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"Shang Xirui turned then to glance at his own Second Master, soaked in wine, women, and gambling, yet unashamed. He made no pretense of virtue, wore his vices openly, and thus somehow appeared endearing. Shang Xirui congratulated himself on his better taste, and in his triumph delivered another sharp stab:
“Yu Qing is wounded and alone. She won’t survive.”"

- This is what I mean. So petty.

On the one hand it breaks my heart anytime the story shows how damn young Shang Xirui still is, on the other I'm amused at how fucking petty he can be.

He rubbed his belly and groaned. “It feels like I’m six months pregnant.”
Cheng Fengtai nearly choked on his tea. “Don’t worry. I haven’t planted anything yet.”
Shang Xirui stared. “What did you just say?”

Lmao.

Shang Xirui tried a bite. “Foreigners have it rough. Raw greens, bloody meat. No wonder they invade us.”

Cheng Fengtai thought grimly, First General Zhang, now Commander Cao… Every time he sings from a rooftop, a warlord falls.

"And, do you imagine that beautiful young lady, that healthy, hearty girl, will tie herself to a little perishing monkey like you? Are you cherishing the notion that anybody, let alone Miss Catherine Linton, would have you for a husband?"

Nelly hates that boy's guts, it's so funny.

"Happily, as Mr Heathcliff conjectured, he’ll not win twenty! I doubt whether he’ll see spring, indeed – and small loss to his family, whenever he drops off;"

That's harsh, too, but completely warranted.

"Whether they satisfied Cathy, I don’t know, but they appeared very worthless trash to me."

Oh Nelly, that's a bit harsh.

The fan, composed and articulate, launched into a passionate reply. “At the press conference, the director promised a film with no moral restraint and zero bottom line. We were promised shameless depravity! But instead, what we got was a noble, heartfelt drama about love and justice. That’s not what we paid for! This is blatant false advertising.”

-lol

"As a child, Ling Lang had been transfixed by war films. Not the gunfire or explosions—but the scenes where prisoners were tied up. He would imagine himself in their place."

Lmao, that really is the typical awakening. Watching some guy getting tied to a chair and thinking "Oh!"

It's "just deserts", people, not "just desserts". Why is no one getting this right!?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/gramm...

“When you came to me, you were the most open and innocent of all the world’s creatures. Even down to truly loving a denizen of Hell, which only the innocent can do. [...] You have to be truly clueless to love a demon.”

This is about Jack, but what does this say about Varney, greatest magician in the world?

One of the big ironies in the story that one of the few characters who's actually doing quite well and even profited from the war is the pacifist healing God.

God, the introductory paragraph to "Aspel in Love" is venomous. Not subtle, but maybe needed.

Didn't think Yasnic could grow on me even more, but he did. I, too, like my men miserable.

I wonder when our two bereaved demon lovers will meet.

Talk about starting with a bang.

Where is he?
There’s supposed to be someone else. Someone very important.
Someone I love…

-- Cobkubo chose violence.

They're so fucking dramatic.

“I doubted. Just for a moment, I didn’t care if the world ended. I didn’t care if all my sources of happiness were destroyed…so long as I still had you.”

This must have been a nightmare to translate, with all those characters changing gender back and forth.

“Can you two stop flirting?” shouted Milo in the face of his ancestors’ incessant PDAs. “The world is literally ending!”

-- This is funny, coming from Milo.

“That’s Negative Ultrafaith. It’s got to be.”
“Negative Ultrafaith?”
“That’s right. Every time you boys use Ultrafaith to create hope, an equal amount of despair is produced as well."

Whatever, sure.

Dick is the only author I know where I feel the term homophobic is actually apt: he was fucking afraid of homosexuality.

Yeah, I see how this inspired T97 for ZDJJ. ("You love someone and they leave.")

It's so funny reading science-fiction novels set in 1988.

"First him saying that Jesus used to walk with money and that if the Devil come to steal, kill, and destroy, we must steal, kill, and destroy back. And how we not to say Jesus name in church no more. And how we need to explore deeply what was really goin on between David and Jonathan."
- lol

Well, turns out they do still love each other when they are worms. (not the main CP)

"Why couldn't they live happily as a worm?"

The situation is not funny, but: lmao

By now I'm more invested in Samuel and Schneider than in the main couple, so now I'm stressed.

It's also funny to me that this omegaverse novel has a more realistic depiction of intersex conditions than most danmei with so-called intersex characters (most of whom are not intersex at all, but merely cunt-boys).