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After passing peer review here is my drama recommendation tool

Maybe I will update it in the future but for now I am happy to have watched enough good dramas to make it.

Boy I saw this guy giving a girl a piggyback ride when I was driving home and if that wasn’t straight out of a kdrama then what fucking shitty world am I living in???

I Want my Wei Ying Back, with apologies to Jon Klassen.

A love letter to dramas and other art forms.

The curation process was long and arduous but also a source of precious delight and balm. Another callout to y'all pollophiles: How about casting a vote for your favorite setting, among a whooping 18 settings, in the casual poll right at the end of the article? You can see the results right after you submit your choice(s). The link has also been reproduced slightly further ahead in this post.

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Many-Worlds Liminal Yoga

Physical Experience Bubble: A breathtaking network of yoga complexes and outdoor yoga locations in which thematically attired participants p

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Many-Worlds Liminal Yoga

Which settings would you sign up for if such a network existed?

H Universe Awards 2024

Potential Lifesaver Award

Baby Reindeer [United Kingdom]

Care is not an invitation for possession. Self-hatred may get in the way of justice.

Forbes

‘Baby Reindeer’ Review: A Devastating Examination Of Trauma And Abuse

Baby Reindeer is one of the best Netflix originals ever made, but it's not an easy watch.

Most Meaningful Character

Squid Game Season 2's Player 120 Cho Hyun-ju [South Korea]

Discriminated people are more than their discriminated statuses and traits. Femininity does not lessen a person's capacity for toughness or leadership. We often don't fall neatly into one box or another conceived by society. So. Stop. Treating People. As. Little. Categorization. Games.

Hyun-ju cannot be mentioned without mention of the silver-haired mother, player 149 Jang Geum-ja. The ignorant elderly woman frowns upon gender transition yet she tenderly looks after the much taller and well-built Hyun-ju more than many trendy young people around you and I care about marginalized individuals in their midst.

NPR

Landmark ruling finds South Korea military illegally discharged a transgender soldier

A court rules that the military unlawfully discriminated against Byun Hui-su for undergoing gender reassignment surgery. The verdict came se

Most Thought-Provoking Series

Hellbound / Hell Season 2 [South Korea]

Human hubris manifests not in defying divine forces, but in knowing that which you do not truly know.

TIME

Breaking Down Hellbound's Brutal Season Two Ending

The second season of Netflix’s supernatural K-horror gives some real answers to its metaphysical machinations

Best Ending

Self-love-themed finale of Eternal Night Star River / Eye-Rolling Official English Title [Mainland China]

You're capable of tapping your full strengths to give important people in your life your all only if you are comfortable in your own skin. The other side of the coin, though, is Murder Mindfully. Ziqi's problem is not that he is a demon in the conventional sense of the term, but that the him beneath it all wrongly identifies as one.

Geekiest Series

Avatar: The Last Airbender [United States]

Diverse cultural elements and martial arts galore.

TIME

How Avatar: The Last Airbender Is a Love Letter to Asian Cultures

While many other fantasy series are Euro-centric, the new Netflix "Avatar" adaptation centers Asian culture and history.

Best Aesthetics

Blossoms Shanghai / Luxuriant Blossoms [Mainland China and Hong Kong in relation to the cinematography]

Variety

Wong Kar-wai’s ‘Blossoms Shanghai,’ Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ Win Top Prizes at Busan Streaming Awards

Wong Kar-wai’s series debut 'Blossoms Shanghai' won two of the top awards at Busan's annual Asia Contents Awards and Global OTT (streaming)

Wong Kar-wai did not compromise for the small screen. The question is whether any scene is overdone. It's also a pity he could not get the color grading perfected in time for the CCTV broadcast. A "director color-graded version" with richer colors in at least various scenes was later released.

Best Music

What Comes After Love [South Korea and Japan in relation to the soundtrack]

What comes after that? Fragrance notes-like music that takes you places, of course.

Notes

There is plenty of online discussion revolving around acting, directing and writing, so awards in those areas are unnecessary. The acceptability of acting, moreover, is perhaps particularly vulnerable to cultural differences. Also subjective is the weights and combinations of factors that should go into the assignment of any Best Drama award. On a gut level, the drama that worked best for H this year is China's beautifully-shot sci-fi adventure series Tibetan Sea Flower / Adventure Behind The Bronze Door, but why should it be important to anyone reading this? Is it as thematically meaningful as various dramas above? Is its adrenaline-pumping, breathtaking directing and writing close enough to flawless, given its repetition of a certain trick and choosing to tell instead of show when unveiling the secrets to certain mysteries? How important is it for everyone to accept like H does that some choices can be justified by its place in a larger network of stories (the Lost Tomb franchise) apt for Easter egg hunts and jigsaw puzzle games? A more level-headed personal pick in any event would be any drama conferred the honor of Potential Lifesaver Award.

Beware of sampling errors that may contribute to the appraisal of shortlisted dramas. This unspecified shortlist, in turn, is subject to marketing prowess and social media reach.

How it started 90% of the time: YASSS! Master Soapy T-Rex has only three lines to say about this impossible drama concept. Time guilt suppressed.

How it always ended:

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Sentient Jams

Metadrama idea: Fairies and demons ranting against fates repeated across lifetimes, generations and realms — plunging down abysses, unsealin

Still mind-blown by this concept. It's arguably even more imaginative than Liu Cixin's scifi works, since people expect so much from books and screen creations but so little from disabled individuals, who have career dreams and need financial protection.

Time Out Tokyo

Tokyo's most unique café has robot waiters controlled remotely by disabled workers

With robot waiters controlled remotely by disabled workers, this Nihonbashi café is shaping a better, more inclusive future

Familiar Question

Does one of the challenges from @overchers ring a bell?

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Spotlight: 3 Body Problem, Zine Tseng & Rosalind Chao

Zine Tseng and Rosalind Chao sat down with Tumblr person @overchers to discuss their experiences playing different iterations of the same ch

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Bard's Dark Forest Cuisine

Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!"Wildly imaginative." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyThis near-future trilogy

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A 5-Course Bard Meal to Transport Us Back to Love Between Fairy And Devil

The most precious servings for us Cloud Dream Lake inhabitants come right at the end. Appetizer Fairy wings. These are small, crispy chicken

Spot

Sea Of Dream's poster: Spot the sea.

