Video - un: o.zizhen

[buddingromantic]

[Zizhen appears in the video as he always does, wearing his red Baling Ouyang sect robes, hair put up in a top knot with its usual cap. When Zizhen starts the video though, he looks rather alarmed. Something must have happened for him to be this way]

I don't understand, Prisma! There must be some black magic at work, but I don't even know what it could be! It's just frightening!

[He adjusts the camera to show... the microwave in the kitchen]

It takes greater than five minutes for water to boil on this thing called a stove, but this "microwave" can boil the same amount of water in under five! This... this is madness! And those already made foods that have been kept in the ice - there are two details for cooking. Over 30 minutes in the oven, but only five in the "microwave"!

[He's saying microwave like he doesn't believe that's what it could be called]

Surely this must be a cursed item!

[Someone please tell him to calm down about the microwave... or egg him on]

Comments

[buddingromantic]

That is useful. I was not aware it could do that.

[blindforlove]

I don't care for those already made dishes, but it is convenient to reheat food made earlier, much like a refrigerator keeps the food cool so it can last longer. Far more useful than a curse.

But if you cook already, you don't really need it.

[Though the speaker sounds a bit young-- not that Xiao Xingchen is that much older.]

[buddingromantic]

I don't either. I looked at one at the store and it did not look good. It claimed to make a rice dish, but it did not look good. I'm sure I could make it better.

[That's saying something. He is the son of a gentry family. It's not his job to cook]

[blindforlove]

Well, that's a good skill to have. Then you don't have to rely on those or eating at restaurants.

[That flew over his head a little, though he himself only really started to learn how to cook during his self-imposed exile.]

[buddingromantic]

Maybe I'll have to learn more. I think Sizhui knows. He went with Senior Wei to cook for the others.

[blindforlove]

This cooking with your Senior Wei.

Did it happen to be in one Yi City?

[buddingromantic]

Yes it did actually.

[blindforlove]

I only know because other cultivators have heard all about how you were involved in all that. At least you were all unharmed.

[How strange is it to talk to people who know he's dead? Really, it feels like everyone knows already...]

[buddingromantic]

Yes, I'm sure many know about that by now. It is good that we were not. There were a lot of chances to be, unfortunately.

[blindforlove]

Do be more careful in the future, and don't go about without more experienced cultivators knowing. You also probably shouldn't operate anything too potentially dangerous without help as well.

[He has to at least get a bit of nagging in. These junior disciples, really! Even if he's not that much older than them himself (and has gotten himself into a lot more trouble)...]

[buddingromantic]

I've learned that part. We were so far over our head we didn't even realize it until Senior Wei showed up. Yes, Senior, I will be more careful in the future.

[It's okay. Better than his father nagging him]

[blindforlove]

Are most of your other seniors all right with you associating with Senior Wei?

[Seriously, how much has changed in the world since he was dead?]

[buddingromantic]

Well, HanGuang-Jun is. My father is still not sure about him, but once we tell him about Guanyin Temple. He might think better about him. Also he heard what was going on in Sect Leader Jiang's meeting.

["Not sure" is the polite way of saying it]

[blindforlove]

I suppose I am rather far behind on news of the cultivation world. I have only met Wei Wuxian here.

But you do know of what he's accused of doing, yes? He's still someone you believe in?

[This wouldn't be the first person to vet for Wei Wuxian that he's met here, and Xiao Xingchen Is inclined to give him a chance. But he's just interested in the different sort of reasonings that people have for placing their faith in a man who had been considered the most dangerous criminal of all.]

[buddingromantic]

I do know what they say about him. But he saved us in Yi City and then again in Demon Subduing Cave. If he was really responsible for it or had any desire to hurt us, he wouldn’t have done it. He was alone with a large group of us in Yi City and several became poisoned. He didn’t have to help us. But he did

[blindforlove]

I do hope he still also told you what you all did was very dangerous, too.

[Maybe this Wei Wuxian is not as terrible as once believed, and there's more to a person than only quantifying the good and bad they've done in their life. But at least he should be responsible!]

[buddingromantic]

Yes, he did tell us that was dangerous.