He's so stubborn. I love him.

- Granny casually drinking tea while there's this huge fight going on around her

- Xiaoge keeping an eye on things

- OH YOU CHEATING BITCH

- Pangzi to the rescue, keeping the chair propped up!

- But like

- FUCK YOU YOU CHEATING BITCH

- YES TIME UP HE WON YOU LOST

- And now Wu Xie enters the fray

- Hahaha, good girl, Chengcheng. Like, I still don't like or trust you, but sometimes you do good.

- Granny was NOT expecting the silly little girl to take out her guy like that

- I like Yuchen's reactions here. Everyone else seems either surprised, or angry, or smug, and he's just like "...this is interesting."

- I know Xiaoge's gonna turn up any second now, and I can't wait

- But for now, I'm enjoying Pangzi being a badass, kicking people down stairs

- Yuchen to the rescue! Nice

- And Wu Xie thinks he looks familiar, so now I'm wondering where they know each other from

- XIAOGE! YES! Just casually walking out from the side with his hands in his pockets. Shit is about to get real

- Xiaoge Rescue Count is now 10 for Wu Xie, 15 for the protagonists, 16 for everyone

- It seems Granny has sent her guys after them

- Wu Xie's expression is like "you have to be fucking kidding me"

- Pangzi is like, yes, time for a fight!

- I can't entirely blame her, because Wu Xie is still baby and has not yet developed the reputation that he'll have later on

- But I certainly see where his reputation is starting

- This ep is confirming that Pangzi is a much better character outside the Lu tomb. It's as if Pangzi in the tomb was a doppelganger with a different personality that's similar enough to fool people into thinking it's real

- Pangzi beating up Granny's guys while Wu Xie and High Shao...just stand and watch?

- Oh, now they're finally trying to run

- Pangzi continuing to single-handedly keep the Huo guys at bay

- A narrow alleyway seems like a bad place to run into, guys

- Grey suited guys have obviously never learned that you should never split the party

- No, I'm not sure you're safe just yet, guys. Maybe hide a bit longer.

- Your shoes aren't exactly quiet, since they're dress shoes

- Wu Xie still proving that he's the smart one

- Chengcheng, they already know who you are. Forget the dumb phone.

- Unless you have some ~~secrets~~ on there. Like who you really work for?

- Wu Xie, baby, no, don't do that - You're too nice sometimes

- You're a good boy, too, High Shao

- AND THERE WE GO

- I KNEW SHE COULDN'T BE TRUSTED

- I'm wondering why it took her so long to make her move

- Wu Xie Swoon Count: 6

- Wu Xie, you still don't get it, do you?

- Chengcheng, why are you surprised at his naivete? You've been pretending to be his friend for how long now? Haven't you realised yet that that's just who he is?

- I'm impressed Wu Xie managed to stand up with his ankles tied like that

- She's not wrong, they were all fucking idiots when it came to just trusting her like that

- No, Wu Xie, she's not your friend

- I'm confused. If she wanted the fishy, why didn't she just take it once she knew Wu Xie had it? Or did she know there were 2 & she wants both of them?

- I'm pretty sure he didn't give his away anywhere, and he told Granny he had it, so his can't be the one at the auction.

- Wu Xie, Wu Xie, Wu Xie. She doesn't care. It's sweet that you're trying, and you wouldn't be Wu Xie if you didn't, but it's not going to work.

- No, sweetie, A-Ning is so much better than you are. She's at least honest about who she is, and has some kind of ethics.

- Oooh, who's come with a motorbike. I can think of three possibilities. Now we'll see which one it is.

- Oh, and it was one I didn't think of

- I'll give her credit for being a good actress, though. Or, at least, she's good at pretending to be a silly, flighty girl. I'm not sure if she knows how to put on a different act than that.

- How did she miss that she dragged them next to a broken bottle? Like, even being in a hurry I feel that that's something she should have noticed. It's not like it's hidden, it's just right there under the window where she put them.

- Oh, she's a pretty good fighter, too.

- Zipties? Oh, honey. Wu Xie, you need to learn how to break zipties without needing something sharp to cut them.

