"Nirvana in Fire"/"Lang Ya Bang" Group Read: Discussion Post for Chapters 26 - 29

[x_los]

Week 7 of the "Lang Ya Bang" book club, chapters 26 - 29. This discussion will draw to a close, and the next session will open, on June 20th.

I'll be doing a weekly post with thoughts on this community. Feel free to join in/discuss. If you'd like to join the Discord, contact superborb for an invite.

Chinese text: https://sj.uukanshu.com/book.aspx?id=17338
English translation: https://merelhyn.tumblr.com/post/641747965727358976/the-langya-list-epubpdf

SPOILER POLICY: I personally don't give a fuck or even like to give unearned credence to the concept, so since I'm writing the post, anything's fair game.

(If anyone is interested in dankodes running further poetry content during or after NiF, please let me know what you'd be keen to discuss. I'm happy to work with you on that. I'll probably ask this again once NiF draws to a close.)

Comments

Chapter 28

[x_los]

‘This is really our Yunnan temperament’ how so?

‘Perhaps his heart was a little disturbed’ the prince's, or the would-be rapist's?

If Sima is one of the final tournament contestants and Jingyan can just kick his ass, how good are Jingyan’s martial arts? Better than I assumed, apparently.

This is such a BIG escalation for things to go back to normal after? You seriously threatened to kill your own brother, you can’t really walk that back!

The high fucking comedy of deploying everyone's great-grandmother to defuse tension.

Re: Chapter 28

[superborb]

Something something ~the natural world vs city life~??

The prince's, I think -- in the Chinese the whole paragraph is one sentence.

I think Sima might have been 'helped' by an easier bracket too. But I expect Jingyan's martial arts are supposed to be good.

Normal levels of inner palace fighting.