Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 7, part 1

[china_shop]

Hi, and welcome back to the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch. Watch half an episode a week, at your leisure, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!

Here are the previous weeks' rewatch posts.

Episode 7, up to 24:30

Summary
Shen Wei starts to get serious with the muggers, but just then Zhao Yunlan shows up and "rescues" him... only to be caught unawares with a metal bar. They go to Shen Wei's place for first aid and verbal sparring.



Zhao Yunlan asks Shen Wei to be an official consultant to the SID, and Shen Wei refuses. Zhao Yunlan accidentally implies he's been in Shen Wei's place before. The next day at the SID, Lin Jing is telling ghost stories when a call comes about a new case: one of the muggers is dead. When the SID review nearby CCTV footage, they don't see much, but rewinding to earlier reveals that Zhao Yunlan met up with Shen Wei in that alley. Zhao Yunlan unconvincingly laughs this off. The "bears" call: Zhu Hong grudgingly conveys a laptop to Shen Wei for a Zoom call with Zhao Yunlan and the others. After Shen Wei's extensive and illustrated lecture on different kinds of bears, Da Qing pipes up to suggest the attacker might be a Youchu; Shen Wei produces a relevant sketch. Zhao Yunlan, Lin Jing and Chu Shuzhi visit the surviving mugger in hospital; he's out of his wits, babbling about a monster. Lin Jing sees the crime scene photos and makes the connection with his favourite web novel.

Quote
Shen Wei: There are some questions that, out of principle, I cannot answer. But when the safety of people around me are at stake, I will surely not watch from the side and hide information from you. You can count on me for that.

Detail
The moment they're inside his apartment, Shen Wei starts disrobing takes off his jacket and attempts, twice, to fold it while pressing Zhao Yunlan to stay.

Questions
Do you have a stand-out favourite scene or quote from the first half of episode 7? Do you think Zhao Yunlan's arrival at the mugging was coincidence, or had he been tailing Shen Wei? Do you think Shen Wei had qualms about letting Zhao Yunlan take on the muggers? Shen Wei doesn't show any surprise at the job offer -- do you think he was expecting it? Which of them do you think was most turned on by the "first aid"? We didn't see Zhao Yunlan in Shen Wei's bedroom while searching the apartment -- did he? We now know Lin Jing and Da Qing read web novels; who else at the SID reads them? What do the others think is going on when they see Zhao Yunlan with Shen Wei in the CCTV footage? Did Zhu Hong volunteer to take the laptop to Shen Wei for the video call, or was she assigned to do it? Why a video call instead of Zhao Yunlan paying a visit? At the hospital, why is Chu Shuzhi so grumpy? Lin Jing draws a connection between the case and the web novel -- but how does Wang Zheng already know about this when she calls?

Did you see any parallels in these scenes with other parts of the drama? If you're familiar with the novel, any thoughts about how the drama adaptation compares, if at all?

(As usual, these are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in. We'd love to hear your thoughts!)

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Comments

[facethestrange]

I'll be rewatching today, but I don't need to rewatch anything to know this scene by heart, so: SKILLFUL HANDSSSSS. ♡♡♡♡♡ One of my all-time favorite scenes, and also this line specifically, LIKE, Shen Wei is literally not doing anything with his hands, skillful or otherwise, other than touching Zhao Yunlan - if they didn't want it to sound suggestive af, they would have had Shen Wei putting in stitches or something. xD

(And yepp, I have written a fic about this scene that is just 2K of shameless smut: In Your Hands. And PacifisticHerbivore has illustrated it (no nudity, just a wonderfully debauched Zhao Yunlan): Blissful. ♡♡♡)

(Also literally the other day I made a tumblr incorrect quote thingy with this scene. :D Though I like your screencap better because he's looking at Shen Wei's hands so fondly and intently godsssssss ♡______♡ And yep, I just made an icon of it, thank you! :D :D)

"The moment they're inside his apartment, Shen Wei starts disrobing"

Lolol. :D :D FACT THO. I know about him trying to fold the jacket from the comm (your poll about the wincing probably ♡♡♡ need an icon of that too), and now I can never unsee it. :D ♡

"Which of them do you think was most turned on by the "first aid"?"

*DED* I so want to say both of them equally, lmao, but my actual answer is - until Shen Wei heals him, it's mostly Zhao Yunlan srsly give this poor guy a pillow to put in his lap, but I guess the way he's sitting is enough xD xD, because Shen Wei is too busy being concerned about the pain. Though allll the flirty af lip touching is doing things to him, and when he offers to be more gentle I feel like he's startled for both reasons too, so yeah, it is both of them, just not equally. xD And then when Zhao Yunlan is healed, all bets are off. :D :D

[china_shop]

aklsjfd;laksjdf;laksdjf;alksjdf;slkdjf;lsdkjfasd ICON!!

Yayay fic and art, and omg, that incorrect quote thingy! Perfect! LOLOL! (I totally think they wanted it to sound suggestive af. *g*)

:D :D :D :D :D

[facethestrange]

:D :D :D

I went through your picspam and made another icon. :D :D ♡____♡

And while I'm at it, there is another pwp fic all about this scene and Shen Wei's skillful hands: touch by synonemous (explicit, obviously), which just showed up in my 'is it later already?' ao3 thing yesterday, and I may not have read it yet but it's very relevant. :D :D

[china_shop]

Eeeeee, fantastic icon! :D :D :D :D :D

Thanks for the fic link. <3