Xing Fei and her studio share new hanfu photoshoot
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I love that this place is genuinely horrific.
But also compare her reaction - terror and acceptance:
And his:
Geng's indignation and attempt to fight as compared to the rest of slaves' acceptance, is not (just) because he's a hero. It's because the rest of them are already long-term slaves or just peasants or w/e - they are used to the world being brutal and unfair, they are used to being ordered about and mistreated, and just taking it. Yes, the gradation is different - this is apparently the worst place in the kingdom - but the nature of their lives is not. But Geng is a prince!!! Yes, ALL humans are slaves for the Gods but except for messenger coming once a year to collect bloodstones, he doesn't see them. His parents loved him and he was at the top of social pyramid. So he sees the indignity and horror of it as utterly fresh. There is a reason he thinks of his parents.
But it's pretty telling that his attempt to both rabble rouse and to literally fight is hopeless (at this point in time) and it ends up with is his being branded in the freaking neck. The rest of the slaves can at least hide their by their sleeves, but his is always visible.
The way the head slave boasts he's the head slave!!!! (It's actually, if you think about it, parallel of the roles Geng and his father the King had too - the head slaves above all the humans in their kingdom; it's the gradation. But of course Geng and his father rebelled. This man, like the King of Bai and his gross side, are happy to have people to lord it over, and don't care they aren't free themselves.)
And yup, his noble act and all, she still got branded too, look at her rubbing her arm.
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Xing Fei for Burning Flames promos at Sina
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