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sid_guardian2021-06-03 06:37 am
dorinda) wrote in sid_guardian2021-06-03 06:37 am
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Question: ep. 40, "Guard against the heart of the evil..."
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?
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?
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And then. AND THEN. When Zhao Yunlan has put it all together, when he finally, truly understands what really made Shen Wei tick, what his motivations were, what he ended up sacrificing in order to protect others... you get this absolutely *gorgeous* implicit, but so powerful moment of endorsement and peaceful acceptance and soul-deep understanding from Zhao Yunlan... somehow he just knows what Shen Wei's final thoughts were, he perfectly puts into words what was driving him, and Shen Wei gets to experience that perfect moment of being seen, being known by a man who loves him, and accepts him as he is, and would have done the exact same thing in his place because deep down in the most foundational stuff that makes them both up, they hold the same core values, the same deeply held convictions.
That in every way that counts, Shen Wei hadn't been alone there in the end at all. Neither of them were. They were together in spirit, had helped one another become the best versions of themselves that each of them wanted desperately to be, seeing one another true in a way that no one else ever had, through it all.
Oh god, yes, you describe it so beautifully and perfectly. ♥