Yay, Liu Tongyi is here! Love that guy. Whatever trouble there is in this book, I’m sure he can help sort it out.

[one page later] Oh… Prince Dai is here too. 😬

#ImperialUncle

Btw: my impression here on mastodon is that it’s not considered rude to livetoot media in the main tag (and my personal feeling is that it’s nice to see any content on the tags I follow), but if people prefer I could also add a personal reading tag, please lmk.

#ImperialUncle update: I’m halfway through and just consistently delighted by this book. Da Feng Gua Guo is officially my new favourite author.

More detailed thoughts later, probably—I am highlighting various passages to return to, but don’t want to break off reading to share them!

Mentions of Zhang Ping are glancing but positive… is this what people feel when they refer to a character as their ‘son’? I’m so proud of him!