- I'm sure Ershu can have Heiye teach you, if Xiaoge doesn't teach you first

- A pink car. OMG. That is such a cliche.

- And hey, it's Huo Xiuxiu. For a sec I thought it was going to be Chengcheng, and if it was, I was gonna be so mad that she'd somehow got a custom pink car just waiting for her in Beijing

- But I can accept Huo Xiuxiu having a pink car

- And they're back home already? Just like that, with no other explanations?

- Yes, Sanshu, you were rather careless

- Hang on, how did they know the guy's name was Qiu Dekao? I mean, I get that Sanshu might have, but why was the name familiar to the boys?

- Poor Sanshu, so cut up about Wenjin's niece turning out to be a fake

- And now, mysterious photograph of mystery that High Shao has found online

- Aaah, 20 year old photo of Sanshu and Xiaoge (and others)

- I know what's coming up next, then!

- Well, not in the like 5 mins left of the season

- But maybe in season 2

- Why are they now talking about some box that hasn't been mentioned at all so far?

- Sanshu's at-home outfit is pretty smart, though. That subtly patterned white shirt with black slacks and black vest

- It seems a lot of convenient fires conveniently burn important documents in DMBJ shows

- Yes, Sanshu, how can they look so alike

- I wonder what it is that you've just realised, that's so important you just abruptly threw Wu Xie & High Shao out and locked the door behind them

- Did they send the photo to Pangzi as well? Since he began talking about Xiaoge being a mummy as soon as they called him

- Ah, there are two fishys. I didn't miss something there.

- Hm. Messy shoes in the entryway. That's not a good sign.

- Ofc Sanshu has gone & run off on them

- Probably doesn't want to drag them into a mess again

- After how the last one went

- And especially with that gang after the same kind of stuff

- It's okay, Wu Xie, Xiaoge might have left without saying goodbye but he was still watching out for you when it mattered

And with that little narrated epilogue, both episode 10 and season 1 come to an end!

Season 1 Xiaoge Rescue Count was 10 for Wu Xie, 15 for the protagonists, 16 for everyone

Season 1 Wu Xie Swoon Count was 6

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DMBJ Ep 9

Episode 9 begins with the Xiaoge Rescue Count at 10 for Wu Xie, 14 for the protagonists, 15 for everyone

And the Wu Xie Swoon Count at 5

- I love the juxtaposition of the cityscape and modern buildings with the more traditional looking building here

- lol, Wu Xie has such low confidence in High Shao's ability to not get cheated XD

- *cackles* And Wu Xie is 100% correct

- High Shao can't haggle for shit, either

- LOL, even I can tell that that's not good jade. That green is far too uniform.

- Look, I still don't like or trust Chengcheng, but her polite "you are so full of shit" expression to the shopkeeper here is great

- Wu Xie stepping in with some very polite calling out

- And High Shao finally realising he got duped

- Hey, he likes it, that's the main thing. And now he's getting it for a far more reasonable price.

- Chengcheng is much better at haggling than High Shao

- But let's be honest, anyone is a better haggler than High Shao

- Oh, good, Pangzi actually has his business in this one

- And he's much less over-the-top in this setting than he was in the tomb

- His expression on realising that Wu Xie is there is just great

- Wu Xie in his natural environment, showing off his archaeology knowledge

- And subtly forcing Pangzi to buy the thing

- And now Pangzi realising just how much this is actually worth now Wu Xie's told him, and he's so pleased

- And Wu Xie is so smug about Pagnzi's reaction. As he should be

- High Shao and Chengcheng right on cue

- I have to say, Pangzi's habit of randomly saying things in English makes me giggle every time

- Pangzi: You want to meet with *who*

- Pangzi: There are *rules*

Pangzi:...

Pangzi: But since when do I care about rules?

- I like him much better since he got out of the tomb

- It's like Pangzi-in-the-tomb and Pangzi-outside-the-tomb are two different people

- Chengcheng like "look at me, I'm so pretty, Pay attention to me and flirt with me!"