Three-Body II: Dark Forest's poster: Spot the darkness.

Hokusai's dragon legend art: Spot the dragon.

Purreaucracy

Course Title: Navigation of Bureaucracy with Felines: Strategies for Effective Governance through Collaboration between Human Leaders & Their Whiskered Companions

Overview: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to innovative governance models centered on collaborations between human leadership and felines. This unique approach highlights the advantages of integrating feline attributes and behaviors into decision-making processes to enhance organizational effectiveness and navigate complex bureaucratic systems. Students will gain practical strategies for effective collaboration and problem-solving while fostering harmonious relationships between human leaders and their furry companions.

Week One: Overview: Introduction to Feline-Human Relationships in Decision Making

Understanding Feline Social Structures, Hierarchy, and Communication

Investigate the impact of felines’ social dynamics on group cohesion and hierarchy maintenance

Identify methods to establish positive communication channels between cats and humans

Cultivating Resilience & Adaptability via Kittenhood Trials

Analyze kittens' experiences navigating challenges crucial for success in adulthood

Appraise the parallels between these developmental stages and organizational growth

Establishing Trustworthy Relationships for Efficient Governance

Discover the importance of trust and reciprocity among groups led by both humans and felines

Develop techniques for nurturing long-lasting partnerships founded upon mutual respect and benefit sharing

Week Two: Feline Fundamentals

Topic: Understanding Our Cohabitants: An Overview of Feline Physiology and Psychology Core Reading: “CATWISE: Why Cats Do What They Do,” by Nicky Hallucinochell – Chapter 4: "Body Language," pp. 78–93

Additional Readings / Watchlist:

Article: "Cat Body Language" - Decoding Signals from Meows to Postures [Helpful tips on interpreting cat body language] Video Tutorial Series: "Understanding Your Cat’s Emotions and Body Language" - by Dr. Sarah Ellisuedo [A series featuring expert advice on recognizing cats' emotional states and corresponding physical signals]

Activity Task:

Discussion Prompt: Evaluate the importance of recognizing feline psychological needs and behaviors when collaborating across species boundaries.

Week Three: Comparative Perspective: Human vs. Feline Societies

Topic: Building Shared Goals through Recognition of Parallel Motivations in Humans and Felines Core Reading: “The Way of the Cat: Lessons from Animal Welfare Science,” by Dennis C. Fictioner – Chapter 9: "Communication," pp. 117–134

Additional Readings / Watchlist:

Article: "How Cats and Humans Communicate?" - Insights into Nonverbal Exchange Techniques [Comparisons between human and feline communication styles] Interactive Chart: "Behavior Types Explained" - by PawCulture [Identify feline behaviors and compare them to human equivalents]

Activity Task: Create a table illustrating the parallels and contrasts between feline social structures and human organizational dynamics.

Case Study Discussion Question: Compare and contrast the effectiveness of individualistic and collaborative problem-solving strategies in both humans and felines under stressful conditions.

Week Four: Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution Topic: Effective Management Practices for Cross-Species Interactions Core Reading: "Working With Cats: Guidelines and Best Practices," by Rachel Nonexistein – Chapter 4: "Handling Confrontation and Disagreement," pp. 107–144 Activity Tasks:

In-Class Activities: 1. Reflective writing exercise: Analyze conflicts from past group projects involving interspecies collaboration; 2. Role play exercises: Mock scenarios demonstrating effective techniques for resolving cross-species disagreements

Textbook Exercises and Quizzes: 1. Review questions evaluating understanding of chapter material; 2. Group quiz focusing on case studies analyzing team conflict resolution in multi-species settings

Week Five: Designing Accessible Spaces for Multifunctionality Topic: Ergonomics and Universal Design for Interspecies Living and Working Environments Core Reading: "Design for Life: The Art and Science Behind Creating Products People Love," by Hwan-sang A. Sova and Sōzō Ierardi-Kawauso – Chapter 7: "Creating Usable Solutions That Transcend Personal Preferences," pp. 115–139 Activity Tasks:

Class Exercise and Presentations: 1. Small groups develop accessibility prototypes addressing diverse needs and abilities within shared environments; 2. Peer presentations showcasing innovative design solutions incorporating universal principles

Research project exploring ergonomic modifications for improving multispecies living spaces (such as furniture adaptations promoting ease of movement, comfort, and safety). This may include interviews with professionals in fields such as veterinary science, zoology, and architectural design specializing in animal habitats or assistive technologies.

Week Six: Summative Project: Navigating Organizational Dynamics Utilizing Multifunctional Animal Competencies

Final capstone project requiring groups to draft a comprehensive proposal outlining their vision for applying multilayered skill sets from both human and feline team members to resolve current professional problems or optimize operations

Peer review and instructor evaluation grading the feasibility, efficiency, scalability, and innovativeness of submitted plans showcasing skills acquired during this course.

Extra Reading Assignments (optional):

Book: “Why Cats Pretend Not To See Each Other” by Rachel Nonexistein, PhD - Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 7 (“Rules and Games”). Excerpts are available online. [Dr. Nonexistein discusses key elements of cat behavior relevant to interspecies collaboration.] Article: "Felines on Film" - Analyzing How Hollywood and International Cinema Portray Feline Behavior, Dynamics, and Persona [Analyze media representations of felines to gain insight into societal perspectives on cat personalities] Online Course/Tutorial: Ethogram Method

Assessment Activities:

Reflective Journal Entries: Throughout the course, students will maintain weekly reflective journal entries, exploring their thoughts, observations, and experiences related to the fusion of feline wisdom and human leadership practices. These entries will provide opportunities for introspection and self-assessment, enabling students to track their progress in comprehending and applying insights from feline co-leadership principles.

Group Project Presentations: See above. In small teams, participants will design creative presentations showcasing their understanding of feline behavioral patterns and how they contribute to effective governance within different contexts (e.g., government organizations, businesses, NGOs, local communities). These projects will facilitate peer interaction, active engagement, and knowledge exchange around real-life scenarios involving interspecies collaboration.

