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Scene discussion: Zhu Hong tries to hypnotize Shen Wei in the Hanga guesthouse
Context: Zhao Yunlan, Guo Changcheng, and Chu Shuzhi have gone to look for Wang Zheng. Zhao Yunlan has told Zhu Hong to stay behind and keep an eye on Shen Wei for him. Zhu Hong prevented Shen Wei from following them by pointing out that his students, who were drugged by Wang Zheng, are relying on him.
(Scene starts in Episode 10 @ 12:27-13:11)
Shen Wei descends the stairs at the Hanga guesthouse, carrying Zhao Yunlan's North Face jacket. Zhu Hong waits, sitting at a table with a tea set and a lit candle.
Shen Wei sees her, pauses, and continues toward the door, putting on the jacket. He is the picture of innocence:
Zhu Hong stands up and stops him, saying that if he goes out, it would upset her and Zhao Yunlan ("Lao Zhao"). (沈教授，你现在出去我会困扰。老赵更会困扰。)
"He regards you as a special friend. You'll keep that in mind, right?" (他可是破天荒地拿你当好朋友了，你不会没有看出来吧。)
Shen Wei:
She gestures for him to sit and pours tea.
(Episode 10 @ 15:40-16:20)
Zhu Hong moves the lit candle and places it on the table between her and Shen Wei. She tells him to look closely at the flame. (沈教授，你仔细看这团火苗)
Shen Wei looks at the flame and blinks slowly.
Zhu Hong admires the flame and tells Shen Wei to look into her eyes. (它跃动的姿态是不是很美呀？来，看着我的眼睛。)
Shen Wei turns to her, and Zhu Hong's eyes (irises) turn red.
"Forget everything else," she says. "You need to rest for a long time." (现在你什么都不要想，你需要休息，休息一下。)
Shen Wei's eyes close. Zhu Hong smirks. Oh no, she's hypnotized him!
(Episode 11 @ 15:00-15:54)
After saving Wang Zheng and freeing Sang Zan (with the help of the Black-Cloaked Envoy), Zhao Yunlan returns to the Hanga guesthouse in the evening and finds Zhu Hong asleep at the table with the tea set and lit candle.
He wakes her and asks after the others who'd been drugged by Wang Zheng and remained behind at the guesthouse. (祝红。祝红！醒醒祝红！你怎么睡着了？其他人呢？)
Zhu Hong says she checked on them before sleeping. (都在房间好好睡着呢。汪徵的药还没过劲。我检查过没事才睡的。)
Zhao Yunlan: "And Shen Wei?" (沈巍呢？) Zhu Hong looks confused. "Shen...Shen Wei?" (沈，沈巍？)
She sees the candle flame and jumps to her feet, facing Zhao Yunlan. "Shen Wei!" (沈巍！) She looks anxious. Zhao Yunlan touches her forehead and asks if she's okay. (你没事吧？)
Then Shen Wei's voice calls from upstairs, "Chief Zhao." (赵处长？) Shen Wei smiles down at him. "You've come back." (赵处长，你们回来了。)
Zhao Yunlan smiles back and they have a moment, while Zhu Hong:
Zhao Yunlan looks suspiciously from Shen Wei to Zhu Hong and back.
Shen Wei does his best to look completely unsuspicious, and Zhao Yunlan smiles.
The flashback reveal:
(Episode 11 @ 19:49-20:53)
After Zhu Hong tells Shen Wei he needs to rest, Shen Wei's eyes turn red and his eyelids are heavy.
But then he re-focuses on Zhu Hong, the red disappears, and he says, "The one who needs to rest is you." (该休息的人是你。) The red clears from Zhu Hong's eyes and she stares fixedly at Shen Wei.
Shen Wei: "Snake-eye hypnosis is your tribe's secret specialty, but it takes a lot of concentration. It can easily be turned back on the user. You cannot control it well yet. Don't use it in the future unless it is urgent." (蛇瞳催眠是蛇族的秘术。它对使用者本身的精神力有很高的要求。一旦不慎就容易被反噬。你的修为尚浅。以后不到紧要关头不要再使用了。)
Zhu Hong says she won't. (好，不用了。)
Shen Wei: "From now on, you won't pay attention to Shen Wei anymore until Zhao Yunlan comes back." (还有从现在开始，你不会再注意到沈巍这个人直到赵云澜安全地回来。)
Zhu Hong: "Shen Wei... Who is Shen Wei?" (沈巍。沈巍是谁？)
Shen Wei: "Very good." (很好。)
He gets up to leave, stops at the door, faces her, extends his arm and snaps his fingers. Zhu Hong yawns, closes her eyes, and lowers her head to the table.
