"I feel like ZYL treats the whole world as his theatre where he's the star -- whether it's being cool and snarky at evil spirits or cool and mocking at random strangers in the hospital."

True facts, 100%. xD

"Whereas Shen Wei would prefer to kind of fade into the background a bit more, especially when he's not being the Emissary."

Oh, and this made me think that it's possibly even more so when he is the Emissary - he hides literally all of his body, when I'm pretty sure he'd have other ways to disguise his appearance. And it's not like there are even that many people he has to disguise his appearance from (ZYL, SID, some suspects like Li Qian)? Like, so many people either know about all of his identities or would only ever meet one of them?

"Actually, I wrote this a couple of hours ago, and having re-read some of the chapter since, now I'm wondering if part of Shen Wei's wanting to be discreet is for ZYL's benefit, because it could affect his standing. And ZYL is just blowing past that? Idk."

That would definitely make some sense and also it would be very misguided, lol, because his own reputation is the last thing Zhao Yunlan has ever considered. xD