since i wasn’t needed to find a lg flavour, how about a tiny restaurant AU? 🌝
imagine lg and lp running a small hole in the wall restaurant, a blink and you miss it kind of place but every person who’ve had food there once would unfailingly make another reservation
lg is in charge of the kitchen while lp acts as the host, waiter and sommelier
people who go there for the first time would question how the two came to work together when they… clearly don’t seem to get along?
lg would never let lp step one foot into the kitchen while lp would rather dance the chacha for 2 hours than let lg anywhere near his precious wine collection
while watching their constant bickering about one thing or another makes for amazing dinner entertainment,
it still doesn’t stop first timers from wondering just why they’d run a small restaurant together when they’re like oil and water
but as first timers become old timers, they start to see the things they miss when they first discovered this little gem of a restaurant
lg, while never letting lp into the kitchen, would always cook up some delicious smelling food (off the menu) for lp to have when’s there’s a lull in the dinner rush
at those times, he’d also temporarily come out of the kitchen to tend to the front, letting lp take a full break
when asked if they could order the same thing he made for lp, he’d just smile bashfully and apologize bc “it’s off the menu”
no one questions why lp’s mood seems softer after he eats, nor the almost-too-fond look he sneaks towards the kitchen when he thinks lg isn’t watching
sometimes, the kitchen heat gets overwhelming and it all becomes too much for lg to handle
before things get out of hand, almost as if sensing lg’s distress, lp will quickly pull him aside to whisper soft words that no one else can hear no matter how hard they strain their ears
in those instances, lg would always stare at lp like he’s the only person in the world and everyone would avert their gaze bc it felt almost too private for them to continue snooping
that’s why, if a first timer was brave enough to ask the table next to theirs if lg and lp are always like That, bickering about every little thing, and why are they doing business together under such circumstances, they’d only get a knowing smile in response
“you’ll figure that out on your own if you come here more often… it’s all part of this place’s charm”
(end to this very short resto AU huhuhuhuhu)
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Can’t believe I’m saying this but I already can’t wait for Junjun to arrive just to save them in the kitchen 😂 looking at HXM’s previous season cuts, this man seems like a menace in the kitchen lmfao
YAN = 2nd princess (BC ZH IS REAL PRINCESS!!!!!)
LMFAO YAN is talking about how she doesn't want to wipe her face bc her makeup's gonna get smeared but HXM hit her with a "don't be too delicate bc once you start working, then your makeup's REALLY gonna get smeared"
ZHOU YE DAUGHTER IS HERE AHHHHHHH LIL BALL OF SUNSHINE SO PRETTY 😭😭♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thread about junzhe’s amazing 眼神戏 (gaze acting?) bc with every rewatch of SHL, i just get more and more appreciative of it
(honestly, you can pretty much just throw it under the whole “acting” umbrella so you could also take this thread as me 🌈 farting junzhe’s acting 😌)
so what exactly is 眼神戏? it’s basically when a simple gaze is all you need to understand the emotions of the character, without needing any words
for example: here, without saying anything and with his measuring gaze alone, you can tell that wkx is intrigued by zzs
why is it so important??
眼神戏 is a weird little thing where if the actors excel at it, it takes their acting to a whole new level and the viewing experience is immersive (for us) but if they dont, we, as viewers, have a hard time buying the emotions or getting into it
You can’t say that they never had a choice because they clearly did, but it always felt like they were stuck between a rock and a hard place, and the choice was never truly up to them?
ZZS made a choice to join Prince Jin because if he didn’t, the Four Seasons Manor would not have survived the constant attacks.
He also made a choice to nail himself in exchange for freedom but that was because the alternative was to continue killing for someone else.
thinking about enemies-to-lovers (kinda) wenzhou where zzs’s a highly respected cultivator while wkx’s known as one of the most prominent cultivators of the demonic arts
and they’re just perfect opposites, constantly at each other’s throat bc zzs’s the only one able to stop wkx
if zzs isn’t stopping wkx from doing something bad, then it’s probably because he’s on his way to stop wkx from doing something bad
it got to the point where it’s become a thing for them, where if one of them shows up, the other one’s probably not far behind
if zzs’s on a relatively easy mission to get rid of some pesky demonic beasts terrorizing a small village, wkx’s probably going to show up and make things a hundred times worse
and if wkx’s trying to terrorize a village, zzs’s probably going to appear to stop him
one of the funniest things after getting to know gj is realizing just how fkn DIFFERENT wkx is
like this man is polar opposite, i have no idea how gj managed to act him out and to the point where he's SO PERFECTLY in character?? every time he says flirty words, im like, how?????
and also wkx's got that young master elegance DOWN PAT, so slow and confident...
...until you see gj, and yes he works out and yes he surfs so his coordination isnt completely off, but just sometimes, he acts like a tall person who doesn't know what to do with his too-long limbs
and i find that fkn hilarious bc when you see wkx, you're like yes king! nail that elegantly slow gait! you're so expensive!
and also the flirty looks and flirty words? the way he looks at zzs like he's stripping him bare? his gaze is so impure compared to gj's usual puppy eyes