I guess I should consolidate all my twitter recs @manic_intent into a single post. I’ll start by saying – wow. CN fandom’s video editing skills are godly. Some of the videos edit characters into scenes that they aren’t in, or seamlessly edit the voice over… it’s incredible. I rec browsing bilibili if you can, just to look at the tons of content in there, but here are some of my faves.
Bonus: if you scroll down into the comments of some of these vids, you’d see Wolong Nuts commenting on them too, hahaha.
Spoilers: Most of the WenZhou vids will contain spoilers.
[ WenZhou Videos ]
他逃！他追！他们都插翅难飞！|Part 1|Part 2|Part 3 | He runs! He chases!: This incredible three part series has amazing editing. The voice editing is seamless, in particular. Watching it, I wouldn’t even realise it was a fan edit if I hadn’t already watched SHL. Basically, ZZS, the Ghost Valley Master’s consort, runs away from home. WKX sends all the Ghosts out to look for him. Later he finds ZZS again, but ZZS has a son (ZCL). In a rage, there is some dubcon, after which ZCL swears revenge. It’s revealed that ZCL is WKX’s son (yes, mpreg), and ZZS is pregnant again. Turns out ZZS left b/c he tried to tell WKX he was pregnant with ZCL but WKX told him not to be noisy. WKX leaves out of remorse, but Prince Jin finds ZZS and takes him back to the Imperial City, where he is shocked, Shocked, to find that ZZS is pregnant by WKX. ZZS tells him not to bother with the affairs of a husband and wife (hilarious editing here). ZCL finds WKX for help, and to rescue ZZS, WKX kills the Prince. They have a new child, GX.
禀告渊政王，您的肃王妃又跑了 | Part 1|Part 2 | Reporting to the King of Yuan Zheng, your Su Wang Fei has run away again: The disfavoured Prince of Su (ZZS) gets married off to the King of Yuan Zheng (WKX) as his Wang Fei (Consort). He becomes pregnant and there is the usual sort of random Imperial Court drama, leading to WKX getting poisoned and ZZS being told that if he wants to save WKX, he has to leave him. He runs away from the Palace. Years later WKX finds him and sees him with a boy (ZCL) and gets jealous, but realises ZCL is his son. They have a second child, GX.
我的狐妖老婆！看清纯狐妖如何蛊惑凡人 | Link | My Fox Demon Wife: ZZS is a fox demon being chased by YBY. WKX saves him.
千年后阿絮的五感仍在被迫害（高甜沙雕）千岁老人和他的年下男友 | Link | 1,000 years after the BE, an immortal ZZS finds WKX’s 19 year old reincarnation. This is one of the most popular WenZhou vids for a reason: it’s gorgeous.
睡了一觉后，我竟然听到了他的心声（高甜沙雕）千岁老人和他的年下男友 | Link | Continuation to the above video: Immortal ZZS realises that he can read WKX’s mind if he touches him (the sound of his heart) and wants it to stop because of the weird shit he can see in there. Funny premise, very cute.
鬼王娶亲 · 狗血阴间无逻辑我预警了 | Link | The Ghost King Gets Married: This is another very dogblood (狗血) video, forewarned from the title. The editing is incredible. WKX is the actual King of Hell. ZZS was on a mission to kill him, hence the 7 nails to preserve his body. In the 7 days where the boundary between the mortal and ghost world are blurred, they met but both thought the other was human, and fell in love. WKX decides to be mortal again though it means he can never reincarnate, but when he goes back to the mortal world he finds ZZS’ dead body. Returning to hell, ZZS mistakenly kills WKX. Filled with regret, ZZS uses the Yinyang Manual to revive WKX, but in exchange becomes a lost soul that’s lost his memory. Whenever WKX calls for him he responds, but WKX can’t see him, and ZZS doesn’t remember WKX.
得不到的东西，就毁掉 || 有人想看黑化温客行囚禁play周子舒吗 | Link | The things you can’t get, destroy them: CN fandom really likes these dark!WKX trapping ZZS with him kind of story. Song choice made me laugh. Bonus for basing it off the “I didn’t realise you were truly insane” / “I’ll be insane to the end” lines.
温周】震惊！鬼谷谷主竟然和天窗公务员成！亲！了！点击就看温周绝美大婚！|Link | The Ghost Valley’s Master married the Leader of Tian Chuang: the big wedding we wished we could see.
[ LLD Videos ]
Scheming Surgeon x Clueless CEO | Link | This one has English sub! Is what it says in the title. The surgeon who needs money and the CEO who ran into him (literally, there was a car accident).
总裁和他的露水红颜//车▲龚俊x张哲瀚 | Link | The President and his Beauty: GJ is a rich CEO, ZZH was paid to get close to him, get GJ to fall in love, then leave him. Along the way, ZZH catches feels, and at the end they resolve to start over together.
男朋友出轨之后，我睡了他兄弟……｜柚子多肉原著 | Link | After my boyfriend cheated on me, I slept with his good friend: The one who’s cheated on here is ZZH, and the friend is GJ hahaha. Not sure if the audio is custom or not, it’s that good.
迪奥先生第1集总裁的百万新娘（龚俊张哲瀚倾情出演）我的老公脑子好像坏掉了 | Link | The President’s Million-Dollar Bride: What it says on the tin: another one where GJ is a rich CEO, ZZH is in it for the money. Has a part 2 here where ZZH sort of tries to escape. Weirdly lighthearted, and both have custom audio, though GJ’s va is so, so deep it makes me laugh.
