10 Strange and hilarious Facts About Mo Dao Zu Shi
This is posted on Moxiang Tongxiu (Mo Dao Zu Shi’s author)’s personal Weibo on 31/10/2017, in celebration of the novel’s second anniversary. Translated badly by tumblr user my-otp-list.
1. Fairy is actually a Husky. When I set up this character, I didn’t know that huskies were… not that intelligent, so now in my mind Fairy still has the look of a Husky. Let’s just think that Fairy is an extremely intelligent mutated Husky okay…
2. Lan Qiren has a beard from a young age. However, it was shaved clean by Zangse Sanren. He was so mad!
Later, the son of Zangse Sanren also shaved his beard… (but I did not write about it).
*For those who don’t know, Zangse Sanren is Wuxian’s mother.
3. When Jin Guangyao took in Lan Xichen during his runaway, Guangyao sort of became Xichen’s assistant.
Guangyao helped wash Xichen’s clothes, because Xichen himself did not know how to wash. It was not possible to ask others to wash, because it would be dangerous if the cloud patterns were recognised. Moreover the clothes could not be thrown away or burnt.
Jin Guangyao used to complain to Nie Mingjue that Lan Xichen’s arm was too strong that he tore apart his clothes while washing…
4. It was way too easy to make Xingchen laugh. Both Xueyang and Ah Qing knew about this but they would never tell Xingchen. Song Lan did not know about this, because the dude never ever laughed…
5. Jiang Cheng went to 3 blind dates. For various reasons, he got blacklisted by all the female cultivators.
Here are Jiang Cheng’s requirements in his partner: naturally beautiful, graceful and obedient, hard-working and thrifty, coming from a respected family, cultivation level not too high, personality not too strong, talking not too much, voice not too loud, spending money not too much. And must treat Jin Ling nicely.
6. Lan Sizhui is older than Jin Ling, but both of them are 172-cm tall. Sizhui suffered from malnutrition when he was a child, and only ate bland food when he was growing up, therefore his development is a bit slow…
Lan Jingyi is 168-cm tall.
7. In order to confess to Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan specifically hired someone to write a long long long cheesy essay, and he learnt it by heart. Turned out he did not use a single sentence.
One day, after their marriage, he felt that the opportunity had come, so he read it out loud to Jiang Yanli. Upon hearing it, Jiang Yanli gently stroked his cheek, turned her back and walked away. She was graceful enough to not roll on the floor laughing in front of her husband.
8. Lan Wangji has known very early on that Wei Wuxian is afraid of dogs.
Jin Zixuan used to own a dog, and he left it at the foot of Cloud Recesses’ mountain. One day, the dog ran up the mountain right when Wuxian was sneaking in through the wall. The dog snarked loudly at him; he was so scared he immediately ran to hide in a tree. It was Lan Wangji that chased the dog away.
However, Wuxian thought that Wangji did not see him trembling on the tree.
9. Even though Lan Wangji never talks about it, Wei Wuxian discovers that Lan Wangji loves to use all sorts of things to tie him up during (…)
10. Between the seme and the uke, Wei Wuxian was the first character to be set up.
Back then I even ranted on Weibo, “This uke is giving me so much headache; I don’t know what kind of seme I should give him!”
The seme has gone though many changes in personalities, appearances, ages, backgrounds, back stories… such a complicated process!
But in the end, a flash of Heaven’s light came right through me, I slammed the table and chose the very first version - “This is him!“
It can be seen that Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are fated to be together. No matter what happens, in the end it will always be that person.
I recently learned that there is such a saying: 啮臂之盟 | niè bì zhī mēng
Nie = bite, bi = arm, meng = promise/oath/alliance.
Apparently (and please correct me if I’m wrong) this saying was used to describe when a man and a woman decided to “marry” in secret, promising themselves to each other forever.
Edit: for people to marry in secret, there’s probably some reason like their parents/families don’t approve which would be fitting for wangxian. To clarify though, I have no idea if the author had this in mind at all; it’s just my imagination rn.
So…remember when WWX and LWJ were trapped in the cave with Xuanwu…and LWJ bit WWX’s arm…?
Yeah. The entire time I was pretty confused about that whole thing. I was like I guess LWJ was just really frustrated and wanted him to be quiet or something?? But now…I have an entirely different understanding of that scene…