Examinations: There will be one midterm exam and one final exam which dates will be announced later. Examination formats will consist of multiple choice, short answer, and essay question sections, addressing topics such as:

Principles of Cat Cooperation & Communication

Comparison of Feline Social Structures & Hierarchies versus Human Organizations

Theoretical Frameworks Integrating Cat Wisdom with Leadership Practices

Challenges & Benefits Associated with Feline-Inclusive Management Systems

Case Studies Analysis: Application of Feline-Human Interaction Models in Real Life Settings

Formulation of Original Ideas for Augmented Coordination between Humans & Felines Across Divergent Contexts.

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Under the microscope (2023) - EP5

↑Link to a demo of model student behavior.

Classroom Decorum: No consumption of mustard, garlic or citrus-scented foods. No self-assuming tummy rubs on feline guest speakers. Catcallers face immediate expulsion, lifelong bans from campus grounds, as well as liability to repay all non-employment-based financial aid received to date.

Course Team:

Instructor: Dr. Henrietta J. Whiskerson, Larry-Stubbs Hall 417, Department of Political Science, Levchyk School of Public Affairs, Altama University

Office hours: Wednesday - Friday, 4 pm - 6 pm

Administrative assistant: Laion A. I., who drafted earlier versions of this handout.

Bard's Dark Forest Cuisine

Macmillan

The Dark Forest

Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!"Wildly imaginative." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyThis near-future trilogy

Soon to be dramatized. Spoiler alert.

Black Forest cake. This is a rich and decadent chocolate cake that is filled with cherries and whipped cream. The dark color of the cake is a symbol of the dark forest, while the cherries represent the stars.

Sainsbury`s Magazine

Black forest gateau recipe by Eric Lanlard | Sainsbury`s Magazine

This delicious black forest gateau recipe from Eric Lanlard is the perfect dessert for a special occasion

Shrimp cocktail. This is a classic appetizer that is made with shrimp that are cooked in a cocktail sauce. The shrimp represent the civilizations that are hiding in the dark forest, while the cocktail sauce represents the fear and paranoia that exists between them.

Kitchn

You're Just 30 Seconds Away from the Best-Ever Cocktail Sauce

It comes together with just a handful of condiments.

Oysters Rockefeller. These are oysters that are topped with a creamy sauce that is made with spinach, bacon, and Parmesan cheese. The oysters represent the civilizations that are trying to survive in the dark forest, while the sauce represents the hope and determination that they have for the future.

Food Network

Grilled Oysters Rockefeller with Baby Spinach Bacon Fondue

Get Grilled Oysters Rockefeller with Baby Spinach Bacon Fondue Recipe from Food Network

Black bean soup. This is a hearty and flavorful soup that is made with black beans, tomatoes, onions, and garlic. The black color of the soup is a symbol of the dark forest, while the beans represent the civilizations that are trying to survive in it.

The Pretty Bee

Three Ingredient Black Bean Soup.

A super simple and tasty recipe for black bean soup that uses just three ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry ! Vegan a

Take the AI definitions with a pinch of Himalayan black salt, however. Numerous variants of a dish often exist. With that in mind, bon appétit.

A 5-Course Bard Meal to Transport Us Back to Love Between Fairy And Devil

The most precious servings for us Cloud Dream Lake inhabitants come right at the end.

Appetizer

Fairy wings. These are small, crispy chicken wings that are coated in a sweet and sour sauce. They are a delicious and playful appetizer that is perfect for a party.

Deviled eggs. These are hard-boiled eggs that are filled with a creamy and flavorful mixture of mayonnaise, mustard, and paprika. They are a classic appetizer that is perfect for any occasion.

Bamboo Shoots with Sesame Seeds. Bamboo shoots are a symbol of new beginnings, which is perfect for the story of Love Between Fairy and Devil, as it follows the journey of two characters who are from different worlds.

Caviar with blinis. Caviar is a luxurious food that is made from the eggs of sturgeon fish. It is often served with blinis, which are small pancakes. The rich and luxurious caviar is a perfect representation of the devil, while the light and fluffy blinis represent the fairy.

Soup

Tomato soup. Tomato soup is a classic American soup that is made with tomatoes, cream, and onions. It is a refreshing and light soup that is perfect for a summer meal. The bright red color of the soup is a symbol of love, while the creamy texture is a symbol of comfort.

Cream of mushroom soup. Cream of mushroom soup is a smooth and creamy soup that is made with mushrooms, cream, and white wine. It is a delicious and comforting soup that is perfect for a rainy day. The earthy flavor of the mushrooms is a symbol of the devil’s dark side, while the creamy texture is a symbol of the fairy’s gentle nature.

Salad

Caprese salad. Caprese salad is a simple but delicious salad that is made with fresh mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, and basil. It is a refreshing and light salad that is perfect for a summer meal. The bright colors of the salad represent the love between the fairy and the devil, while the simple ingredients represent the purity of their love.

Green bean salad with mandarin oranges and pomegranate seeds. Green beans are a symbol of growth and change, which are both themes that are explored in Love Between Fairy and Devil. The mandarin oranges and pomegranate seeds represent warm wishes.

Main Course

Dragon's Breath steak with roasted potatoes and asparagus. The climax of our long feast is a classic, hearty and flavorful main course made with grilled or pan-seared meat. The steak represents the strength and power of the devil, while the roasted potatoes and asparagus represent the beauty and grace of the fairy. The entire beautiful dish is served steamingly hot, evoking scenes of our epic romantic couple missing, bickering with and tending to each other in Water Cloud Sky.

Dessert

Chocolate lava cake with blueberries on the side. Chocolate lava cake is a decadent dessert that is made with a rich chocolate cake and a gooey chocolate center. It is a perfect dessert for a special occasion. The rich chocolate flavor of the cake represents the passion between the fairy and the devil, while the gooey chocolate center represents the sweetness of their love. The Homo sapiens curator tossed in the blueberries as a throwback to the water theme running across the three realms of the story universe.

The Mermaid Fairy's kiss. A light and airy dessert made with meringue, whipped cream, and fresh berries. The dessert is garnished with a sprinkling of fairy dust in the form of powdered sugar and symbolizes the pure fairy's healing of the devil. The mermaid kiss represents the fairy and the devil's forbidden love.

