Elle magazine article written by Zhu Yilong and translated by wenella

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Wenella translated the whole article from the ELLEMEN September 2021 Cover Issue, where Zhu Yilong talks about his views on acting.

With her permission, I reassembled it from her twitter thread and posted it here. I returned abbreviations and hashtags to normal text, but otherwise made no changes to the text. As for the images, I only added those that were in the original article. There are more images in the twitter thread, if you're interested.

All credit goes to wenella_subs.


The original Chinese article is here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/n4obqjZx6cLd



( A Personal Account by Zhu Yilong: Cover my ears, Open my eyes )

Focus on: Shen Wei tucks Zhao Yunlan into bed again, episode 28

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Location of scene: episode 28, 32:06 - 34:04

For context, Zhao Yunlan has just found out that Wang Xiangyang et al. have kidnapped his father and Minister Gao. Wang Xiangyang has left them a coded message and 24 hours to solve it/save the kidnapped people. (sakana17 covered that scene in a recent discussion post). Zhao Yunlan is frantically trying to figure out what will happen next, and gets the brilliant idea to turn to the Hallows. To be fair, he has previously had a vision of the car accident starting this kidnapping - but when he reaches for the Sundial and it activates in his hand, he immediately flinches and bends over in pain, then falls to the floor and passes out. Wang Zheng finds him there. And then ...



( on to our scene! )

( Why I love this scene )

Questions:

• What's your favourite thing about this scene? Mine is the many, many times Shen Wei looks away from Zhao Yunlan while sitting on his bed, gathering his thoughts/wrangling his feelings, only to then immediately look back at Zhao Yunlan. ♥


• How do you think Zhao Yunlan got from the lab to his bed? Did Wang Zheng manage to call anyone else before Shen Wei came rushing in? *g* Did Shen Wei portal them home?


• Given the countdown, and the fact that at least Lin Jing, Cong Bo, Zhao Yunlan and Wang Zheng were all awake well after midnight, what was Shen Wei in the middle of when Zhao Yunlan passed out? (He must have felt the Hallows activating; he usually turns up very quickly when that happens.) And when this scene starts, Shen Wei has clearly already examined Zhao Yunlan and found no serious damage. But at first he must have feared the worst. What was going through his head in that moment?


• What do you think decided Shen Wei on staying by Zhao Yunlan's bedside rather than going back to whatever he was doing before? How long would he have stayed if Zhao Yunlan hadn't woken up relatively quickly after being taken home?


• Why do you think Shen Wei decided to message the Regent when he did? Did he really expect a useful answer, or was he just itching for something to do?


• How did Shen Wei get that scratch on his thumb? *g*


• After the end of this scene, does Shen Wei scold Zhao Yunlan again while he's awake, too? (Is there fic about that?)


• How do you think the Hallows visions work? Zhao Yunlan got knocked out trying to get a vision of the future out of the Sundial, but the vision of his father's car accident that he did have (in episode 21) wasn't immediately connected to touching any of the Hallows. (It happened randomly on the street, though it was shortly after overusing the Sundial to defend himself against Ye Zun left him blind.) The future-visions I remember were from touching the Mountain-River Awl - actual future visions in episode 14, and an averted-future vision in episode 19. (The visions in episode 20 are also not immediately from touching one of the Hallows.) And it's the Awl that Shen Wei tells him in episode 19 can unmoor people in time. So do you think he'd have had better luck trying the Awl?


• Because it's so prominent in some of the shots: what does Shen Wei think about that swing in Zhao Yunlan's bedroom? :D

So, let's talk about this scene! Isn't it great? And if anyone has links to fanworks involving this scene, please share! ♥