* English dialogue from thesolo's QCed subs
* Chinese dialogue fromnnozomi
I don't have a lot of profound thoughts about this scene, but it's always been a favorite of mine.
Was I the only one who worried that Shen Wei might actually get hypnotized? (Hey, for all I knew, Yashou hypnosis could work on him!)
I love the reveal of Shen Wei (figuratively, at least) turning Zhu Hong's hypnosis back on her. Yet another Shen Wei power, but what is it, exactly? Did he simply block it and it backlashed on Zhu Hong? Does he have a power to turn it against her?
This is the second time (the first is episode 4's interrogation scene) that "ordinary human professor" Shen Wei has basically called out Zhu Hong for being young and/or inexperienced at controlling her Yashou powers. Zhu Hong must be livid.
It's interesting about the red in the eyes. Zhu Hong's turn red as she's trying to hypnotize Shen Wei. When Shen Wei's go red, it seems to be an effect of falling under the spell. Visually, it's linking them together--could it be an actual link? As soon as he re-directs his focus, it goes away.
I wonder about Shen Wei's finger snap. In Western media hypnosis tropes, the finger snap is often a signal to end the hypnotic state, but here it seems to be the signal for Zhu Hong to fall asleep. What's Shen Wei doing? What can he do? Shen Wei's powers--and all the hints/glimpses we see of them--are endlessly fascinating!
For purely shallow reasons, I like this scene because Shen Wei is adorable in his outfit of jeans, t-shirt-with-plaid-long-sleeves, and Zhao Yunlan's jacket, and Zhu Hong is 🔥🔥 in her sleek black clothes and with her hair parted and slicked. There are lots of gorgeous close-up shots of their eyes, too.
(Scene starts in Episode 10 @ 12:27-13:11)
Shen Wei descends the stairs at the Hanga guesthouse, carrying Zhao Yunlan's North Face jacket. Zhu Hong waits, sitting at a table with a tea set and a lit candle.
Shen Wei sees her, pauses, and continues toward the door, putting on the jacket. He is the picture of innocence:
Zhu Hong stands up and stops him, saying that if he goes out, it would upset her and Zhao Yunlan ("Lao Zhao"). (沈教授，你现在出去我会困扰。老赵更会困扰。)
"He regards you as a special friend. You'll keep that in mind, right?" (他可是破天荒地拿你当好朋友了，你不会没有看出来吧。)
Shen Wei:
She gestures for him to sit and pours tea.
(Episode 10 @ 15:40-16:20)
Zhu Hong moves the lit candle and places it on the table between her and Shen Wei. She tells him to look closely at the flame. (沈教授，你仔细看这团火苗)
Shen Wei looks at the flame and blinks slowly.
Zhu Hong admires the flame and tells Shen Wei to look into her eyes. (它跃动的姿态是不是很美呀？来，看着我的眼睛。)
Shen Wei turns to her, and Zhu Hong's eyes (irises) turn red.
"Forget everything else," she says. "You need to rest for a long time." (现在你什么都不要想，你需要休息，休息一下。)
Shen Wei's eyes close. Zhu Hong smirks. Oh no, she's hypnotized him!
(Episode 11 @ 15:00-15:54)
After saving Wang Zheng and freeing Sang Zan (with the help of the Black-Cloaked Envoy), Zhao Yunlan returns to the Hanga guesthouse in the evening and finds Zhu Hong asleep at the table with the tea set and lit candle.
He wakes her and asks after the others who'd been drugged by Wang Zheng and remained behind at the guesthouse. (祝红。祝红！醒醒祝红！你怎么睡着了？其他人呢？)
Zhu Hong says she checked on them before sleeping. (都在房间好好睡着呢。汪徵的药还没过劲。我检查过没事才睡的。)
Zhao Yunlan: "And Shen Wei?" (沈巍呢？) Zhu Hong looks confused. "Shen...Shen Wei?" (沈，沈巍？)
She sees the candle flame and jumps to her feet, facing Zhao Yunlan. "Shen Wei!" (沈巍！) She looks anxious. Zhao Yunlan touches her forehead and asks if she's okay. (你没事吧？)
Then Shen Wei's voice calls from upstairs, "Chief Zhao." (赵处长？) Shen Wei smiles down at him. "You've come back." (赵处长，你们回来了。)
Zhao Yunlan smiles back and they have a moment, while Zhu Hong:
Zhao Yunlan looks suspiciously from Shen Wei to Zhu Hong and back.
