Shen Wei icons

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I made a few Shen Wei icons (ep 26, the scene with the oranges and the pendant) for the current fan_flashworks round. The one on this post is one of them. :-)

Focus on: the morning after Shen Wei picks Zhao Yunlan up on the kerb, episode 8

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Location of scene: episode 8, 34:43 - 38:11

To recap:

• Zhao Yunlan attempted to con Shen Wei with old books and got caught out; Shen Wei walked away from him. Next they meet, Shen Wei finds Zhao Yunlan by the side of the road with a bad bout of gastritis, picks him up and brings him home - and as if that wasn't embarrassing enough, then gets to see Zhao Yunlan's disaster of an apartment. Zhao Yunlan curls up in pain and falls asleep (possibly in self-defence).


• From Shen Wei's side, he's had to suffer through Zhao Yunlan trying to con him with a fake-heartfelt speech about his grandfather's books (actually Shen Wei's own), then found Zhao Yunlan by the side of the road and took him home to discover his disaster of a flat and his horrible eating habits, had Zhao Yunlan pass out on him without even taking his meds, and on top of it all found out that the Regent was about to give away his secret identity to Zhao Yunlan.

Last we saw Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan, in the scene marycrawford wrote up last week, Shen Wei had just seen and changed the Regent's answer to Zhao Yunlan's query, and was looking thoughtfully at a sleeping Zhao Yunlan.

( on to our scene! )

( Why I love this scene )

( Some fanworks relating to this scene )

Questions:

• Since Zhao Yunlan seems to feel a lot better this morning even without taking his meds, do you think Shen Wei decided to sneak in a little surreptitious Dixing healing?


• Given everything Zhao Yunlan must have slept through this night, do you think he generally sleeps this deeply, or was that just because he was ill? (If he generally sleeps deeply, that would perhaps explain why Shen Wei later feels safe to cut his wrist and bleed energy right there in Zhao Yunlan's kitchen!)


• Just how much did Shen Wei enjoy getting his hands all over Zhao Yunlan's stuff and poking into all the corners in the name of "cleaning"? :D


• Shen Wei could have left after tidying up. Why do you think he didn't? Just to feed him breakfast? Or to see his reaction? to establish himself more firmly inside Zhao Yunlan's personal space? (And what does Zhao Yunlan think why he stayed?)


• Why do you think Shen Wei gives Zhao Yunlan an opening to discuss the join-the-SID question again?


• What do you think Shen Wei was hoping to accomplish with his warning to Zhao Yunlan to not leave Dragon City?


• In the following scene. Zhao Yunlan tells Da Qing he rushed them out of their flat because he didn't want Shen Wei to see the message from the Regent - he says he saw it when he woke up, and put it in his pocket when he left. I didn't spot any obvious place for this realisation; did you?

So, let's talk about this scene! I really want to hear what everyone else thinks. And if you have links to other fanworks, please share! ♥