I made beefleaf babies and dressed them up for the new year 😆
Whenever I post something about beefleaf and I use tags "Shi Qingxuan", "Ming Yi", "He Xuan", it always feels so funny like there"s some kind of love triange going on here or better yet - some comedy of positions. Like,
Act I. He Xuan is planning revenge against Shi Wudu by ruining his younger sibling"s life. In order to do that, he takes on the quise of Ming Yi. His plan is to make Shi Qingxuan fall in love with him, ask their hand in marriage, and break up "right at the altar", revealing the truth about Shi Wudu"s crimes, his own identity and his disgust of Shi Qingxuan. He comes to younger Shi both as a noble god Ming Yi and a vile demon He Xuan. Shi Qingxuan befriends one and falls in mutual hatred with the other. Friendship successfully blossoms into love, and soon He Xuan"s behaviour towards Shi Qingxuan changes and becomes rather strange for an enemy. Shi Qingxuan doesn"t understand the reason behind it, but they laugh cruelly and mock He Xuan: "one might think that in front of them is not a mighty demon, but a bashful brat". He Xuan is terrified, because these words make him realize that he"s falling into the trap of love himself, so he decides to hurry up and get it over with. Ming Yi proposes to Shi Qingxuan and receives "yes" as an answer.
Act II. The wedding between Wind Master and Earth Master is announced, but the other morbid announcment follows: He Xuan makes it public knowledge that he would come to this wedding uninvited and ruin it. The great turmoil starts: half of the Heaven gets involved in planning the celebration, the other half gets involved in making sure He Xuan won"t be able seep in. While Shi Qingxuan is busy with security measures, Ming Yi is caught between planning their ideal wedding and imagining their happy family life after it and being torn apart at the face of necessity of ruining his own happiness and happiness of his beloved.
The day of the wedding comes. Ming Yi is nowhere to be seen, but He Xuan suddenly shows up. He"s about to spill the truth, but in the last moment he abandons his initial plan and kidnaps his fiancee instead.
Act III. While Shi Wudu makes preparations for rescuing his sibling from the captivity, Shi Qingxuan is furious but also surprised that He Xuan treats him with a good amount of respect and care. At first Shi Qingxuan is worried that Ming Yi"s disappearance has something to do with He Xuan. He threatens to get even with a demon if he hurt his groom, to which He Xuan replies bitterly and angrily that Ming Yi doesn"t love Shi Qingxuan and never did. These words enrage Wind Master and they give a heated speech about Ming Yi"s sincerety and tenderness behind all walls he builts around himself. Shi Qingxuan passionately declare their love for Ming Yi and their unshakable confidence that the feeiing is mutual. Of course all of this leaves He Xuan in absolute tatters.
Time passes. The search party for Shi Qingxuan doesn"t bear much fruit, but a good action scene will do our comedy good, so let"s say that Shi Wudu and He Xuan have a battle that results in stalemate and He Xuan"s retreat.
Meanwhile at Blackwater"s residence Shi Qingxuan learns that He Xuan isn"t as evil as he pretends to be. Instead, the fearful demon looks lonely and a little lost. Shi Qingxuan feels pity for him at some point and promises that there"s love for every soul in this world, and one day He Xuan will find his happiness for sure. Like Shi Qingxuan did! This is when the monologue about "brilliant, perfect, dear Ming Yi" starts. Shi Qingxuan is so caught in the moment, he doesn"t really notice how He Xuan keeps asking him for more information about "that groom of theirs", and Shi Qingxuan showers Ming Yi with love, affection and praise while He Xuan looks at him absolutely lovestruck. Near the end the monologue takes a melancholic turn, Shi Qingxuan speaks of the parting with his beloved, how much it hurts them and how much it must hurt Ming Yi. They end by addressing He Xuan: "I can see that you are not heartless yourself, if so, you will let me reunite with my love".
Act IV (?). Aaaaand this is where my imagination runs dry. Holy shit, thank you for reading up to this point, I"ll see you at the premiere tonight, but you know how comedies of positions go: identity reveal happens, but everyone is forgiven and loved, and there will be a grandiose wedding (Or two! A good comedy of positions will never suffer from a second romance as side-plot! Thank MXTX for hualian!) and they will all live happily ever after and also gruesome death is not included in the genre, so Shi Wudu keeps his head in this one. Happy end!!!