And I love that they made it about SW's identity and philosophy and conviction that he (and by extension, Dixingren generally) and humanity are fundamentally the same on an important level. Which is so different from "only this tiny bit of me is okay."

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS this!!!!!!

Cats are why he can't have nice things clothes!

Or conversely, maybe that's why drama!ZYL has so many coats/jackets? Because they're always at risk of getting clawed to death anyway, so why not one more? :D

I presumed it's because motherboards are knobbly?

So basically, kneeling on Lego bricks? Motherboards usually not being found just lying around tripped me up, LOL.

I think usually he feels like he has enough of a handle on the situation, or he knows the stakes well enough that he can make informed risks? Even with the trip to Kunlun Mountain, he knew Shen Wei would be there, right? And felt compelled to unshackle CSZ (and all the others). But with this, there's a huge amount of Highly Relevant info that's being deliberately hidden from him, so he knows he might be missing something that would provide critically important context?

This all makes 100% sense to me!