qinghe-s:Nie Huaisang wasn’t a bad person, and it wasn’t that he wasn’t smart &mda

qinghe-s:

Nie Huaisang wasn’t a bad person, and it wasn’t that he wasn’t smart — he just had zero inclination to apply himself academically. All of his smarts were spent elsewhere: in painting fans, catching feathered friends, skipping class, and loafing around.||MDZS, official English translation, chapter 5.

[id: four gifs of nie huaisang from various episodes of the untamed. he’s holding his paper fan, unfolded in front of him, in each gif. a faint outline of another fan patterned with flowers sits in the center, divided in four parts that tie the gifs together. end id.]