Not a very nice thing to do. As far as we know, even Zhao Xinci hasn't descended into poisoning his "disappointing" junior relative yet.
He probably only refrained because Zhao Yunlan would have been disappointingly unable to handle it. Zhao Yunlan flunked out of the How To Test My Child class after the lost puppy incident.
To think, if Shen Wei hadn't drunk the alcohol, his secret would've been safe for a bit longer!
Indeed. I have to say, the booze thing is so adorable, but also so WTF oh Shen Wei. It's pretty clear to me from that table's dynamic that as long as that cup gets emptied, it's going to get refilled, so to take the cup and empty it isn't actually all that helpful. Unless the point was to make himself pass out so Zhao Yunlan would have an excuse to leave the table, but "I want to spare you from one more cup of booze so I'll make myself pass out and make you lug my 6 foot body around and wonder if I've been poisoned, with no actual way for me to interfere the rest of the night" is such a cray-cray plan... Oh Shen Wei.
Then we get to the first bit of levity in this episode: Zhao Yunlan connects the dots that the Envoy must have someone whom he likes (based on the vehement remarks to certain bits of Sang Zan and Wang Zheng's story), sees Chu Shuzhi, makes the entirely reasonable assumption that the Envoy is into Chu Shuzhi, and then says what is very clearly meant to be "The SID is a homophobia-free workplace."
LOL! Okay, THANK YOU. In all of the angsty Zhao Yunlan/Envoy interactions, I always managed to miss that. I had to go, '... what?' at your post and went to check the episode, and THIS IS HILARIOUS. "A kind and loving place!" indeed. Oh Zhao Yunlan. ILU.
I confess that the toilet scene is where I kind of turn into a grouch. I love Chu, and by this point I still mostly want to strangle Guo, but tearing pages out of someone's diary is BAD AND WRONG. So I mostly cringed through that. ("The big popsicle" is admittedly hilarious, though.)
I love the shot of Shen Wei transforming and the angles they use for it. <3
Zhao Yunlan took them off for him.
Awwwwwww!
On first watch, I screamed so hard at the jacket reveal. I don't think I expected them to Superman/Clark Kent this forever, especially given some stuff in the credits, but that was earlier than I expected and both the set-up and Zhao Yunlan were SO SMART. <3
Also memorable: - the Envoy's A THOUSAND STABS speech. He really is an adorable little drama llama in his own way. - Zhao Yunlan's hardcore puppy eyes deployment as he wants the Envoy to help Sang Zan and Wang Zheng to stay together.
Zhao Yunlan had no more fancy jackets to swap out because his Second Day Jacket had to be his all-the-time jacket because of thieving professors.
Additional notes: Zheng Yi is supposed to be 15, but she does not look like she's started puberty yet. She was also brought in by a mom who married the boss, so either the mom is from Dixing, or there was some further adoption hijinks going on.
The age of the girl is so weird. Did they think it would look less creepy for the grown man to befriend the little girl if they said she was 15 even if she looked 10, or something? Not that I think it is creepy, I actually think they set this up very well and believable as a big brother / younger sister thing. Just, why cast that actress and then make the age sound so implausible?
Or is this more Dixing ageing whackiness and that's what that's supposed to fit into?
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He probably only refrained because Zhao Yunlan would have been disappointingly unable to handle it. Zhao Yunlan flunked out of the How To Test My Child class after the lost puppy incident.
To think, if Shen Wei hadn't drunk the alcohol, his secret would've been safe for a bit longer!
Indeed. I have to say, the booze thing is so adorable, but also so WTF oh Shen Wei. It's pretty clear to me from that table's dynamic that as long as that cup gets emptied, it's going to get refilled, so to take the cup and empty it isn't actually all that helpful. Unless the point was to make himself pass out so Zhao Yunlan would have an excuse to leave the table, but "I want to spare you from one more cup of booze so I'll make myself pass out and make you lug my 6 foot body around and wonder if I've been poisoned, with no actual way for me to interfere the rest of the night" is such a cray-cray plan... Oh Shen Wei.
Then we get to the first bit of levity in this episode: Zhao Yunlan connects the dots that the Envoy must have someone whom he likes (based on the vehement remarks to certain bits of Sang Zan and Wang Zheng's story), sees Chu Shuzhi, makes the entirely reasonable assumption that the Envoy is into Chu Shuzhi, and then says what is very clearly meant to be "The SID is a homophobia-free workplace."
LOL! Okay, THANK YOU. In all of the angsty Zhao Yunlan/Envoy interactions, I always managed to miss that. I had to go, '... what?' at your post and went to check the episode, and THIS IS HILARIOUS. "A kind and loving place!" indeed. Oh Zhao Yunlan. ILU.
I confess that the toilet scene is where I kind of turn into a grouch. I love Chu, and by this point I still mostly want to strangle Guo, but tearing pages out of someone's diary is BAD AND WRONG. So I mostly cringed through that. ("The big popsicle" is admittedly hilarious, though.)
I love the shot of Shen Wei transforming and the angles they use for it. <3
Zhao Yunlan took them off for him.
Awwwwwww!
On first watch, I screamed so hard at the jacket reveal. I don't think I expected them to Superman/Clark Kent this forever, especially given some stuff in the credits, but that was earlier than I expected and both the set-up and Zhao Yunlan were SO SMART. <3
Also memorable:
- the Envoy's A THOUSAND STABS speech. He really is an adorable little drama llama in his own way.
- Zhao Yunlan's hardcore puppy eyes deployment as he wants the Envoy to help Sang Zan and Wang Zheng to stay together.
Zhao Yunlan had no more fancy jackets to swap out because his Second Day Jacket had to be his all-the-time jacket because of thieving professors.
Additional notes: Zheng Yi is supposed to be 15, but she does not look like she's started puberty yet. She was also brought in by a mom who married the boss, so either the mom is from Dixing, or there was some further adoption hijinks going on.
The age of the girl is so weird. Did they think it would look less creepy for the grown man to befriend the little girl if they said she was 15 even if she looked 10, or something? Not that I think it is creepy, I actually think they set this up very well and believable as a big brother / younger sister thing. Just, why cast that actress and then make the age sound so implausible?
Or is this more Dixing ageing whackiness and that's what that's supposed to fit into?