It's a perfect tiny and even unconscious thing, that Shen Wei simply can't stop himself from protecting Zhao Yunlan
*siiiigh* is right! <3 That's one of my favorite tiny details, too! And I worked hard to get the right screencap because I *had* to include that. It just says so much about Shen Wei that he won't let Zhao Yunlan topple over, even in the midst of being angrily frustrated at him.
And I'm always privately yelling at Shen Wei, like, "Oh does it bother you that he's being so self-sacrificing that he suffers for it? JUST LIKE YOU??"
SAME. I love that about them, though! Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan have different modes of displaying/carrying out their self-sacrificing, but it's cut from the same cloth, I feel. I think Shen Wei's comes across as more convincing, perhaps, because he acts like he's always in control of the situation, but for me, I don't think it's a great sign of control if self-sacrifice is kinda your go-to solution... Maybe the difference between them, at least at this point, is that Zhao Yunlan's self-sacrifice feels more haphazard/unplanned. But it's still goal-oriented, just like Shen Wei's is. And they both downplay what they're doing to themselves, just in very different ways.
The way Shen Wei's love/protectiveness/fear for ZYL is expressed with so much frustration here, is the way ZYL's same feelings for SW are expressed with so much frustration in the kitchen scene! The way ZYL is all laughing/puppy eyes in this scene to brush past what he sees as unimportant harm done to him, is the way SW is all sweetly-smiling "fortunately I'm used to it" in the kitchen scene!
Ouch, YES. Oof, the parallels are clear. I also want to lovingly bonk their heads together. :D
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*siiiigh* is right! <3 That's one of my favorite tiny details, too! And I worked hard to get the right screencap because I *had* to include that. It just says so much about Shen Wei that he won't let Zhao Yunlan topple over, even in the midst of being angrily frustrated at him.
And I'm always privately yelling at Shen Wei, like, "Oh does it bother you that he's being so self-sacrificing that he suffers for it? JUST LIKE YOU??"
SAME. I love that about them, though! Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan have different modes of displaying/carrying out their self-sacrificing, but it's cut from the same cloth, I feel. I think Shen Wei's comes across as more convincing, perhaps, because he acts like he's always in control of the situation, but for me, I don't think it's a great sign of control if self-sacrifice is kinda your go-to solution... Maybe the difference between them, at least at this point, is that Zhao Yunlan's self-sacrifice feels more haphazard/unplanned. But it's still goal-oriented, just like Shen Wei's is. And they both downplay what they're doing to themselves, just in very different ways.
The way Shen Wei's love/protectiveness/fear for ZYL is expressed with so much frustration here, is the way ZYL's same feelings for SW are expressed with so much frustration in the kitchen scene! The way ZYL is all laughing/puppy eyes in this scene to brush past what he sees as unimportant harm done to him, is the way SW is all sweetly-smiling "fortunately I'm used to it" in the kitchen scene!
Ouch, YES. Oof, the parallels are clear. I also want to lovingly bonk their heads together. :D