"Nirvana in Fire"/"Lang Ya Bang" Group Read: Discussion Post for Chapters 46 - 49

[x_los]

Week 12 of the "Lang Ya Bang" book club, chapters 46 - 49. This discussion will draw to a close, and the next session will open, on July 25th.

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 46

[x_los]

Awh, hi Jingning.

Lolol at Xia Dong turning up like ‘what a dump, bye’.

Why ‘take advantage of the snow’? What's to take advantage of?

This is interesting because I don’t really know, from my position as a reader, whether Changsu is lying to Prince Yu about the emperor’s will being dominant in the land grab case, and inflexible.

Re: Chapter 46

[superborb]

The snow hides sound and covers tracks

Re: Chapter 46

[x_los]

But Prince Yu is coming in through the front door and making a point of saying goodbye to Changsu in the road and taking a palanquin, he's not exactly Covert.

Re: Chapter 46

[superborb]

Oh, I forgot the chapter we were discussing sdfklsjl I thought we were still on the assassination chapter.

I guess maybe other activities can't happen during the snow? Either MCS is going to be at home during that time, or Prince Yu has fewer obligations? Wildly guessing here.