It always strikes me when I watch this scene how emotional Zhao Yunlan is, and how very surprising that is when all we have seen of his relationship with his father so far is anger and hostility.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's so startling to see Zhao Yunlan like this. But I don't quite see that Zhao Yunlan is at breaking point until this happens, so I lean toward what china_shop replied. I think it's worse for Zhao Yunlan because his relationship with his father is so strained. And this is a sudden, very personal move from the Master of the Merit Brush that clearly no one expected. Zhao Yunlan's first thought is that Minister Gao was the target.
But he also reacted strongly when he thought he'd seen a vision of his father in a wreck in episode 21 -- he was going to blindly run out into the street to get to his father. And now he believes the vision was about this incident, and that may also be making him more emotional about it. Like, when the wreck didn't happen in episode 21 and his father was fine, Zhao Yunlan probably shrugged it off, and now it's come back and become reality.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. It's so startling to see Zhao Yunlan like this. But I don't quite see that Zhao Yunlan is at breaking point until this happens, so I lean toward what
But he also reacted strongly when he thought he'd seen a vision of his father in a wreck in episode 21 -- he was going to blindly run out into the street to get to his father. And now he believes the vision was about this incident, and that may also be making him more emotional about it. Like, when the wreck didn't happen in episode 21 and his father was fine, Zhao Yunlan probably shrugged it off, and now it's come back and become reality.