china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian 2024-12-07 11:41 pm (UTC)

Recording himself is what makes it, I think. And his contradictions are fascinating.

Yes, it's such a great set-up for his being unexpected. :D

Also, idk if novel!ZYL has anything like drama!ZYL's early bigotry, but this complaint of his definitely carries a shade of that.

It does, but also, the only humans we've seen on the team so far as Guo Changcheng and Lin Jing, so it seems particularly pointed/targeted, which might be why?

And that is a very cinematic sequence, great stuff.

That's exactly what I thought! So sad it couldn't be in the drama. ;-p

that is, not so much that ZYL does this kind of stuff, which may be necessary on occasion in such a setting

I think it's required? In chapter 4 he says, "Regulations say we should’ve wiped the memory of any bystanders[.]"

BUT in these circumstances - first off, has ZYL entirely failed to pick up that there's more going on with SW? If so, memory-wiping him is very pre-emptive; he should be more suspicious, but he doesn't seem to be.

True, but in his defence (again), he wasn't around for most of Shen Wei's active engagement...

And then, more importantly, he's still planning to ask SW out! NOPE, no, DNW.

*nodnod* It would be bothering me far more if I didn't already know that he's been outmanoeuvred.

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