Chu Shuzhi remains one of the coolest. He is! I actually wish he got to face off Ye Zun, with Ye Zun monologueing and Chu Shuzhi shooting off snappy one-liners in response.
I think after seeing what the serum did to multiple personality guy, Zhao Yunlan figured use of the serum could lead to nothing desirable. But Professor Ouyang's already been serumed up and not being rational, so IDK if a second dose of serum would necessarily mean doom time? (Especially at such short notice Zhao Yunlan couldn't, idk, ask Ya Qing to shoot off a feather, or for Zhu Hong to use her snake powers.)
Well. We don't know if he's never said any of that before. He could just be trying one last time? IDK. It sort of has an "I never said any of this before and now I'm going through all the things I bit my tongue on and saying them because I'm about to die" vibe to me. And neither Ye Zun or the Regent seem to expect the question/react like they've been asked the question before, imo.
But Zhang Shi never said that Guo Changcheng could light the Lantern and survive (and for all we know, he might not) so whether or not GCC is wick material is really beside the point where Zhao Yunlan is concerned. So that's where that beautiful plan falls down. IDK, I always got the impression that Guo Changcheng's pure karma could light the Lantern so that the consequences for Guo Changcheng himself would be just "he's a bit woozy for a few weeks" or something. So the whole "sacrifice of a willing soul" thing was a secondary Lantern-lighting method, and siphoning off some good karma to make the Lantern glow would be the first, which wouldn't require sacrifice.
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He is! I actually wish he got to face off Ye Zun, with Ye Zun monologueing and Chu Shuzhi shooting off snappy one-liners in response.
But Professor Ouyang's already been serumed up and not being rational, so IDK if a second dose of serum would necessarily mean doom time? (Especially at such short notice Zhao Yunlan couldn't, idk, ask Ya Qing to shoot off a feather, or for Zhu Hong to use her snake powers.)
It sort of has an "I never said any of this before and now I'm going through all the things I bit my tongue on and saying them because I'm about to die" vibe to me. And neither Ye Zun or the Regent seem to expect the question/react like they've been asked the question before, imo.
IDK, I always got the impression that Guo Changcheng's pure karma could light the Lantern so that the consequences for Guo Changcheng himself would be just "he's a bit woozy for a few weeks" or something. So the whole "sacrifice of a willing soul" thing was a secondary Lantern-lighting method, and siphoning off some good karma to make the Lantern glow would be the first, which wouldn't require sacrifice.