The boys: "Yeah, you look okay"

Chengcheng: *surprised Pikachu face*

- She's right, though, the two boys scrubbed up nicely

- And...oh, Chengcheng. Wu Xie is the young master of a significant family, he doesn't just look like one.

- Though different kind of significant, I guess

- Pangzi has also scrubbed up nicely

- Hahahah, Pangzi couldn't think of a way in, and so High Shao just casually showing off that he's apparently a master forger or some shit

- Just made 4 ID cards over night

- He might be gullible as fuck at times, but he has some impressive other skills!

- They all work just fine, even though they're read by scanners. I'm curious if those are just generic, or if he somehow like hacked partway into their system to make sure the cards would work

- Hahah, Pangzi being Pangzi & being a little shit to the security guards is hilarious

- Aaah, it's an auction house. I wondered what kind of event they were at.

- XIAOGE!

- LOL, of course Wu Xie notices him right away

- Even on a different level, dressed in a suit, & walking the other direction

- And Xiaoge notices him, of course

- The suit is a good look on him

- Oooh, the guy from the shop realising he sold that thing for way less than it was worth, and that Wu Xie and Pangzi are friends

- Oops

- Catfight! Catfight! Come on!

- And now security knows the cards are all faked

- So Pangzi just namedropping Wu Xie's family

- Ooh, so apparently Granny Huo already knows that they're here and sent down an invitation

- Interesting

- Hahah, I love Pangzi being a little shit to this annoying guy

- And at how suddenly how respectful security/management is being to them now that the Huo family is involved

- This is a very pretty building

- Holy shit those menu prices

- That's one way to watch how much you eat, if it's so expensive!

- That smirk of Pangzi's at her reaction, like, he knew what the prices were going to be like. Which is why he turned down getting food for the first time in this show

- 1800 yuan + 10% tip just for tea. JFC.

- Beautiful double facepalm here at Chengcheng being a dumbass about the tea. No, Chengcheng, you can't take the goddamn tea home to make tea eggs with it.

- I'm guessing this Sun guy will be marginally important later

- And here is the invite to go upstairs

- Wu Xie is a very confused puppy at being invited upstairs by Granny Huo when Pangzi hadn't managed to contact her for him

- Also, side note, but the cheongsam the waitresses/attendants wear is super pretty

- The colour is really nice

- Oh, the invite was apparently for all of them

- Ah, yeah, thought she'd end up being the lady from the opening credits

- Hahah, that roast to his grandpa

- Oooh, it seems like she doesn't think much of his grandpa, either

- lolnope, the invitation wasn't for all of them XD

- I'm getting the feeling poor Wu Xie is going and upsetting a balance that everyone knows about except him

- And that they expected him to know about as well

- *facepalms more at Chengcheng and High Shao casually gossiping about Granny Huo in front of one of her guys*

- Pangzi is aware, though, and doing damage control for these two dumbasses

- Ooh, fancier car

- And pretty girl, whom I'm guessing is the Miss Huo referred to earlier

- Oh no, High Shao, honey, please don't embarrass yourself by giving that cheapass hairpin to a girl who belongs in this high class of a place

- I'm cringing already

- Pangzi's face. Pangzi, mate, I feel you

- They're both roasting him so bad over how shitty that hairpin is and how anyone who knows anything can tell

- "It implies that I have a pure, kind, and unsophisticated heart" No, baby, it implies that you're either a cheapskate or a gullible idiot

- lol, now Chengcheng's getting annoyed because they're talking about how pretty the Huo girl is in front of her

- *headdesk*

- Of course Pangzi's loudly talking shit about the Huo family when their guys come downstairs

- The secondhand embarrassment is strong in this episode

- Are you trying to pick a fight, Pangzi?

- HI XIAOGE

- Hanging back & listening in, as you do

- Oh, nice move, Pangzi, but could you have not thrown the guy into High Shao like that?

- Hahah, now they're just playing it all up

- Making such a fuss and blaming it on the Huo guys

- But Pangzi is really being super over the top. OMG.

