fic rec time - i've reread twice just this week. if you're a fan of weilan derivatives and/or either of these two, and Especially if you loved 人生大事、 you gotta read this. it's so good, i promise
second grace
(28015 words) by lunarriviera
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 人生大事 | Lighting Up the Stars (2022), 开始推理吧 | The Truth (TV 2022)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mo Sanmei/Bai Sanwan, Mo Sanmei & Wu Xiaowen
Characters: Mo Sanmei, Bai Sanwan, Wu Xiaowen, Wang Jianren, Liu Xailai
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Kid Fic, Wuhan - Freeform, Found Family, noodle stalls, Funeral Parlors, mo sanmei's canonical impulsiveness, Men Crying, Absent Parents, bai sanwan's sketchy past, wu xiaowen speaks only truth, listen to her san-ge, zylby48
Summary:
Mo Sanmei scrubs at his head out of habit, but his hair’s grown out now, uneven and falling into his eyes, and it feels unexpectedly soft to the touch. Xiaowen’s left alone too often, he thinks, but he can’t do much about it, and anyway she’s always been fiercely self-sufficient. He should get married, probably. It would be more decent for Xiaowen to have a woman in the house—a real mother, since Wu Haifei left. He thinks about women he knows, but none of them seem right.
In which San-ge, already grateful for the miracle of Wu Xiaowen, stumbles onto another in the shape of local noodle-stall owner Bai Sanwan. And it's just as hard for him to accept this one, at first, until he lets Xiao Bai into his life.
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second grace [E, 28k] by lunarriviera
pairing: Mo Sanmei/Bai Sanwan
fandom: 人生大事 | Lighting Up the Stars (2022), 开始推理吧 | The Truth (TV 2022)
rating: explicit
words: 28k
warnings: no archive warnings apply
characters: Wu Xiaowen, Wang Jianren, Liu Xailai
tags: post-canon, kid fic, Wuhan, found family, noodle stalls, funeral parlors, mo sanmei's canonical impulsiveness, men crying, absent parents, bai sanwan's sketchy past, wu xiaowen speaks only truth, listen to her san-ge, ZYLBY48
Mo Sanmei scrubs at his head out of habit, but his hair’s grown out now, uneven and falling into his eyes, and it feels unexpectedly soft to the touch. Xiaowen’s left alone too often, he thinks, but he can’t do much about it, and anyway she’s always been fiercely self-sufficient. He should get married, probably. It would be more decent for Xiaowen to have a woman in the house—a real mother, since Wu Haifei left. He thinks about women he knows, but none of them seem right.
In which San-ge, already grateful for the miracle of Wu Xiaowen, stumbles onto another in the shape of local noodle-stall owner Bai Sanwan. And it's just as hard for him to accept this one, at first, until he lets Xiao Bai into his life.
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The character setting of Bai Sanwan is created by Bai Yu himself.
A careless noodle restaurant or tavern owner. Bai Sanwan is his nickname by others. No one knows his true name because he only sells three bowls of noodles every day and no more. When he's in a good mood, he'll make the noodle restaurant into a tavern and let people chat there.
Bai Sanwan used to be a god-tier motorcyclist but mysteriously retired. He concealed his identity and opened a noodle reataurant. There no one knows his past glory except that he always delivers (the food) on time. His noodles never become soggy. He's a sweeper monk type of person. His motorbike looks ordinary but it's made of professional stuff and has been with him for a long time.
Bai Sanwan is low-keyed, careless and free, gentle and considerate to others, but he's a person of principles and no one can change his rules.
These are the ideas that Dage (Big brother, referring to Bai Yu) sent us when he heard that we need to create the characters together. After reading it, we had to exclaim that he made everything so much easier: there were name, profession, twist and mystery so it was easy for us to continue our creation!
He's the speediest man, all owing to his efficient time management.
In Bai Sanwan's story, there's this description: he used to a famous motorcyclist of Tui Shi (Reasoning City) and is known as "the speedist man in Tui Shi". After first season of recording the show[1], we realised that he totally deserves the title!
He's always the first one to arrive on set and the first one to get ready. Eevery time there was a delay, I'd stand at the door of the lounge, worring that Dage who's always ready would "rush" into the set to start filming.
He even helped the staff to control the duration of the filming. Once the team talked a long time during lunch time, he started to countdown, teasingly urged us: "You'll only have five minutes to eat", "Hurry up, time to go!". Even our director applauded him secretly.
He comes fast and goes fast as well. During recording, some fans found out that Dage got off work earlier than other guests. It was not because he had less work. It was due to his efficient time management. After the recording of the show, each guest had individual filming of posters, interviews and etc, Dage would finish filming these parts using intervals when others were eating and resting. When filming the last part of show (team reviewing the whole story), he'd let the staff pack things up. So as soon as the reviwing part was done, he was already leaving leasurely with his staff.
