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

[shadaras]

You're welcome! I am very grateful I remembered both reading something about this before and that it was probably on dtriad's tumblr; otherwise I doubt I would've been able to find it. :)

(I also love your idea that the dramaverse explanation has something to do with their time together in ancient Haixing!)