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Guardian Readalong: Chapters 17 and 18
Jan. 11th, 2025 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cathywWelcome to this week’s installment of the Guardian novel readalong!
(If you’re just joining us or need to catch up, here are last week’s chapters and you can find all previous chapter discussions on the schedule post or via the !readalong tag.)
This week we’re looking at:
Chapter 17: Wang Zheng asks for leave. The SID and Professor Shen's students plan separate field trips.
Chapter 18: The separate field trips turn out to be the same field trip. What a coincidence! They join together and start their trip into the cold, snowy mountains.
These events correspond with Chapters 26-28 of the Chinese version on JJWXC and the fan translation.
Excerpts:
( 1) Wang Zheng has a request )
( 2) Shen Wei is in deep. )
( 3) Zhao Yunlan uses his powers for... good? )
( 4) This was not on the itinerary )
(I did not include the big reveal of Wang Zheng's temporary body because it was just too long...)
Questions:
- Is everyone on the Guardian Order cut off from reincarnation/a peaceful afterlife?
- What factors were at play in Shen Wei's reluctance to go ahead with the trip, and his eventual decision to do it?
- Zhao Yunlan's flirtation in the airport: good? bad? ugly?
- Is Zhao Yunlan's non-accidental brother acquisition just a result of his charisma, or is he manipulative about it?
- As careful as he usually is about rationalizing the supernatural for people, why might Yunlan have been so upfront about the lantern-carrier and the people with him being ghosts?
...and of course, share your thoughts and feelings on any part of the reading.
(If you’re just joining us or need to catch up, here are last week’s chapters and you can find all previous chapter discussions on the schedule post or via the !readalong tag.)
This week we’re looking at:
Chapter 17: Wang Zheng asks for leave. The SID and Professor Shen's students plan separate field trips.
Chapter 18: The separate field trips turn out to be the same field trip. What a coincidence! They join together and start their trip into the cold, snowy mountains.
These events correspond with Chapters 26-28 of the Chinese version on JJWXC and the fan translation.
Excerpts:
( 1) Wang Zheng has a request )
( 2) Shen Wei is in deep. )
( 3) Zhao Yunlan uses his powers for... good? )
( 4) This was not on the itinerary )
(I did not include the big reveal of Wang Zheng's temporary body because it was just too long...)
Questions:
- Is everyone on the Guardian Order cut off from reincarnation/a peaceful afterlife?
- What factors were at play in Shen Wei's reluctance to go ahead with the trip, and his eventual decision to do it?
- Zhao Yunlan's flirtation in the airport: good? bad? ugly?
- Is Zhao Yunlan's non-accidental brother acquisition just a result of his charisma, or is he manipulative about it?
- As careful as he usually is about rationalizing the supernatural for people, why might Yunlan have been so upfront about the lantern-carrier and the people with him being ghosts?
...and of course, share your thoughts and feelings on any part of the reading.
