"I like that he mentions Shen Wei's good influence, motivating him to match his socks - perhaps to counter her accusations?"
Probably, but also just because he can't go five minutes without being ridiculously smitten with Shen Wei, lol. I didn't choose my favorite Weilan moment in these chapters, but I think it may be this one - the way Zhao Yunlan talks about him. ♡ (And also protecting his coat. ♡)
"Absolutely hilarious! I wish we had gotten something similar in the drama."
Lol, same. :D Drama!CSZ gets to be funny sometimes too (even without the personality swap, which is where a lot of his novel personality went), like when he goes "Ahhhh..." when Zhao Yunlan tries to explain why he met Shen Wei at night, lol, I feel like this scene could be similar in tone? But then again his connection to the Envoy was very different, so it would probably be too funny for that after all.
"And here's the echo to the quote above! In wonder if Shen Wei remembers this when he is so touched by Zhao Yunlan's threat to lock him up."
Omg, I didn't make this connection, but this may actually be it, maybe this is why he has this many feelings about it! AW.
"One of my favourite Shen Wei moments is in the original chapter 85, so it should have been in chapter 7 here. It's when a judge tries to hold him accountable for murdering a bunch of people, and he goes "I can kill whoever I want and noone can stop me". It's delightfully mask off, no trace of the civilised Professor persona."
Yesss, that's exactly what I thought when you said under the previous post that this chapter is going to have one of your favorite Shen Wei moments! :D It's SO GOOD.
"I also think it's showing a major difference between the novel and drama versions of Shen Wei - I can't really see drama!Shen Wei bragging about his ability to kill like this."
ITA, he'd definitely never do that! Well, unless he was driven by something far bigger than someone merely questioning him, and even then he would never feel good about saying it. I think it's because of how directly related it is to novel!SW's origins - sometimes it's just understandable that he's hostile and smug about having all this power over people who would like nothing better than to continue mistreating him. This is not drama!SW's trauma at all.
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"I like that he mentions Shen Wei's good influence, motivating him to match his socks - perhaps to counter her accusations?"
Probably, but also just because he can't go five minutes without being ridiculously smitten with Shen Wei, lol. I didn't choose my favorite Weilan moment in these chapters, but I think it may be this one - the way Zhao Yunlan talks about him. ♡ (And also protecting his coat. ♡)
"Absolutely hilarious! I wish we had gotten something similar in the drama."
Lol, same. :D Drama!CSZ gets to be funny sometimes too (even without the personality swap, which is where a lot of his novel personality went), like when he goes "Ahhhh..." when Zhao Yunlan tries to explain why he met Shen Wei at night, lol, I feel like this scene could be similar in tone? But then again his connection to the Envoy was very different, so it would probably be too funny for that after all.
"And here's the echo to the quote above! In wonder if Shen Wei remembers this when he is so touched by Zhao Yunlan's threat to lock him up."
Omg, I didn't make this connection, but this may actually be it, maybe this is why he has this many feelings about it! AW.
"One of my favourite Shen Wei moments is in the original chapter 85, so it should have been in chapter 7 here. It's when a judge tries to hold him accountable for murdering a bunch of people, and he goes "I can kill whoever I want and noone can stop me".
It's delightfully mask off, no trace of the civilised Professor persona."
Yesss, that's exactly what I thought when you said under the previous post that this chapter is going to have one of your favorite Shen Wei moments! :D It's SO GOOD.
"I also think it's showing a major difference between the novel and drama versions of Shen Wei - I can't really see drama!Shen Wei bragging about his ability to kill like this."
ITA, he'd definitely never do that! Well, unless he was driven by something far bigger than someone merely questioning him, and even then he would never feel good about saying it. I think it's because of how directly related it is to novel!SW's origins - sometimes it's just understandable that he's hostile and smug about having all this power over people who would like nothing better than to continue mistreating him. This is not drama!SW's trauma at all.