one of the reasons I love the livestream scene so much is that Zhao Yunlan is performing himself on a grand scale--it's very much a performance and it's also absolutely about who he is and how he works.

Yesss! It's so good! *flails a little*

I wrote a short fic a while back imagining how it would be if Dixing and Haixing had different dialects, and it has a deleted (or mostly never-written) scene in which Zhao Yunlan threw in a few phrases in Dixing dialect during this part of his livestream--the Haixingren might not even notice but it would reach the Dixingren listening, beginning with Shen Wei.

Oh, that's awesome, and I'd love to read it if you ever resurrect it. And wow, I'd never thought before about the Dixingren who must be listening in to the speech (other than Chu Shuzhi) or how that would feel for them. Wow...