Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Relationship: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn --------------------------------------------------
Wei Ying, virgin and noted heterosexual, gets hit with a curse of an unusual nature on his 30th birthday — through physical contact, he can read the minds of others around him.
Enter Lan Zhan, hot former rival and current coworker, whose true thoughts about Wei Ying are nothing like he expects. (A loose Cherry Magic AU)
Nah, all jokes aside, the AU is really interesting to me. (Not the Cherry Magic part, but the universe itself). I went into this thinking it was a strictly Modern/No-Magic AU (I miss tags sometimes, sue me) but was pleasantly surprised. The integration of Cultivation into the modern world is so well-done and I can easily believe that this is how the practice would evolve/develop technologically within the canon universe as time progresses. How cool!! I think it sort of builds a bridge between canon and the typical Modern AU, and it’s something I don’t think I’ve ever seen done before, at least not like this. I will say that this made it a bit confusing that Wei Ying felt nobody would believe him about the curse but—hey, Idgaf. The author was cooking and I was well-fed.
The writing in this feels simultaneously familiar and also unique? It’s very dialogue-heavy (which makes it easier/faster to read, at least for me) (I have a less than thirty second attention-span) (I’m not exaggerating) and isn’t particularly flowery at all but somehow?? I kept getting shocked at like sporadic lines that caught me off-guard. Similes placed in areas I wouldn’t have considered. Metaphors used humourously. Short, rapid-fire paragraphs. It’s so fun. It’s just like. Really fun.
Anyway I feel like the first half of this is some shit that would happen to me. I’ll see y’all in like ten years and let you know.