Oops, I've had my comment ready to go since Tuesday last week but then I completely lost track of time and forgot to come add it in 🙈 but better late than never right???
The descriptions at the start of chaoter 3 do such a good job of creating an atmosphere that's a little uncanny. The trees being ancient and blocking out the sky. The building itself standing out amidst the other, older buildings. Finding out it has 18 floors and that they have to go all the way up to the top. The elevator stopping at four floor before it continues up, shaking all the way. The guard sounding sleepy and a bit out of it. Even the way Shen Wei is acting — it all comes together to paint a picture that is just slightly off. Knowing what happens later in this chapter, this bit of atmosphere building was so so fun for me to read! Because I didn't pick up on it my first read, but now, it stands out just enough where I'm like, "priest! I see what you did there!"
Everyone mocks Guo Changcheng for being too oblivious but. Here he is in chapter 3 being more perceptive than he has any right to be: Out of nowhere, Guo Changcheng got the feeling that [Shen Wei] had been standing there for thousands and thousands of years.
Oooh chapter 4 marks the appearance of the one, the only, Pendant of Pining!! I love that Shen Wei’s special pendant is something they kept in the drama version too, even though the story behind the pendant had to be changed.
Everytime I read the paragraph where Zhao Yunlan is talking about how long Shen Wei's lashes are, I can't help but think about that interview where they measured Zhu Yilong's eyelashes because the host was amazed at how long they were. Reason # 198 that Zhu Yilong was perfect for playing Shen Wei
The whole bit with Li Qian at the hospital always makes me feel so sad for her. But also, reading it again, I can't help but catch all the little breadcrumbs priest left us to put together what happened. I'm really enjoying reading the novel again and finding all the foreshadowing I missed the first time!!
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The descriptions at the start of chaoter 3 do such a good job of creating an atmosphere that's a little uncanny. The trees being ancient and blocking out the sky. The building itself standing out amidst the other, older buildings. Finding out it has 18 floors and that they have to go all the way up to the top. The elevator stopping at four floor before it continues up, shaking all the way. The guard sounding sleepy and a bit out of it. Even the way Shen Wei is acting — it all comes together to paint a picture that is just slightly off. Knowing what happens later in this chapter, this bit of atmosphere building was so so fun for me to read! Because I didn't pick up on it my first read, but now, it stands out just enough where I'm like, "priest! I see what you did there!"
Everyone mocks Guo Changcheng for being too oblivious but. Here he is in chapter 3 being more perceptive than he has any right to be: Out of nowhere, Guo Changcheng got the feeling that [Shen Wei] had been standing there for thousands and thousands of years.
Oooh chapter 4 marks the appearance of the one, the only, Pendant of Pining!! I love that Shen Wei’s special pendant is something they kept in the drama version too, even though the story behind the pendant had to be changed.
Everytime I read the paragraph where Zhao Yunlan is talking about how long Shen Wei's lashes are, I can't help but think about that interview where they measured Zhu Yilong's eyelashes because the host was amazed at how long they were. Reason # 198 that Zhu Yilong was perfect for playing Shen Wei
The whole bit with Li Qian at the hospital always makes me feel so sad for her. But also, reading it again, I can't help but catch all the little breadcrumbs priest left us to put together what happened. I'm really enjoying reading the novel again and finding all the foreshadowing I missed the first time!!