“you can’t catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger’s lair” — crime/gangster
“beauty is in the eye of the beholder” — queer stuff ranked by me order is not by rating onlyoh damn i haven’t updated this since i…
“it’s easy to find a thousand troops, but a good general is hard to find” — strong females/AFAB
“water flows in only to flow out” — wuxia, xuanhuan, xianxia, ancient historical fantasy, and the like
mostly just a list of rom-coms with either shen yue or liu yihao in them but gotta give the people what they want
“learn from past errors to avoid future ones” —historical/period pieces (not wuxia/xianxia; set sometime in the last two hundred years…
“a bird does not sing because it has an answer. it sings because it has a song” -- shows/movies about the arts