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Wow, it has been really quite a while since I updated. I have no excuses at all this time -- no deadlines at work, no traveling, no family matter. Instead I've been sucked in by a new Chinese TV series - 卧薪尝胆, based on a very famous story from the Spring and Autumn period. The story itself is know to every school child in China -- the King of Yue, was defeated and enslaved by the King of Wu. He waited on the King of Wu hand and feet, and proved himself such a loyal and devoted slave that the King of Wu eventually freed him to return to his country. The King of Yue spent the next twenty years effecting his revenge, sleeping on a mattress of thorn and tasting gall so he would never forget the bitterness of his humiliation, until he conquered the Kingdom of Wu, and forced its king to his death. Normally any tv series based on this would fall under the catagory of boring old men with beards, but as played by Chen Daoming and Hu Jun, with a script that just screams subtext, the series has turned into one of the slashiest on Chinese TV. *happy sigh*