Now that we're well-fed by the finest of Big Tech's kitchen, with the supplement of some self-service expositions, it's time to ponder the question whether generative AI is a fairy or a devil. The job of an AI output curator entails 1) ensuring the algorithm perform its story research properly before coming up with recommendations, 2) guarding against culturally or otherwise biased suggestions, 3) resetting or otherwise isolating machine conversations to prevent previous queries and results from bleeding into the current result where such bleeding is unnecessary and 5) screening and researching results for inaccuracies.

Here is more sugar for thought:

How do we represent the fairy's latent magic and conflicted loyalties and the devil's dual nature and repentance? How can cuisine capture their dramatic sacrifices and gradual moving transformations?

To what depth can AI research the story in the first place? Wouldn't it be even cooler if Bard can know of iconic food scenes like the one (Spoiler alert!) featuring Fairy-in-Moon-Supreme-Body and the Moon Supreme himself pettily fighting over a kingly feast in Cangyan Sea?

The listed dishes are painstakingly curated from numerous queries and refined specifications. Experiment for yourself the extent of meal suggestion repetition across different dramas and meal occasions. How much is AI merely fitting your request into predefined answers? When it does this, how much of a unique being are you and is it sincerely answering your question? Some analogies: Santa Claus gifts you a factory uniform when you wish for your own special outfit; a salesperson touts to someone nostalgically looking for a vintage phone the smartphone model the store has stocked plenty of, adapting product virtues on the pitch template to the customer rather than adapting the product itself to the customer.

Which AI models are better at true creativity? Which merely reinforce conventional thinking?

The repetition of the kind-girl-powerful-guy motif, especially before human Cloud Dream Laker edits, is also concerning. Yet this is not a problem limited to machine learning or cuisine symbolism. Since symbols are all we more often than not end up with in media references and casual chats, however nuanced the original plot is, can we swap the genders in the next breakout fantasy series for much necessary balance? Reversed gender dynamics need to appear in higher frequencies across pop culture landscapes. A cackling demoness supreme and an innocent, non-aggressive male fairy nudging out her good side without preaching, s'il vous plaît.

Bard's Fantasy Medical C-Drama

This is an edited AI story that grew from a Love Between Fairy And Devil prompt. The year is 2077. The world is a very different place than it was just a few decades ago. Climate change has ravaged the planet, and many cities have been abandoned due to rising sea levels. In the midst of this chaos, a new type of hospital has emerged: the glutinous hospital.

Glutinous hospitals are not like traditional hospitals. They are not equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology, and they do not have a staff of highly trained doctors and nurses. Instead, glutinous hospitals are staffed by a group of unlikely heroes: spirits of tangyuan.

Tangyuan are small, round, and sweet dumplings made from glutinous rice flour. They are also very kind and compassionate. They have a natural ability to heal the sick and injured, and they are always willing to help those in need.

One day, a young woman named Xiao Yu (originally Xiaolanhua) arrives at a glutinous hospital. She is suffering from a terminal illness, and she has been given only a few months to live. Xiao Yu is desperate for a cure, and she is willing to try anything.

The tangyuan at the glutinous hospital are able to heal Xiao Yu's illness. They give her a new lease on life, and they help her to find her true purpose in the world. Xiao Yu eventually becomes a doctor at the glutinous hospital, and she dedicates her life to helping others.

However, there is a dark side to this convalescent planet retaken by fantasy. The tangyuan are not the only ones who can heal the sick and injured. There are also a group of creatures known as the colorful qilins who have the same ability. They look like horses with the head of a dragon, the body of a deer, and the tail of an ox and are often seen as symbols of hope and redemption. In reality, though, the colorful qilins use their powers to harm and destroy.

One day, a group of colorful qilins attack the glutinous hospital. They kill many of the tangyuan, and they take Xiao Yu prisoner. Xiao Yu is forced to work for the colorful qilins, and she is used to heal their injured soldiers.

Xiao Yu is horrified by what she is forced to do, but she knows that she must obey the colorful qilins if she wants to stay alive. She also knows that she must find a way to escape and to stop the colorful qilins from hurting anyone else.

Xiao Yu eventually escapes from the colorful qilins, and she returns to the glutinous hospital. She helps the tangyuan to rebuild the hospital, and she vows to never let the colorful qilins hurt anyone again.

However, Xiao Yu is also haunted by the memories of the things she has seen and done while working for the colorful qilins. Despite all of this, she never gives up hope and remains determined to make a difference.

But another wrench has been thrown into the works. The tangyuan are not as kind and compassionate as they seem. They are actually quite selfish and manipulative, and they use Xiao Yu for their own purposes.

Xiao Yu eventually realizes this, and she is heartbroken. She realizes that she has been lied to and used, and she doesn't know who to trust anymore.

Xiao Yu eventually leaves the glutinous hospital, and she sets out on her own. She doesn't know where she's going or what she's going to do, but she knows that she can't stay there any longer. She travels the world while she figures out her future, helping those in need and fighting for what she believes in. In the seemingly never-ending journey, she becomes a symbol of hope and inspiration for others.

Xiao Yu's character trajectory is a long and difficult one. She is faced with many challenges, and she often feels lost and alone. However, she never gives up hope. She knows that she is strong and capable, and she is determined to find her own way in the world.

Her story is a story about the power of the human spirit. It is also a story about the dangers of false hope and the importance of finding your own way in the world. It shows that even the most seemingly benevolent creatures can have dark secrets, and that even the most seemingly innocent people can be corrupted by power. In it, one witnesses the dangers of idealism and the importance of critical thinking.

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22nd Suite Queen

Makeup and mathematics are about packing and unpacking life's possibilities.

Arched brows, lush lips, or just be an unabashed alien echinoderm?

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Everything is — may be — fated, except love.

The historical and literary reasons the lover in Love Between Fairy and Devil's fate poem is Master Xiao instead of Master Gu or Master Qin. Antireq: Severe dairy allergy. Powered by a US National Security Agency innovation. Have fun comparing answers with besties'.

Wangji and Wuxian

Noooo guys. I started watching cdramas after seeing Love between a Fairy and Devil edits all over my tiktok. I'm at episode 32 and I'm shattered. Please tell me this isn't the end for them.

[𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭] 𝐀 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚'𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 & 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬.

𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐥𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 & 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐭

𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 "𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧"? 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲. 𝐒𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧. 𝐀𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬? 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 - 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐟𝐢𝐭.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬! 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝐈𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲, 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫 (𝐚.𝐤.𝐚. 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧”), 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚. 𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 逆天 (𝐧𝐢 𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧) - ‘𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧.’ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞; 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠, 逆天 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝-𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥.

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐖𝐮 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐢, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐫𝐱𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 "𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧", 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥? 𝐓𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲? 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐚𝐧 (天), 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧. 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐥𝐞? 𝐍𝐨. 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐜? 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭?

𝐈𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟:

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐂 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝.

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤? 𝐍𝐨, 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐂 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬:

逆天而行 (𝐧𝐢 𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐫 𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠) - "𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧" (𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐏 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲).

天命 (𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠) - “𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞” (𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲, 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚).

替天行道 (𝐭𝐢 𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐨) - "𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧" (𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧).

𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭: 不知天高地厚 – “𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡”, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬, 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬.

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.

𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝: "𝐲𝐢𝐧" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 "𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐠" 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.

𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 ‘𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲.’

𝐒𝐨, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐚𝐰. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧, 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐭.

𝐒𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 “𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧!” 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦!

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 & 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬. 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐚.

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

𝐈𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲’𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫 - 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!

𝐒𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐉𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬’ 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭.

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚-𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 魂魄 (𝐡𝐮𝐧 𝐩𝐨) - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 (魂 - "𝐡𝐮𝐧") 𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 (魄 - "𝐩𝐨") 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲. 𝐈𝐟 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬. 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫.

𝐀𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬, "𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥", 𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞, 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫.

𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬/𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞? 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐮𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲.

𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬:

𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐫 & 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 -> 𝐋𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧.

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 -> 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲.

𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 & 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 -> 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐲.

𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 & 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞 -> 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬).

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 & 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 -> 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭.

𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞. 𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥 (𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐢), 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫(𝐬), 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 "𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬."

𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬:

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬

𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞.

𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭! 𝐀𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬, - 日为师，终生为父 (𝐲𝐢 𝐫𝐢 𝐰𝐞𝐢 𝐬𝐡𝐢, 𝐳𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐢 𝐟𝐮) - "𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞." 𝐈𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬, 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐩

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐧 (辈分), 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 - 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐪𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐢 (前辈), 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐱𝐢𝐚𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐢 (小辈), 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭.

𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬

𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞? 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥.

𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤.

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫.

𝐈𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡, 𝐚𝐧 "𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐞" 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞? 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐬! 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐧 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫, 𝐋𝐮𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐠, 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐢 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠:

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 "𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫" (大哥 – 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫).

𝐋𝐞𝐢 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 "𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫" (二弟 – 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫).

𝐋𝐮𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐠? 𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 "𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫" (三弟).

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬.

𝐐𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧 (𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 (𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐲).

𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚?

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭. 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬? 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲. 𝐀 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭? 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲. 𝐀 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞? 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.

𝐒𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭.

𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥? 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲. 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬. 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢-𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐰, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫.

𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 (𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐭). 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐔𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚:

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬? 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬? 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞 (家事 – “𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬”). 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧? 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧? 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 (家谱), 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐭.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤? 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩? 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐐𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬.

𝐒𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, 𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥.

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬

𝐈𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞? 𝐓𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.

𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐫𝐭. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭.

𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐈𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐬.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭.

𝐍𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬: 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬

𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐃𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦 (𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐦.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦 (𝐓𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦)? 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬:

𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 (𝐖𝐮 𝐖𝐞𝐢 – 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢.𝐞., 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲).

𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 (𝐘𝐢𝐧 & 𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐠, 𝐢.𝐞., 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭).

𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐨 ("𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐲"), 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐏𝐮 朴) 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬 & 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: 𝟏) 𝐋𝐚𝐨𝐳𝐢 (𝐋𝐚𝐨 𝐓𝐳𝐮) – 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐨 𝐃𝐞 𝐉𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭.

𝟐) 𝐙𝐡𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐳𝐢 – 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝, 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦 -> 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 & 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦 -> 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬.

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐃𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚

𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐬: 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐢-𝐟𝐢.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫:

𝐘𝐞 𝐗𝐢𝐮 (𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭) 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 — 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬:

𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧/𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭) 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲. 𝐆𝐮 𝐗𝐮𝐧 𝐄𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐨 𝐘𝐚𝐧 (𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭), 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫, 𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐨 𝐘𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐫/𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝:

𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

𝐈𝐧 𝐏𝐖, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥. 𝐒𝐡𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐨'𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 (𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭), 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞, 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬.

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡.

𝐐𝐢𝐧 𝐘𝐮 (𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭) 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐘𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬.

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.

𝐒𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

𝐖𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐮𝐩!

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐓𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐦; 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐀𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲, 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.

𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨_𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚, 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 & 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝.

𝐀 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞. 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 @𝐮𝐳𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐨 & @𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐲𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 ♡

Some Que Siming & Jingbao doodles hehehe

Jinbao doodle

Because he's adorable and I love him

Love and Redemption Rewatch: ep. 2

This rewatch could take a little longer than I expected with how time consuming it is, but here we go...

And so we get our first shred of the Mirror... which really should have been better hidden, if they ever hoped thing such as this not to happen.... The Secret Ground isn't all that secure.

From the start, Bai Lin is extremely determined that some things just Must Not Happen!

This whole "we are deciding Xuan Ji's punishment" situation shows very nicely the priorities and motivations of several characters. Ling Long shows up as soon as the whole berating starts, ready to intervene but biding her time. When the punishment is announced, Min Yan reacts immediately and pleads for leniency (on his knees and all). He doesn't think about it at all. I believe his main motivation is (as always) Ling Long, who, he knows, is extremely unhappy by this development and wants to protect her sister. Additionally, Xuan Ji is his friend and he wants to help her, but his main objective is to make Ling Long happy. Ling Long tries her classic crying act but is immediately silenced and quickly realizes that the situation is too dire to save her sister like this (still she tries one more trick - to appeal to aunt Hong - but this also fails). Xuan Ji doesn't fear the cave because she has no point of reference for pain or discomfort (beeing pampered her whole life) and is by far the most chill with the situation. But she also doesn't have any real regard for the rules of her sect and doesn't get the severity of her transgression. And that isn't because of her non-existent emotions, that is herself. She isn't concerned with rules or great ideals, she lives in the moment. Her biggest concern at the moment is Si Feng's wellbeing as she feels a connection with him. (Lets face it - Si Feng is guilty for trespassing in another sect's Secret Ground just because he needed to find his spiritual beast - Xuan Ji isn't protecting an innocent, she protects the boy she had connected with).

