There was an invasive edge to how he was looking at Shen Wei. It somehow made Shen Wei feel that there was no right answer to the question."
Zhao Yunlan will always be Zhao Yunlan, and aim right at the questions Shen Wei absolutely does not want to answer, while being shameless about it too. Reading this, it made me laugh, because it's so easy to picture Shen Wei freezing and blinking and struggling to decide how to answer haha
Also the description of Zhao Yunlan walking away, "like a peacock with its tail spread," is just. So very Zhao Yunlan, and Shen Wei is feeling very normal about everything. He's totally in control. Totally not feeling all his walls splintering and caving in as he sees "a-Lan" in his phone or smells Zhao Yunlan's cologne. He's very much not thinking about it. Not at all.
Guo Changcheng continues to be incredibly relatable this chapter. Left alone and genuinely has no idea what his job is supposed to be, so he just starts awkwardly talking to people. I have been there before. Me too, xiao Guo, me too. (Even the bit about calling strangers, I relate to that a little too much)
Me 🤝 Xiao Guo Debilitating anxiety
Priest continues to be incredibly funny: Unable to decide, he looked down and searched for a clue in Da Qing's expression. Da Qing, however, was a long-haired cat with a face of glossy black fur. There were no answers to be found there.
(And Da Qing continues to be the true embodiment of a cat haha)
When Guo Changcheng talks about his grandma, and how he dreamed of her up until the day he got his university acceptance letter, and then how she said she could leave now that he was grown up — I think she really did do that. It makes sense in the context of the novel and it makes for a solid parallel between him and Li Qian, both being watched over by their grandmothers' ghosts And, since xiao Guo's third eye wasn't open yet at that point, dreams was probably the only way she could communicate with him, if she really did stay around.
But also, given the situation, definitely would have been better if he hadn't shared that fun fact just then oops
I had forgotten how awful Li Qian's family is and how they just don't care about her at all. It makes her actions a lot more sympathetic but also makes me want to fight someone for her. Also the way the chapter ends, that sentence about how there's no one left to care about her or watch over anymore, no one left to encourage her to grow while also being sad to her become more independent... ouch. It's such a priest-way of putting things, and now I'm the one who's heart is a mess. *pats novel Li Qian's head like a cat because I'm worse at comforting people than xiao Guo*
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There was an invasive edge to how he was looking at Shen Wei. It somehow made Shen Wei feel that there was no right answer to the question."
Zhao Yunlan will always be Zhao Yunlan, and aim right at the questions Shen Wei absolutely does not want to answer, while being shameless about it too. Reading this, it made me laugh, because it's so easy to picture Shen Wei freezing and blinking and struggling to decide how to answer haha
Also the description of Zhao Yunlan walking away, "like a peacock with its tail spread," is just. So very Zhao Yunlan, and Shen Wei is feeling very normal about everything. He's totally in control. Totally not feeling all his walls splintering and caving in as he sees "a-Lan" in his phone or smells Zhao Yunlan's cologne. He's very much not thinking about it. Not at all.
Guo Changcheng continues to be incredibly relatable this chapter. Left alone and genuinely has no idea what his job is supposed to be, so he just starts awkwardly talking to people. I have been there before. Me too, xiao Guo, me too. (Even the bit about calling strangers, I relate to that a little too much)
Me 🤝 Xiao Guo
Debilitating anxiety
Priest continues to be incredibly funny: Unable to decide, he looked down and searched for a clue in Da Qing's expression. Da Qing, however, was a long-haired cat with a face of glossy black fur. There were no answers to be found there.
(And Da Qing continues to be the true embodiment of a cat haha)
When Guo Changcheng talks about his grandma, and how he dreamed of her up until the day he got his university acceptance letter, and then how she said she could leave now that he was grown up — I think she really did do that. It makes sense in the context of the novel
and it makes for a solid parallel between him and Li Qian, both being watched over by their grandmothers' ghostsAnd, since xiao Guo's third eye wasn't open yet at that point, dreams was probably the only way she could communicate with him, if she really did stay around.But also, given the situation, definitely would have been better if he hadn't shared that fun fact just then oops
I had forgotten how awful Li Qian's family is and how they just don't care about her at all. It makes her actions a lot more sympathetic but also makes me want to fight someone for her. Also the way the chapter ends, that sentence about how there's no one left to care about her or watch over anymore, no one left to encourage her to grow while also being sad to her become more independent... ouch. It's such a priest-way of putting things, and now I'm the one who's heart is a mess. *pats novel Li Qian's head like a cat because I'm worse at comforting people than xiao Guo*