Poll: Sprawling Zhao Yunlan (dramaverse)

[china_shop]

Zhao Yunlan's turn. He's perfectly encapsulated by "never stands if he can sit, never sits if he can lie down"[1] -- but what is his best moment of outrageous sprawling or lying around?

[1] From an actor interview here at 2:21.

Poll #32657 Sprawling Zhao Yunlan

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

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What's Zhao Yunlan's best sprawling moment?

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on his motorbike, staking out Li Qian
10 (41.7%)

on the couch at the SID (any time)
3 (12.5%)

at the hospital at Li Qian's bedside
1 (4.2%)

at the hospital during the web novelist case, when he's lying on a spare bed
3 (12.5%)

leaning on Shen Wei in the car during the Hanga arc
10 (41.7%)

sitting on the table during the team dinner
6 (25.0%)

on the steps in the Dixing throne room
5 (20.8%)

other
5 (20.8%)

Comments

[trobadora]

This one is amazing. Minister Guo is right there!!!

[facethestrange]

IKR?? And it lasts so long and and it's shown from multiple angles, and he never even considers getting up, I was in awe honestly. xD




And at the beginning others are sitting, so I thought ZYL would get up too, but nope, why. :D



I have too many caps of this scene, lmao.

[trobadora]

Is there such a thing as too many caps? *g*

100% agreed, I love it so much that everyone else gets up and he just doesn't! :D

[maggie33]

I was hoping someone would post a pic of that scene, because yes, that one is my favorite "Zhao Yunlan sprawling" moment. Thanks. :DDD

[facethestrange]

(O hi there, wonderful person who wrote that one Weilanzun fic that casually rearranged my brain chemistry. :D :D)

[marycrawford]

these are all great options, obviously I cannot choose 🤣 but I submit two more:

- the moment during...I forget which investigation?...where he sits down in the bathroom ON THE CLOSED TOILET SEAT. I mean, not his own bathroom. Some random stranger or possibly murder victim's bathroom. Really, Zhao Yunlan?
- the moment during my beloved episode 8, after he wakes up and is startled to find Shen Wei still sitting by his bedside. First he faces Shen Wei with his legs splayed open and then he does some outright hip thrusts while lying on the bed 'rearranging his pillows' knowing Shen Wei's gaze is on him. The man has no shame and I love him.

[facethestrange]

"The man has no shame and I love him."

Yepppp, ITA. ♡♡♡ I just went and rewatched this scene, as one does, and I absolutely love that he randomly lies back down after he was already sitting up for a while, like 'you know what? it wasn't suggestive enough the first time around, I need to do it again'. :D

[china_shop]

HEEEE! *noogies him forever*

(Though, if I'm being serious, I think he had other things on his mind at that point, and probably the footstool thingy was just fortuitous. He probably intended to sit upright on the barstool but inevitably ended up draped like that because, after all, he is a fluid. ;D)

[china_shop]

I think his flat is probably always set up for maximum lounging, but I suspect this particular instance wasn't premeditated (because the occasion is too serious, even he knows that). Don't you think?

[china_shop]

:D :D :D :D :D

[trobadora]

Oh, these are both great! I think the toilet one is during the mirror girl case. He'll sit or lie down anywhere!

(Hm. Would he lie down in an empty bathtub? I wouldn't put it beyond him!)

The man has no shame and I love him.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS. ♥ ♥ ♥

[china_shop]

LOL! Standard human mores? What even are they? *noogies him forever* :D

[trobadora]

he randomly lies back down after he was already sitting up for a while, like 'you know what? it wasn't suggestive enough the first time around, I need to do it again'. :D

PERFECTION. :D

[china_shop]

He's comfy! Why move? :DDDDDDD

[trobadora]

Oh, yeah, I don't think it was premeditated either.

[china_shop]

Oh yes! Both of those, especially episode 8 -- I only didn't include that in the poll because I'm not sure it counts as casual lounging so much as Passive Seduction With Intent. It is fantastic! :DDDD

[china_shop]

Would he lie down in an empty bathtub? I wouldn't put it beyond him!)

Heeeee, he absolutely would, and now I think it's a crime we never got to see that. *pouts*

[china_shop]

I suspect he intended to sit respectfully upright (for once), but then just kind of... melted.... :D

[trobadora]

Definitely a crime! I'm going to have to fix that by putting it in a fic at some point. *g*

[facethestrange]

*pictures ZYL curling up to sleep in an empty bathtub like the cat that he is* xD

[facethestrange]

*idly wondering if you'd be interested in an inappropriate AU of this scene where any serious business is handwaved away* :D Just wondering. Totally not having any intent or plan to do something about this. :D :D :D

[sakana17]

XD

[facethestrange]

This one too. :D :D

[china_shop]

ABSOLUTELY!!! :D :D :D

[facethestrange]

:D :D :D YAYYYYY.