Note: I'll try to catch up a little but will probably be a few days behind the actual chapter updates from now on, especially since she's going to drop about 10k words when the novel goes into VIP.
- In the north they 'do not believe in gods, they revere only Bian Jin and the plains worshipped the Buddha; the north worshipped Bian Jin and Diwu Que silently praying to Bian Jin in front of Bian Jin's face?? Bian Jin and Shen Ni being worshipped together??? Okay. Okay!! (But also, this and the whole thing about how in the north the people don't care about whatever charges have been levelled against Bian Jin, and worship her as they believe is correct... the part of me that is obsessed with weaponisation narratives looks at this and goes: she is a blade, or she is a god, but does she ever get to be human?)
- Wild theory time. 1) the fact that the time capsule from the future goes back at least as far as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and 2) the four craters, at least one of which contains rare metals and dangerous levels of radiation from a 'meteorite'. I'm so tempted to theorise that this is in fact a post-nuclear-apocalypse future, and the time capsule is in fact from their past, left as civilisation was on the brink of collapse as an attempt to save or rebuild future civilisation. Probably that is not where the story is going. But still. Adding those craters to the murder board.
- Bian Jin's little thought spiral there at the end about how, looking at Shen Ni playing up being cold in order to get Bian Jin to rub her hands, she can hardly imagine Shen Ni feverish and refusing to let anyone know, enduring it alone... Bian Jin, you wanted to field medicine your own spine. You are in no position to talk.
- Love Shen Ni starting the game and being entirely unprepared for Bian Jin to finish it XD
(But also, this and the whole thing about how in the north the people don't care about whatever charges have been levelled against Bian Jin, and worship her as they believe is correct... the part of me that is obsessed with weaponisation narratives looks at this and goes: she is a blade, or she is a god, but does she ever get to be human?)
More fodder: someone on Weibo compared Bian Jin to Yue Fei which yeah, I can see it (well, without the xenophobic poetry about eating enemies' flesh and drinking their blood).
- Love Shen Ni starting the game and being entirely unprepared for Bian Jin to finish it XD
I so love it when the supposedly straitlaced one startles the teasing one with stuff like this.
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Re: Chapter 20
(But also, this and the whole thing about how in the north the people don't care about whatever charges have been levelled against Bian Jin, and worship her as they believe is correct... the part of me that is obsessed with weaponisation narratives looks at this and goes: she is a blade, or she is a god, but does she ever get to be human?)
- Wild theory time. 1) the fact that the time capsule from the future goes back at least as far as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and 2) the four craters, at least one of which contains rare metals and dangerous levels of radiation from a 'meteorite'. I'm so tempted to theorise that this is in fact a post-nuclear-apocalypse future, and the time capsule is in fact from their past, left as civilisation was on the brink of collapse as an attempt to save or rebuild future civilisation. Probably that is not where the story is going. But still. Adding those craters to the murder board.
- Bian Jin's little thought spiral there at the end about how, looking at Shen Ni playing up being cold in order to get Bian Jin to rub her hands, she can hardly imagine Shen Ni feverish and refusing to let anyone know, enduring it alone... Bian Jin, you wanted to field medicine your own spine. You are in no position to talk.
- Love Shen Ni starting the game and being entirely unprepared for Bian Jin to finish it XD
Re: Chapter 20
More fodder: someone on Weibo compared Bian Jin to Yue Fei which yeah, I can see it (well, without the xenophobic poetry about eating enemies' flesh and drinking their blood).
- Love Shen Ni starting the game and being entirely unprepared for Bian Jin to finish it XD
I so love it when the supposedly straitlaced one startles the teasing one with stuff like this.
Re: Chapter 20
oh no.