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now THIS is what i’m talking about, CAVE ARC CAVE ARC CAVE ARC

Finally restarted reading this with Yizhen. My vocabulary has definitely gotten better, I understand more on my own that I did before!

these chapters are soooo long, what happened to the cute little short chapters?

road trip read

sigh… xue yang has entered the chat

this arc is so blarrghhh and so long, bro deserves no sympathy and much less xiao xingchen (i don’t understand how people ship them together when song lan is right there)

i will be killing xue yang off early in my fic <3

we love drunk-ji

i love nie huaisang, little comic relief bbgirl, he’s just so pitiful urgh (spolier: hes literally the mastermind behind this whole second half of the story), but he’s just so bbgirl, he’s 100% gonna get a better ending in my fic

also mxtx really loves having characters use their love interests last name when undercover AND I EAT IT UP EVERY TIME JKRHWIFIFBWJ

only 2 arcs left before the end of volume one, this would be much faster if i wasn’t copy-pasting into my notes app all the time

URGH I LOVE THEM AND I LOVE THE STUDY SESSION AT THE CLOUD RECESSES ARC

they’re so silly, wwx being so intrigued by the “pretty” and strict disciple and desperately wanting to be near him, whether that means being a little shit or being a flirt and then there’s lwj trying to damn hard to ignore him and failing miserably, i see you discreet gay panic, ugh only 8 chapters? I NEED TO MAKE IT 30 AT LEAST

Never have i taken so many notes, this is exactly the section that would start off a fanfic so I’m trying to absorb as much as i can

finally made it to the past, exactly where i want to be

this series is always so fun as a reread cause everyone’s actions make sense

the characters are lowkey meaner/rougher around the edges than i remember

GUESS WHO IS BACK ITS ME
so i want to write a fanfic… gotta refresh the source material, i read this as a fan translation back in 2019 ish? been in this fandom for YEARS
turns out the version i found is an epub of that same fan translation… teenage me would be so proud

EXCITING GUESS WHO BOUGHT HER BIRTHDAY GIFT(s)

2026 is the year of the lesbians!!! i’ve heard the plot is a bit confusing, but danmei has prepared me for this 🫡

fever dream ass chapter, wtf is happening

“How about this: bark for me, and once I’m satisfied, I’ll spare you.”

“Gritting his teeth, he curled himself into a ball and rolled a few times in the snow before standing up a short distance away.”

i’m starting to understand whats happening but i’m gonna need the ji family tree written out clearly cause i have no clue how many generations are relevant and at play here

also my fyp is feeling me content from this series, i now know that it takes 2 books for them to get together and there are lots of freaky images to keep our attention focused throughout the political talk about grain in ancient china lol

feeling rather confused, very glad that the main love interest pulled up cause i’m going a little insane just reading about interrogations and imprisonment

(and okay mr angry, pop off)(the art is great too)

initial impressions: not another dude who dresses in all white?? bro looks exactly like chu wanning bro, and the other dude looks like grown xue meng… yikes

also there’s a map?? the political side is about to go crazy i just know it

AWWW MY SHEILAS I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOUR

also shoutout to liyu for making a women’s federation and bringing women’s rights to ancient china

who would’ve thought i’d be reading mpreg on new year’s eve… (this surprises no one)

i’m usually a hater of a pregnancy trope, but liyu and tianchi are cute so they get a pass (also it wasn’t explained in great detail, shoutout to the magical system)

don’t like how they draw characters of colour’s lips

five books and i get hit with a goddamn lightsaber?? smh

why are they always so violent with it? can’t they just slowly go about this consensually

AKI IS SO CUTE AND I LIVE HER, good riddance of her shitty abusive ex

thank GOD the art got better, i could take a bite out of suzuki jdhsidjjejej like why were they both build like brick walls at first, he’s a latin dancer for gods sake!!!

still some questionable stuff but it’s much nicer on the eyes :P

they’re pissing me off again, how are they making out and then still convinced they aren’t gay. like girl what other possible explanation even is there???

also not sure how to feel about a lesbian and a gay man saying that they’re together (not in a lavender marriage kind of way) and them calling it a miracle… odd choices by the author

oh shit the book is pulling through with some killer plot, wasn’t sure a palace drama would hit as hard as a cultivation novel but i’m pleasantly surprised