Shen Wei does his best to look completely unsuspicious, and Zhao Yunlan smiles.
The flashback reveal:
(Episode 11 @ 19:49-20:53)
After Zhu Hong tells Shen Wei he needs to rest, Shen Wei's eyes turn red and his eyelids are heavy.
But then he re-focuses on Zhu Hong, the red disappears, and he says, "The one who needs to rest is you." (该休息的人是你。) The red clears from Zhu Hong's eyes and she stares fixedly at Shen Wei.
Shen Wei: "Snake-eye hypnosis is your tribe's secret specialty, but it takes a lot of concentration. It can easily be turned back on the user. You cannot control it well yet. Don't use it in the future unless it is urgent." (蛇瞳催眠是蛇族的秘术。它对使用者本身的精神力有很高的要求。一旦不慎就容易被反噬。你的修为尚浅。以后不到紧要关头不要再使用了。)
Zhu Hong says she won't. (好，不用了。)
Shen Wei: "From now on, you won't pay attention to Shen Wei anymore until Zhao Yunlan comes back." (还有从现在开始，你不会再注意到沈巍这个人直到赵云澜安全地回来。)
Zhu Hong: "Shen Wei... Who is Shen Wei?" (沈巍。沈巍是谁？)
Shen Wei: "Very good." (很好。)
He gets up to leave, stops at the door, faces her, extends his arm and snaps his fingers. Zhu Hong yawns, closes her eyes, and lowers her head to the table.
* English dialogue from the
solo's QCed subs* Chinese dialogue from
nnozomiI don't have a lot of profound thoughts about this scene, but it's always been a favorite of mine.
Was I the only one who worried that Shen Wei might actually get hypnotized? (Hey, for all I knew, Yashou hypnosis could work on him!)
I love the reveal of Shen Wei (figuratively, at least) turning Zhu Hong's hypnosis back on her. Yet another Shen Wei power, but what is it, exactly? Did he simply block it and it backlashed on Zhu Hong? Does he have a power to turn it against her?
This is the second time (the first is episode 4's interrogation scene) that "ordinary human professor" Shen Wei has basically called out Zhu Hong for being young and/or inexperienced at controlling her Yashou powers. Zhu Hong must be livid.
It's interesting about the red in the eyes. Zhu Hong's turn red as she's trying to hypnotize Shen Wei. When Shen Wei's go red, it seems to be an effect of falling under the spell. Visually, it's linking them together--could it be an actual link? As soon as he re-directs his focus, it goes away.
I wonder about Shen Wei's finger snap. In Western media hypnosis tropes, the finger snap is often a signal to end the hypnotic state, but here it seems to be the signal for Zhu Hong to fall asleep. What's Shen Wei doing? What can he do? Shen Wei's powers--and all the hints/glimpses we see of them--are endlessly fascinating!
For purely shallow reasons, I like this scene because Shen Wei is adorable in his outfit of jeans, t-shirt-with-plaid-long-sleeves, and Zhao Yunlan's jacket, and Zhu Hong is 🔥🔥 in her sleek black clothes and with her hair parted and slicked. There are lots of gorgeous close-up shots of their eyes, too.
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Right? :D
Ah yeah, more properly meant to say that Zhu Hong would be livid if she remembered any of it later (before she found out who Shen Wei is). :-/ Argh, I should stick with picspams because I always say really dumb things otherwise.
Nonono, don't worry about it, sorry for being nitpicky! It's a really good point - I'd never really thought about it that he called her out like that twice. Now I wonder if she ever regains that memory ...
I've also been thinking about what you said about Shen Wei snapping his fingers to make her fall asleep, and I know I've seen finger snap-triggered magic in cdramas before, but damned if I can come up with any actual instances. It would be super interesting to compare Chinese vs. Western tropes there!
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Oh, that would be very cool! If you come across more examples, let us know.
(Maybe it's not always used the same way in Western media...?)
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(I'm sure there's variation - there has to be - but it would be so cool to see what patterns emerge, if any!)