- This is kinda hilarious

- I'm not sure whether to laugh, cringe, or both

- Xiaoge looking very pretty in his suit as he watches all these crazy shenanigans

- Back to Wu Xie and Granny

- She really didn't like his grandpa, & she's assuming Wu Xie is just like him

- Ofc she knows about the notebook

- Him saying he has the fish has certainly surprised her

- She's such a crochety old lady

- Wu Xie comes running in, & Xiaoge's attention immediately goes to him

- Ugh, I can't slow down the playback on Viki, so I can't tell who exactly tripped Wu Xie there. It looked like one of the Huo guys, but I can't be sure.

- Xiaoge looking a little concerned at Wu Xie falling like that, even with Pangzi catching him.

- Pangzi all ready to go, & Wu Xie trying to hold him back even with the provocation

- Wu Xie is such a good boy

- A new contender appears, who also is apparently someone important

- I just realised, is Xiaoge's suit the same as the suits the male hotel employees are wearing?

- Everyone seems to know who Wu Xie is, when he doesn't know who they are

- OH IT'S XIE YUCHEN

- The doctor dude in Chongqi who's friends with Heiye!

- 'That' Wu Xie? I'm really curious what that's supposed to mean

- Poor Wu Xie is so confused why they all know him when he doesn't have a clue who they are

- Yes, that's a good point to gag Pangzi, Wu Xie.

- If you're gonna talk shit about people, do it where they can't hear you

- Xie Yuchen inviting them to come back. Sure.

- And Xiaoge only leaves now that Wu Xie has

- I think I'm right about Xiaoge wearing the hotel uniform here

- lol, Granny isn't happy to see Wu Xie back already, is she?

- Ahahahah, and now little shit Wu Xie comes out

- Right on cue for the end of the episode

Sadly no update to either the Rescue Count or the Swoon Count this time

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Fic Tag Game

Grabbed from @hils79, because it looked like fun.

Name: Merinnan, which I’ve gone by for... fifteen years now, I think? Prior to that, I mostly used Calicia (and sometimes Zoi).

Fandoms: Like Hils, I’m only going to list the fandoms I’ve actually written fic for.

Star Trek: My very first fandom, and the one I’ve written the most fics for (so far - I suspect that DMBJ will overtake it. It certainly already has in terms of word count). I was (and am still) primarily a DS9 fan, and was a huge Kira/Dukat and Garak/Bashir shipper back in the day. Most of my Trekfics are DS9 fics, but I also dabbled a little bit in TOS and TNG, and had one or two crackfic crossovers that involved Voyager characters. Discovery has tempted me with a few fic ideas, but I haven’t written anything for it yet.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon: aka, the show that first had me seriously questioning my sexuality. Look, Haruka and Michiru are #goals, don’t judge me. This is also where my Zoi name came from, after the first season villain Zoisite, whom I cosplayed several times. Unsurprisingly, my main ships are HaruMichi and KunZoi. Despite this fact, neither of my published Sailormoon fics are HaruMichi.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040: A short-lived fandom, but one I still liked enough to write a fic for and get the OST CD.

World of Warcraft: I wouldn’t say I’m really part of the fandom, per se, but I’ve been playing since the dying days of Burning Crusade, am a huge lore nerd, and started writing a crossover fic that is currently on indefinite hiatus. I do plan to come back and finish it, but first RL got in the way, and now I have to try and remember where I’d actually been planning to go with it.

A Court of Thorns and Roses: That crossover fic I just mentioned? Yeah, this is what it’s a crossover with. ACoTaR fandom went sleepy for awhile, but it’s back up and kicking now that A Court of Silver Flames is out - if any of you are still following me, it’s great to see everyone active again! To the surprise of no-one who knows me, I’m a big Nessian shipper.

Mo Dao Zu Shi / Chen Qing Ling / The Untamed: I came to this fandom via ACoTaR, actually, after a certain person (hi, @rhysand-vs-fenrys!) wouldn’t stop gushing about it :-) This is the fandom that really and seriously got me back into regular fic writing again after 15-ish years. I’m a multishipper here, and have written / am writing WangXian, NieLan, XiCheng, XuanLi, and XiSang.

