I have finished watching Guardian and sweet damn. You were right about everything! Their relationship is so compelling that I watched 40 episodes of trash plot and it was WORTH IT.

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I know, I know!!! Isn’t it just? It reminds me of fanning on shows in the ‘90s, there is so much ridiculous dumb chaff to skim through and forget – but the character stuff is SO good. And there’s so much of it, too, just, their faces, in like any scene they’re together…

(If you’re not on it already, the novel is definitely worth checking out; the plot’s better, the side characters are more appealing, and Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are arguably even more in love…though it would be an argument, because, as mentioned, their faces~~~)

(also if like me you don’t read Chinese, the translation is ongoing, which means you’ll have to wait, but it also means it isn’t over yet~)