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xz and wyb library pavilion behind the scenes 📽️

Let’s talk about LHK please!!! He is on my list of people I wanna talk to when it comes to ZZ/WYB relationship and that is still true today. His most recent direct mention when it comes to the boys was when he posted buying tickets for Hidden Blade. We don’t know if he is still in contact with ZZ/WYB but it’s not a secret that this trio had a good relationship back in CQL filming and promotion.

I wanna say that LHK has that calm aura in him that would be pleasing to our boys. He is also someone quiet and will not purposely try to get attention by using them. I’ve always had that sense with the CQL cast, they have protected the boys from day 1 to now.

11/5, it was going around that LHK shared a video and there was a fan who commented a series of photos of him with ZZ and WYB asking, “Brother, does this picture look familiar?” he said let me reply to you in 4 words (characters) 完好无损. I looked it up and as per baidu it means intact/complete/without damage.

This could be interpreted into different things ; maybe he is talking about that point in time of promoting cql wherein they had an intact relationship and it was all good times. or that, even till now, their relationship is the same and it’s all good. ofc cpfs interpreted this as him confirming that the relationship between zz and wyb is stable whether that is as friends or more. tho we actually already know this. it’s just nice to see people they are close with indirectly give us some information.

Next he posted again and someone commented: brother, if bjyx is true please wear blue in your next post. Well, he did wear blue in his post after. 👀 ( the caption on p2 is: Even the wind is gentle when you are close to me. May we all have a moment of God's care. )

It’s yet another coincidence. Or is it? Maybe he wears a lot of blue clothes cause he is really a Lan hahahahahaha and it had nothing to with the comment. Who knows. I also don’t advise to ask their co stars stuff like this even if the person is cpf friendly. It’s still kinda sus tho. The universe is once again screwing us over and giving us signs that lead to SZD 😂😂😂😂

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IS THAT A Z NECKLACE?! WITH THE LIBRA BIRTHSTONE?!

WEB OH MY GOD

cr. weibo

I just edited the Jewelry post last night. 🔪 This is very 👀. I might have to wait if I see him wear it outside an event.

What a good day to show off his bone necklace. He cares for it so much 🥺🥺🥺

It's Xiao Zhan's turn to hammer

So after Yibo edited his bio to remove CQL from his "representative works" list, I felt soothed the next day when YBO shared photos of him wearing that shirt with the yellow field of flowers, and that limited edition #32/33 jacket in Lan Sect blue, all posted with kadian.

Then the following week, Xiao Zhan showed up at the airport in a pigtail, and my brain went ping! I dashed off this fic, imagining Yibo tying that pigtail while telling Xiao Zhan that it was his turn to show everyone all was well in the Yizhan household.

It seems that Xiao Zhan took his task very seriously!

After their joint (😂) attendance at the Greater Bay Area Film Concert on June 29, Xiao Zhan's long-awaited xianxia novel adaptation, The Longest Promise, suddenly began airing July 2. And with that, Xiao Zhan's studio began posting to promote it.

As I've said before, sometimes it takes a little time to notice the number patterns that give meaning to timestamps, and so it didn't hit me until today that XZS was hammering with kadian timestamps every day since The Longest Promise began to air.

Here's XZS's first post for TLP, on July 2:

18:19 is just so loud to me... 18 is of course yi ba in Chinese numbers, and represents Yibo. And 19 is yi jiu, which is a soundalike for 依旧, which means "still." So 18:19 means "still Yibo." Awwww...

XZS posted again that day at 22:10:

22:10 is 爱爱要你 or "love love want you" or it could be 10:10 pm, which would be 要你要你, or "want you want you." (For those wondering, the number 1, when read aloud in a series of numbers, is often read as "yao" because "yi" is easily misheard.) So the day's timestamps together read as "Yibo still love love want you."

Or 22:10 could be nothing, maybe... but then the next day, July 3, XZS posted at 20:00. 20:00 is also 8:00 pm. Of course, "8" is "Bo" and I thought, "huh, is that for Yibo?" (In the early days of the fandom, Xiao Zhan's solo fans would get upset with him posting at 18:xx or 8:xx as often as he did, so it's not really a stretch!)

Then again, 8 pm is a good time to post if you're airing a prime time drama, so perhaps it's just that. But then... why isn't XZS posting at 8 pm every day? So maybe 8 pm is purposeful after all?