Guardian / Zhen Hun: MDZS fandom led me to Guardian, which, along with DMBJ, has devoured my life in a way that hasn’t happened since my Star Trek days, and I love it! WeiLan is my major ship, but I’m also quite fond of the DaMian life raft.

Zhu Yilong: Yes, I’m going to list a person as a fandom. Zhu Yilong is one of the stars of Guardian, and is both incredibly pretty and an incredibly talented actor. So much so that I have suffered through some truly terrible dramas just to watch him in them. I do not write Z1L-fic, since RPF of living people is a personal squick of mine, but I am working on a massive crossover fic of most of his characters.

Mo Du: Guardian led me along to more of Priest’s works, such as Mo Du, which is now officially my favourite book, and I adore the main WenZhou ship. The Mo Du fandom right now is pretty tiny, and I’m still working on my first fic for it, but I hope that it will grow with the donghua due out this year, and the drama having just started filming.

Daomu Biji / The Lost Tomb: I initially came into this fandom because of Zhu Yilong, who played Wu Xie in the Reboot / Reunion / Chongqi drama, and then I got sucked into the fandom pit of all of the books and dramas and spinoffs, and it’s wonderful and fantastic. I have written so much for it, and have so much more planned. PingXie and PingXieSang are my main ships here, but I’m also a HeiHua fan, and very much enjoying the RiSang pool noodle that @kholran created.

Tropes: Hurt/Comfort and crack are my major ones.

Fic I spent most time on: A toss-up between Endings and Beginnings and Reunion, both DS9 fics. Endings and Beginnings is an alternate ending to the show, while Reunion is a Gul Dukat-centric fic set around, oh, season 5ish? Both were written for and initially published in print fanzines, so in addition to time spent writing, there was a lot of back and forth for editing, etc.

Favourite fic(s) you’ve written: Look, I honestly couldn’t say. I like most of the fics I’ve written, and there are several that I’m really proud of and really like.

Fic I spent least time on: Silent Graves, a super angsty DMBJ/Lost Tomb Xiaoge fic. I think I wrote it in like 15 minutes.

Longest fic: Cat’s Paw, a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXieSang canon rewrite fic I co-wrote with @xantissa, at 247 826 words. For fics written by just me, not with a co-writer, then that would be Nevermore, my WIP MDZS/CQL XiCheng Pacific Rim AU, at 22 276 words and counting.

Shortest fic: Every entry in my DS9 Drabbles series, with each one at exactly 100 words. Although if you count them as a quintdrabble, then Indiscretion (a DS9 missing scene vignette about Gul Dukat, set during the episode of the same name) at 169 words.

Most hits/kudos/comments/bookmarks/subscriptions: The answer to all of these is either Cat’s Paw or Nevermore, so I’m going to give the next highest.

Hits: Those who fear darkness have never seen what light can do, a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXie supernatural AU fic co-written with xantissa.

Since this fic also takes the highest kudos, bookmarks, and subscriptions after Cat’s Paw/Nevermore, I’ll skip to the next fic along on each of those.

Kudos: Stars fall like diamonds, a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXie missing scene fic from Reboot/Reunion/Chongqi.

Bookmarks: A Knight in Bloody Armour, another DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXieSang supernatural AU fic (but a different supernatural AU) co-written with xantissa.

Comments: Ears and Other Related Calamities, yet another DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXieSang supernatural AU fic (of a different again supernatural AU) co-written with xantissa.

Subscriptions: The Rescue Job, a Guardian WeiLan Leverage AU, currently at one chapter complete and posted out of a planned five chapters.

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: We have plans for a prequel and a sequel to A Knight in Bloody Armour, and a spinoff fic for The Zhang Identity (a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXie AU that is complete but not yet posted. It will be posted in April as part of the Small Fandoms Big Bang).

