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The Bei (๑乛◡乛๑)

 nathsketch:

I finished them :3

Finally!!! Bei baby is here. 💕. He looks beautiful. As expected  :-)

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 nathsketch:

I finished them :3

They're gorgeous! Absolutely love them - thank you so much for sharing!

 nathsketch:

The Bei (๑乛◡乛๑)


 HeadInTheClouds:

Finally!!! Bei baby is here. ?. He looks beautiful. As expected  :-)

Thank you ❤️

 liddi:

They're gorgeous! Absolutely love them - thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you Liddi!! I can't contribute with the writing, so I can only bring the visuals :D

 nathsketch:

I finished them :3

guuuuuuugnnnnnnnnnnn'


 HeadInTheClouds:


Times THREE. 

OMG.  Triple the beauty!  Who do I look at first?

Not sure if this have been discussed.

When do you think Jing resized that FFB is XL?

 nathsketch:

I finished them :3

omgad! I'm so in love! ♥‿♥

 liddi:
Revisiting this post from 10 days ago, because my copy of the 2013 edition finally arrived - strictly speaking, it was a [subpar] reprint but beggars can't be choosers, and it does allow me to see what the original printed text was meant to be.

Anyway, I confirmed from the physical 2013 version that every reference to Aunt Zhu Yu is actually 朱萸姨, not 茱萸 (dogwood plant), which means there were typos on the website.

Thanks for checking!


 liddi:
which joins countless others as yet another of the mysteries surrounding the different text versions of this novel.

At this point it's starting to feel like these things are deliberate. All a means of keeping us in an unending cycle of digging up, comparing and discussing more conflicting details. ^^

 nathsketch:

The Bei (๑乛◡乛๑)

Gorgeous!

Love the colour palette (maroon is one of my favourite colours) and the bow and arrow designs!

 liddi:

They're gorgeous! Absolutely love them - thank you so much for sharing!

Lol, the fact that my immediate reaction was the exact same word. @nathsketch please take that as confirmation that they are in fact gorgeous, and not a sign of my lacking original thoughts. ^^"

 HeadInTheClouds:

Not sure if this have been discussed.

When do you think Jing resized that FFB is XL?

Like XY, TSJ would have recognized that FFB's face was the same as XL's face from the first time he met FFB in chapter 16 and presumably wondered about it. XY confirmed that. She also thought that TSJ would have used the Tushan Clan's resources to look into FFB's background (similar to the check that XY asked CX to run for her after XL confirmed that he was FFB), but he presumably wouldn't have been able to find any info that CX wasn't able to find with his sources and spy network. 

And then FFB went and lived with TSJ and FFYY... I imagine TSJ probably tried to keep tabs on FFB to try to figure out if FFB was XL or not during that time, but we (the readers) aren't told much about it so we don't know if TSJ would have picked up on any hints. 

In chapter 18, TSJ spied on XY and "FFB" in the maze at little Zhu Rong's residence when XY was talking to "FFB" about him having nine faces and 81 forms and what the real FFB looked like, and it's possible that TSJ could have overheard some of that conversation. But it seemed to me like XL noticed when TSJ arrived and (unlike later circumstances... like chapter 37) he didn't want TSJ to hear their conversation, so he cut XY off and tricked her into throwing an ice dagger at TSJ to force TSJ to reveal himself. 

After emerging from his 37-year coma in chapter 22, TSJ would have come to know that XL saved XY's life, confirming that there was still some kind of relationship between XL and XY after WXL became XY. 

TSJ told XY in chapter 24 that he felt like FFB was XL when "FFB" scared XY into his arms after she told him that she wished she could have saved him from the death match arena, and XY avoided the topic by saying that she didn't want to talk about FFB or XL. Although TSJ could have been hiding the fact that he already knew that FFB was XL, I personally think that it wasn't a deception and TSJ only suspected that FFB was XL at this point and was not yet completely certain of his identity. 

In chapter 26, TSJ overheard XY telling XL to cut it out when she reacted to him increasing her heart rate, and then encountered XY returning from the direction of ocean with "FFB" the next day. If he didn't know with certainty that FFB was XL at that point, I imagine his suspicions would have increased after that. 

And in chapter 29 XY found out that Li Jie Chang knew that FFB was XL and assumed that meant that TSJ knew too. If TSJ didn't know before that night, it seems very likely that Li Jie Chang would have talked to TSJ about FFB/XL after finding out that TSJ was in love with XY and that XY was close with FFB/XL.

And then even if he wasn't 100% certain earlier, TSJ definitely knew with 100% certainty that FFB was XL by chapter 32, when he made a deal with XL and then "FFB" invoked XY's promise to prevent her from marrying Feng Long. 

TSJ admitted / confirmed to XY that he knew that FFB was XL when she went to confront him in chapter 33. 

My sense is that TSJ strongly suspected that FFB was XL for a very long time, but wasn't absolutely, 100% certain until Li Jie Chang confirmed it around chapter 29 and then XL further confirmed it in chapter 32.