History Awesome / QianQiu

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* A meta example, thanks to Meng Xishi herself. While the OppositesAttract trope has been used for many kinds of relationships, romantic, platonic, or otherwise, it is hard to pull off a romance between two people whose philosophies are completely as opposite as ''yin'' and ''ying'' without suffering a lapse in the writing and the characterization of the two leads just to make it more plausible for them to forge a connection. But in Qian Qiu's case, it works perfectly; what's better is that both leads do not change who they fundamentally are. They improve and adjust, sure, but their core characters are nevertheless the same. Even then, by the end of the story, anyone can see why they would fall for each other. To do that requires some masterful writing, which Meng Xishi proves she has.
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* Shen Qiao learns that Tan Yuanchun is the real mastermind behind his poisoning and his deposition from Xuandu Mountain, all because he was resentful of him for being Qi Fengge's favorite disciple. While interrogating him, Shen Qiao calmly listens to his ''shixiong's'' entire MotiveRant... before immediately destroying Tan Yuanchun's ''wugong'' and sentencing him to guard over Yu Ai's tomb for the remainder of his life, without ever being able to leave the tomb. Worse yet, from then on, he's now a dead man in Shen Qiao's eyes. While bittersweet, considering that Shen Qiao suffered the loss of a brother and the betrayal of yet another, it still feels cathartic to see Tan Yuanchun get his comeuppance and lose everything because of his petty desire to spite both Shen Qiao and Qi Fengge.

* The FinalBattle between Yan Wushi and Hulugu, where Yan Wushi finishes where Qi Fengge left off and defeats Hulugu, this time for good. This also allows him to cement his position as the ''strongest'' martial arts master of the current generation. It was as Qi Fengge had predicted, the day would come when Yan Wushi's strength would become
unparalleled and reached unsurpassed heights.

[[folder:The Betrayal]]

[[folder:Bailong Temple Massacre]]
* Zhu Lengquan's LastStand against the Hehuan Sect. Even though he's outnumbered three-to-one and he's aware that he won't be able to defeat them all at once, he still puts up the best fight he can and refuses to reveal Shen Qiao's whereabouts to them no matter what. While he ends up dying for it, Shen Qiao makes sure that he doesn't die in vain by fulfilling his last wish (which is to bring Shiwu to the Bixia Sect). Not only that, he manages to avenge him later on.
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[[folder:The Ninth of September]]

** After revealing to Shen Qiao the plot to have Yan Wushi ambushed and killed, he takes advantage of the moment to try and kill Shen Qiao while the latter's guard is down. Unfortunately for him, Shen Qiao has learned his lesson of dealing with {{Combat Pragmatist}}s and immediately retaliates by landing a fatal blow by stabbing Kunye's chest. To put salt in the literal wound, Shen Qiao caps off with a brutal PreMortemOneLiner.

* Yan Wushi gets another moment when, some time before infiltrating the palace, he's revealed to have poisoned Dou Yanshan as payback for his participation in the ambush. Just as he had told Shen Qiao beforehand, he planned to use the enmity between Dou Yanshan and Yun Fuyi to have the former get rid of and letting the latter take his place as the leader of the Liuhe Organization, before providing evidence of her collusion with Tujue to the other members of the sect to force an internal dissension with the group, which would lalow him to step in and make a profitable deal with them. It all went exactly as he had planned, and it reminds the viewer that Yan Wushi's standing in the ''jianghu'' isn't attributed solely to his martial skill.

* The FinalBattle between Yan Wushi and Hulugu, where Yan Wushi finishes where Qi Fengge left off and defeats Hulugu, this time for good.

''Qian Qiu'' indulges in the fact that it's a ''wuxia'' story, with Meng Xishi not holding back in the world-building and the way she describes the fight scenes.

* Yan Wushi gets another moment when, some time before infiltrating the palace, he's revealed to have poisoned Dou Yanshan as payback for his participation in the ambush. Just as he had told Shen Qiao beforehand, he planned to use the enmity between Dou Yanshan and Yun Fuyi to have the former get rid of and letting the latter take his place as the leader of the Liuhe Association, before providing evidence of her collusion with Tujue to the other members of the sect to force an internal dissension with the group, which would lalow him to step in and make a profitable deal with them. It all went exactly as he had planned, and it reminds the viewer that Yan Wushi's standing in the ''jianghu'' isn't attributed solely to his martial skill.

** The ''donghua'' also gets to show in detail how their fight goes. Yu Ai throws almost everything he has at Yan Wushi, who casually deflects or blocks each and every attack with only either a swipe of his hand or the tips of his fingers. Yan Wushi decisively ends their brief duel by disrupting Yu Ai's ''qi'' flow, leaving the latter catching his breath while the former just brushes the dust off his clothes, as if the fight didn't have him break a single sweat.
* When Yan Wushi forces Shen Qiao to fight one round with him right after they left Xuandu Mountain, Shen Qiao is able to hold on against Yan Wushi despite being injured and having used up some of his ''qi''. In fact, being exhausted further past his limits in the fight is what allows him to ascend from the stage of Jianqi and achieve Jianyi.

