Qi Ye

Lord Seventh (七爷, Qi Ye) is a Chinese danmei webnovel by Priest that was originally serialized on Jinjiang Literature City. Priest also wrote a sequel, Faraway Wanderers, that was adapted into a live-action drama, Word of Honor. In addition to Priest fans and other cnovel fans, some Word of Honor fans have also become interested in the novel. 
==Canon Background==
Summary from Novel Updates:
Jing Beiyuan and Wu Xi also appear briefly in the sequel, Faraway Wanderers, and the sequel's main character is one of the side characters in Lord Seventh. However, the two novels are different genres (the first leans heavily on court intrigue, and the second is wuxia), so there is less overlap in fannish interest than might otherwise be expected.
===Characters===
*Jing Qi 景七 aka Jing Beiyuan 景北渊 - main character
*Wu Xi 乌溪 - the main love interest and future Great Shaman
*Helian Yi 赫连翊 - the former love interest and Crown Prince
*Zhou Zishu 周子舒 - Helian Yi's bodyguard, Jing Qi's co-conspirator
See Chichilations for a more complete character list.
==Fandom==
===Chinese Fandom===
===English Fandom===
As of 2024, the novel does not have an official English translation, but partial and complete fan translations exist. The title given for the fan translations is Lord Seventh, but the book and its fandom are more frequently referred to as Qi Ye.
Sparkling Water Translations started posting an English translation in May 2019 while also translating Faraway Wanderers. The first chapter posted includes an apology for the delay in posting updates to Faraway Wanderers., sparklingwatertrans.wordpress.com, 16 May 2019. Accessed 3 March 2022. Sparkling Water Translations dropped the project after five chapters, sparklingwatertrans.wordpress.com, 29 July 2019. Accessed 3 March 2022., and it was picked up by Mao Translates, who translated chapters six and seven before dropping it in September 2019 as well., August 28, 2019. Accessed 3 March 2022. Starting from chapter eight in October 2019. Accessed 3 March 2022., JadeRabbitPendants posted a fan translation from Vietnamese to English on Wattpad, but removed it in January 2022 following news that jjwxc might poach fan translations for its new international site., last updated 20 January 2022. Accessed 3 March 2022. Finally, Chichi picked it up and translated the entire novel between July and December 2020, chichilations.home.blog. Accessed 3 March 2022., so a complete translation has been available as an undownloadable google document to fans ever since. However, interest in new translations remained: on January 1, 2024, another translation team, Team 7.0, posted the first eleven chapters. On their carrd, they stated their goals for the project:
Qi Ye has a tiny fanfiction fandom. On AO3 there are 453 fanworks in the fandom tag as of January 2024, 337 in English. However, many of these are cross-tagged with Word of Honor and Faraway Wanderers; only 291 works (231 in English) are guaranteed focused on Qi Ye characters alone.. Accessed 13 January 2024. Among the 231 English works, the most popular ships are Jing Beiyuan/Wu Xi (139), Helian Yi/Jing Beiyuan (24), Liang Jiuxiao/Zhou Zishu (20), and Jing Beiyuan/Zhou Zishu (16).
Qi Ye was eligible for Yuletide in 2021 and 2022. Participants wrote 4 fanfics in 2021 and 2 fanfics in 2022. Fans have also run a few Qi Ye-only fests and exchanges, as well as events including both Qi Ye and Faraway Wanderers fanworks.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanart===
* by twitter user bymoocat. Also on lofter (13 June 2019)
* by twitter user kkcoocool (6 June 2021)
* by twitter user zeldacw (30 September 2021)
* by twitter user MTKay13 (6 July 2022)
* by yukacchi on tumblr (Jul 4, 2021)
===Fanfiction===
===Meta===
* by tumblr user baoshan-sanren (23 April 2021)
* (7 October 2021)
* (5 December 2021)
* by caityjay13 on tumblr (22 April 2022)
==Fannish Resources==
*Qi Ye fanworks on AO3
*Lord Seventh on Novel Updates
*Spoiler BL - Lord seventh discussion thread in Novel Updates Forum
*Lord Seventh entry at Faraway Wanderers wiki
*read qi ye carrd
*Qi Ye Reading Guide at wordofhonor subreddit
===Fests and Exchanges===
*2021 Qi Ye Exchange
*Qiye Minibang 2022 
*Qi Ye Week 2024 - carrd, AO3 collection, Twitter
*Qi Ye Doodles & Drabbles Exchange
==References==
Category:Books & Literature
Category:Priest