Why not both? Shen Wei gets to die without masks! This includes everyone seeing his heart, which belongs to Zhao Yunlan. True. This is very nearly a nice thought! I think!
It might also be something like lung scarring after a bad infection, but whatever it is, there are more treatment options for it now! I had been assuming it was a more serious condition, but when asthma came to mind, suddenly I was picturing Ye Zun pausing in the middle of a villainous monologue to take a puff of his inhaler and I decided it was canon. (...I need this to cope with the ending.)
It's just ambiguous enough that people can pass it by if it squicks them, but – yes. Yeah, I certainly don't want to make anyone deal with sexual abuse in their experience of fandom, and it is ambiguous enough that it could plausibly be ""just"" physical and verbal abuse. But. Given that you and I are both seeing it: blanket burrito. All the blanket burrito-ing and tea and therapy and rehabilitation for Ye Zun. Argh. (The way the show cuts it to look like Ye Zun is being abused while Shen Wei is absolutely sparkling under the novel and exciting attentions of his True Love makes it woooorse.)
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True. This is very nearly a nice thought! I think!
I had been assuming it was a more serious condition, but when asthma came to mind, suddenly I was picturing Ye Zun pausing in the middle of a villainous monologue to take a puff of his inhaler and I decided it was canon. (...I need this to cope with the ending.)
Yeah, I certainly don't want to make anyone deal with sexual abuse in their experience of fandom, and it is ambiguous enough that it could plausibly be ""just"" physical and verbal abuse. But. Given that you and I are both seeing it: blanket burrito. All the blanket burrito-ing and tea and therapy and rehabilitation for Ye Zun. Argh. (The way the show cuts it to look like Ye Zun is being abused while Shen Wei is absolutely sparkling under the novel and exciting attentions of his True Love makes it woooorse.)