GUARDIAN REWATCH – Episode 32

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Beginning of episode: Chu Shuzhi and Zhao Yunlan argue.
Ending of episode: Chu Shuzhi talks with Guo Changcheng.

Important scenes/developments:

• Zhao Yunlan yells at Chu Shuzhi about using his puppet in Zhu Hong’s dream.
• Da Qing runs in as the two argue and the talk shifts to the articles that have been released concerning the SID, and specifically Chu Shuzhi’s past.
• Zhao Yunlan wants to go to Dixing. Chu Shuzhi volunteers.
• It transitions to Ye Zun punishing the Nightmare Master for failing.
• Guo Changcheng has a nightmare that Chu Shuzhi strangles him.
• Zhao Yunlan argues with Minister Gao about the leaked files concerning Chu Shuzhi’s past.
• Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi argue some more.
• Chu Shuzhi decides to go to Dixing and Guo Changcheng tags along.
• The Regent is still a bad man.
• Chu Shuzhi stomps around angrily because of the Regent and losing the last piece of his brother.
• Chu Shuzhi tries to scare Guo Changcheng away. It doesn’t work.
• Shen Wei is chained to the sky pillar.
• Ye Zun manifests in his shadow form, taunts Chu Shuzhi with his dead brother and then seemingly kills Guo Changcheng.
• Chu Shuzhi wakes up at the SID and tells Zhao Yunlan about Shen Wei.
• Guo Changcheng finds a sleeping Chu Shuzhi and they speak.
• Chu Shuzhi has a nightmare about when he and his brother were kids, and how his brother died.
• Chu Shuzhi tells Guo Changcheng he would like his dreams to be reality.

( Thoughts!! )

Discussion Points:

• What was your favorite part of this particular episode as we continue into the dream arc of the show? Was it Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi arguing several times? Was it the cannibal scene? I’m eager to hear!
• When do you think the dream actually started? Was it when we see Guo Changcheng wake from his nightmare? Or was it after Guo Changcheng was ‘killed’ by Ye Zun? Or is Guo Chancheng really Guo Changcheng in this whole episode? I’m sure you can see my opinion in my write-up of what I think LOL XD
• How do you think Chu Shuzhi got back to the SID after being defeated by Ye Zun? Was it the Nightmare Master’s doing? Do you think Zhao Yunlan had an inkling that something was wrong?
• Also, do you think with how confused Chu Shuzhi was acting that the Nightmare Master used his powers on him to remember things differently, which is why he acted so confused/stumbled and stuttered?
• Do you think when the Nightmare Master impersonates someone he can actually get a sense of the person with his powers? Or is he just real good at reading people and manipulation?
• When the Regent was pretending not to know where Shen Wei was, what do you think that look at the very end was? I felt like it was significant in some ways, but I’m not sure what to read of it.
• I know I sped ran through the Ye Zun part, but I have to say Zhu Yilong’s portal of Ye Zun versus Shen Wei is really awesome. He definitely can play maniacal evil very well. Does everyone have a favorite Ye Zun scene? If so, what it is? :D
• I still feel vaguely confused on the Chu twins background. Can someone confirm that I am not reading things incorrectly and that there are at least two (maybe three) versions of the Chu twins background between 32 and 33? Because I had to run on over to 33 to try and figure out if I was just remembering everything wrong LOL and honestly, I still feel vaguely confused?!

Let’s talk about episode 32!

Come and talk about this episode – anything from favourite scenes or lines of dialogue to notes/questions about continuity or translation, most gorgeous (or angsty) smile, or anything else that strikes your fancy! And share links to your own and/or others’ episode-related meta, picspams, and fanworks, new or old!

PS: Also, a shout out to everyone who has written up/commented/and just squee’d over these rewatches! This community is truly awesome :D Kudos to everyone! And also, please forgive any run on sentences or repeating of myself (I'm pretty sure I repeated some thoughts several times) I fueled myself with a lot of caffeine when writing this :) THANK YOU!