I can't quite tell how aware he is of how much he's creeping people out, and how deliberate it is. Is he deliberately sending mixed signals? Or is it just his inner creep that's impossible to fully hide?
Yeah, the remark about Wang Zheng could just be him judging his audience incredibly badly (or culture clash? suddenly it seems significant that we never see any women at the palace).
I think it's a) that the Regent wouldn't let him take Nianzhi's doll, and b) that after he'd served his term, the Regent was going to keep him locked up anyway, and c) (possibly most importantly?) the Regent being a smug, gloating arse about all of the above.
That sounds about right! /o\
and I expect he has intel on the SID.
I bet he dug around a bit after receiving the enquiry about Shen Wei, too. Maybe he sent to the Xingdu Bureau for details, like Shen Wei did in ep 1?
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Yeah, the remark about Wang Zheng could just be him judging his audience incredibly badly (or culture clash? suddenly it seems significant that we never see any women at the palace).
I think it's a) that the Regent wouldn't let him take Nianzhi's doll, and b) that after he'd served his term, the Regent was going to keep him locked up anyway, and c) (possibly most importantly?) the Regent being a smug, gloating arse about all of the above.
That sounds about right! /o\
and I expect he has intel on the SID.
I bet he dug around a bit after receiving the enquiry about Shen Wei, too. Maybe he sent to the Xingdu Bureau for details, like Shen Wei did in ep 1?