This is great! Love the mention in the comments of Chu Shuzhi liking to garden, I really enjoy the idea of him coming up with vegetables (Changcheng cooks them, and when there are too many to cook they bring them in to the SID, and when there are still too many they go to a Dixingren soup kitchen) and flowers, which he brings inside and they go in vases all over the house.

Shen Wei in the rain: almost certainly "it's worth it," but I also wonder if he doesn't go away inside his head for a while to standing guard in the rain some time ten thousand years ago in the middle of a war.

Also, I am firmly convinced that Shen Wei walks to work. He likes the chance to spend time under the sky.