I 100% fail at structural analysis, lol. Here's how it seems to me:
Novel: Weilan dominates everything. There's some Guo Changcheng scenes, and a few other SID characters get moments, and there was the mythology dump inside the Divine Tree, but those are all just seasoning for the love story. The parts with Ghost Face breaking the Great Seal and the Netherworld trying to awaken Kunlun feel to me, at this stage, pretty peripheral to the focus of the story, which is largely concerned with Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei figuring out how to be together, given their everything. (The reason I see the plot with Ghost Face and so on as separate is because Weilan really don't seem to be thinking about it that much? The SID reacts to cases, but at least lately, Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are mostly caught up in their relationship stuff. So the background machinations feel almost entirely disconnected to me.) (Which of course might be my own skewed reading, because the relationship stuff is where a lot of my focus is.)
Drama: because it's not ~officially~ a love story, the relationship plot is completely woven into the "Ye Zun tries to take over the world" plot: Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan become partners as they start to get a sense of the big picture, and they join forces partly in reaction to the building threat. Whatever they do, it's all part and parcel of the wider picture. Weilan is still the heart of it, but that heart only beats because the rest of the body is there. If that makes sense?
That's where I was coming from. Thinking about it more, I think you could easily say that there are two major plot threads in the drama -- Zhao Yunlan & Shen Wei, and Shen Wei & Ye Zun -- and they come together at the end. Is that what you were thinking?
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I 100% fail at structural analysis, lol. Here's how it seems to me:
Novel: Weilan dominates everything. There's some Guo Changcheng scenes, and a few other SID characters get moments, and there was the mythology dump inside the Divine Tree, but those are all just seasoning for the love story. The parts with Ghost Face breaking the Great Seal and the Netherworld trying to awaken Kunlun feel to me, at this stage, pretty peripheral to the focus of the story, which is largely concerned with Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei figuring out how to be together, given their everything. (The reason I see the plot with Ghost Face and so on as separate is because Weilan really don't seem to be thinking about it that much? The SID reacts to cases, but at least lately, Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are mostly caught up in their relationship stuff. So the background machinations feel almost entirely disconnected to me.) (Which of course might be my own skewed reading, because the relationship stuff is where a lot of my focus is.)
Drama: because it's not ~officially~ a love story, the relationship plot is completely woven into the "Ye Zun tries to take over the world" plot: Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan become partners as they start to get a sense of the big picture, and they join forces partly in reaction to the building threat. Whatever they do, it's all part and parcel of the wider picture. Weilan is still the heart of it, but that heart only beats because the rest of the body is there. If that makes sense?
That's where I was coming from. Thinking about it more, I think you could easily say that there are two major plot threads in the drama -- Zhao Yunlan & Shen Wei, and Shen Wei & Ye Zun -- and they come together at the end. Is that what you were thinking?