吸血鬼au | 死鬼男朋友咬了我就跑，怎么才能找到他在线等急 | Link | Vampire AU. ZZH was in a car accident and nearly died, also losing his sight. Vampire!GJ saves him, but after saving him with weird medicine and biting ZZH, abandons him. ZZH searches for him, and after finding him again, says he’s never going to let GJ go.
[ Bonus ]
这辈子他们结婚 生子 厮守恩爱了一生◎番外来世 | Link | In this life they got married and had a kid: Following the ending for GX and CWN, going through the Naihe Bridge scene in the book, and into their next life where they’re fated to meet, get betrothed as children, and have a happy life together.
okay this is specifically for @your-local-aroace (hi this got too long to be a reply to your post lol) but also because i keep wanting to quote this at people and also because i’m obsessed with it. i present Zhang Chengling’s reaction to meeting Jing Beiyuan in TYK, translation by wenbuxing:
The man with a small crossbow in his hand was dressed in navy blue robes, his long sleeves fluttering. A belt the width of a palm was fastened around his waist, and on the side of it, hung a white jade xiao. He did not look like someone of the jianghu, nor did he look like a scholar, but looked more like a noble who luxuriated in wealth. His hooded, amorous eyes seemed as if they held a slight trace of laughter, but upon closer examination, the look he shot at the last Poisonous Scorpion contained the glint of a cold light. Through the haze in his mind, Zhang Chengling thought that this person…was the best-looking person that he had ever seen. […] Lord Seventh looked at Zhang Chengling and asked, “Are you feeling better?” His voice was not loud, but was extremely nice to listen to. Suddenly, without knowing why, Zhang Chengling blushed, lowering his head, and nodded silently. He could not help himself from peeking up again, wanting to take one more look at that man—that woman he had seen in the tavern the other day was extremely beautiful, but Zhang Chengling suddenly felt that compared to this man, the woman’s face was like a layer of skin made of paper: flimsy and purposefully fake.
and i would like to say: i ALSO fully thought chengling was the token straight of this cast prior to this and so reading this part was hilarious and also i was very taken aback!! in conclusion, everyone please enjoy my ‘zhang chengling had a WHOLE gay awakening upon meeting JBY’ agenda
OH PLEASE I LOVE THIS, thank you so much for sharing!!! :DD I can’t believe there isn’t a single straight protag in TYK/WOH and I’m definitely adding TYK to my reading list (right after Qi Ye ✨✨) Thank you so much for this!! <33
So I haven’t made any posts yet today but I’m here with something very good this time.
Namely, further proof that the Word of Honor team really did film a happy ending, they just couldn’t fully show it. Fans noticed that Chengling’s explanation of what happened to Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu as they practiced the LiuHe skill did not match his lips at all (honestly any Chinese speaking person can tell, the dubbing is pretty obvious).
The video below is actually a fan’s re-dub of Chengling’s explanation which, compared to the mess of dubbing in the aired version, pretty perfectly matches his lip movements. Can’t blame the original dub though, the explanation is way too different to match his lips ;)
There are two sets of subtitles: the set on top is what was aired in the finale and the set below is what Chengling is supposed to have originally said (pre-dub over).
I have translated both:
Broadcast version:
Chengling: To master the LiuHe skill, there must be a person who wholeheartedly accepts turning their body into a furnace which they use to turn their own hard-earned cultivation into energy that is passed on to the practitioner. No matter how good your cultivation is, even if death is not immediate, the veins will still be cut off eventually.
Kid: So… did they master it?
What should have been the original script (and basically what is said in the video above):
Chengling: To master the LiuHe skill, the two must share the same heart/feelings, watching over and protecting each other. They must also whole-heatedly recognize the other as their soulmate, for only by maintaining their love can they pass the most critical stage by transmitting their internal qi (energy) to the other, thereby getting through the difficulty. Once the skill is mastered, the two will then become each other’s immortal protector.
Kid: So… they both survived?
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So.
I dunno if that makes it obvious now but from Chengling’s original explanation, nowhere does it say that a sacrifice is needed to master the LiuHe skill. The two people just have to wholeheartedly love each other and be willing to give to each other completely, which would allow them to transmit the necessary energy to push pass the critical stage without holding anything back. In the end, they become immortal and protect each other forever.
This “theory” (I really should use “fact” but whatever) is completely supported by Ye Baiyi’s words as well. In a flashback, he tells Wen Kexing that he has a method to save A-Xu, but it would cost him his life and asked if he would still be willing. Wen Kexing didn’t even hesitate before agreeing, to which Ye Baiyi let out a pleased smile and replied with “You’ve answered well.”
According to my “theory”, this was merely a test to ensure that Wen Kexing would not have any doubts because if he did, he’ll hold back during the LiuHe cultivation process which could cost both of them their lives. It’s only by being wholeheartedly devoted to each other and willing to give each other their all that they can pass the critical stage.
Also yes, I know he said a bunch of stuff in voice over while the camera panned over WenZhou mid-cultivation but because I didn’t actually see his lips say that (meaning, I don’t have video proof of his lips actually uttering those words), I’m more inclined to believe what I do see. A voice over can be recorded at any time to fit broadcasting needs so ♀️
Anyways, all this just to reiterate what I’ve been saying this entire time: WenZhou have a happy ending where they both become immortal and are each other’s forever for eternity. No, they did not die. No, I don’t think it’s a bad end and no one can convince me otherwise
let’s see, gao chong named cheng ling the successor of yueyang sect which leads the five lakes sect and made him his future son in law, he is the only living heir of the mirror lake sect, he’s officially the successor of the four seasons manor and unofficially of the healer valley too, now the long guy named him the successor of the longyuan cabinet, the sword immortal is basically his unofficial master too and lastly, the ghost valley as well.
conclusion: who needs the glazed armor when cheng ling IS the armory
