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gu yun looks so hot being blindfolded oh god am i insane HE'S SO PRETTY

i wonder if liao ran was the unnamed white westerner guy who seemed to be plotting something against great liang

CAO NIANGZI IS SO GAY HELP

“...the mere thought that these lines had flowed from Gu Yun’s brush made him want to dig every word off those pages and embed them into his eyes.”

oh god his longing is a bit too much

Cao Niangzi was extremely envious of this rafter-beam treatment. Drooling at Marshal Gu’s back in infatuation, he whispered into Ge Pangxiao’s ear, “If I could get the marquis to carry me over his shoulder just once, I could die happy!”

he's so me

i like how priest gives a contrasting appeal to what the morning routine means for gu yun and chang geng: the former sees it as a bonding time while the latter's case is described in an allusion of drinking like a man dying of thirst—he's desperate for some quality time with his yifu

daddy gu yun so true

“To be honest with you, the most beautiful person in the estate is probably yours truly. If you want to look at something pretty, you can look at me.”

SO TRUE

i'm completely blind from the spoilers of this book so i don't know what to expect. since this is danmei, is the pair chang geng and gu yun? if it is, then wouldn't it be weird to have romantic affections towards your adoptive father? and chang geng is 13 years old so I AM ASSUMING they wouldn't flirt this early on in the story I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS you know what, i'll just read

gu yun failing miserably to appease chang geng is so cute

gu yun asserting dominance is so hot

arc 1 LET'S GO

it's hard to imagine the scenes oh god this is actually my first time reading a steampunk novel so all these terms are new to me HELP

wait if xiu-ning made chang geng's toe identical to the missing prince's, then is he really the one they're looking for? I'M CONFUSED

i feel like shiliu and shen yi purposely intended to let chang geng live his life away from being a royal because of how chaotic it is, even if his state of life in yanhui is poor. this is also proven when shiliu said to chang geng to live his youth to the fullest because of how fleeting it can be.

“Why was Shen-xiansheng the one who came to find me? Why didn’t Shiliu come instead?”

aw your yifu will eventually come find you

i've been reading nonstop i forgot to eat lunch bye

i wonder why shiliu is pessimistic

chang geng's thoughts are harsh but at least he knows how to not tell it

“Butcher Ge, who had slaughtered so many thousands of pigs, must have been born with a pair of eagle eyes. How else to explain how the man had managed to avoid butchering his own son for so many years?”

WHAT

i heard priest's novels are more plot-driven than mxtx's so here i am

saw this on twitter a lot so i'm going to read this :D

when you go to italy for truffles but went home with a man's liver instead

"Humbert Humbert had his tongue-tripping Lolita, but I would take my Giovanni...."

crazy how the other novel i'm currently reading is mentioned

cazzo: my newly learned italian word

i'm reading dorothy's thoughts, but it should not mean that i agree to her worldview, BUT I AM EMPATHIZING AS IF I'M LIKE HER

"I had unsettled him, and I was delighted."

this girl's influence on me is so powerful that i am actually so immersed enough to also look forward to seeing marco's reaction and how dorothy's presence would unsettle him (but in fact, the subtext is the author's great command in writing, which makes their reader engrossed)

she narrated that scene like it was nothing i'm deeply concerned

there are so many names and terms i'm unfamiliar with given that this is based upon a culture different from mine, but every time she speaks and describes something akin to a cultural context, it makes me wanna indulge in it, or maybe just search the contexts behind it so that i may not feel so left out

she's so girlboss (is it appropriate for me to say this LMAO)