Joyful Reunion by Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Translator: foxghost @foxghost tumblr
Beta: meet-me-in-oblivion @meet-me-in-oblivion tumblr
Original by 非天夜翔 Fei Tian Ye Xiang
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His name was Duan Ling.
He used to be nothing more than an illegitimate child with humble beginnings.
As a child he had his fill of neglect and torment until a mysterious man named Lang Junxia took him away from the Duans.
Lang Junxia fed him, put him in school, and made him a new home.
Lang Junxia told him that when the peach trees blossom his dad would come get him.

Then his dad really did come.
He was far more impressive than Duan Ling imagined, far more dashing, far more omnipotent.
It turned out that Duan Ling wasn’t a bastard whose paternal lineage was in question after all.
In his veins flowed the most noble Han imperial blood,
and the empire was supposed to belong to him.

But in troubled times, with the beacons of war lit in all four corners of the world,
his dad said everyone had a destiny that befit them,
and their destiny was the way of benevolent rule,
that was why they could never remain content with their little corner of he world.
They were destined … to carry the enmity of an invaded empire, to bear the pain of losing their homeland; to live as the self required.

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Link to original on Faith2018 (Click on his name on the left side to get to his page, with the full length vid — 5 minutes 22 seconds)

Brought to my attention via this tumblr post

Hello! I’m Bai Yu.

In the first half of this year, the question I was asked the most was, “The drama has become popular, but not the actor; what are your feelings about that?” And in the latter half it was, “After becoming explosively popular, had the state of your mind undergone any changes?” It makes me think of a principle imparted to us by the teachers when I was at central acting academy — “To act, one must first learn to act with integrity.” This is something I have always believed in without a doubt, and it is the most fitting answer I have for these questions.

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