• Pingxie Excerpts from Sequels - Strictly Bromance Blog
    Grave Robbers' Chronicles,  OTPs

    All About Daomu Biji’s PingXie Pairing – Part 2: Excerpts from Sequels

    Continuing with Part 1: PingXie Excerpts from Main Story, here are some precious PingXie excerpts from various Daomu Biji sequels. Due to the fact that Men You Ping and Wu Xie never appear together in the three sequels Tibetan Sea Flower, Sand Sea and Ten Years Later (since Men You Ping is behind the Bronze Gate during that period), these so-called PingXie moments are actually told only from Wu Xie’s perspective. In a way, it’s a study into his emotions and sentiments regarding Men You Ping. And here’s an honest warning: Majority of these moments are just angst. With one glance, you could tell the oil painting wasn’t created by…

  • Haunted Houses' Chronicles,  OTPs

    All About Haunted Houses’ Chronicles Pairing PengWo – Most Famous Excerpts from Canon

    Aka Probably the actual reason why so many fangirls got trapped in this novel. PengWo (朋我) is the ship name for the main pairing of Haunted Houses’ Chronicles, Qin Yiheng x Jiang Shuo (秦一恒 x 江烁). You probably have heard me talk about how much I adore Grave Robbers’ Chonicles’ PingXie and how much I think the dynamic of the male leads in Haunted Houses’ Chronicles’ bears a striking resemblance to PingXie. That’s likely also why there is a lot of overlap between the fandoms of these two novels. At one point, it’s even jokingly assumed that PengWo will become PingXie Generation 2 (lol). If you read the novel plus…

  • Daomu Biji's PingXie figurine by ERIK烤地瓜
    Grave Robbers' Chronicles,  OTPs

    All About Daomu Biji’s PingXie Pairing – Part 1: Excerpts from Main Story

    PingXie (Chinese: 瓶邪), short for Men You Ping x Wu Xie (Chinese: 闷油瓶 x 吴邪) is the most popular pairing of Daomu Biji. Rising to fame since the early days of the novel, the pairing is a reason for many fans getting pulled into starting this gigantic series. The amount of fan materials dedicated to this ship is sensational. At one point in time, PingXie was even named as “China’s national couple”. And until today, 14 years after the novel’s start, the PingXie ship is still going strong. Bearing in mind that this pairing is not canon and the novel is obviously not BL, just exactly what makes everyone so…

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