Chu Lei's speech to Yuan Lang has strong "who allowed you to go into my bedroom, the door were closed, bitch!" vibe.

So, this happened 16 years ago, approximately when Xuan Ji was born... but what about in her previous lifes, was the Jade Cup always sealed somewhere nearby? Did I just forget this detail?

Such a clever little misdirection and at the same time a hint...

And another clever misdirection: the show keeps showing us Yuan Lang during Xuan Ji's visions (and sometimes even Wu Zhi Qi) giving audience the impression that THIS is Star of Mosha thatwe are battling. My friend was even confused that there seemed to be more of them as the face and the mask keeps changing! Good job confusing the audience! :)

The "Ling Long tries to teach her sister how to cry" scene is very funny... and adorable... I love Ling Long.

The chilli powder plan is genius... :D In my country we use onion - works every time!

Si Feng is getting flogged as a punishment and the justification is that losing the mask puts everyone from Lize palace in danger... and this is probably not untrue...

Also, Si Feng stammers only in the presence of Xuan Ji.

Bai Lin is here for ten (largely uneventful) years already... he must miss his bed...

It's very sweet how sincerely Min Yan cares about Xuan Ji (even if it is a fertile ground for future misconceptions). Actually Xuan Ji is very loved by her sect brothers and sisters...

Is there some hidden meaning to the fact that taste has been the first sense to be recovered?

As expected, Ling Long's cooking is terrible. And as expected, Min Yan eats it all anyway, because she doesn't want her to be sad. I love these two, but Min Yan is the one who truly treasures his beloved person.

Min Yan's reaction to Ling Long's bitching is priceless...

... OR they want to save their own mask (and skin). One of those options. (Just saying. Si Feng isn't motivated by personal feelings just yet.)

Min Yan can be quite sneaky... and his plan actually worked! Good job, even worth Ling Long's slight disappointment.

And... he isn't stammering anymore, yep... That was quick - must have been the shock in the first place.

When you have the luxury of knowing, this is truly heartbreaking... I must look out for the first tears.

The beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Love and Redemption Rewatch: ep. 1

I genuinely love and adore this show but with how little content there is for L&R, I had to made some for myself.

Beware of SPOILERS for the whole story! Seriously...

I'm so excited!!! The opening song is still so good and still so full of spoilers. Like really, Si Feng with the wings??? The creators were not afraid... it was a choice.

Who do we have here? Yep, they have shown our bird and our monkey right off the bat.

The whole opening monologue is such a great misdirection! They even say it - one comes after the other! But the viewer expects two players, so this very suspicious setup is completely disregarded.

Wow, they really show everyone, don't they? :)

The concept of soul AND primordial spirit was very hard for me to grasp the first time, but rewatch makes it quite clear.

I swear I have seen this guy somewhere...

Yep, it's this guy from The Journey of Chong Zi.

This is ANOTHER great misdirect because we know that God of War and Star of Mosha are going to be reincarnated at the same time and OF COURSE Si Feng is here... so who could he possibly be, am I right? :)

And another great thing? The demons genuinely don't have the most important information either. :D

I almost forgot that they need Rahu Ketu's weapon to unseal the cup... all these macguffins to keep track of.

And this ist how the story tells us that Xuan Ji and Ling Long are twins... pretty easy to miss.

Ten months?? That's quite post-term!

Ling Long is amazing from the start. Protective older sister is something I need more of... and Ling Long is fierce!

The introduction of Min Yan is also on point: the only one who can keep up with Ling Long and never leaves her, but at the same time is always backed into some corner by her.

He is regretting it already... :D

Ling Long is talking about all these "handsome men" she gets to meet and Min Yan is not amused...

I have questions! Are all of these golden winged birds?? If so, do they really cast out so many potential warriors? To fend for themselves in hostile world without their powers?? That's rough AND wasteful...

I can't decide which picture sums up the Master of Li Ze Palace (does he have a name???) better, but I love him and his terrifying claws.

The bird lantern! There truly is foreshadowing for everything, if you know what to look for!

Yuan Lang's and Wu Zhi Qi's "friendship" is so interesting to me, because sometimes Yuan Lang almost looks like he means it... but the powerplay always comes first.

Wu Tong goes from awestruck to smirking in 0,2 seconds and then proceeds to bully the sister of the girl he likes... it's actually quite realistic.

I honestly can't remember when Si Feng stops stammering... I will have to look out for that.

Ling Long isn't afraid to say it. :D

Min Yan still isn't enjoying the whole "let's look for handsome mysterious guys" vibe, but Ling Long has him figured out.

The relationship between these two is extremely enjoyable right from the start. :)

I think this is the scene that made me definitely fall in love with Ling Long. She is determined, driven, protective and smart, and she is not afraid to use tactics like this - the crying and evocation of their mother is extremely well done and the way she immediately cuts her crying once she gets what she wants is hilarious. No one can mess with her sister, not even their own father!

This is a very specific morning routine. It can't be easy to make your tea from dewdrops fallen from a plum tree... just saying.

This relationship is off to a very bad start.

I already forgot how hostile Si Feng was at the beginning. I would feel bad for Xuan Ji, but she doesn't mind...

Si Feng is repressed and Chuan Ji is absolutely clueless about everything and it's very entertaining to watch. :)

The candle dragon sounds are genuinely scary.

This is a very impulsive decision on Chuan Ji's part and one she should have thought out better. She knows the rules, knows that the mask is important. What is she hoping to achieve by taking it off? It frustrates me a little, this lack of forethought, but the story needs it to get moving.

And here is another clue... wow, that's quite a lot for episode 1.

One episode was enough to rekindle my love for most of these characters... this rewatch could get quite annoying unfortunately . :)

we are presenting here this silly little meme of ours (@aredhel-erinti)... enjoy

Love and Redemption – Bailin

Behold! A meta about Bailin from Love and Redemption, if there’s anyone interested. It’s quite long, so be warned...

Many thanks to my dear @nieninque-nyerea for huge help with the translation from my mother tongue - I would never have the mental strength to do it by my self!

