(I hope one day someone will make a timeline/outline of the entire dream sequence, because I feel like there might be dreams within dreams sometimes, but I might be wrong? Idk!!)
Yeah, dreams within dreams! My theory is in my comment below – hope it makes sense!
I don't think he'd have sent Changcheng into Zhu Hong's dream unprotected, not even with Zhao Yunlan there. He'd have felt too responsible if something had happened.
Yeah! And Zhao Yunlan is disregarding that he himself had disappeared into Zhu Hong's dream, leaving Lao-Chu feeling responsible for both of them. And when he couldn't go after them himself (because people were trying to shut down the SID!), he did the next best thing – send Guo Changcheng with as much protection as he could provide.
Like, "Do a better job, or I'll eat you and do it myself!"?
Yeah, that's what I eventually decided too. *g*
Maybe she's pleased with the self-criticism Changcheng wrote her, and feeling smug for having evaded/delegated the punishment?
Hee! I love that. :D
Or maybe just desperate for good material to tease ZYL with?
Something he can tease both of them with! :D
(I suppose Minister Gao wanting to scapegoat Chu Shuzhi pushes a lot of the Zhao Xinci buttons again.)
Oooh, yeah, that's a great point!
It's so good!!!!!!! It's like when Zhu Hong is openly jealous of the SW/ZYL relationship. The whole team knows!! :D :D :D
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
(I was just thinking that Chu Shuzhi offering to bring Shen Wei back is kind of like a temptation dream for Zhao Yunlan. He doesn't need the Master of Nightmares to torment him; he has the RL thing! *pets him*)
OHHHHH this is a great observation! I love it! :D
Like, here Chu Shuzhi's affect is flat and unenthusiastic about going to Dixing, but later, in the dream, Dixing is where he locates his happy ever after with Changcheng and Nianzhi. He really does still have a lot of "home" feelings about it.
Such a great point! And I always loved that "happy ending in Dixing" is a thing he dreams about. ♥
I'm so confused about puppet Nianzhi. Is it a different puppet from the one(s) Chu Shuzhi had before? Are his little puppet that appeared in Zhu Hong's dream, and his bigger puppet he had at the mah jong game separate, or one that changes shape? I need to know!!! *g* And does Ye Zun have the Nianzhi one? (I think I've been wrongly assuming that his regular puppet is Nianzhi... oops.)
I'm SO confused about the puppets too! I hope next episode will clarify something ...
I'm unsure about that, too. He wakes up in the SID, and he's sitting at his desk. Zhao Yunlan doesn't seem surprised to see him there, and speaks as if Chu Shuzhi has just been reporting back, but why would Chu Shuzhi be sitting at his desk for that? It's weird!
I think he came back to report and sat down (because of how unsteady on his feet he is later in this scene), and then dozed off for a moment, allowing the Nightmare Master to give him a bit of a fake-flashback dream.
I think the Regent doesn't want to get on Ye Zun's bad side, so he's prevaricating like the weasel he is.
I wonder if this is a case like with Shen Wei, where the Regent might have hoped that the Envoy could do something about Ye Zun but wasn't willing to personally step in to help him? So here he might be passing on Ye Zun's messages and not doing anything that might get Ye Zun upset with him, but he's also hoping the SID can do something that might improve the situation? Idk, I can't get a handle on him here.
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Yeah, dreams within dreams! My theory is in my comment below – hope it makes sense!
I don't think he'd have sent Changcheng into Zhu Hong's dream unprotected, not even with Zhao Yunlan there. He'd have felt too responsible if something had happened.
Yeah! And Zhao Yunlan is disregarding that he himself had disappeared into Zhu Hong's dream, leaving Lao-Chu feeling responsible for both of them. And when he couldn't go after them himself (because people were trying to shut down the SID!), he did the next best thing – send Guo Changcheng with as much protection as he could provide.
Like, "Do a better job, or I'll eat you and do it myself!"?
Yeah, that's what I eventually decided too. *g*
Maybe she's pleased with the self-criticism Changcheng wrote her, and feeling smug for having evaded/delegated the punishment?
Hee! I love that. :D
Or maybe just desperate for good material to tease ZYL with?
Something he can tease both of them with! :D
(I suppose Minister Gao wanting to scapegoat Chu Shuzhi pushes a lot of the Zhao Xinci buttons again.)
Oooh, yeah, that's a great point!
It's so good!!!!!!! It's like when Zhu Hong is openly jealous of the SW/ZYL relationship. The whole team knows!! :D :D :D
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
(I was just thinking that Chu Shuzhi offering to bring Shen Wei back is kind of like a temptation dream for Zhao Yunlan. He doesn't need the Master of Nightmares to torment him; he has the RL thing! *pets him*)
OHHHHH this is a great observation! I love it! :D
Like, here Chu Shuzhi's affect is flat and unenthusiastic about going to Dixing, but later, in the dream, Dixing is where he locates his happy ever after with Changcheng and Nianzhi. He really does still have a lot of "home" feelings about it.
Such a great point! And I always loved that "happy ending in Dixing" is a thing he dreams about. ♥
I'm so confused about puppet Nianzhi. Is it a different puppet from the one(s) Chu Shuzhi had before? Are his little puppet that appeared in Zhu Hong's dream, and his bigger puppet he had at the mah jong game separate, or one that changes shape? I need to know!!! *g* And does Ye Zun have the Nianzhi one? (I think I've been wrongly assuming that his regular puppet is Nianzhi... oops.)
I'm SO confused about the puppets too! I hope next episode will clarify something ...
I'm unsure about that, too. He wakes up in the SID, and he's sitting at his desk. Zhao Yunlan doesn't seem surprised to see him there, and speaks as if Chu Shuzhi has just been reporting back, but why would Chu Shuzhi be sitting at his desk for that? It's weird!
I think he came back to report and sat down (because of how unsteady on his feet he is later in this scene), and then dozed off for a moment, allowing the Nightmare Master to give him a bit of a fake-flashback dream.
I think the Regent doesn't want to get on Ye Zun's bad side, so he's prevaricating like the weasel he is.
I wonder if this is a case like with Shen Wei, where the Regent might have hoped that the Envoy could do something about Ye Zun but wasn't willing to personally step in to help him? So here he might be passing on Ye Zun's messages and not doing anything that might get Ye Zun upset with him, but he's also hoping the SID can do something that might improve the situation? Idk, I can't get a handle on him here.