(And... what, me, loving a character who's a bundle of tightly-held problems who eventually falls apart? :D )

Oooooh. You know, I'd been trying to figure out what similarities have led so many people to wander into Guardian fandom from due South ... but man, Chu Shuzhi has SO very much in common with Kelly Robinson!!! What a cool and insightful way of looking at the character.

I suspect that if Xiao Guo's grandmother was still alive, she'd have Chu Shuzhi calling her Grandma and writing letters to her.