"Nirvana in Fire"/"Lang Ya Bang" Group Read: Discussion Post for Chapters 87 - 106

[x_los]

Weeks 21 - 26 of the "Lang Ya Bang" book club, chapters 87 - 106. This discussion will draw to a close, and the next session will open, on October 31st.

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 91

[x_los]

- Why not just give Liyang something to make her miscarry? That sounds a lot safer.

- ‘The woman they were all pitying’ Are we pitying Liyang? Didn’t she intentionally get the Zhuo boy killed instead of her own?

- Oh, we use ‘retched’, etc. to talk about expelling the blood? Huh. I guess I didn't exactly think of it as vomiting, per se--more the consumptive cough action.

- Changsu watching his fail cousin Yujin finally remember about Trauma and sighing.

- ‘Two hours into the fight’ What the Chinese prose fuck is this timeskip? This is wild.

Re: Chapter 91

[superborb]

I just checked and it's the same translation problem -- should be 30 min, not 2 hours.

Re: Chapter 91

[dragonyphoenix]

Did she intentionally get the Zhuo boy killed? My impression had always been that the assassin killed the wrong child and then she didn't speak up. But, given that backstabbing environment she must have grown up in, you could be right. She may have been thinking of sacrificing the boy from the moment she invited the Zhou woman to share rooms.