Bailin

Bailin is a complicated character... and that's the reason why it's so sad that all opinions about him are so simplified and can be summed up in three words "he's the worst". Because he isn't... and at the same time, yes, he definitely is. As you can see, the situation is complicated. It's honestly quite surprising how much people want to simplify his actions and character, especially considering the complex psyche of the main trio (or quartet, depending on viewer's philosophy) which makes the whole story so interesting, compelling and surprising (with a help of the wonderful secondary characters, but shh :)). I guess human desire for simple, black and white answers is our greatest superpower…

I would like to start with a small polemic about whether Bailin is a villain. I realize I'm being a bit loose with the terminology here, but I'd argue that he is not a villain. "What?" I hear the indignant voice of the internet – as if we didn't have enough evidence that in the end it was all his fault! (And there really is plenty of evidence.) If I may, I would call Bailin more of an antagonist, someone who is in opposition to the hero – if we consider Si Feng  the hero of the story, then completely deliberately, if the hero is Xuan Ji/Rahu Ketu, then Bailin is in opposition which he himself is hardly aware of, or at least does not admit to. As horrible as Bailin's actions are (and they are), what's really interesting are his motivations. So, enough of the quibble – what is really Bailin's deal?

The answer is very surprising in its simplicity – it's all about doing good. That's right - Bailin is unable to see his actions as problematic, let alone evil, because he firmly believes that whatever he does, he is acting in the service of what is „right“. Terrible is the surprise at the end of the story for him and his subjects, who got dragged along by the unbreakable strength of his conviction that what they are doing is right. (Flying Snake is the only exception, and even his dilemma it is not about the goodness of Heavenly Realm, but about the choice of duty vs friends.) It is not unusual in stories that even a completely unadulterated villain, let alone an antagonist, is convinced of the rightness of his behavior and the hero is primary someone who ignores his motivations and constantly stands in his way, and is therefore in the villain's/antagonist's interest to get rid of them. (We could include the relationship between Bailin and Si Feng into this category.) It is considerably less common when the antagonist is not aware of his opposition to the hero, and is even convinced on fundemental level that everything he does is only helping the hero - even if it‘s the very disintegration of hero's personality. And that is exactly the relationship between Bailin and Xuan Ji/Rahu Ketu. When one looks back at all of Bailin's actions, crimes, and even wilful acts it's actually surprising that his plan isn't more sinister and his motivations far darker. After all, Bailin really wants victory over the enemy (in his case, the victory of Heavenly Realm over demons), and in doing so he does not stand out from the ranks of other characters on both sides of the conflict. What makes Bailin truly unique is the radicality and disproportionality of his solutions, which often not only worsen the entire problem, but in several cases directly cause a brand new one. And all of this happens while Bailin is fully convinced of his truth, his rationality and the infallibility of his own decisions.

And that brings us to what is Bailin really like. Bailin does not have to be inherently evil to be destructive - both to himself and to others. He only needs two characteristics to do this, and both can be summed up in one problem - the lack of (appropriate) self-reflection.

These two characteristics are paranoia and lying to himself (especially in emotional matters).

Bailin belongs to that group of people who believe there is someone after them. Who? Everyone, anyone. The world is full of tricks and traps, you can't trust anyone, except maybe those you have authority over, and even there you're on a thin ice. You can't rely on anyone - and trusting someone emotionally is out of the question! It is always necessary to count on the worst possibility imaginable and look for the worst conceivable motive in others. Bailin's decisions in their monstrosity unsurprisingly match this mindset. Why wouldn't he decide for the worst possible solution, when he is convinced that only his own alertness and preparedness prevent others from using similar weapon against him?

To paranoia is strongly linked lying to oneself. In the world as Bailin sees it, is no place for weakness, hesitation, trust, let alone feelings. All of these things make Bailin (in his mind) an easy prey. Feelings most of all – for him to have feelings for anyone would be a tragedy indeed! It is necessary to fight against these things, or rather to deny their existence, not only in front of others, but above all in front of yourself. All unpleasant feelings and unexpected emotions can be rationalized! Woe be him who tries to impose feelings and emotions on you while you are working so hard for the good of Heavenly Realm! The problem is that Bailin is a good liar - he manages to manipulate a number of characters throughout the story, but he doesn't manipulate anyone better than himself.

Such relationship with reality can be deadly enough on itself, but the circumstances of Bailin's life take it to a truly terrifying extreme. Bailin is no nobody, he is the king of Heavenly Realm (I don't know the exact title), and the ongoing war with demons directly affects him. The very necessity of winning would justify a lot in Bailin's eyes. And into that comes Rahu Ketu and the much-hated feelings and emotions. Bailin does not understand himself - or, more precisely, does not want to understand himself. He is in a complicated situation and he knows only two things for sure. First: there is a war that is not going well, and he must win it – but it is the demons who hold all the triumphs in the form of their strongest general. In order for Bailin to win, he will have to get rid of this obstacle. Second: It is the same demon general that he must get rid of, without whom he cannot imagine his life. But Bailin doesn't like to think about that.

Bailin's paranoia does not allow him to accept or even imagine any other solution to their situation than victory, preferably an absolute victory – the enemy cannot be trusted, just as one cannot trust any peace designs, even should the enemy party come up with them. If Bailin doesn't attack first, in the fastest and smartest way, they will definitely lose! Of course, he can't even trust that „friend“ who sits and drinks with him so often, Bailin mustn't be fooled! Although he might wish they could sit together like this forever...

The solution Bailin will choose is a truly horrifying display of rationalized paranoia.

He is not committing a war crime, he is just doing what is necessary for Heavenly Realm to win! (Regarding the war crime: I'm sure poisoning a peace messenger would fall in this category. And yes, Bailin didn't know what message Rahu Ketu carried, but he would have known if he had listened to him. But he won't because he convinced himself such thing is not possible – that it will be either his solution or his loss. But even if we give him the benefit if doubt for not knowing, the attack was still made by trickery during friendly negotiation.)

And it's not like he wants to keep Rahu Ketu with him at all times, so he can never leave him, faithful and stripped of any identity that could possibly cause them to become enemies again! No, he is merely providing a weapon for Heavenly Realm which they never had and that will guarantee their victory!

And he doesn't at all take revenge on all the demons (including Rahu Ketu) when he orders God of War to slaughter her own people and her king. No, he's just making sure the rebellion will never happen again! So what – God of War will never even remember who she is, or realize who she killed, so why would it matter???