Everyone was shocked: definitely the speediest man in Tui Shi!
He's down-to-earth, lovely, stubborn and funny, never turning back once he makes his decision!
Before recording the show, we only knew him as "male lead of hot-air dramas known for very good acting"... We were worried that he couldn't relax. So we specifically told him to treat recording of the show as playing games. We didn't expect him to be so relaxed and so real!
When hungry, he'd anticipate the eating time and occasionally he'd make suggestions about the food. Our second recording happend in Changsha[2], he asked curiously: why don't we have special local food? Such as stinky tofu?". So we arranged food stall in the 5th chapter, Dage got a whole bag of food while recording.
Later, he asked: when can we have noodles? So arranged him to cook his own noodles.
Dage was very serious about his clothing. In Chapter 4, we planned for a school style. We prepared him a very cool school uniform, but he considered it unlike how he actually dressed at school. So he prepared a casual school uniform, like how he actually dressed at school, and wore a beard for that, because he started to wear a beard when he was in high school. He's so real.
In pictures: He'd make a din when happy. He wouldn't stand when he could sit down and wouldn't sit when he could lie down. He was the one who jumped highest but was also the one who needed someone else's arms to go up the stairs. He ate the props for real.
Because his "cosplay" was too realistic, something funny happened that day. On the day of recording, Dage went to the set but was detained by the guard at the gate! The guard told him seriously: "We're recording a show. Students are not allowed! Are you a fan?" Dage laughed and asked: "Me looking like this, how can you mistake me for a student???" We had to explain to the guard for him to let him pass. When he was back to the lounge, he was still asking teasingly: "Are you sure he's not a shill?"[4]
No... he's really not!
When "voting the criminal", Dage is "fast, firm and precise", just like his own swift and decisive character.
Every time when the list of suspects was locked, he was keen on thinking who it was. He'd use a set of logic to explain all the evidences, and once he decided, he'd never hesitate or change. He wouldn't waver even another suspect admitted being the murderer.
When he turned out to be wrong, he'd comfort himself that "Participation is the most important". This confidence and firmness are very valuable in games.
He's the most unpredictable person in the show, increasing the difficulty of the game alone.
The audiences' impression of Dage after watching the show is that he's a fearless "giant tank", but for us staff, he's more of a surprise maker. He was always challenging us staff.
In the 1st chapter, we let Bai Laoshi to wait in the theatre in the darkness, but we couldn't locate him in the monitor. Then we discovered that he was crawling with intent to scare everyone. He even lifted Tengge (Shen Teng) in his arms. He was a shock to the guests but a surprise for us[3].
In the 2nd chapter, he could run freely in the total darkness. In the 4th chapter, he immediately grabbed Agent Xu (who was about to scare them)... A lot of "horrors" prepared by us became useless.
But he created quite some "horrors" for us. In the 4th chapter, after the guests had entered the secret room, he stayed outside and locked the door, every director of us was at a loss and had no idea what he was about. In our script, locking the door was supposed to be what Ke Wuku was going to do. Later we realised that he was just trying to scare us and in the process testing the mechanism of the door. His way of thinking!
Later, the detective team was going to investigate the suspects in Ke Wuku's room but we couldn't find Dage anywhere. Our directors were also searching for him (as he ran so fast)... We found out he was already been in Ke Wuku's room. He soothed the suspects, telling them: "Calm down. They didn't follow me. I'm on your side..." At that moment, all suspects were extremely confused: this is not on the script. Me, too: I didn't write this scene for him. It turned out he was trying to cheat facts out of the suspects.
In the 5th chapter, the team was locked by some brawny NPCs... And who would think that Dage would think up a way to lock all these brawny men too? He's so unpredictable!
No wonder some fans say: "When there's danger, Bai Yu's the most reliable person; when it's safe, Bai Yu's the most dangerous person!"
Bai Dage increased the difficulty of the game by himself. He brought us a lot of surprises. If there's a 2nd season, we hope that he'd bring us more surprises and frighten us more and keep challenging us. We'd think up better ways to deal with our Bai "the Big Tank" Bai Dage!
[1]: 10 weeks of show was recorded in 8 days of 3 sessions.
[2]: The first chapter of the show was recorded in Yantai in the building that was prepared for the show. But due to pandemic, not only the recording was delayed, they had to change the place and reconstruct the building in a different city.
[3]: Bai Yu, being mischievous as he is, in the livestream with other guests wouldn't admit that it was his own idea, insisting that it was the staff who ordered him to scare the guests (though everyone disbelieved him, lol).
[4]: When Bai Yu was at high school, once he took a taxi and the driver asked him: "Young man, where do you work?" Bai Yu said a random name and the driver was so happy: "My son works there too!"
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