Gift commission by the super talented HuyetPhung. Check out her works - she has a beautiful classic shoujo manga x Chinese novel illustration style. Thank you, thank you so much for this!!!

I saw CGX prompts at the Chocolate Box exchange for Pusa & Chang Ge 1. connecting over his sister/her mother + 2. verbally sniping at each other; and I couldn’t resist. My only regret is that the brief snark here isn’t so merciless as in canon, because omg @ these two. XD

水彩画と加工の練習。

I was in the middle of finishing this when the news hit.  I’m still not over it.

I want to see their married life. I really do.

New ½ chapter is gonna come out soon, but the next development between these two will take a while, so I might as well draw headcanons. 

But seriously, would you marry someone who placed a blade near your neck twice? (I would pffft!).  Sorry, Sun.

Read in however direction you want (I just realized that both way works lol)

Meet Luo Shiba, the 18th rider of Yanyun from Chang Ge Xing. (< If you have no idea what Chang Ge Xing is, please do yourself a favour and check it out. And then come back to join the fandom if you can, haha. ) 

[Sesame Pancake Drabbles Part III ] (See Part I here and Part II here)

In the Qin residence, the maidservants try to spread the love :3 

PS: @justforreplying​ I know that this probably wasn’t what you had in mind when you said you wished for “some comics around Xu Feng and Shi Ba”, but if it counts for any thing, there’s 2 of them on the same page here…? Also shout out to @cang-ye-ji and @messysketchpad for the lovely CGX fanart \o/

[Sesame Pancake Drabbles Part II ] (See part I here and part III here). 

Ever wondered how the maidservants of the Qin residence saw their Young Master and Young Mistress? No..? I did… 

Read from right to left!

*To be part of a collection of CGX comic shenanigans entitled [Chang An Chronicles] Not sure how far I’ll go with this (it’s meant to be just a couple of short drabbles) but we’ll see! :)

Putting this up here before the storm that is commissions. 

Throw-back Wednesday to that one chapter.  I usually like men in black/dark clothing so Sun just looks absolutely divine in this chapter.  I imagine he started to notice Chang Ge’s feminine features more and got frustrated bc god he thought they were brothers pffft.

I have so much emotion about the new chapter that drawing is the only way I can vent out these feelings (of happiness and frustration b/c these two are hnnnngg).

I usually don’t draw straightforward shippy stuffs like this unless ship is confirmed canon/series is over, but you know what…after reading @my-everskies’s fanfic (5th sketch is from the fic) and seeing the new raw chapters, I just let it go.

So here’s to the small but awesome Chang Ge Xing fandom, esp. a shout out to @bridges-you-cross and @busy-old-fool for always posting updates about the series.

This whole series is such a tease lmao.

Will be posting ladybug/batman crossover stuffs soon.

Old Xia Da Interview

First of all, this is not a new interview. It’s an old one, that was partially translated before. (think it’s from 2015, though I don’t know for sure)  

I’d not seen the original article nor the full translation floating around tumblr, and thought that there might be people who prefer to read things first hand (basically people like me), so here: 

(summary: she talks about her process, stuff about working with the Japanese publisher(s)+history related stuff+sun and chang ge’s future+ potential ending spoilers)

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Hey everyone, ch 59.1 came out a few days ago, and the reaction from everyone was nearly instantaneous. Translations were popping up everywhere. And I understand why. I was so excited after reading it that I gushed over it for days. Actually, I still am gushing over it.

Now, I thought about whether to post my translation up as well, since there are already so many around, and they’re all so good! I finally decided to do it since it doesn’t hurt, but I figure that since I haven’t posted ch 58.2 yet, I’ll go over it first before doing the translation for 59.1.

And what makes 59.1 so awesome, you ask? Well, you probably know it by now, but if you don’t, let’s just say that uncle Pusa finally learns what it means to eat his own words. This is also an example of why we should be careful of what we say. Alright, here goes.

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Awesome post!

To be honest, Chapter 58.2 was a bit difficult for me as I couldn’t really get what was going on with the end of ch 58.2 with the new character (I hate the dialog from the Tang elite as it can be in semi-classical court-style speech which is hard to understand). The background @bridges-you-cross gave is excellent.

The sales reward analogy made me laugh?! Kinda comedic but totally describes it well! 

I do have to say that even the Chinese readers were mistaking that Pusa was selling off his niece based on the chinese comments that I saw. At some points in time, some Chinese readers were also confused by Sun’s condition that they not be asked to attack the Turks (seeing he’s actually Khitan so they thought it was a Typo by Xia Da and he really meant to protect Khitan).

This goes to show that sometimes the subtleties are hard even for the native speakers ^^”>….

But my opinion is the same as @bridges-you-cross ; Pusa was just dangling carrots at Sun because I am sure he could tell there was something in the air between Chang Ge and Sun. I don’t think Pusa would ever normally agree to them marrying :P. His precious niece is like all he has left of his precious sister after all.

But back to 58.2; the additional background info at the end is very important since Xia Da is not going to stray from actual historical incidents…I guess shit will hit the fan again soon…

Thank you very much for the fantastic translation and historical info! 

The part about Pusa was my bad. It didn’t occur to me that my choice of words would portray him as a niece selling jerk. Part of it was because there’s a value dissonance that I took for granted - back then, arranged marriages are normal (how much say the spouses have probably differs depending on the family - this applies to men too btw) - and even when the spouses choose to marry, parental/guardian approval is usually still a requirement. I didn’t catch Pusa’s backtracking before justforreplying’s translation, but my original interpretation was less “Kill the Great Khan and I’ll give you my niece as trade-off” and more “You know, if you want to marry my niece you need my blessing, so you might want to be on my good side.” In that context, Sun’s reply is really rather cheeky (though of course, he’s absolutely right). Anyway, I apologize to Uncle Pusa for accidentally slandering him. m(_ _)m

I admit, I groaned when I saw Hao Dou. It seems that every time he shows up, he ends up snitching to Du Ruhui about Chang Ge.  And now they’re going to Uyghur? Who wants to bet that if/when they spot Chang Ge, they’re going to jump to conclusions and think she’s there to make trouble for Tang? After all, Du Ruhui is still under the impression that Chang Ge is the “female scourge” who is prophesied to bring calamity to Tang (though I personally like the theory that it’s referring to  Wu Zetian). 

Aand the Sun-Chang Ge parallels marches on. They both need to deal with their conflicting loyalties (Sun to the Great Khan and Khitan; Chang Ge to Tang and her new found family) - I’m interested to see what they’ll decide but at the same time, dreading the fallout (Xia Da’s very good at upping the tension, isn’t she?).