All altruistic and selfless reasons! In one move Bailin won the war and got rid of all his enemies. How could that be wrong??

In the same way it is later absolutely necessary that Xuan Ji does not regain her senses - not because she could then fall in love and forever leave Bailin for Si Feng, but because she could then become terrible, evil (or rather rightfully pissed off) demon and destroy the whole world! And if that strategy fails, then it's necessary to get rid of Xuan Ji, Si Feng and Jade Cup, because evil demon, war, and the destruction of the world are all serious problems - they don't necessarily have anything to do with the fact that Bailin really does not want to meet Rahu Ketu again and face him after all the things he had done to him.

From Bailin's point of view all of his decisions seem reasonable and sound. Logical. As if there really was nothing else to do. Of course, the problem is that Bailin's perception of the world is anything but reasonable and sound. It's paranoid and distorted – the demons are asking for peace after all, Rahu Ketu's feelings are sincere and he's not plotting any treachery or attack, Si Feng isn't after him... we could go on. Bailin can pass off his paranoia as rationality only by the force of his will and his own lies. But he indeed has a strong will and had believed his own lies a long time ago.

And so finally, Bailin stands before us as we know him - in his own eyes, and in the eyes of many, the paragon of goodness, purity and fighting for the right thing, especially in a world where the enemy could be everywhere, even (or maybe especially?) among one's closest people. Bailin shines so brightly precisely because he firmly believes that what he is doing is right. He relies on his own abilities and his own judgment, because his suspiciousness does not allow him to trust the judgment and motives of others. He is controlling, dominating even , because deep down he fears abandonment (without acknowledging it) and he is not able in front of himself to call love by its real name - he'd rather dress it up in a guise of usefulness and calculation, because what he fears most of all is to be loved only to be betrayed. If that should be the case, isn't it less painful to betray first?

Rahu Ketu is the person Bailin loves in all his complexity, including the potential danger he represents. God of War is the same beloved person, robbed of everything that could threaten Bailin – loyalty to the enemy, knowledge of her past, awareness of her own self; she is ideal because she is Bailin's and she cannot leave or betray him – she would be leaving and betraying her only identity. (Or rather Bailin thinks she can't, but life sucks...) Xuan Ji, on the other hand, is for Bailin the worst possible version of the same person: she's another erasure, a desperate attempt to recreate the person God of War was before her rebellion. But this time she doesn't know or love Bailin and her will is her own. She is not burdened by Rahu Ketu's consciousness, and yet Bailin has to watch her "worst" instincts win for nine lifetimes. When the tenth life comes, Bailin panics and heads down to Earth to get her back under his control before it's too late. But alas, it's too late already – while he wasn't with Xuan Ji, someone else had been... Bailin has hurt all three versions of his beloved person – denying or trying to deny each of them the right to freedom, an independent life and, what is most painfull, their own identity. Rahu Ketu states many times that he is not Xuan Ji and wants nothing to do with her, even though Xuan Ji undoubtedly is a part of him – but it's the part that was forced on him, that he was bound into, and for that Bailin can't be so easily forgiven... And Bailin, high above everyone in his white clouds but unable to admit the truth, says: "I didn't do anything wrong, just what was necessary!"

So what's the conclusion? Is Bailin really "the worst"? As I said in the beginning – he is, as well as he isn't… but for me Bailin is primarily tragic figure. He is definitely the person whose decision will negatively affect the largest number of people. His decisions are some of the worst. But his motivations... are surprisingly pure, although absolutely misguided. Bailin doesn't want to commit evil – he just hasn't realized that he is doing exactly that. What is worse – conscious malice or a mistaken belief in one's own sanctity, is up to everyone. Bailin's actions and their appalling utilitarianism cannot be very well defended, but I would find extenuating circumstances in his motivations.

And it's not only that - perhaps the most telling part is the end of Bailin's story. Because in the end Bailin submits and admits his fault. Yes, a higher up must appear - Bailin is too convinced that the world, as seen through his paranoia, is the real world so it is impossible for anyone but the ultimate authority to open his eyes - the most powerful one and the one with "the patent for the truth", the one in whose interest was Bailin convinced he has been acting. Metaphorically speaking, Bailin must cry out upwards: I did it all for You and for the sake of  Heavenly Realm! And he must hear emperor's „no“ to find humility. But Bailin‘s humility is real - such humility can only exist in someone who was not only truly convinced that he was doing the right thing, but who also sincerely wanted to do the right thing. Bailin's humility is beautiful in its tragedy - although Bailin had a habit of listening mostly only to himself, his ego is not what matters the most to him. The prosperity of Heavenly Realm is what matters the most, so the knowledge of his own failure is therefore more painful to him than any punishment.

Simply put, Bailin has a beautiful “Am I a baddie?” moment, and the most tragic part of the whole situation is that this really is a brand new information for him. What should he do with himself now?

All that remains is to drink the offered cup, resigned to his fate.

It's a different punishment than voluntarily giving up one's powers – that was an acknowledgment of incompetence, of mistakes. I surrender that with which I have done much evil in the name of good. I'm giving up my powers because I can't no longer trust myself.

This is a different kind of punishment - it carries hope. It carries within itself a new chance to get it right.

Perhaps at the very end, Rahu Ketu isn't really asking for a punishment, but for a sign of trust - a sign of the biggest change Bailin will have to go through.

Will you drink? Will you relinquish the control, you've clung to, the one for which you've ruined so many lives? Because of which you ruined my life? Will you overcome your fear and walk with me into the unknown? I already know what it's like to lose control, what it's like to be tossed around by forces more powerful than yourself and don't even know your own name - will you dare? Can you surrender yourself to the world and the people in it with the faith that they won't hurt you?

Will you drink with me?

I made these poorly edited text prompts.. enjoy

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the untamed + text posts

Almost done watching LBFAD and I’m kinda sad. Decided to make some fanart to cope (& also did some skin painting art studies bc I’m struggling. 🫠)

Rudimentary Fangs of Fortune romantic/sexual relationship chart based on the first seven episodes.

A redraw of Zewu-Jun! He’s one of my two comfort characters, I love him. I only wished he could have had a happier ending ;(. But aside from that, this was a style exploration.