Question: ep. 40, "Guard against the heart of the evil..."

[dorinda]

Just finished another rewatch the other day, and I was wondering about the words "Guard against the heart of the evil/Spread the virtue of the kind". What do we know about them, if anything?

I didn't run across them anywhere else in the series... are they a proverb? Are they from the novel? They're obviously extremely important to Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan, and they both know them, but I wasn't sure if there are any other clues, or if it's something we are free to just make up ourselves.

Left to my own devices, I was imagining that maybe they created or learned the phrase back in Ancient Haixing together (in all the offscreen time there we surely just didn't see :D ), which is why the reveal of the contents of the necklace made Zhao Yunlan repeat them. But that's just me improvising.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[trobadora]

Thank you for linking that! I knew I had seen something like it before, but couldn't dig it up.

dorinda, I love your idea that it's something they encountered/created together in Ancient Haixing!