"Nirvana in Fire"/"Lang Ya Bang" Group Read: Discussion Post for Chapters 130 - 145

[x_los]

Weeks 32, 33, 34 and 35 of the "Lang Ya Bang" book club, chapters 130 - 145 (inclusive). This discussion will draw to a close, and the next session will open, on January 2nd.

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

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Comments

Chapter 139

[x_los]

So Xia Jiang believes that his two male disciples have died in the course of the investigation (because Meng Zhi led him to believe this), right? And then Meng Zhi goes to Xia Dong and tells her (truthfully) that in fact very little is going to happen to her blood brother and her martial brother. The translation made that slightly unclear.

Re: Chapter 139

[superborb]

I think that's right. I did find it funny that the book can't let the question of if the disciples died hang around too long (or if it wasn't immediately corrected people might be more confused?)