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villainous friend

I got my girlfriend volume 1 of the Erha audiobook for her birthday and she’s listening to it now!!!

She’s the kind of reader who listens to a book multiple times and hones in on little details, which she then starts intensely analytical conversations about. 💚 I’ve thus started rereading Erha in my own defence. Rather, I’m reading the 7S official translation for the first time. For a couple of years, I’ve been trapped in the dilemma of wanting to revisit the section of the fantl that was only available as MTL when I read it, but not super wanting to reread the first 4/5 of the story before that. (I’m not much of a rereader: vita brevis, TBR longa.)

#erha #2ha #danmei

villainous friend Apr 3

My girlfriend, looking up character portraits on the Erha fandom wiki: “So this is Shi Mei, the love interest? Why is he so… demure and sad and delicate, hrmph.”

Me: 🤐🤐🤐

Then she asked who Xia Sini was and I told her to get the hell off that page because it was full of spoilers.

#erha #2ha #danmei

villainous friend Apr 3

Turns out that if you reread Erha from the start, you discover that every single observation Mo Ran makes after his rebirth will be flipped upside down over the course of the book. 🍿

villainous friend Apr 3

Also turns out that I love this book a lot.

It does amuse me that 4/10 readers are like, yikes! too much dogblood, I’m out! and 1/10 are like, not enough dogblood, I’m out! (Ilu @geraineon.) I’m happy to be in the lucky 5/10.

villainous friend 5d ago

My girlfriend has finished the Erha volume 1 audiobook and jumped immediately to volume 2 in paperwork. I am delighted!

villainous friend 7h ago

Hearing all my girlfriend's theories as she reads the book for the first time is SO much fun!

Her: "This Ye Wangxi seems like an interesting character."
Me: "Um... yes, *he* is."

Her: "Who's Mei Hanxue again?"
Me: "Um... *he* *is* the young master of Kunlun Taxue Palace."

villainous friend 4h ago

Me: "You do get to see Chu Wanning's childhood later on, and it gives some explanation for why he's Like That."
Girlfriend: "Okay... oh yeah, wasn't the fake Gouchen the Exalted wondering who Chu Wanning's shizun was?"
Me: "You get to meet his shizun later too."
Girlfriend: "Who IS his shizun?!"
Girlfriend: "I bet it's Gouchen the Exalted."
Me: 😂 🤐 🤫 😂
Girlfriend: "Hah! I knew it! I was right!"

@villainousfriend 🤣🤣🤣

What do they think about Shi Mei so far??

villainous friend 6h ago

@mespinozart she keeps asking what his deal is and whether he's going to turn out to be secretly evil!!! 🤐 🤐

@villainousfriend honestly I didn’t suspect Shi Mei until he started acting weird, so kudos to your partner for already seeing through him 😜

villainous friend 5h ago

@mespinozart I love reading books alongside her because sh always picks up on this kind of thing wayyyyy before me 😹

unforth | Duck Prints Press 5h ago

@villainousfriend lololol.

@villainousfriend @geraineon I still think my greatest accomplishment regarding 2ha was to make @dppunforth laugh at my thoughts on book 10

🎐 IS REVERSE LONDON FLAT?6d ago

@villainousfriend
lol dogblood

I know the plot, although I can never finish the book. I kinda agree the amount of dogblood is about right, in a “because of genre conventions” sort of way.

Dr. Neon, PhD in Tragedy 6d ago

@villainousfriend

hahaha to be specific, it didn't fully commit to the dogblood in a way that I enjoy.

@villainousfriend I just finished erha for the first time a couple weeks ago and all I want to do is reread it again. I got the 7S tl but been wanting to get the audio book too, still on the fence.

I just need to reread it is all my brain is saying lol

villainous friend Apr 3

@mespinozart your brain is so valid!!

I’ve read half of the 7s volume one this afternoon and I just want to keep going

unforth | Duck Prints Press 6d ago

@villainousfriend it is a book that rereads fairly well imo, because when you read it and You Know it's very clear that Meatbun had a plan from the start and there are so many hints.