I arise from the ashes of the Mystery Hunt! Apologies for the lateness of the email, it was a long Hunt this year.
In the scene that follows Meng Shao Fei is mildly obnoxious, Andy is brilliantly sarcastic, and a bit of (a lot of) Tang Yi is clearly loving being fought over. I would absolutely love to see how MSF and Andy interact with each other some time post-canon. Whether it's an uneasy truce between them, given Andy and Tang Yi's history with each other, or whether it's still out and out barbs and TY's long-suffering sigh.
The angry eating scene is the cutest, mainly with how utterly amused TY is by MSF clearly falling for him, but not quite being ready to admit it to himself yet. And then he pours the Coke into his teacup, drinks it, and instead of interpreting that gesture as "I like you too" MSF's response is "I have successfully converted you to the church of Coke and Spicy Food." *facepalm*
And then the Jack and Zhao Zi scene! Hey, he called in a favor with MSF and ZZ shows up and feels up some other dude? THIS MUST BE FIXED.
(Side note: I wonder how much we're meant to take Zhao Zi's flirting with Jack as conscious and intentional? I feel like maybe not so much, though I prefer to lean towards interpreting it that way.) I interpret it as totally unconscious flirting. I don't think at this point that ZZ realizes what he's doing, but he does definitely seem to have an impulse and an affinity for muscle. ...and Jack. It's clear that he likes Jack (as a friend, he tells himself), which is why he feels like...totally comfortable just digging his fingers into those pecs. He gives them a good SOLID squeeze or three.
And knowing the groping was Kenny's idea makes this scene even better. *howls* It wasn't in the script! Kenny added it in, and Andy Bian just let Kenny touch him and grope him all over. Because Kenny's too cute. ...OH MY GOD. *dead*
You can see Jack MELTING as he speaks. There's this little moment where you see Jack totally get it and empathize, but then he covers it up with a smile. AWWWW, JACK. <333333 This is totally moment #2 where Jack realizes he really genuinely likes ZZ.
And then the falling in the pool is so contrived and ridiculous, I love every second of it because THEY ARE HERE TO DELIVER ON THE TROPES. This is the first time watching it that naye and I looked at each other and went, "Oh wow, Jack is ripped."
Tang Yi goes to the hospital for a very suggestive-sounding massage from Dr Jiang, while Meng Shao Fei goes loopy with jealousy outside. The innuendo in this scene is absolutely amazing, and had me in stitches on the floor the first time. Oh, Ah-Fei, you have it so bad.
you could start to get such a clear picture of a future where they're bickering in-laws who actually really care about each other underneath. I can totally see this, and it warms my heart so much. She totally needles him and he needles right back, and that's just how they are. Hongye is unexpectedly one of my favorite characters to write.
Then he goes to town with a knuckleduster on the shooter, one of Chen Wen Hao's minions, and it's honestly pretty scary. I honestly can't tell if the shooter is actually somebody that CWH sent to assassinate Hong Ye or if he's actually a low-level Xin Tian Meng minion who is from the pro-CWH faction that Ah-De thinks he has control of but actually doesn't. (I guess there's functionally no difference.)
I say this because Li Zhi De looks so worried, as Jack rightly points out. If it were really someone unknown from CWH's syndicate, wouldn't Ah-De be relieved that it wasn't his guy in there?
Then Zuo Hong Ye tearfully confesses her feelings to Gu Dao Yi, while he looks quietly devastated. I actually really like their relationship for some reason, despite the MASSIVE age difference between them, and I think it's that Sphinx Ting is really good at that very placidly sad look.
The episode ends with Tang Yi at Meng Shao Fei's bedside, holding his hand. MSF x Hospital x TY OT3!!
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In the scene that follows Meng Shao Fei is mildly obnoxious, Andy is brilliantly sarcastic, and a bit of (a lot of) Tang Yi is clearly loving being fought over.
I would absolutely love to see how MSF and Andy interact with each other some time post-canon. Whether it's an uneasy truce between them, given Andy and Tang Yi's history with each other, or whether it's still out and out barbs and TY's long-suffering sigh.
The angry eating scene is the cutest, mainly with how utterly amused TY is by MSF clearly falling for him, but not quite being ready to admit it to himself yet. And then he pours the Coke into his teacup, drinks it, and instead of interpreting that gesture as "I like you too" MSF's response is "I have successfully converted you to the church of Coke and Spicy Food." *facepalm*
And then the Jack and Zhao Zi scene! Hey, he called in a favor with MSF and ZZ shows up and feels up some other dude? THIS MUST BE FIXED.
(Side note: I wonder how much we're meant to take Zhao Zi's flirting with Jack as conscious and intentional? I feel like maybe not so much, though I prefer to lean towards interpreting it that way.)
I interpret it as totally unconscious flirting. I don't think at this point that ZZ realizes what he's doing, but he does definitely seem to have an impulse and an affinity for muscle. ...and Jack. It's clear that he likes Jack (as a friend, he tells himself), which is why he feels like...totally comfortable just digging his fingers into those pecs. He gives them a good SOLID squeeze or three.
And knowing the groping was Kenny's idea makes this scene even better.
*howls* It wasn't in the script! Kenny added it in, and Andy Bian just let Kenny touch him and grope him all over. Because Kenny's too cute. ...OH MY GOD. *dead*
You can see Jack MELTING as he speaks.
There's this little moment where you see Jack totally get it and empathize, but then he covers it up with a smile. AWWWW, JACK. <333333 This is totally moment #2 where Jack realizes he really genuinely likes ZZ.
And then the falling in the pool is so contrived and ridiculous, I love every second of it because THEY ARE HERE TO DELIVER ON THE TROPES.
This is the first time watching it that
Tang Yi goes to the hospital for a very suggestive-sounding massage from Dr Jiang, while Meng Shao Fei goes loopy with jealousy outside.
The innuendo in this scene is absolutely amazing, and had me in stitches on the floor the first time. Oh, Ah-Fei, you have it so bad.
you could start to get such a clear picture of a future where they're bickering in-laws who actually really care about each other underneath.
I can totally see this, and it warms my heart so much. She totally needles him and he needles right back, and that's just how they are. Hongye is unexpectedly one of my favorite characters to write.
Then he goes to town with a knuckleduster on the shooter, one of Chen Wen Hao's minions, and it's honestly pretty scary.
I honestly can't tell if the shooter is actually somebody that CWH sent to assassinate Hong Ye or if he's actually a low-level Xin Tian Meng minion who is from the pro-CWH faction that Ah-De thinks he has control of but actually doesn't. (I guess there's functionally no difference.)
I say this because Li Zhi De looks so worried, as Jack rightly points out. If it were really someone unknown from CWH's syndicate, wouldn't Ah-De be relieved that it wasn't his guy in there?
Then Zuo Hong Ye tearfully confesses her feelings to Gu Dao Yi, while he looks quietly devastated.
I actually really like their relationship for some reason, despite the MASSIVE age difference between them, and I think it's that Sphinx Ting is really good at that very placidly sad look.
The episode ends with Tang Yi at Meng Shao Fei's bedside, holding his hand.
MSF x Hospital x TY OT3!!