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Focus on Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang
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china_shopThis post is based on the drama versions of Wang Xiangyang and Bai Suxia. According to the Dramatis Personae (novel edition), in the novel Wang Xiangyang is the “malevolent ghost of an orange seller who died in a car accident at 62.” Please feel free to discuss or compare the novel character in the comments!
Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang run the fruit stand next-door to the SID. They’ve been there since Zhao Xinci’s days, and they have a good relationship with the SID, placing a lot of trust in them. When we meet them, Bai Suxia is visibly pregnant, and Wang Xiangyang fusses over her. They are living a poor, simple life and looking to a hopeful future. They talk about their child working at the SID one day to serve the people.
( More about the characters )
( Tragedy )
( Turning to Vengeance )
( The Master of the Merit Brush )
( Themes )
( Fanworks )
So - come and talk about Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang! Share links to meta, picspams, and related fanworks, new or old! Self-recs whole-heartedly encouraged. Basically, this is the place for anything you want to say or link to about them.
Innocence
Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang run the fruit stand next-door to the SID. They’ve been there since Zhao Xinci’s days, and they have a good relationship with the SID, placing a lot of trust in them. When we meet them, Bai Suxia is visibly pregnant, and Wang Xiangyang fusses over her. They are living a poor, simple life and looking to a hopeful future. They talk about their child working at the SID one day to serve the people.
( More about the characters )
( Tragedy )
( Turning to Vengeance )
( The Master of the Merit Brush )
( Themes )
( Fanworks )
Questions
- Do you like them as a couple? How about separately? If you don’t like Wang Xiangyang, is it because of what he is (ordinary, not smart, not attractive, easy to manipulate), because of what he does, or for some other reason?
- What do you think Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang have gleaned from living and working next to the SID? Do they know about Dixingren and Yashou?
- How much do they know about the Merit Brush? How did it come into Wang Xiangyang's family? When Wang Xiangyang gives it to Zhao Yunlan, does Zhao Yunlan become its new master?
- Given that Haixing is fantasy China, do you think there is corruption in Dragon City? We see these particular medical professionals and both Chief Zhaos behaving ethically, but there also seems to be an expectation of nepotism (based on Zhao Yunlan’s initial reaction to Guo Changcheng). Is the idea of a VIP being treated at a hospital before an ordinary person credible?
- Did Ye Zun orchestrate the fridging or just exploit it? It would have been a complicated set-up, but it definitely worked in his favour. If he didn't arrange it, what other plans might he and/or Zhu Jiu have made to co-opt the power of the Merit Brush?
So - come and talk about Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang! Share links to meta, picspams, and related fanworks, new or old! Self-recs whole-heartedly encouraged. Basically, this is the place for anything you want to say or link to about them.
