villainous friend<p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a>, book 2, chapter 19 (46):</p><p>Yitian Hong! Is! Here!</p><p>(Guess who he’s got on his leashes. 😄)</p>
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villainous friend<p>There’s a time and a place for a more literal translation strategy, but this is not it.</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a> book 2, chapter 16.</p>
villainous friend<p>I love how Hu Tiehua was all, “do you think the desert is as big as your bedroom? How can you expect to just enter it and happen to find whatever you’re looking for?” and yet, since they entered the desert, they have done nothing but stumble over other jianghu types.</p><p>Stone Guanyin seems like a fun villain!! I love the disguising-a-real-human-as-a-religious-statue trope! I feel like the book could do something thematically interesting with her (presumed) victim being (now) called Shi Tuo, stone camel, and I think it probably won’t, but it could!</p><p>Xiao Pan :((((( he didn’t even get to use his amazing language or trading skills.</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p>(I did get cross to the point of scribbling in the margin at one point where the main characters look at Shi Tuo sitting by himself and decide he must be feeling and thinking a whole bunch of things based on how he looked, because that’s a sore spot for me.)</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p>Couple of content notes about this book, btw:</p><p>- the disability rep so far is not great, in that we have the exchange referred to in the last toot, plus Shi Tuo, whose entire role so far is Magical Disabled Person.<br />- it’s set in the desert northwest of China, so there is a certain amount of prejudice against the peoples who live there—so far mostly the “these people are super tough because of their harsh environment!” kind. (I’ve only just got to a point where speaking non-Han characters appear and so far they seem, um, pretty normal? So to speak?)</p><p>Anyway, the above is not unexpected and I’m enjoying the story—just wanted to point it out so no one following this who reads the books is caught off guard if it’s a sticking point for them.</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a> book 2, chapter 1:</p><p>Grumpy camel person (Hei Zhenzhu) is taking a hands-on approach to reclaiming his wonder horse that CLX borrowed, taking CLX’s girlfriends as belated collateral, and I can’t actually blame him too much. But has he taken his dad’s body with him back to the desert as well? I’m feeling way more concerned about all the corpses in this story than any of the characters are.</p><p>The first thing CLX finds in the desert is a cat! He invites the cat to come and drink with him. His childhood friend Hu Tianhua can come too. Aww.</p>
villainous friend<p>I completely failed at keeping my <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a> posts in a single thread, but surely if I make a new thread for Book 2, it’ll work this time.</p><p>So, Chu Liuxiang Book Two: The Great Desert, by <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/GuLong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GuLong</span></a>! I’m reading Foxs’ translation here: <a href="https://foxswuxia.wordpress.com/chu-liuxiang/book-2-the-great-desert/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foxswuxia.wordpress.com/chu-li</span><span class="invisible">uxiang/book-2-the-great-desert/</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p>NOOOOOO not his Zen-discussion buddy!</p><p>I feel very naïve for missing the genre clues here—mystery, not wuxia. Wuhua kept showing up whenever things went down, but I thought Gu Long was just setting him up as a recurring character for future storylines. So did Chu Liuxiang. Whoops!</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intro</span></a> post for yr. villainous friend</p><p>Hello! I'm Rae and I'm here for <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/fandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fandom</span></a>, primarily <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/webnovels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>webnovels</span></a> of the <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/danmei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>danmei</span></a>, <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/baihe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>baihe</span></a>, <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/wuxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wuxia</span></a>, and/or <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/xianxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>xianxia</span></a> variety. I watch the occasional <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/cdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cdrama</span></a> too, but very slowly. As you can tell from my name, I am an <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/MDZS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MDZS</span></a> fan (also <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/SVSSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SVSSS</span></a> and <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/TGCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TGCF</span></a>). I'm currently doing a <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a>, watching <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/LegendOfFei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LegendOfFei</span></a>, and constantly thinking about <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ALeagueOfNobleman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ALeagueOfNobleman</span></a> and its source novel <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ZhangGongAn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ZhangGongAn</span></a>. I love villains and stories about conflicting loyalties, dark pasts and mysterious secrets. I write fanfic and share it here.</p><p>Other than fandom, I post a little about <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChineseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChineseHistory</span></a>, learning Mandarin (just passed HSK 3 and HSKK Elementary!), historical bookbinding, personal web dev, and so on. I'm in the Central European time zone and also read German, plus a tiny bit of Swedish.</p>
villainous friend<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sakurajima.social/@geraineon" class="u-url mention">@<span>geraineon</span></a></span> I'm at chapter 22 with <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a> and it's got really exciting, can we just keep reading through?</p>
villainous friend<p>And then we find out that Su Rongrong is… dead?!?!?</p><p>(I don’t believe she’s dead. I think all these blokes should stop telling each other, “there’s no way such-and-such a person could be mistaken for anyone else,” and start actually describing them. But that’s just me.)</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p>Chu Liuxiang, who has just fought a ninja to a standstill and then been amazed to discover the guy was wearing a mask: there is no way this woman I just met for the first time, whom I only know from a portrait, who was wearing a veil over her face the whole time, could have been an imposter. No way! I’m an expert in women.</p><p>Hei Zhenzhu, grumpy camel boy: 🤨</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
villainous friend<p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a> chapter 12: the text is giving us reason after reason to ship Chu Liuxiang and Yitian Hong, I see.</p>
villainous friend<p>Tonight I told my Chinese teacher I've been reading one of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang books and she launched into a long discussion of the books, the adaptations, and how handsome Adam Cheng Siu-chau was in the 1970s and 80s shows (yes).</p><p><a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChuLiuxiangReadalong</span></a></p>
Neon (fandom)<p><span>Read thread for Chu Liuxiang!<br><br>Mute </span><a href="https://sakurajima.social/tags/ChuLiuxiangReadAlong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChuLiuxiangReadAlong</a> if you don't want to see it!</p>
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