Status Updates From 盗墓笔记2

wu xie: don't walk on that, it's amber!
wang laoban: you don't know jack shit, this is a corpse cocoon
wu xie: ...oh.
wu xie: [immediately offers an entire learned dissertation on pre-qin dynasty corpse cocoons from mongolia and/or sichuan]

grateful pangzi and xiaoge never had to see lao yang and wu xie fight a rat

sometimes i do wish westerners had any idea how insanely popular this IP is in china. most of the time, though, i'm relieved, bc tbh it feels like many of xu lei's soft inner parts are on display here, whether he realizes it or not. the first 8 novels + sha hai + "ten years later" = the greatest love story never told.