Share a bit of a WIP: This is from an as-yet-unnamed post-canon fix-it fic for the Guardian drama:

It was hurting again. Zhao Yunlan curled up into a tight ball under the hospital blankets, trying to ignore it enough to try to get back to sleep. He knew it wouldn't work, because he couldn't remember a time when it ever did, but it was always worth a shot, right? He squeezed his eyes shut and held himself tightly for a few...moments? Minutes?...before grabbing his stuffed cat and clutching it while he forced himself to breathe deep, slow breaths the way the doctors back in Spring City had taught him.

Eventually, the pain died back down to its usual dull ache, the one that was bearable and let him play, and watch TV, and do school lessons with his mother. One day, she said, they'd find a doctor who knew what was wrong, why he hurt all the time, and the doctor would give him medicine that would keep the worst pain away so that he could go to an actual school and meet more kids than the ones who lived in their apartment block or who frequented the same playground that he liked to go to.

Zhao Yunlan tried closing his eyes again, seeing if he could go back to sleep, but he was far too awake now. He sighed, sitting up in bed and looking around the room. Again. It was just like the hospital rooms in Spring City, and in Kiyota City. He figured that if the doctors here in Tomorrow Mountains couldn't help, his parents would take him to yet another city, and the hospital rooms there would probably look the same, too.

Then, over the faint beeping of hospital equipment, and the quiet murmurs further down the corridor of nurses at the nurse station or seeing to other patients, he heard a soft sniffling sound, like someone was trying not to cry too loudly. He picked up his stuffed cat and looked at it.

"What do you think, Dead Cat?" he asked it. "Should we go and find them?"

Dead Cat didn't answer, of course, but that didn't stop Zhao Yunlan from assuming that it agreed with him, and slipping out of bed. His feet touched the cold tile floor with barely a sound, and, still holding Dead Cat tightly, Zhao Yunlan padded over to the door. He looked up and down the corridor, then left his room to track down the sniffling noise.

He wasn't surprised that it came from the next room. He was surprised that it came from another kid, a boy who looked to be about his age, huddled in bed and wiping his eyes.

"Hi," Zhao Yunlan whispered. The other boy looked up in surprise, then stopped to clutch his chest as he began to cough. Once he'd finished coughing, Zhao Yunlan and Dead Cat were perched on the end of his bed.

"I'm Zhao Yunlan, and this is Dead Cat." He held up Dead Cat, moving one of the paws to wave hello. "What's your name?"

The boy wiped his eyes again. "Shen Ye."

I tag: ALL OF YOU! Are you a writer who hasn’t done this yet? Consider yourself tagged if you want to be.

#fanfic meme #dmbj #daomu biji #guardian #mo du #star trek #ds9 #bishoujo senshi sailor moon #sailor moon #mdzs #cql #acotar #bubblegum crisis #world of warcraft #zhu yilong

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first lines of your last 20 fics!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag 10 of your favourite authors!

@jenwryn said everyone was tagged, and this seemed like an excellent way to procrastinate.

I’m gonna include WIPs here if there is almost a chapter or more written. Multi-chapter fics are only having the first chapter counted.

Following jenwryn’s lead and tagging whoever else wants to do it!

1. Untitled fic being co-written with @xantissa (WIP) (DMBJ, probably PingXieSang, AU, demon!Xiaoge). Liu Sang shifted on the cold ground, trying not to make it obvious how much he ached.

2. Untitled fic being co-written with @xantissa (WIP) (DMBJ, PingXie, mistaken identity. Explicit): It was a Wednesday.

3. Cats and Dogs (co-written with xantissa) (DMBJ, Liu Sang & Jiang Zisuan, sequel to Cat’s Paw. Liu Sang and Jiang Zisuan’s weird-ass friendship): Liu Sang huddled further underneath the chassis of the car he was pressed up against, shaking his head in an attempt to clear the ringing from his ears.

4. Ears and Other Related Calamities (co-written with xantissa) (DMBJ, PingXieSang, shifter AU. The boys get lost in a tomb. Mildly explicit): Wu Xie wasn't exactly sure what to feel as he watched the far too large camp take shape.

5. Shine a little light (co-written with xantissa) (DMBJ, PingXieSang, sequel to Those who fear darkness. Huli jing!Liu Sang gets added to the mix. Explicit): As far as Liu Sang was concerned, the only good thing about this whole sordid business was that he could order himself increasingly complicated, sweet beverages while he watched his prey.

