Episode 8: Attack of the Zombie Villagers

Zhanalytics

Brooding Stare: 11

Intense Eye Contact: 3

Facial Twitch: 0

Fist Clench: 1

The brooding stares are actually really hard to count, because it's pretty much Lan Zhan's default expression, so you have to make a judgement ball about where one brooding stare ends and the other one begins. 
 

Wen Ning has gone too. But at least there is the consolation of rabbits. 

 

This is quality acting on the part of the rabbits. 

 

"As an upright gentleman, it's embarrassing for you to hold rabbits!" So, of course, he throws one at Jiang Cheng. Who three seconds later is totally cooing at the little bunny. This is what I love about Jiang Cheng - he wants to be all stern and proper, but he is secretly a big softie. 

 

Lan Zhan gives the rabbits the most emotional farewell he has ever given anyone. 

 

Wen Chao getting great satisfaction from dirtying the carpet. Dude, you're not going to make any friends this way. 

 

Oooh, there was that little hand twitch when Wen Chao threatened Lan Zhan. Will we need to start Xichenalytics?

 

Do we think that throwing loquats at your crush's head is an effective way to flirt? Or does Wei Wuxian just like watching Lan Zhan catch them? Both, I think. 

 

Wei Wuxian puts a leash spell on Lan Zhan. There is a whole sentence in the look Lan Zhan sends back, and that sentence is "Bitch, you did NOT!"

 

And Nie Huaisang shows up. 

 

Meanwhile, back at Lotus Pier...Jiang Cheng is sneaking off somewhere. Everyone is inviting themselves on this Yin Iron hunt. 

 

Aw, Nie and Wei Wuxian are like the Lan Zhan admiration society. 

 

At the Florist's Mansion, Wen Chao kicks down the door...and finds a shard of Yin Iron? What? Ah, Nie is explaining the plot. 

 

I don't think the sword is typically used as a ranged weapon. Unless you are Lan Zhan. 

 

Jiang Cheng: Are you making fun of me? 

Wen Qing: Yeah, you wanna make something of it?!!! (And then she uses the ensuing fight to pass a warning to Jiang Cheng. Clever. I like her.)

 

Wei Wuxian: "I have a bad feeling about this place" Gee, I don't know why, it seems to be inhabited solely by one old woman who keeps mumbling about a fairy statue stealing souls. 

 

Statue fight! Oh, that binding spell is not so boring now! Nie is totally useless in this situation. Dude, why'd you bring a fan to a sword fight?

 

Oh, great. Now there's an army of zombie villagers. Who seem to have the same thing wrong with their eyes that happened to Wen Ning before. Did Wen Ning get his soul taken by the statue and somehow get it back, or something? 

 

And we end on a cliffhanger as the zombie villagers burst into the temple...