The next day, July 4, XZS posted at 13:00. Yizhan!

So if I'd been wondering if these timestamps were intentional or just accidental, I stopped wondering at this point. Yizhan is, after all, the ship name that Yibo himself came up with, so they surely recognize this one!

By the way, let's enjoy the sweet smile on Xiao Zhan's face in the 8th photo of the set posted at Yizhan o'clock:

But anyway! That wasn't the only post on July 4. XZS also posted a video that featured a birthday cake for Xiao Zhan's character, Shi Ying, because Shi Ying turns 18 in the drama. Huh. 18.

There's no cake in the drama, so this giant flaming 18 seems totally gratuitous to me, like XZS had an excuse to shout 18 and ran for a touchdown with it.

The timestamp is 19:02 — again with the 19! — which means 依旧你爱, yijiu ni ai, or "i still love you." And who is "you"? The answer seems to be lit up in the photo... yi ba or Yibo. Together with the "Yizhan" timestamp from earlier in the day, it seems clear to me what sentiment is being conveyed!

By the way, if it's feeling like this is a one-sided conversation taking place, both Yibo and YBO posted right before and right after XZS's 19:02 post. Like within minutes, almost like Yibo needed everyone to know exactly who that 18 refers to.

Yibo himself posted at 18:59 (3 minutes before XZS)... and this is maybe a bit of a stretch, but if you're gonna try to post within minutes of your bae, you don't have a lot of options for kadian... this could mean yibo wo jiu or "I'm just Yibo."

It's kind of a showy dance pose, so I imagined that this was his way of saying, "look at me, my man is posting about how much he loves me!"

And eagle-eyed fans think that's the bone necklace under his shirt, to add to the sweetness.

Anyway, YBO re-posted that image right after XZS's 19:02 post, at 19:08 (again with the 19), and 19:08 is "still Yibo"... like YBO needed to emphasize that yes, XZS is talking about Yibo.

And I'm sighing a bit at the caption, which says "midsummer is coming"... we turtles have warm feelings about midsummer when it comes to these two, but so do they! The Dragon Boat Festival, for example, marks the midsummer, and Xiao Zhan has a company literally called "Midsummer Moon" (different characters from the ones used in YBO's post, but the sentiment still resonates with me).

By the way, as of the date of this tumblr, neither Yibo nor YBO have posted on Weibo since TLP started airing except for these rando posts/re-posts bookending XZS's post within mere minutes, which is... kinda sus, no?

So have there been more posts by XZS? Yes.

On July 5, XZS posted three times, at 17:10, 18:00(!), and 19:40.

Of course the 18:00 timestamp jumped out at me, but the 17:xx and 19:xx timestamps also made me look twice because 17 is yi qi or "together" and 19 is "still." Yibo and YBO posted at 17:19 and 19:17 on 6/17 and boy did that seem intentional.

By the way, both have been in Beijing for awhile, so when they post at 17:xx, it makes me smile.

So anyway, putting my clown hat on, the three posts on this day at 17:10, 18:00, and 19:40 read like this to me: 一起要你一博依旧是你, yiqi yao ni yibo yijiu shi ni, or "together, want you Yibo, it's still you."

SIGH

Maybe I see what I want to see, but this long string of kadian since The Longest Promise started airing just seems... not accidental? Like, it feels very meaningful, no?

So now we get to today's posts, July 6... there are two, at 18:30 and 19:00. 18:30 is of course "Yibo Zhan." And then again with the 19, like Xiao Zhan is trying to say, "Yes STILL. I still love this man, we are still together."

Oh, and did Xiao Zhan himself post too? He did, twice. Once on July 2 and again on July 4. Those timestamps? 19:00 (again) and 10:10. "Still want you want you."

10:10, huh? Maybe that 22:10 on July 2 was intended to be 10:10 after all (reinforcing the idea that these number patterns, while by no means any kind of science, do tend to become more clear with time and repetition).

Anyway, there's still a lot more of The Longest Promise to air, bringing more opportunities for hammering by Xiao Zhan and his studio... and in a few weeks we'll also get the release of One and Only. It's never dull with these two, and I'm here for it. 💚❤️

these photos & drawings. feeling nostalgic 🫶🏼✨

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