6. Silent Graves (DMBJ, Zhang Qiling, outsider POV. Ficlet set after Wu Xie’s eventual death): When the grave was first built and occupied, it was very busy.

7. Those who fear darkness have never seen what light can do (co-written with xantissa) (DMBJ, PingXie, AU. BB!Wu Xie gets lost in a tomb, and then weird things keep happening around him): Wu Sanxing crouched down beside the new hole that his people were digging out despite the pouring rain and darkness.

8. Big Bang fic to be revealed in April! (co-written with xantissa) (DMBJ, PingXie, assassin AU. Explicit): For all that the bright streetlights weren’t that far away, it was dark where he staggered, burning with pain and the desperate need to get away from his followers.

9. Cat’s Paw (co-written with xantissa) (DMBJ, PingXieSang, Reboot/Chongqi canon divergence where Liu Sang was originally working for Jiao-laoban. Explicit): Liu Sang hated the jungle.

10. It's a lovely day in the tomb, and Yóu is a horrible shibie (DMBJ. Time Raiders from the perspective of a troublesome shibie): It's a lovely day in the tomb, and Yóu is a horrible shibie.

11. The Ballad of Bugnado (DMBJ. Filk): Bug!

12. Stars fall like diamonds (DMBJ, PingXie, a Reboot/Chongqi scene from Xiaoge’s POV): The first time it happened, Zhang Qiling wasn’t entirely surprised.

13. The Cats Travesty (general Guardian, which ofc means some WeiLan. Zhao Yunlan subjects people to the Cats 2019 movie): It all started because of the reviews.

14. Untitled Guardian fic (WIP) (WeiLan, Zhao Yunlan & Ye Zun, Shen Wei & Ye Zun. Post-canon fix-it fic feat. reincarnation): It was hurting again.

15. Operation: Make Lan Zhan Remember (WIP) (MDZS/CQL, WangXian, modern AU/reincarnation fic): Supervising a day trip for a busload of five-year-olds had not been Lan Wangji’s plan for the day when he woke up this morning, and yet, here he was.

16. Blanket Forts are the Best Wingmen (MDZS/CQL, NieLan. Modern AU. After having an argument with his best friend, Lan Xichen tries to apologise with a blanket fort): Not for the first time that day, Lan Xichen looked around the utter disaster area that was his living room and wondered just what the hell he was doing.

17. The Rescue Job (Guardian, WeiLan, Leverage AU. WIP. A job gone wrong means Shen Wei needs rescuing): If anyone had asked Zhao Yunlan this morning how he thought this day would go, kissing Shen Wei would not have even been suggested.

18. Nevermore (MDZS/CQL, XiCheng, Pacific Rim AU. WIP.): Humanity always thought alien life would come from the stars…but it came from beneath the sea.

19. Qinghe Jue (CQL, Nie Mingjue. NMJ’s spirit visits his brother just after his death): Pain. His entire world was pain.

20. Do You Want to Have a Blanket Fort? (MDZS/CQL, Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang, modern AU. After his brother had a fight with his best friend, Huaisang builds him a blanket form to help cheer him up): It looked like it had been a bright, beautiful day – at least, that’s what was promised by the golden sunlight that crept around the edges of the curtains on his bedroom window.

Wow, I hadn’t actually realised how much I wrote in this past year. These are all from the last 12 months.

Patterns. Hmmm. I tend to start in media res a lot, I suppose. And often name the POV character in the first line.

Favourite line out of all of these, that’s a hard one. I do like It's a lovely day in the tomb, and Yóu is a horrible shibie, because it’s just such a perfect summary of the entire fic, as well as riffing off a game I really enjoyed playing (and which formed some of the inspiration for the fic, too). And Not for the first time that day, Lan Xichen looked around the utter disaster area that was his living room and wondered just what the hell he was doing is a line that resonates with me on a regular basis, because, like, mood, Xichen. Mood.

#fanfic #meme #dmbj #mdzs #cql #guardian

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