* While it only happens in the ''donghua'', when Yuan Xiuxiu tries to finish where she left off and attempts another attack on Shen Qiao, Yan Wushi harms her with the needle that she used to poison him. And just to anger her further, Yan Wushi smugly retorts that he's only returning the "favor" she gave him, causing her to storm off.

** The ''donghua'' just shows how Yan Wushi is taking on four of them at once, and even as he's suffering a ''qi'' deviation, the others are not having an easy time trying to kill him, whether they're attacking him at once or individually. When he was taking on only Duan Wenyang and Xueting, it becomes obvious that had he been serious with them both from the start, they would have already been dead.

* Thanks to the adaptation taking a few divergences from the original plot, in the ''donghua'' Shen Qiao ends up arriving right near the end of the ambush rather than the aftermath. With the exception of Dou Yanshan, who doesn't fight him at all, Shen Qiao proves to be more than a match to the other four masters.

[[folder:The Birthday Banquet at Su Manor]]

[[folder:The Escort Mission to Southern Chen]]

[[folder:The Bailong Temple Massacre]]

[[folder:The Sword Trial Conference]]

[[folder:The Battle at Banbu Peak]]

* When Chen Gong orders some of his men to deliver some donkey meat burgers to Shen Qiao as repayment for his kindness in th epast, the servants decided to indulge in some cruelty and threw them all to the ground, rendering them inedible. Shen Qiao doesn't let them get away with it in the most befitting way possible: by threatening them to finish every last burger they dropped, and they're not allowed to neglect even a single, dirt-covered morsel. The men have no choice but to comply.

---> '''Shen Qiao''': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech I am very disappointed in you. My ''shizun'' once said that Hulugu was a respectful opponent. You, however, as his disciple, are not even one tenth of his character. You're unworthy to be his disciple.]]

* Shen Qiao taking on Chen Gong, Bao Yun, and Yan Shou at the same time, all the while shielding Yuwen Song and Dou Yan. While the three aren't so careless as to underestimate him like many others had before, they still made the mistake of thinking that he won't be able to fight all of them at once. Shen Qiao proves them wrong, with the fight ending with Bao Yun and Yan Shou's deaths, and Chen Gong having no choice but to flee empty-handed lest he ends up being another casualty. While it did take Shen Qiao almost everything he had, one has to keep in mind that his meridians are still not yet ''fully'' recovered and yet he has already managed to make so much progress with his ''wugong'' that in one day, he had felled two elders of the Hehuan Sect.

** Between both deaths, while Bao Yun was a deplorable man who wouldn't be missed by anyone, it's especially hard not to cheer when Yan Shou bit the dust, considering what happened at Bailong Temple. With him gone, Shen Qiao was finally able to avenge Zhu Lengquan and Chuyi's deaths.

* Shen Qiao permanently crippling Chen Gong's meridians, telling him that he had the opportunity to be where he is today because he met Shen Qiao, and as such it's his responsibility to decide Chen Gong's fate once and for all. To cap it off, Shen Qiao tells Chen Gong that his ambition and greed has deemed him a danger and unworthy of practicing martial arts.
** This is immediately followed by Puliuru Jian's second son who, with no hesitation whatsoever, grabs a sword and rams it through Chen Gong's chest, spitting curses at the poor bastard as the latter draws his last breath.

** The ''donghua'' just shows how Yan Wushi is taking on four of them at once, and even as he's suffering a ''qi'' deviation, the others are not having an easy time trying to kill him, whether they're attacking him at once or individually. When he was taking on only Duan Wenyang and Xue Ting, it becomes obvious that had he been serious with them both from the start, they would have already been dead.

** While the last two prove to be a greater challenge since both are facing him at the same time, Shen Qiao still remarkably holds his ground against them. Keep in mind that Xue Ting is considered to be one of the foremost ''wugong'' masters of the current generation, yet Shen Qiao is able to fend off his attacks without much difficulty. Had it not been for Guang Lingsan providing backup, there was a good chance Shen Qiao might have been able to ''defeat'' Xue Ting in a one-on-one fight.
** When Yan Wushi sees that Shen Qiao won't be able to hold on for much longer, in spite of the damage in his own core he musters all of his ''qi'' to cast the Fenglin Yuandian once more, with him letting out a powerful roar as the fiery creature rises up from behind him. He then charges forward to obliterate Xue Ting's attack, even though it damages his core further and nearly costs him his life.

* While it only happens in the ''donghua'', when Yuan Xiuxiu tries to finish where she left off and attempts another attack on Shen Qiao, Yan Wushi harms her with the needle that she used to poison him.

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** The ''donghua'' also gets to show in detail how their fight goes. Yu Ai throws almost everything he has at Yan Wushi, who casually deflects or blocks each and every attack with only either a swipe of his hand or the tips of his fingers. Yan Wushi decisively ends their brief duel by disrupting Yu Ai's ''qi'' flow, leaving the latter catching his breath while the former just brushes his clothes, as if the fight didn't have him break a single sweat.
* When Yan Wushi forces Shen Qiao to fight one round with him right after they left Xuandu Mountain, Shen Qiao is able to hold on against Yan Wushi despite being injured and having used up some of his ''qi''. In fact, being exhausted further past his limits in the fight is allows him to ascend from the stage of Jianqi and achieve Jianyi.