It's all in the past now. Everything is in the past now. You will have to face what you must eventually. You cannot always hide under the wings of your family.
I did not know I needed a MV of Xiao Qi and Awu, the period power couple of my dreams, set to Queen’s I Was Born to Love You but here we are and I am grinning ear to ear.
Nobody does it like the couple that displaced Minglan X Tingye from The Story of Minglan as my favorite cdrama OTP of all time (sorry Minglan and Tingye, I still love you, you have just moved to silver. I guess I just have a thing for soft spoken wife-adoring coup-thwarting generals and their smart as hell and cool in emergency wives who take a while to fall for them.)
one of the things that i’ve really enjoyed about (a lot of) kdramas and cdramas, especially ones like rebel princess, is how fucking good they are at showing intimacy without showing sex.
like once xiao qi and a’wu are in ningshuo, they start to touch each other and hold hands and just look at each other and shit and i’m like “i have to go lie down for 45 minutes.”
you see them being cute and playful and it feels/looks like an actual relationship between two people who care about each other
look at them!!!! i can’t! it’s too much!
the most you ever see is them kissing but you’ll watch them holding hands while they walk around in their own house and it’s the best.
(there’s a whole side post about how the inclusion of sex in american cable shows has led to that basically becoming a requirement of tv in a way that is just...not good, but i don’t want to do that right now, i just want to look at these two looking at each other.)
"I couldn't tell where the panic was coming from, but I looked silently into the distant sky, with anxiety in my heart. I served the tea and then put it down, not drinking a sip. I looked out the window, my heart was in turmoil, I couldn't rest.
Suddenly I heard Aunt Xu sigh, «seeing this disoriented look, I'm afraid that the princess' heart is not in her own body anymore»"
Okay. New Face is quite entertaining. Zhou Yi Wei is gorgeous. It’s fun to see him in modern clothes. But. It’s not Rebel Princess/Monarch Industry, Awu and Xiao Qi are the OTP of all OTPs. Their love and care for each other is just so moving. This scene, where Xiao Qi tells Awu that he’d rather have her than have children is so incredibly moving. I am in awe.
"#admist of all the toxic couples (well one) I ship #I'm just glad we have Awu and Xiao Qi #Awu x Xiao Qi #MY GAWD #I love them" yes exactly! they are the best and watching a couple work together and love each other just makes my heart happy
It’s just so refreshing to watch since I feel many shows build their “romantic” couples on pain and anxiety. On dark pasts and so on.
And here while Awu and Qiao Xi were a marriage of convenience first it was lovely to see them grow as a team and then as people who are in love.
what are your favorite love stories from dramas/shows etc, the ones filled with epicness and longing and where you thought these two are made for each other?
I am gonna limit myself to 15 and here are the ones that randomly come to mind.
John Crichton x Aeryn Sun, Farscape (my n1 OTP forever and ever)
Ivan Noiret x Julia Medina, El Internado
Crixus x Naevia, Spartacus
Do Jin x Jae Yi, Come and Hug Me
Ling x Qi Luo, Mars
Gu Tingye x Sheng Minglan, The Story of Minglan
Aki x Halu, Pride
Xiao Qi x Awu, The Rebel Princess
Seung Yoo x Se Ryung, The Princess' Man
Lan Wangji x Wei Wuxian, The Untamed
Yang Guo x Xiaolongnu, Return of the Condor Heroes (2006)